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Fortune Favors the Bold: Attacking Iran had to happen

To answer the question of whether these events will hurt—or were worth the cost—the answer is uncomfortable but clear: this confrontation with Iran was inevitable. The threat was never theoretical. It was already present, already embedded, already metastasizing beneath the surface of polite society. What decisive action does is not create violence; it exposes where it has been hiding. When hostile regimes and their ideological proxies are allowed to operate unchallenged, they do not become peaceful—they become bolder. The choice is never between peace and conflict; it is between managed confrontation now or uncontrolled destruction later. What we are witnessing is the surfacing of a danger that already existed, and that visibility matters because it allows societies to identify, isolate, and ultimately dismantle networks that thrive only in darkness.

The regime change operation in Iran, which began with joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on February 28, 2026, has escalated dramatically into a full-scale conflict with profound implications for global security, domestic U.S. politics, and the broader fight against masked authoritarianism. President Donald Trump’s decision to target not just nuclear and military infrastructure but also key leadership—culminating in the confirmed death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—marks a decisive break from decades of containment and diplomacy. This action, framed by Trump as the “single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country,” aligns with his executive approach: rapid, results-driven intervention over endless negotiations.

Intelligence from the CIA, shared with Israeli partners over months, enabled precise strikes that eliminated Khamenei along with approximately 48 senior leaders, including IRGC commanders and other officials, in the initial wave. U.S. forces have sunk at least nine Iranian warships, destroyed naval headquarters, and hit over 1,000 targets, including ballistic missile sites with B-2 stealth bombers armed with 2,000-pound bombs. Trump has described operations as “ahead of schedule” and “moving along very rapidly,” with potential continuation for weeks if needed. He has expressed openness to talks with Iran’s interim leadership council—comprising figures like President Masoud Pezeshkian and judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejehi—but warned of overwhelming force against further escalation.

Iran’s retaliation has been swift and widespread: missile and drone barrages on Israel, U.S. bases in Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and others, killing three U.S. service members and wounding five seriously. Civilian casualties include reports of over 100 girls killed near a military site in one strike (per Iranian claims), blasts in Tehran, and disruptions to oil shipments and airports like Dubai. Israel has countered with new waves targeting Tehran and the internal security apparatus, such as Basij bases, involved in suppressing recent protests.

This exposes the regime’s true nature: a theocratic facade over Marxist-statist control since 1979, blending radical Islamism with centralized economic repression and proxy terrorism via the Axis of Resistance (Hezbollah, Houthis, Hamas). Long appeased to avoid violence, these elements are now lashing out openly. In the U.S., heightened alerts follow, with warnings of potential proxy activations like Hezbollah or Iraqi militias. Isolated incidents—stabbings, assaults—linked to radical Islamist actors have emerged post-strikes, reflecting latent threats provoked into visibility. This mirrors the “beast within” dynamic: when leadership is decapitated, desperate reactions expose networks for confrontation in wartime conditions.

Parallel events reinforce the pattern. In Mexico, the February 22-23, 2026, killing of CJNG leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes—via a U.S.-aided Mexican raid—sparked unprecedented violence: road blockades, arson, attacks killing 25 National Guard members across 20+ states, stranding tourists, and disrupting infrastructure. Cartel reprisals, including 85+ burning blockades, highlight criminal-socialist entanglements exploiting weak governance. Trump’s pressure compelled Mexican action, weakening narco-influence tied to broader destabilization.

Venezuela’s reforms, under similar pressure, dismantle socialist structures that serve as Chinese leverage points in the hemisphere. These interconnected victories target the global Marxist push—hidden behind religion (Iran), race/feminism (West), or “fairness” rhetoric—responsible for millions dead and stifled prosperity since the 1970s.

Capitalism remains the counter: hard work yields upward mobility—no central planners ban “ice cream shops” or micromanage lives. Dubai and Abu Dhabi thrive despite Islamic roots when free from tyranny, proving compatibility with enterprise.

Politically, this bolsters Republicans. Voters reward bold winners delivering resolutions over complacency or UN globalism. Regime change in Iran, cartel disruptions in Mexico, and Venezuelan reforms project strength; people favor progress amid occasional downsides. Strong Trump-aligned Republicans will gain in the 2026 midterms; indecisiveness loses. Domestically, Democrats defend these ideologies, but freedom-seekers back opportunity.

