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Mirror, Mirror On the Wall: ‘The Right Stuff’ and H-1B Visas

I knew this would be a challenge; you can’t have a populist movement gain so much support, as it did behind electing President Trump, and expect all those people to get along.  There would always be hard truths that would come back at the mirror as we asked it, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all.”  And that the reply would come back, “foreign labor.”  And like the jealous queen from Snow White, we would have people from the MAGA movement try to poison Snow White with an apple we gave her to eliminate the pain of the reality that we had a rival and thought of them as better than us.  But I’m with Vivek Ramaswamy on this contentious issue regarding the exploded topic of H-1B visas.  The truth is, to bring back all the jobs on an America First agenda, there are not enough good workers to perform the task.  And yes, this system is trying to defend itself ahead of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy implementing D.O.G.E. upon Trump’s inauguration.  The media found a wedge issue to exploit.  There was no way to bring all these labor union types into the Republican Party and Democrats and have everyone holding hands through the complex process of managing mass society.  This is where the formula for success was always going to clash with the concept of populism, which has been the primary drumbeat of the WarRoom posse, specifically Steve Bannon and the gang.  I usually get along great with those guys, but they don’t understand this issue correctly.  The exact mechanisms that aligned everyone through populism behind President Trump won’t solve an inherently cultural problem.  And Vivek Ramaswamy hit the nail on the head in a way that hurt many people’s feelings.  And that will happen a lot over the next few years.  This labor issue is just the first in a long line of hard feelings that will be exposed to the surface.  Ironically, the first people who will have to deal with the challenges of an America First employment approach will have to face facts about the reality of our current labor market.  It’s not that cheap immigrant labor makes them so attractive, they aren’t so cheap these days.  It’s because they still have a work ethic in most cases, whereas several generations of bad culture have destroyed it in America and made it so that not enough people would want to work hard enough to make America great again.  They will have to learn to be great again, personally, before they can help anybody make it that way.  Being the best labor force in the world requires more than waving a Trump flag and electing a President.  It takes a lot of hard work, something most people these days just don’t want to do.  Saying that won’t make anybody popular, or sell books.  But it needs to be said for the harsh reality that is required.

Part of a quote from Vivek Ramaswamy that caused a lot of people some tough reflection.

I thought it was ironic that to make their point, WarRoom used one of my favorite scenes from any movie to frame their problem with the H-1B visa program, which essentially gives a way to bring in immigrant labor to fill skilled positions in the American labor market.  It was the scene from The Right Stuff where Chuck Yeager was offered to fly the X1 and break the sound barrier for essentially the pay the military gave him.  It’s a great scene, and there is a lot of truth in it, as Steve Bannon and others intended.  And I can say this from personal experience.  I met Chuck Yeager while he was alive on a few occasions.  And I knew people like Scott Crossfield.  And Neil Armstrong lived right down the road from me.  I understand these people, and they were not quite as heroic as portrayed in that Paul Kaufman version of The Right Stuff.  The real people were not as lofty as that movie made them.  But that’s not a bad thing.  The Right Stuff was an inspiring movie adapted from a great book by Tom Wolfe, and it was meant to do as Steve Bannon does in his WarRoom podcast, and that was to inspire people to greatness.  And when I was a little kid in that dark theater watching that movie, it spoke to me.  I became that version of Chuck Yeager.  My work ethic is very much how Chuck Yeager was shown to be in that movie, and there are lots of stories that people still tell about their antics with me that could fill many movies with the same level of inspiration.  Needless to say, I loved that movie and that specific scene for all the same reasons that Steve Bannon did. 

But I have found that reality was not shown in The Right Stuff.  Even within that movie, Kaufman puts his finger on it at the end of the film when all the Mercury astronauts were being celebrated with essentially unearned valor while the real hero of the movie, overlooked by everyone, was still pushing all the limits to drive aviation forward, with Chuck Yeager stealing the new hot plane, the Lockheed NF-104A to break a high altitude record.  Because that was the closest he was ever going to get to space.  He didn’t have a college education that fit the profile that the space program wanted.  Which was very much a populist message that the fake best and brightest were put on a pedestal when the real best and brightest were crashing from a failed attempt to climb that slick plane into space anonymously and heroically, where only his wife and a few friends knew what was going on. 

Most of the people I have found who are the hardest workers are people from other places in the world, and I interact with more people of foreign origin than just about anybody for that reason.  I have tried to help domestic people with their problems, and I have climbed out on a limb with them time and time again, even with them using a saw to cut everything down in an obsession with self-destruction.  And I will always try to help them.  But for several generations now, our American workforce has been destroyed through drugs, bad living, education, and an entitlement mentality that was dealt with in that movie using the pure character of Chuck Yeager and asking the question, what made the space program great, was it the Germans we brought in to build the rockets?  Was it the heroics of the test pilots who couldn’t keep their pants on and cheated on their wives all the time with their celebrity status?  Or was it people like Chuck Yeager who were flying for the joy of it and weren’t afraid to risk it all through obsessive competition and a desire to be the best and boldest pilot of them all?  The answer is obvious now that America is going through that very problem.  We must find The Right Stuff, and our education system makes The Wrong Stuff.  And it will take decades to fix that problem.  And while we are bringing all these jobs back under America First control, we need the people in the world who aren’t abusing themselves with high divorce rates, drug use, and a bad work ethic to sign up to do the work.  We need more Chuck Yeager’s in America as portrayed by that movie, not the kind that lived in real life and had all kinds of problems.  The movie showed us what we wanted to be.  But reality told us who we were.  And that is what is going to happen in politics.   We have to be honest and expect lofty results.  But we have to be willing to hire the people who want to do all the hard work of making America Great Again, even if their reason for doing it is chasing an American Dream that most people who were born and raised in America took for granted all their lives. 

Rich Hoffman

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Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws: Without a piratical effort, corruption would have won in 2024

I’ve been telling conservatives since before even the Tea Party movement that they needed a piratical effort to fight conventional politics.  The reason they kept losing to an inferior socialist global plot was that they did not fight back.  They might have had good ideas, but they couldn’t defend them from radicalism, and Saul Alinsky understood that and used that knowledge to build the Democrat Party on very loose sand on a beach.  But they survived because they essentially turned off the water of ideas, so there was never a high tide of ideas to wash away the sand castles of assumptions that they had built.  So they could appear strong and superior because they controlled the water, not the ideas that propelled society, keeping their dumb ideas from washing away.  But the first thought I had when Mika Brzensnski and Joe Scarborough flew to Mar-a-Lago to have a meeting with President Trump, after all the trouble they have caused him over the last 8 years, I put the credit more toward the WarRoom audience of podcasters who had formed to create alternative MAGA media, more than the valiant efforts of President Trump.  Not to take anything away from Trump, he needed to be tough and drive through all the opposition to win this massive election of 2024.  In this second American Revolution, he will go down in history as the modern George Washington, and nobody can take it away from him the day he was shot in the head, and his first instinct was to stand up and pump his fist in the air yelling fight, fight, fight, to a roaring crowd.  Nobody worked harder than Trump, but he couldn’t have done it alone. Instead, what had been missing from these rebellious enterprises is the pirate element of the modern versions of John Paul Jones, which is precisely how Steve Bannon sees himself, and the work of the WarRoom podcast over the last four years that has become a powerhouse in media.

Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro spent the summer in jail for defying a corrupt January 6th Congressional Committee that was attempting to hide election fraud and the crimes of Covid behind some government insurrection they created to have a coup against President Trump and to send a warning across the bow of all Trump supporters the Department of Justice prosecuted many of the people shown in the new book by WarRoom Books, Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws released right around the election to commemorate all the great work done by the people who set up and became the voices of the WarRoom posse, as they like to call themselves.  I rushed out to get the book because, like the Trump coffee table books, this is a big book that is mostly pictures but one that captures this period of history extremely well.  The people celebrated in the book are some of the people who, if they didn’t do what they did, there wouldn’t have been a successful MAGA media to challenge the mainstream media and their capture of everything people saw and heard.  Like John Paul Jones harassed under the guidance of Ben Franklin, the most powerful navy in the world during the First Revolution, the equivalent these days was the global mainstream media, and what was done by the WarRoom during this Second American Revolution was on the same scale.  We needed a place in the media where the rebels and outlaws could help the American cause of preserving the Constitution and selling it to the world.  That is precisely what was captured in this new book: the efforts of many people who did not do the safe thing and sat on the sidelines.  They worked the behind-the-scenes stuff to a massive effect.  One of the reasons that election fraud was managed better in this 2024 election, and we did learn that Trump won during the prime time hours and that cheating didn’t go on to keep him out of office in the days after that, was because of the pressure of the WarRoom. 

I’ve seen this pirate effect work up close and have been doing it myself for a long time.  So, I have been telling thousands of people how to do it.  And Steve Bannon was just the kind of guy to do it, as he had done over at Breitbart after Andrew died suddenly.  Steve carried that alternative media to significant levels and was recruited by the Trump team during the first term as a key strategist.  However, the pressure mounted by the traditional forces and Steve left the White House and essentially started the WarRoom podcast, which reported news twice daily and even on Saturdays, far better than anything the mainstream media was doing.  What the WarRoom was able to do was essentially replace The Drudge Report with alternative news and The Rush Limbaugh Show for the conservative audience once he died shortly after Biden took office in 2021.  Those were some very dark days.  I continued doing my own pirate efforts, and they worked very well.  But there weren’t many places to go for news until the upstart Real America’s Voice provided a place for people who were sick beyond sick with the betrayal of Fox News.  And the WarRoom started partnering with them to provide what many have since called MAGA media. 

Good, it will save us from firing them

But this isn’t just about a successful media enterprise. Many of the people pictured in that book were openly harassed by an established order of criminal-level government that grotesquely abused their power. This is one of the reasons that Trump has indicated that he has no other pick for Attorney General other than Matt Gaetz, who is also featured in the book.  Many names, like Mike Lindell, who had very successful companies, were personally sought after to be destroyed because they supported President Trump and were the kind of people who stuck with it every day and fought back with everything they had.  Alex Jones is in the book, and we all saw what they tried to do to him.  So is Rudy Guiliani, who, as of yesterday, had lost everything he had but a good cigar and openly laughed at the forces of evil that were trying to destroy him with bankruptcy utterly.  No, Trump is going to support those who fought hard in the background to put him back in office, and to a large extent, that is why the Morning Joe crew at MSNBC had to bend the knee to Trump, as is most of the media.  Oh, don’t get any fancy ideas of reconciliation.  These people are out of gas and are in that condition mainly because of the WarRoom as a media outlet.  Charlie Kirk is one of the brightest political minds of modern times, and he is featured in that book.  And I love the book because history will look very kindly on all the people in it and many who didn’t make it.  I think people like Grace Chong should undoubtedly be in it, but probably isn’t because she doesn’t like to draw attention to herself.  There are many more who aren’t in the book, but those who are are examples of how to do these things in the future, and we need to remember who they are and what they did to help save America.  And the effort that actually requires people to fight back and not just take what an established order gives you.  And without these outlaws of a criminal government, we would not have had the election win of 2024 that we did have.  This is why the book Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws is such an important book to remember of these very dark times. 

Rich Hoffman

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Steve Bannon is Out of Jail: What happens next is the fault of those who put him there, they can only blame themselves

I’m just going to say it bluntly, I will never forgive the people who put Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro in jail during the year of 2024.  The congress that threw them in jail with a corrupt Biden DOJ were obviously crooked, but what was done, purely for political reasons was the loss of freedom for people of a respectable Trump White House.  When Bannon and Navarro were thrown in jail after spending many tens of thousands of dollars defending themselves from a prosecution that was completely politically motivated, only to end up in the disgraceful loss of personal freedom that they had to endure for more than four months in jail.  Nobody had ever gone that far before and had always respected Executive immunity when it comes to administration business.  What Eric Holder and Lois Lerner had done previously, even Barack Obama, was far worse than what Steve Bannon did, or Peter Navarro.  But the Democrats went there, and so did many Republicans who showed to the world that they might not agree with it, but did little to nothing to stop it.  These members of Trump’s Executive White House team were good people and they were thrown in jail like dogs to have to lose personal privacy completely.  Going to jail is no small matter, going to the bathroom in front of people all the time without a door to close would be terrible, and to have to do it day after day after day.  There was no reason for it and the people who did it to them can never be forgiven.  And I personally never will.  I personally like Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, and I think the only way to make things right in the world is to prosecute their prosecutors because they started it and abused the government for their own political purposes, and they have to be paid back.

I know the Trump campaign doesn’t need nor want to get pulled into a lot of controversy, they have an election to win.  But logic says that Trump is going to be back in the White House and when he is, a lot of bad people have to be punished for what they did.  If people didn’t want a revenge tour, they never should have started it.  As I keep saying to everyone who is asking me, if they want someone to blame for what is going to happen to them, they only need to look in the mirror.  Steve Bannan as of today is now out of jail, October 29th 2024, and I’m very glad to see it.  Nobody has suffered really more than the people at the Warroom, people like Grace Chong, Mareen Bannon, and Natalie Winters who have done what they good to keep the popular podcast going while Steve, the primary host, was doing time in jail.  They have put on a brave front, but it hurt them what happened to their friends, just because they happened to run the most popular political podcast in the United States.  Looking back over the last four years, what happened to people like Sidney Powell, General Flynn, Roger Stone and Rudy Giuliani has been disgraceful, and it was all done for purely political reasons, to use the power of government to destroy people who didn’t agree with the party in power.  Never forget the mug shots of the people in Georgia for which Trump was one, who were being prosecuted for questioning the results of the election there.  And nothing more.  Remember Jenna Ellis crying like a baby in front of a judge and turning on Trump to appease those powers that were in office when we talk about revenge in the coming months and years.   It’s not just that they started it and now we have to finish it, but if we want to have a great country we must have justice and people must be punished for the bad things they did.  They don’t get to point at Trump and declare that he’s going to put his critics in jail and prosecute his political enemies when it was they who started it.  They have to be punched in the face, at the very least.

I had quite a few friends who attended the RNC Convention this year in Wisconsin and they wanted to know who I wanted them to get pictures with, and my only real response was that I thought Peter Navarro getting out of jail and going straight to speak at the RNC was one of the most important themes of this election cycle.  There are a lot of things that need to be fixed, but this weaponization of government is the key to so many horrible things that we must rectify.  When we talk about the basic Bill of Rights, they were written because humans have a tendency to do these kinds of things to each other when they gain power, and at the core of all arguments about leadership and the role government plays in society is mitigating the failure of human beings who fall off the rocker.  We cannot have a big government with too much power that can use that power against us for their own profit.  And that is what happened at the very least to Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro.  They were being forced to acknowledge a criminal government or be thrown in jail.  And to show that power over them and the general Warroom audience, they lost their freedom and were insulted with a lack of privacy.  It’s as bad as it gets aside from actually killing people.  And because the bad guys had to respect the law to some extent, they only managed to put Bannan and Navarro in jail for four months.  In other countries, they could have easily been killed.  This is exactly why we have a Second Amendment and free speech at the heart of all our law and order.  Because without those checks on government power, the government would be killing off their political rivals without fear of ever having the tables turn on them. 

It is too much to expect government to be honest.  And when people popularly elect an administration as they did with Trump and his team in the White House as Bannan and Navarro were and will be again, a government that attacks that pick of the people broke and  the law in the most fundamental way, they sought to override a government by the people for the people, and to change it into something else.  Something ominous and oppressive.  And I don’t want to hear the crying for all the paybacks that have to occur.  All those bad guys out there should thank God that so many people have been willing to turn to an election for their redemption and not grab guns and take to violence against their political enemies.  Of course, that threat is always looming in the background and it’s the only thing that keeps bad people honest.  People cannot be trusted to act on their own to do what’s right.  They must have the fear of personal destruction to keep them in check.  And in the case of what was done to the Trump team over the last four years, since the bad guys did go too far, is the tables have to be turned, otherwise there is no hope at justice for the years to come.  We cannot have a good country unless those who truly did wrong are punished.  And now that Steve Bannon is out, and the election is happening, what happens next must happen.  The bad guys are bad people for a reason.  And they cannot molest our society without consequences, and the fault for that is entirely on their shoulders.  They did it to themselves. 

Rich Hoffman

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Steve Bannon is in Jail: Playing by the rules so the rules can be used the other way

It’s a bit of a head-scratcher watching many on the communist left celebrate Steve Bannon reporting to jail on July 1st, 2024.  What do they think is going to happen next? Indeed, even though we know they are, as I ask the question, they can’t be that short-sighted.  The charges they are putting Bannon in jail over, and this is a member of President Trump’s strategic team from the White House, the same contempt of congress charges that Eric Holder had, and now Merrick Garland, both attorney generals who have abused their power of the office, and are now susceptible to the same.  What are they thinking is going to happen to them now that Bannon is going to jail for four months, starting on July 1st and ending on Halloween, just a few days before the election in November?  The communist left thinks that by taking Bannon off the map for the rest of the election, they will hurt Trump in the election, which is the whole point of the effort.  But don’t they know now that they’ve done this to Bannon and many other Trump supporters that they have justified the same terms in their direction?  It was amazing to watch so many members of the media celebrate Bannon going to jail as if there were no tomorrow and that their grip on power had garnered some celebratory effort.  It was just as stupid as other communist movements in the world, such as when East Berlin used to shoot people trying to cross the Berlin Wall over into West Berlin.  Or in Cuba, where political outcasts were shot and killed, and people were jailed and murdered just for trying to get away from the communist government there.  We are discussing that with Bannon and his fellow White House friend, Peter Navarro.  And they are even looking to do the same to Trump.  What do these idiots think is going to happen next?

We’re talking about a group of people who chanted to lock up Hillary Clinton during the 2016 term of Trump in the White House.  The difference is that Trump’s administration did not lock up his political rivals for obvious crimes that they committed, which his supporters were very disappointed in.  But once Biden was in the White House, they didn’t hesitate to pull that trigger and put in jail their political rivals.  And they’ve done it so audaciously.  Don’t they know the only reason that we don’t have an armed civil war where their mangled bodies aren’t dragged through the streets for what they have done to this country is that Bannon is playing by the rules so that the rules can be used against these Biden administration perpetrators?  If it’s good to apply to us, then the same can be applied to them.  And they have done much worse.  These are not the kind of Republicans of the past.  We are replacing RINOs to have more people like Marjorie Taylor Green and less Paul Ryans.  We want to put Democrats in jail over spitting on the sidewalk, and they have done a lot more than that.  We want them punished severely.  By putting Bannon in jail, the very famous podcaster and media personality who did an excellent segment with ABC News before reporting to jail, they have given us every reason in the world to punish them severely.  We’re not talking about a nation that is willing to have its government taken from them and to sit quietly like a bunch of losers and wait for tyranny to happen.  We have proof of it now, and America wants to act in a way that brings justice to these vile criminals. 

There has never been a communist model that has worked.  The one in China is a propped-up culture built by globalism that only sustains itself through deceit. They try to control what gets out in the media, but things still get out.  That is the communist playbook to show that kind of control over the population, and the assumption is that in America, the same sort of thing will work.  I have nothing against the people of Asia, but Americans are wired differently.  They want and expect justice for crimes against their liberty, which is why “Lock Her Up” about Hillary Clinton was such an essential part of the campaign.  People, even back then, wanted revenge for what they knew to be wrong, and those were the good ol’ days when the government tried to provide an illusion of freedom, at least.  Before they went too far with Covid, the vaccine mandates, a stolen election, and now putting their political rivals in jail over made-up charges, the January 6th committee will be found to have been a violation of congressional authority, and history will remember the Bannon case as a clear case of executive immunity, because he worked directly for President Trump.  Legally, all kinds of things are wrong with Bannon’s case; under no circumstances should he spend one day in jail or a small fortune on his legal defense, as he has had to do.  Only to be put in prison like some common criminal and locked up by a system that thinks it’s in control.  No, and I have had many private discussions about what happens next.  And not by some slack-jawed losers, but with respected members of law enforcement.  All the people who listen to my conversations from the intelligence community know the details thoroughly.  There is only one outcome which will not suit the communists. 