The trajectory favors self-rule and honest elections, inspiring emulation in Hong Kong or elsewhere, weakening China’s proxies. Trump’s short-window decisiveness delivers what voters elected: America leading freedom’s advance.

The timing of recent domestic attacks underscores this reality. In Washington State, a brutal multiple‑fatality stabbing incident shocked the public, reminding Americans how fragile civil order can be when violent ideologies or psychological radicalization go unchecked—regardless of the specific motive still under investigation 1. More strikingly, in Austin, Texas, a mass shooting on March 1 left three people dead and at least fourteen wounded, prompting the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force to investigate a potential nexus to terrorism. Federal authorities have stated there were “indicators” associated with the suspect and his vehicle suggesting ideological motivation, though the investigation remains ongoing and conclusions have not yet been finalized 23. These events did not occur in a vacuum. They occurred amid heightened global tensions and reflect the reality that ideological violence does not respect borders. When regimes built on terror feel pressure abroad, their sympathizers and offshoots often react domestically—not because they are newly inspired, but because they are newly threatened.

Politically, this will not punish decisive leadership—it will reward it. History shows that voters do not rally around hesitation; they rally around clarity and resolve. The Trump administration’s actions project strength at a moment when ambiguity would invite chaos. Yes, it is tragic that innocent people suffer—but innocent people have been suffering all along. The difference now is not the presence of violence, but the presence of attention. What was once ignored or reframed is now visible, named, and confronted. This is the hard truth of peace: it is not achieved by accommodation with evil, but by facing it directly, exposing its mechanisms, and denying it safe harbor. That is the path being taken now, and it is the only one that leads anywhere other than decline.

Footnotes

1.  Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was confirmed killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes on February 28, 2026, per Iranian state media and U.S. sources.<sup>1</sup>

2.  Trump described operations as “ahead of schedule” in a CNBC interview, March 1, 2026.<sup>2</sup>

3.  U.S. forces sank nine Iranian warships and hit over 1,000 targets, including ballistic missile sites.<sup>3</sup>

4.  Three U.S. service members killed, five wounded in Iranian retaliatory strikes on regional bases.<sup>4</sup>

5.  Iran launched barrages on Israel and U.S. allies in Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, etc.<sup>5</sup>

6.  Mexico: El Mencho was killed on February 22-23, 2026; cartel violence killed 25 National Guard members, and there were widespread blockades.<sup>6</sup>

7.  CIA intelligence enabled Khamenei strike targeting a senior leaders’ meeting.<sup>7</sup>

8.  Interim Iranian leadership council formed amid power vacuum.<sup>8</sup>

9.  Protests and violence in Pakistan, India (Kashmir), etc., following Khamenei’s death.<sup>9</sup>

10.  Trump’s call for Iranian uprising and regime change in Truth Social posts and addresses.<sup>10</sup>

Bibliography

•  CNN. “February 28, 2026 — US-Israeli strikes on Iran.” Live updates. https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-attack-02-28-26-hnk-intl

•  CNBC. “Live updates: Trump tells CNBC that Iran military operations are ‘ahead of schedule’.” March 1, 2026. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/01/us-iran-live-updates-khamenei-death-trump-gulf-strikes.html

•  CBS News. “U.S. confirms 3 troops killed in Iran war as Trump says operation is ‘ahead of schedule’.” March 1, 2026. https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/us-iran-war-israel-supreme-leader-khamenei-funeral-day-2

•  NPR. “Trump warns Iran not to retaliate after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed.” March 1, 2026. https://www.npr.org/2026/03/01/nx-s1-5731333/iran-us-israel-strikes

•  The New York Times. “Iran Says Supreme Leader Killed in U.S.-Israeli Strikes.” February 28-March 1, 2026. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/28/world/iran-strikes-trump

•  Reuters. “US-Israeli strikes kill Khamenei, and Iranian retaliation shakes the Gulf.” February 28-March 1, 2026. https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-crisis-live-explosions-tehran-israel-announces-strike-2026-02-28

•  Understanding War (ISW). “Iran Update Morning Special Report: March 1, 2026.” https://understandingwar.org/research/middle-east/iran-update-morning-special-report-march-1-2026

•  CNN. “February 23, 2026 – Mexico cartel leader ‘El Mencho’ killing sparks chaos.” https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/mexico-el-mencho-killed-travel-chaos-02-23-26-intl-hnk