Communism is the right word.  Before this ostentatious effort by the forces of global tyranny, which we have witnessed in all its desperation over these last few years, culminating in this jail sentence, is a communist regime disguised as the Democrat Party enforcing its captured power in all the worst ways possible.  And they think we won’t demand justice in worse ways against them.  They believe that an attorney general who righted all these wrongs wouldn’t happen with Trump back in the presidency.  With Trump, there won’t be a Jeff Sessions part two, or another Bill Barr.  Those were attorney generals Trump put in place to show the world that he wouldn’t abuse his power because people were critical of him because of what the MAGA public demanded.  Trump wanted to win another term and to bring the country together.  The communists were terrified that he might be successful, so they did what they did to exert control over the population, the same as they do in communist countries like China.  But in a second Trump term, it will be expected, especially now, to throw the law books at these members of the communist left and to purge them from our society without compassion.  People will not forget the way the Democrats celebrated jailing Steve Bannon and others.  And they will expect revenge, retribution, justice, whatever anybody wants to call it.  And it won’t come from Trump.  It will come from the people who put him back in office.  The people of America are unhappy, and that anger can’t be ignored or beaten down into submission.  And what happens next, which must occur, is unavoidable.  But believe me, it’s far better to beat our enemies with the rules than at gunpoint.  We’ll try that out as an option.  That’s why Steve Bannon went to jail willingly.  So that we can peacefully enact justice for these perpetrators.  But submission to them isn’t in the cards.  And they will be surprised by how much justice we all expect.  It won’t be long, and they won’t laugh as they did today.  Bannon can be nice and call it justice.  MAGA people can call it retribution.  I’ll call it revenge.  And they have it coming in large doses. 

Bannon earned his man card. Did the show right up to the moment he had to go to jail. That’s how you fight!

Rich Hoffman

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The WarRoom Will Only Gain More Audience: Democrats want to trade a scruffy-looking pirate for a Barbi doll; what were they thinking?

Only the dumb communists of the Democrat party would think that trading out Steven Bannon as host of the WarRoom podcast, who always looks like he just rolled out of bed and put on the nearest thing he could find from the laundry pile, is better than the backup host who will fill his spot much of the time while he’s in jail with Natalie Winters, who makes Barbi dolls look like homeless people selling four-day-old pizzas from the trash.  I must admit that I enjoy Steve Bannon’s level of commentary on world events.  But as a fellow John Paul Jones fan that I know he is, he gets the role of a pirate in Revolutionary Wars over the years and has already done his part. by putting him in jail now, which is their goal by the dates they established, to impose a four-month sentence on him starting July 1st, which takes him off the public relations table during the rest of the election, they have caused a lot of trouble for themselvs.  Democrats who are running the courts these days, with obviously corrupt lawfare, think it will help Biden if Steve Bannon is in jail and can’t speak.  Well, news flash, I think the WarRoom will only grow in popularity over that period, and all the political left did was give more justification for the punishment that is coming their way once Trump is back in office.  And Steve Bannon will never let it go; I can promise that.  But Natalie Winters is something different altogether.  She’s young, and she’s very attractive, and she will be mostly what replaces Bannon while he’s in jail.  And I don’t think that’s a bad thing at all.  Rather, I think it will expand the WarRoom audience to younger people and will backfire dramatically on the Democrats. 

The over-30 crowd loves the WarRoom because of the play-by-play that Steve Bannon provides.  But they already know who they are voting for and what they’re planning to do as members of the WarRoom posse.    Expanding that tent to the younger people, those under 30, is needed.  And increasingly, over the last several years, Natalie Winters has been bringing that sentiment to the WarRoom podcast with great results.  Young Natalie had built an excellent reputation as a college student who would do fantastic news reporting on global events, such as COVID-19, and established herself as different among the young reporters and commentators with a tenacity that did not match her Barbie doll appearance.  In many ways, for Democrats, she is far more dangerous.  She has been dipping her toe in the water more as a commentator than a reporter once she graduated college and seems to enjoy the fight as much as we all do.  The difference is that she has her whole life in front of her, and she has learned from Steve Bannon the keys to delivering a message.  But she does it as someone who is as attractive to look at as anybody in the news business.  Much different from the Honeybadger, Steve Bannon looks like a scrappy wild animal caught in the trash at 2 AM with a sudden surprise inspection.  I don’t think they are going to be very happy with the result of not having Steve Bannon on the daily podcast that best represents Trump’s MAGA movement every day from 10 AM to noon.  Then again from 5 PM to 7.  And 10 AM to noon every Saturday.  The guests will still be the guests and the topics, the topics.  But the delivery will come from a Barbi Doll instead of a scrappy-looking pirate.  What could go wrong for the Marxist left who is trying to rid the world of personal beauty, not put it on center stage?

The critical problem here is that to do all this, which will give them nothing, will only make the WarRoom stronger. As a result, Democrats have sold their soul, literally.  The targeting of Trump’s people as direct White House staff, and putting them in jail only opens the door for the future prosecutions of people who did wrong.  The Biden family will undoubtedly be open to legal scrutiny now, along with many White House personnel who knew what was happening but enabled behavior detrimental to our country.  And, of course, the continued terrorism from the Obama administration and all the characters involved in that, including Eric Holder.  Since the statute of limitations no longer matters, and just about anything can be twisted into national security, the case law established against Trump’s administration can now be applied to anything.  Prosecutions can now be used, even to Hillary Clinton and her role as Secretary of State.  Oh, of course, they didn’t think this through.  They are communist bullies who expect compliance and nothing else.  They do not understand or expect the kind of anger that will come from Trump and his people once they are out of prison like General Flynn is now and Peter Navarro will be.  And, of course, Steve Bannon will return after four months, ready to rip the heads off of some gold monkeys.  There will be stories to tell that will last a lifetime.  And the Democrats will be stuck holding the bill for it all, and they will have to pay, which they are beginning to see. 

Meanwhile, Natalie Winters and others will carry on the WarRoom podcast hell or high water.  They get it, they understand what a vital news source they are, and they will keep the information flowing.  I maintain my blog the way I do every day, seven days a week, all weeks of the year, for a decade and a half now because I know who reads it and watches it.  It’s on a different scale than Bannon’s WarRoom, but the consumers of that information know they can depend on it no matter what’s going on in the world.  To do that, I could tell a lot of stories about technical difficulties, access to the internet, and just about every catastrophe you can imagine because the consumers of my information, who are mostly industry VIPs and influencers rather than everyday people, want to know that the clock is ticking and the things they can count on in life are always there for them.  And the WarRoom will be there for people who want the information.  Steve Bannon is nice to have around but not necessary. Rather, Natalie Winters will be able to expand the role the WarRoom plays in media with access to a younger audience and continue to feed news to the MAGA supporters with on-the-spot news refreshing daily.  For Bannon, this is similar to when John Paul Jones raided the English homeland.  The invasion news was more psychologically devastating to the enemy than the actual effort.  And putting Steve Bannon in jail only opens the door to vast amounts of anger toward the communist Democrats that will require retribution.  And all the Democrats will get from it is an open exercise of lawfare that people only speculated about up until this point.  And Democrats have proved all the suspicions right.  And they will be left holding the whole bag of tricks in the aftermath with nowhere to go.  Through it all will be that perky Natalie Winters smile and youthful affection for making a positive mark on the world that will only grow the movement against the global communists’ intent on its destruction.

Rich Hoffman

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The Message Behind Putting Steve Bannon in Jail: Refusing to acknowledge that Trump was the official government, which he was

The real danger in the case against Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro from the January 6th Committee isn’t just in the jail time imposed on these former members of the Trump White House.  Of course, this is not the first in history where Congress pushed executive branch members to provide some testimony, and the claim of executive privilege was used to deny it.  Eric Holder was found in contempt of Congress.  So was Lois Lerner, along with many others.  It’s normal to claim executive privilege when another branch of government is seeking information from another.  But there is something far worse going on here; it’s not just an argument about executive privilege that is going on behind all the prosecutions of President Trump and the people who worked directly for him.  It’s a denial that President Trump ever had the right to be president and that anybody from his administration could never claim such a right because they never existed.  That is the essential legal premise that was upheld by the appeals court, which rejected the conviction of Steve Bannon, the former strategist for the White House and the current voice of the Warroom podcast, which is very popular.  We are learning how much our current government is like the mob and how large it is.  The premise of destruction that they are putting forth is arrogant and audacious.  Yet it is their political position to go all in and attack members of the Trump administration, which sets a precedent for all future presidents that will only lead to destruction one way or the other of the other side.  This is more than a political gamble; it’s a desperate attempt to show mass force by the power of government over the representatives of an elected government, and its menace has been overt, to say the least.

When the January 6th event occurred, and the Congressional committee of the same name was enacted to investigate the circumstances, it was a political event.  It had nothing to do with justice, just as the cases against Trump have nothing to do with crime, but in using political force to keep a rival from running for office.  For those doubters about election fraud in the 2020 election, just study the intent behind the January 6th Committee of Republicans and Democrats, and it will become clear that if they could cheat in the election, they certainly would.  And they certainly had the means to cheat massively, because of all the newly adopted Covid rules that were essentially written on the back of a napkin and had absolutely no Constitutional validity.  Democrats had been held in contempt of Congress many times, so when the shoe was on the other foot and Congress put together an investigation into President Trump’s role in what they were calling an insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro did what the established behavior was from the Executive Branch perspective and that is to refuse to testify.  If it had been me, I would have testified.  I think they should have testified.  I would have made a mess of their hearing with my testimony in ways that would have been far more destructive to them, the Committee members.  But I get it. Steve and Peter didn’t want to show any respect for a crooked court, and they used their Executive Privilege to protest that power over them as they had an established right to do so.  But, the committee representing the general sentiment of the Beltway culture refused to recognize that right, which is why these contempt charges were different and why Bannon is going to go to jail at a critical time in the election process of 2024, to get him off the table.  And Peter Navarro is already there. 

However, by all legal parameters, and this is where things get very dangerous and will have lasting effects for the future, either way, that same Beltway culture is refusing to acknowledge that the Trump administration even existed.  The purpose of the January 6th event and the following committee was to provide a cover story for a stolen government.  Trump was the popularly elected government at the time and was the authority.  Trump couldn’t have an insurrection against himself.  It was the Beltway culture of lawyers, politicians, political pundits, investors, and globalists who refused to believe that they did not have power over the people and that people would elect someone to office in the White House that they did not have control over.  So, by prosecuting Bannon and Navarro, there is more than a contempt charge going on here.  There is a message to the public that this government that took over through election fraud, a previously established government, was in charge.  And if they, too, didn’t want to rot away in jail, they better get on board and do what they were told.  The message couldn’t be more precise.  This stolen government was asserting power over the previous government by denying its existence and justifying its actions through some fake insurrection accusation when the Biden administration, controlled by globalist interests, had performed the actual crime.  And the January 6th participants who rioted against the Capitol on that day were upset.  They had a right to be.  Their government had been taken from them, and they were given Joe Biden, but they weren’t OK with it.

As with all authoritarian governments, particularly communist ones, shows of force like this are common.  This is not an unusual playbook.  However, through our checks on power and divided government, we have an assumption in America that we can avoid these kinds of problems, which provides a stable platform for a constructive society that is financially viable.  However, the premise behind attacking members of Trump’s White House and Trump himself as he runs for President this third time is that the enemy is perfectly willing to throw the baby out with the bath water to get what they want out of it.  And if that means the destruction of America, that’s just as good for them.  These are evil people using the same audacious display of power and control as we saw among mobsters in American culture, and they have hijacked our legal system as a cover for their intent to commit crimes.  And on this stage, we are talking about crimes through the force and security of global communism.  They don’t care that throwing political rivals in jail might make people mad because they have already declared war against those who voted for the Trump administration.  Like the mob, putting Navarro and Bannon in jail and anybody else they can get their hands on is a warning.  They don’t care about the fairness of it.  Or the legality of it.  They only want to destroy their political opposition by any means.  And that is how we need to talk about this case, and we certainly can’t put up with it.  These are some of the most significant crimes in the history of the world, and we can’t just turn our back on them.  The bad guys have to be punished severely.  And the bad guys are not Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon.  But those who refuse to acknowledge that Trump was the legitimate government from 2016 to 2020.  2024, they will be more popular than ever because people want to pick their government.  They don’t like it selected for them by globalist forces who use the government as a cover for crimes against humanity, as evil people have always sought to do.