•  CSIS. “Criminal Kingpin ‘El Mencho’ Is Dead, What Comes Next?” February 26, 2026. https://www.csis.org/analysis/criminal-kingpin-el-mencho-dead-what-comes-next

•  Wikipedia. “2026 Jalisco operation.” (Timeline overview). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Jalisco_operation

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When Stupidity and a Lack of Skill are Deliberate Acts of Terrorism: The radicalism of federal employees

We may see significant accidents like the one in Philadelphia every day, and we should look at them all as acts of terrorism, purposeful attacks on our American culture.  That plane was registered in Mexico, and we are seeing the effects of DEI policies and globalism in general everywhere, which is likely a massive contributor to this most recent plane crash in Pennsylvania, unskilled pilots from another country getting lost in the clouds, or having their vehicles taken over due to too much automation by a third party for the act of sabotage and destruction to push a political agenda, such as trying to stop the Trump administration with PR nightmares that consume all their time and resources.  But let’s not forget about the strange plane crash in Washington D.C., where a military helicopter ran straight into a landing commercial airliner over the Potomac, killing all on board, for no good reason at all.  The aircraft should not have been at that flight altitude of 400 feet.  It should have been much lower.  There is a lot wrong with the military helicopter because even if the air traffic control people messed everything up in managing all the aircraft in the air over Ronald Reagan International that night, the pilots would have clear visibility at the 11 o’clock positions of the passenger jet, and could have stopped well in advance.   They flew right into the plane and did nothing to try to swerve out of the way, leaving many to suspect that the helicopter was being flown remotely.  And the passengers flying it may not have been conscious.  That the voice heard talking to the air traffic controllers was A.I. driven because it did not lend credence to the observed reality.  There would be no way the pilots wouldn’t have seen what they were about to face. 

But all these things now, these purposeful terrorist actions of sabotaging flights to make them crash, just ahead of President Trump’s executive orders forcing all federal workers back to work, are more than a coincidence.  I listened to the news outlets talking about these crashes with wall-to-wall coverage, shaking my head at all they were missing.  This is the kind of Saul Alinsky strategy that the radical left globalists expect out of good, loving, everyday people.  They think we are gullible, even stupid, and we won’t see the truth behind all this evil because we cannot process it.  There is a lot more to the story of the air traffic control tower at Reagan International that needed to be staffed with 30 people, and only 19 were working that night.  The quality of the people working in all these jobs were DEI hires, meaning that the priority for employment was their skin color or handicap condition, which gave them priority over other qualified applicants.  Being understaffed is not an excuse when your work’s policies make it so that everyone is dealing with an utterly artificial constraint of only hiring certain people, broken people, under the disguise of fairness when the intent is genuinely sabotage.  To sabotage the merit-based society of America and to have it fall apart with the push of a button.  Yes, when you have so many automated systems that do not require skilled people to do the jobs, don’t be surprised when it all goes wrong.  But why now, and why almost every night?  Well, for that answer, you have to understand the radicalism of the average federal worker, including those at the FBI and CIA who belong to radical labor unions and have gained way too much power and, when pressed, are perfectly capable of abusing it.

As I watched the various clips of all these crashes, especially the one in Washington, D.C., it looked very similar to the Tesla Cybertruck bombing in front of Trump Tower in Las Vegas.  Notice how that story disappeared?  Or the massacre by the Islamic radicals in New Orleans at almost the same time on New Year’s Day.  In the Tesla case, these vehicles can drive themselves.  So you could kill the driver and put him in the seat so that the body gets the blame when the explosion happens, and all the investigators are happy to have at least found some believable evidence of the culprit.  Only in the Cybertruck case did we see the driver moving right before the explosion, which brings up a whole new layer of problems.  Can people be remotely controlled? The answer is yes, especially if they have military backgrounds where mental conditioning can turn them into compliant soldiers incapable of free thought with the flick of a mental switch.  All these characters have the same characteristics as the Las Vegas shooter at the concert venue during the first Trump term.  When the military is involved, as it was in the Washington D.C. plane crash, or we are dealing with open borders and exchanges with globalism, as was certainly the case with the crash in Philadelphia, we are seeing terrorism purposefully concealed within systems of trust so that we can never know the intent hidden behind assumption.  The assumption is that equality is more important than skill, which then leaves always a back door open for the terrorists to exploit the unskilled and unleash terror.  While everyone is trying to figure out what happened and are looking at control towers understaffed, the real terrorists stay hidden behind their push-button concealments and get away with the crime. 