Rich Hoffman

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I Want Revenge: Bathe in the suffering of our enemies–they deserve it

We just had the three-year anniversary of President Trump leaving the White House which they showed recently on the Warroom with Steve Bannon and I’ll have to admit, I want revenge.  I want my political enemies to suffer deeply for what they did; that day was one of the worst days of my life.  And there have been some bad days.  It was worse for me because of what I do and my role; I pay more attention to these things than most people care to.  I was very mad when Trump gave that last speech before flying off in Air Force One that last time after his first term.  I am still angry.  Mad.  I want bad things to happen to the thousands of people who participated in that exile.  There were very few Republicans who were there to send away one of the most popular presidents in history.  The SWAMP was happy to get rid of Trump after all they did to conspire against him.  On that day three years ago, and since, we have learned just how bad the Uniparty truly is and to what effect the Deep State thought it was in charge. And that was indeed one of the darkest days of my life because, to my very soul, I love America and the concept of America.  And it was obvious that we were not in charge of America.  We were shown that we did not have a representative government, and that day’s message was, “Thanks for playing; we’ll fly you where you want to go in our airplane and drop you off.  And we never want to see you again.”  I was so mad at that time that my wife and I packed up our stuff and headed out into the desert for a while in our RV.  I didn’t want to see anybody or talk to anybody.  I needed to clear my head and recalibrate.  And I’m glad I did.  While traveling, Rush Limbaugh died, Biden moved into the White House, and what I think of as the darkest days of America were in front of us.  It was a horrible time.

You don’t want to know what I was thinking when this picture was taken. Thank goodness there was a vast desert for me to cool down in

And as bad as it was I told everyone, some people wanted to grab guns and overthrow the government, to hold tight and use the rules to beat these guys.  I went way out of my way to convince people that the insurrection act of Trump refusing to leave the White House and use the military to fight back against the apparent coup was not the right one, as tempted as I was to snap myself.  To say I hate the people who participated in that day is an understatement, and people can tell me it’s not very Jesus-like.  But I speak to all of them that if Jesus wants to forgive them, he can at the Heavenly gates, or the Devil can at the gates of Hell.  But I want revenge for what they did.  I want them all to suffer and more.  My message to everyone upset has finally come back around to fulfillment and I’ll have to admit, I have been waiting for this day all this time, and I can taste the blood in my mouth from the vengeance I want to see happening to people like Paul Ryan, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and his ridiculous family, Mitch McConnell, Liz Cheney, Mittens Romney, and the entire band of globalists at Davos, Larry Fink, Klaus Schwab, ABC News, NBC News, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, all of them.  They deserve to suffer for what they did and did a lot.  Covid was a bioweapon made and released to facilitate a Great Reset, a Marxist plot hatched at the World Economic Forum and released from China because everyone figured the communist government could contain the story of its release.  And Covid was released to perform massive election fraud and, steal the election from Trump, and ruin the American economy that was at that time thriving.  And I took it as an act of war that our people were deeply involved in.  The kind of people who did not show up to see Trump off that day.

It was ironic that in a Georgia courtroom at the 3rd anniversary of Trump leaving the White House on that horrendously cold day in January of 2021, it was proven that the digital machines could be hacked and votes changed, which has been happening for a very long time, likely since the invention of the internet. There is no question now what happened. Over these last three years, the proof has come out, and all the conspirators are trying to advance the topic so they never have to pay for what they did, essentially telling us that we are not in charge of our government. And that when they sent Trump packing, they were spitting in our face. Which is why my wife and I went to the desert to think. I had been telling everyone to use the rules to beat these guys because once you drew guns and fought them with a violent insurrection, then you couldn’t use those same rules to put Trump back in office and the whole system of justice would be gone forever. As it stands now, the Uniparty has to make the same move, and if they choose to pick up arms and defend their power, then it is on them. We have waited and played by the rules as much as possible because we have been planning for this day all this time: the revenge tour. And I couldn’t wait.

While in the desert, my wife and I found an excellent place to eat breakfast called the Cowboy Café. Each morning, we would get an omelet and take it back to our camper to dine and watch the news on television.  It snowed in the desert that year, and temperatures were devastatingly cold.  There was a little grocery next to that Cowboy Café where we bought most of our food for that time, and it was the people in that region that picked up my spirit, and I figured out the path to hope that was in front of us.  And I came away from that trip ready to fight and do whatever had to be done, which I have been doing behind the scenes since then and even more than I had been doing up to that point.  But here we are.  Ron DeSantis has dropped out of the race, as well as Vivek Ramaswamy, as the primaries are clearly showing that most of America is ready for Trump again in the same way I am.  But make no mistake: I’m not alone in wanting revenge for what has been done to us.  A lot of people must pay for the crimes they committed.  And as I said, you beat these guys with the rules even though I was tempted otherwise.  They used the rules to steal away Trump, the best president likely in American history, so we can utilize them to turn the tables on them, which is happening now.  But don’t cry for your enemies.  Bathe in their tears, enjoy their howls of anguish, delight in their suffering, and don’t feel sorry for those losers.  They have it coming, and they should handle the kind of wrath that makes people beg for the fires of Hell and the impalement of a pitchfork into their worthless carcasses for eternal damnation.  Trump prefers to take the high road and says the best revenge is living well and winning.  And to be a gracious winner.  That’s not where I’m at and never will be.  I want a pound of flesh from each who contributed to the crime, and I’ll never get over it.  They are lucky Trump is so gracious.

Rich Hoffman

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Thinking of Steve Bannon: Pirates, values, and the foundation of American life

I decoded a long time ago what was on Walt Disney’s mind when he designed the Magic Kingdom, along with specific themes hidden behind the current culture of management that conceals it. And so I took an afternoon to really relish it; after all, it was my vacation and I was thinking about a lot of big stuff. And I was catching up on time with my daughters, one of whom had an obsessive need to ride Pirates of the Caribbean with me to fulfill a quest from her youth. It had been twenty years prior when I had taken all the kids, nieces, and nephews onto several late-night rides of that particular attraction and she had missed it due to a personal problem. And she is the one who grew up with a powerful love of pirates probably as a result of it, because she missed that opportunity. Both of my daughters have extreme reverence for piracy because a lot of what I taught them as little girls was respect for rebellion, leaving them obsessed with skulls. To this day, skulls are a massive part of their lives and mine, and much of that interest traces back to my love of pirate history, the ride at Disney World Pirates of the Caribbean, and many, many, many hours of me talking to them about the need for pirates in the world and what role they played in the formation of the United States. For instance, one of my favorite founding fathers is John Paul Jones, who is also the inspiration for Steve Bannon, the current popular podcaster and former strategist for President Trump—and many other things. And while one of my daughters was doing something extraordinary with her daughter, my granddaughter, I went off with my other daughter to put a bookend to that formally broken Pirates of the Caribbean experience. And I thought about Steve Bannon the entire time I was on that ride.