To find these terrorists, we need only to look at the conditions for which these tragedies are presented and to know what federal workers are motivated by.  The traditional action behind a tragedy is to throw more workers at a problem, but the attack against this Trump administration that is firing people in massive amounts is to create a crisis that indicates that fewer federal workers will lead to more tragedy.  And that the more federal workers we fire, the more these kinds of accidents will happen.  Leaving everyone to consider whether or not such an evil proposition is even possible.  And I would say, based on lots and lots of experience, that yes, this is very possible and highly likely.  If we were to look beyond the investigative veil of the dead pilots in the seats of crashed aircraft, cars, and control towers, we would most likely find angry, radicalized leftist Trump haters who are using automated systems to hack into them and cause accidents hoping to stop Trump and his crusade to remove such employees from our federal government.  Yes, crazy people will kill the innocent for what they think is the greater good.  And too often, by these types of people, the greater good is defined by John Lennon’s song “Imagine.”  When you have millions of federal employees, there are always a percent or two who are off their rocker, especially when the Biden administration prioritized hiring practices through DEI.   The current number of incompetent, radicalized workers is much higher.  Terrorism was always baked into those politics so that if they ever needed push button terrorism, they would have it.  And I think that’s what we are seeing, push button terrorism driven to stop Trump’s policy and panic the public into a sense of unease.  As we strive to make America Great Again, we will increasingly see the people who want to prevent that from happening conduct an open war on our trust and try to bomb us back into the stone age through the embedded DEI policies and excessive reliance on automated systems to make DEI even remotely possible, but taking skill out of consideration and making it easy to exploit the stupid for acts of terror.  To see all that, it only requires the next layer of questions of the observable reality to be noticed.  It’s not a coincidence; it’s an attack.

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The Terror Act of Burning Down Los Angeles: Hiding an evil ahead of the Trump DOJ

We know enough at this point to say with confidence that the LA fires that have destroyed the Pacific Palisades, the Hollywood Hills, and Brentwood and are still raging is an act of terrorism just as much as the killings in New Orleans were, and the attempted Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas was.  Arsonists started the fires, some of them were caught, and the policies of California made it ripe for the terror act to commence, destroying the lives of many people in the process.  The only thing we don’t yet know is why.  Some speculate that LA wants to build a “smart city,” as was the speculation behind the wildfire burning in Lahaina, Hawaii, on the island of Maui.  This looks to be a modern strategy from the radical left, especially in areas that typically have a lot of Democrat support with soft social policies toward fiscal management; they are more vulnerable to policy terrorism than other places.  And when we say policy terrorism, we are talking about the purposeful weakening of infrastructure so that it can be exploited for a more significant cause by radical terrorists.  Such as hiring too many DEI employees who are not competent enough to do the job.  Or giving away the budgets for their fire departments to Ukraine.  Or deliberately not having water reservoirs filled for use to chase some ridiculous environmental concern.  Nothing kills all the turtles and fish more than a raging fire.  So, there was a lot wrong with Lahaina, which is still a mystery.  And the same lessons appear to have been exploited in Los Angeles just a week away from President Trump re-entering the White House.  Logic would say that there is an attempt here by financial types to torpedo the Trump economy with the same zest that they unleashed COVID-19, a known bioweapon during the first Trump term, to halt the economy and force everyone into globalism.  But what we know about the LA wildfires was that they were purposefully caused by stupidity and terrorism because they caught the arsonists running around burning tossed-out Christmas Trees after the holiday season.  The fires weren’t started naturally.

So this is where things get fuzzy, and you have to fill in the gaps based on what you know, and that is why the policies of LA were so mismanaged, deliberately not to be prepared for a fire that would so quickly destroy entire cities. Indeed, nobody is as stupid as the people running LA proposed to be.  The mismanagement of fire resources and water management is astonishingly dumb.  Dumber than dumb people would perform under any conditions.  Which only contributes to the terrorist plot.  Who gets paid for these kinds of things? Who profits from the enterprise?  We have to view this through the lens of war, not through accidental environmental degradation.  The Pacific Palisades looked like a bomb was dropped on it during wartime activity; it had the same effect.  And I would offer that was the point all along.  Bomb an American city ahead of Trump’s return to the White House to derail his incoming administration with a crisis.  But I think personally it goes further than that.  And Mel Gibson, who I think a lot of personally, lost his house during these fires and wasn’t very happy about it, is digging into the truth of the matter regarding terrorism being hidden behind purposeful leftist mismanagement of resources.  So incompetence could take the blame for the property ownership change; when one party wants to acquire property but doesn’t want to fight things in court over eminent domain issues, they destroy the property, making it useless so that others can take over the financial rescue and change how the land is used. 

But I think it’s even worse than all that, and this goes back to the Aleister Crowley and Jack Parsons partnership with L. Ron Hubbard. Occult worship in that town has always been a problem.  Many people, even to this day, get wrapped up in the adrenochrome cults and child pedophilia parties that are being revealed by the Puff Daddy arrest.  And what we know about Jeffery Epstein and the way they harvested undocumented children for use as sex slaves and blood sacrifice.  Mel Gibson got it and was talking about that topic on the Joe Rogan podcast as his house was burning down in the Pacific Palisades.  While these kinds of topics have been kept in conspiracy theory circles and away from the topics of polite society, nothing splashes it into common knowledge like a devastating court case with lots of evidence from people’s homes who are doing these kinds of things in much higher concentrations per population density than the people outside of these burnt out communities.  The question is, would evil people be that cruel to destroy entire neighborhoods to keep the sex trafficking and adrenochrome cults out of the news and the answer is an emphatic yes.  Of course, they would. P. Diddy is being prosecuted for racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution, and many of his party friends live in just the area that was burnt down by a raging fire, ahead of a Trump DOJ that is not going to sit on the story and let Combs off the hook and toss him back into the world.  People like LeBron James and Leonardo DiCaprio are attached to Combs, and that could bring down the entire Hollywood industry that has been corrupted with this kind of occult activity, fully embracing evil since Crowley’s days.  I know much more about all this than I should; I used to be a frequent contributor to L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future efforts.  So I know the characters very well and understand why they do what they do. The occult actions in the Hollywood Hills and house parties in the Pacific Palisades are not conspiracy theories.  There are many people in the entertainment business who are far more terrified of aging than they are of the law.

They think you are too stupid to notice

One of the areas destroyed by the fires was Mulholland Drive, the subject of the great David Lynch film.  And I say great because it was a good, honest look at the kind of people who live and work in Hollywood and the kind of activity they get themselves wrapped up in.  To say they openly embrace evil is an understatement.  If you know that movie, it’s a good look behind the veil of the Hollywood glitter that many people who work in the industry understand all too well. Once you know that, you can understand why embracing the occult, even for a young 22-year-old actress who has run away to Hollywood to make it big and doesn’t care what she has to do to gain wealth and power while her looks hold up.  Never underestimate what a person in their 30s will do once they feel that youth and opportunity are leaving them.  What kind of deals with the devil will they make?  And once you understand that, you’ll understand why people were running around starting fires in key places upstream of the raging winds, creating arson conditions to destroy evidence of many massive crimes.  And to hide the destruction of evidence behind the tragedy of so many people impacted by the devastation.  Look at the effects of the destroyed city, not the crimes it was intended to hide.  And suddenly, it all makes a lot more sense under such understanding.  The Trump DOJ should look at the people who created the policies that made the act of terrorism possible.  For example, why was the water reservoir empty?  Who made that decision? From there, things will become a lot clearer.  Don’t let all this be a conspiracy theory.  Instead, make it factual testimony of a massive crime that needs evidence, which starts with the behavior of those who created the circumstances for which this vast evil occurred.