I have a lot of Steve Bannons in my life, several in my local neighborhood and I value them in the same way I do pirates. That doesn’t mean I support state-sponsored terrorism from which piracy was born, but I see them, as Walt Disney did, as critical to a free society because they are natural hedges against tyranny. Disney when he designed his park, put entirely on purpose the Pirate ride next to his Frontier Land and Liberty Square to remind people of these things for the sustenance of American life. And I had a chance to experience how Disney designed all this on this particular day with my daughter alone at the Magic Kingdom for the first time. The rest of our group, my wife, the rest of the kids, and my daughter’s husbands were back at our camp at Fort Wilderness preparing dinner and swimming to refresh themselves while we took my granddaughter to buy a dress so she could be photographed at the castle. For those who don’t know there is a famous dress store just behind the castle, and for little girls fortunate enough to attend that place with parental figures with deep pockets, you can buy a princess dress and wear it around the park, and the employees know to refer to her as a “princess” whenever they interact with her. And this was what we were up to, for her very young mind. She’s under ten, and this is the prime time of her life to set big goals for herself and create standards that would last a lifetime.

Standards are critical for young people, especially young girls. Women have tremendous power, primarily based on their sexual nature, so good decisions are massively important to their future, how they pick people in their lives, and the consequences of those decisions. So, to get it right, I encourage the young girls in my family to set very high standards in their lives, and this was a day my granddaughter would never forget. A day when she was an actual princess and treated that way by every employee at Disney World. I wanted her never to ignore it, so my daughter and I went out of our way to elevate that experience for her. So we let her buy a dress, put it on in the bathrooms between Frontier Land and Adventure Land, and had quite an excellent time soaking up the exotic environment while my granddaughter was gushing with pride and excitement. High standards—live a good life. While my granddaughter’s mother wanted to go and photograph this experience in front of the castle, a few feet away from all this, my other daughter wanted to catch up on that Pirates of the Caribbean ride. While all this was happening, I was in a texting frenzy with many of my pirate cells all over the country working on real projects that could only be described as rebellions against the established order, modern piracy perfectly and healthily. As we rode that ride, I was glad to think about Steve Bannon and his inspiration of John Paul Jones doing wonderful things that reminded me that after all this smoke cleared, America was going to be much better and so much healthier, not because of the rules and procedures of Washington D.C. but because of the pirate nature of the founding of the country itself and the continued actions of just such people.

It was a special day; we enjoyed the ride, and I had philosophy pouring through my mind, which is when I am happiest. I answered another 25 text messages from many pirates at many levels of society doing great work, and my daughter was elated to have had that personal, one-on-one experience with me, which was beyond her dreams. She had thought about that moment for two decades, and it came out better than she expected, so it was all great. We finished our business there and then left the Magic Kingdom to catch the monorail for the Epcot Center, where we met up with the rest of our group for an ambitious night in that park, which was a wonderful experience. For context, we had spent that entire morning at the Animal Kingdom, so that was our third park of the day, so everyone’s heads were spinning. And it is just such a pace that I am happiest. But the best part was seeing this whole cycle of value and defense of that value. First, you set in an individual’s mind a personal goal, a heightened awareness of expectation. Then, you create a political system that removes barriers to that heightened state. Pirates must constantly push against static methods to allow dynamic personalities to advance culture. And in that way, pirate activity was critical to the formation of America. And it is also crucial to keep exceptional people free to move society in productive ways, which is what Steve Bannon and the Warroom are doing on the national and international stage. And what other rag-tag patriots are doing in their local communities nationwide, which I am very proud to know of. The Pirates of the Caribbean is more than a ride to me and my daughter; it’s a temple. And on that day at that particular time, it was just the recharge I had been looking for.

Rich Hoffman

The Deep State Must Be Destroyed: They started the war, elections are the best path to a peaceful resolution

Please make no mistake about it, the World Economic Forum types; the Deep State as it operates in the world is at war with us in the United States.  They have attacked us through controls over finance, and their intentions were just as hostile as any other kind of military attack.  I understand Steve Bannon’s speech at Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Conference in Florida, where President Trump also spoke.  Supporting Trump is a vote against the Deep State that has attacked our country, and the general enemy is globalism.  And many people, like Steve Bannon and Trump, get it.  We are not having a policy discussion in America.  We are at war.  Now this just didn’t come out of nowhere.  I have quite a few people I associate with who have IQs over 180 who have been trying to recruit me to the Sovereign Citizen Movement for most of my adult life.  The Sovereign Citizen Movement is a controversial group of individuals who believe that they are not subject to the laws and regulations of the government. They often use their beliefs to justify illegal actions, such as refusing to pay taxes or obtaining false identification.  I think some of my friends in this movement are too smart to play the game and they gave up their citizenship years ago and would rationalize to me that America is not America.   There is no Constitution; there is no Bill of Rights.  America is a corporation.  It is not the land of the free, and I was being delusional to believe any of it.  So when it comes to compliance with the Desecrators of Davo’s enemy, who want to control the world through globalism, I know many people in various pockets that will fight hard should the time call for it. 

I can’t say that any of those rebel factions are wrong, but my statement is different, which is why I’m not in their movement. I don’t care what some central bankers think; I don’t worship the Rothchilds or any globalist ruling families. They are all idiots, and their money means nothing to me. And if they want a fight, well, I’m always happy to give it to them because I believe in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. And that is what I am willing to fight for. It doesn’t make any difference to me whether or not they accept those laws. I always viewed some of those intelligent friends as chickens for not wanting to stand and fight for their country. And I don’t mean signing up for the military, even though that’s how most people think. To me, the army of our government is a branch of globalism. I have very different views on it. But fighting for the Constitution, the First and Second Amendments, the Fourth and Fifth, which are routinely violated by this criminal syndicate Biden administration, is worth fighting for. So far, that fight is in politics. If votes matter, I’d say utilize them as far as possible. But submission to these globalist forces that have infected our institutions, our government at every level. No, that isn’t in the playbook—no submission to anything but American sovereignty. Running and hiding in other countries without American citizenship is not my idea of fighting. It’s running, so I have very different views than the Sovereign Citizens. I understand their argument but disagree with the resolution for correction. The real fight to fight is on the finance front. This isn’t a war of tangible battlegrounds like we’ve seen in the Revolutionary War or the Civil War. This is one at the bank and its connections to international investors who want to destroy our country from the outside in.

But just like attackers on the battlefield in the past, during the Civil War, for instance, railroads were targets for destroying supply chains. The same is happening now, but it is choking off our corporate structure in board rooms. The attack is to starve Americans of their freedoms slowly, to leave the infrastructure intact for a communist takeover that has been planned through globalism for over a hundred years. And now they are cashing their checks, and the moment is upon us. I would say the attackers have a math problem; so long as there are people like Steve Bannon out there and Charlie Kirk, who know how to fight these fights the right way, it is impossible for the Deep State to win, where the Sovereign Citizens believed all along that the whole effort was pointless. I would say it’s far from hopeless, especially if you understand the intentions of the Deep State. For years they have operated in the background, in hiding. But now they are exposed in the light of day and won’t last long like this. So I feel wonderful about America’s chances. What Bannon says about Trump is true. Trump is a peaceful resolution to this conflict. But if the Deep State insists on confrontation and things go sideways, that’s on them. More than enough people are willing to fight to destroy the Deep State.

And that’s what we are talking about here, the Destruction of the Deep State.  They went to war with us; we were minding our own business.  We were living by the rules of the Constitution.  They were the ones who came along in an attempt to destroy our founding documents, and people now understand the implications of that effort.  Today I spent the entire day with some excellent friends who remind me every year at the Annie Oakley Festival, which I have been a part of for over two decades, that many people are more than willing to fight the Deep State.  They are minding their own business and don’t even know what a Deep State is.  But tell them they can’t buy a gun, or vote for Trump, or that they can’t get gas for their truck, and they will be looking for someone to pay for interrupting their lives.  And you can bet I’ll point them in the right direction.  I’ll be happy to.  The Deep State deserves destruction for what they have done to America and is attempting to do presently to the world.  They are the ones who attacked us; they have killed innocent people and have looted trillions of dollars from all of us.  They are bloodthirsty killers hiding behind a fancy façade of polite “European” society.  And they aren’t welcome.  I’d say I interact with a very “diverse” number of people, and I know how many people find the message of the War Room with Steve Bannon a better representation of their political alliances than Fox News, or any of the other mainstream offerings.  So all the strategies of the Deep State are pretty flimsy.  They are ruthless, and they have shown us their teeth.  But failure is in their future, and how painful it is, is really up to them.  It’s what they do; next, that will decide how that future proceeds.  But domination and compliance of American society it’s not in the cards. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Interview Between President Trump and Steve Bannon: A political class that wants to keep the bar low hate those who challenge them

For some strange reason, people have all the wrong values about what makes a good president, and they are reluctant to support President Trump in public. And when I say that, I’m thinking of people who think Ron DeSantis is a better option. This past week, Ohio Senator Matt Dolan made it clear that in his future political efforts, he wasn’t in favor of Trump, which is just bizarre that he thinks that’s a smart political calculation that people will respect. Because when Trump recently sat down with Steve Bannon to give an hour-long interview on the Warroom podcast, the Trump everyone should know was clear to see. Steve Bannon used to work for Trump, was one of his chief strategists, and they know each other well. And Steve knew how to get the soft side of Trump out in the interview. And it was glaringly obvious why Trump won the first time and continues to win. And in being so obvious, it’s then clear who all the bad guys are out there, making it much more conducive to defeat their hostile interests. I’ve said I like Matt Dolan as a person. But what in his mind does he think is needed in politics that he couldn’t support Trump? It’s not that Trump needs Dolan’s support. Instead, the other way around, for anything Dolan might want to do as a senator in Ohio, Trump would be an excellent name to have behind it. But somehow, they were likely the same people he listened to when he changed the name of his baseball team from the Indians to the “Guardians.” Too many politicians think that playing nice and sucking up to the mob will show the voting public that they are willing to work with others instead of fighting for their rights as their elected representatives. 

One of the reasons Trump has been going around and doing interviews on outlets like The Warroom is because he’s putting out a new book, Letters to Trump, which is a collection of letters from many celebrities who have sent the President very nice letters over the years. And in many cases, it’s letters from people who have been recently hostile to him once he entered politics. Names like Alec Baldwin are featured. People at this point forget just how popular Donald Trump has been for many decades; after all, he did have 14 seasons of The Apprentice, which was the top-rated television show produced by NBC for a long time. Under any other condition, if a president or former President has been on a television show, that show would be on syndication perpetually. But it’s hard to get any copies of past shows of The Apprentice under any format, even DVD because the media culture has so invested of itself into the destruction of Trump’s image that they would gladly sacrifice any amount of profit for themselves to destroy any potential of President Trump entering politics again. Why? It certainly works against their self-interest. Leaks from the recent Tucker Carlson firing at Fox News indicate that there is a belief among the executive staff and board that if only they could get rid of Tucker covering Trump accurately, it might harm his re-election chances. Fox News isn’t that influential, folks. More people watch the Warroom over the course of the week; that is the changing marketplace. Yet we see these little pockets of the belief that the media is compelling, especially among cord-cutters, and that politicians think that it’s still fashionable to play softball in politics when the opposition wants to eradicate you and your country along with it.    

The book Letters to Trump is filled with lots of personalities that essentially show how cheap some of the biggest celebrities of our culture are, that they were so nice to Trump when they thought there might be some opportunity for them by sucking up to him while he had the number one show on television, or even before when he had all the hotels and casinos and was on the cover of every tabloid magazine with a new hot model during his playboy years. Everyone wanted to be near Trump; they wanted a donation from Trump or a kind word from Trump. Then to see how many of those same people have turned against Trump once he entered politics is very jolting to people who aren’t prone to such contrasts. But people get it; Trump is still the leader in the polls for all the same reasons Trump had the top-rated show on NBC for 14 years, which the media is trying desperately to hide. Everyone thinks the people out there are stupid. But people get it. They know Trump is the answer to many political problems because he’s a real person who has done real, significant things in life, and our politics is run by looters essentially who do very little and take a lot from the world to produce consistently bad results. And people want successful people running their country with a proven track record over many years. And Trump is undeniably that. He did great the first time around; people had good lives with Trump as President, no matter their political affiliation, and who in their right mind wouldn’t like that?

Watching this interview with Steve Bannon and President Trump was more interesting than other interviews because both men have accomplished a lot in their lives before ever entering politics and had very interesting things to discuss. And that is why the political establishment so hates both men. What people who hate Trump, or Steve Bannon for that matter, hate most is the effect of accomplished people in politics. It really comes down to the old labor union’s jealousy about merit. If one person works harder than all the others, it makes all the lazy people look bad. And where the rubber hits the road with Trump, many lazy people make a lot of money off political inefficiencies, and they hate Trump because he wants to solve the problems. But to the political class and all the support groups that advise them, there is a lot of money to be made off chaos. So they never intend to solve the problem. They want the problems. And voters want solutions, which is why they are done with politics the old way. They want Trump because they want results, which is what many of the bootlicker types out there are terrified of. It’s not just Trump himself they fear, but their own role in a world that expects results. How can they compete with a President Trump, who has accomplished so much over a lifetime, and feel like they have a co-equal seat at the table? So rather than improve themselves somehow, they would rather tear him down to preserve their public appeal as a looter-class politician. And that was all so obvious in Trump’s very unique interview with Steve Bannon. People understand what the problems are in the world. They understand the threat of globalism. And they don’t see anybody else out there who can fix it. But Trump can, and that’s what people are supporting, someone who isn’t afraid to fix things. Who doesn’t write suck-up letters to people hoping to get a job. But they want the person that all the suck-up letters go to because they want to win at life, and not experienced the managed failure that the political class has given them for over a hundred years. 

Rich Hoffman

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