Rich Hoffman

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The Fued Between Steve Bannon and Elon Musk: Cybertruck saves Trump Tower Las Vegas from a Terrorist Attack

You can see what kind of war we’re in; the terrorist attacks were meant to be evident on the first day of the New Year ahead of the incoming Trump administration.  The radical elements out there are going to have their faces melt, and they are going to try every trick in the book to impose on us the same kind of disorder and chaos that have imprisoned the human race since the beginning of time.  I’ve liked the Cybertruck by Tesla since the first design was introduced, and I’ll probably get one myself once the dust settles on it.  It’s in high demand now, and I don’t want to wait for one.  So when it gets a little easier to get one, I probably will, and for all the reasons that a terrorist tried to use it to blow up in front of Trump Tower in Las Vegas.  The Cybertruck was strong, contained the explosion, and didn’t even break any windows to the lobby of one of President Trump’s premier properties in the world. An obvious attempt to further divide Elon Musk and Trump on New Year’s Day with two terrorist attacks.  One at the Trump Hotel and another that killed and hurt a lot of people in New Orleans almost at the same time.  I’d say it is almost a non-existent coincidence that the two terrorists acted alone and that all kinds of characters have been behind the illegal immigration movement that do not want to see America Great Again, so as terrorists do, they try to scare people, into submission.  And there are a lot of terrorists under Obama and Biden who are operating in the background of our nation.  And there will be a lot more violent acts committed against innocent people in the days to come, so we’ll have to meet that violence where it lives and smoke it out into the open to deal with.  We don’t have time for personal feuds between Steve Bannon of the WarRoom and Elon Musk, which I think goes far beyond practicality. 

I like Steve Bannon a lot.  Without the WarRoom podcast, which was run by Steve Bannon, the MAGA movement wouldn’t have been as strong as it was.  We needed a pirate element, and Steve was John Paul Jones in our modern movement.  But saying that, I don’t agree with him on everything; I have found a few things deeply alarming about Steve Bannon, and those things have been emerging over this ridiculous H-1B visa issue.  It’s one thing to disagree on policy, which is bound to happen in a big tent party, which the Republican Party is these days.  But Steve’s position on foreign labor is very pro-union-like, and as we all know, unions are anti-capitalist and pro-Karl Marx in their design, and I knew it was going to be tough to have all these union people supporting Trump and then getting them to see things correctly regarding the definitions of labor.  Everyone should have to compete for a good job no matter where they were born.  Nobody should be given anything for nothing.  That has been the standard union idea out there: that America First meant good jobs for Americans just because they were born in America.  To me, America First means something very different relative to the way business is conducted in other places in the world, and once many of the jobs are brought back to America from where they presently are, America will be operating at very low unemployment, and we are going to want every last person working who can, and we’ll need immigration labor to fill the gaps in need versus supply.

That labor discussion about people who want to come to America and pursue the American Dream is different than the illegal immigration that has hidden criminal elements and terrorists into our country behind the chaos of open borders designed to give us precisely the kind of world we experienced on New Year’s Day, 2025, terrorism and criminal enterprise by those hostile to America.  They all have to be deported for the security of our domestic nation.  However, we will need an immigration system that accommodates all the work that will be done in returning to the United States in the years to come.  We will need more than 300 million potential workers to feed the economy Trump has in mind.  So, taking the side of labor unions with an America First attached to birthright citizenship of more entitled people who work far too little for way too much money is not a productive position, which brings up the other thing that has always concerned me about Steve Bannon, his dislike of Ayn Rand.  Coming from his background in finance, I would think he would appreciate the Ayn Rand message of producers versus looters more than he does, but he has been very hostile toward the American novelist and the people who support her, which is baffling considering Bannon’s support, of President Trump, a guy who could easily be one of the heroes of Ayn Rand’s books.  But that hatred of Ayn Rand is the same as why labor unions tend to hate those who run industry.  They believe in collectivism, which is the root of labor unions.  And an absolute hatred of the producers of the world of which Elon Musk is undoubtedly one of the best. 

Elon Musk, ironically has had a lot of excellent manufacturing capacity in his companies because he managed to fight off the labor union movements pushed on him by the Department of Labor radicals.  But for most of his life, Elon Musk has been a hard-line Democrat, certainly left of center.  This sudden love of MAGA is a late position for sure.  However, regarding labor union policy, Musk has been among the best, and Steve Bannon is far to the left of Musk on that topic.  So, it can confuse people trying to figure out where all these guys are and who is right about what.  Personally, and I say this affectionately, I see people do this all the time.  I think what Steve Bannon is doing is self-sabotage because his role in the future is confusing to him.  When you are a warrior who fights hard to win, what does that warrior do once they’ve won?  How do pirates define themselves when piracy is no longer needed?  Because the fight has changed, and suddenly, the values that made you a hero now make you a union-loving liberal.  You’re the same person, but the world changed, and it’s hard to figure it all out.  So psychologically, people, when faced with this kind of thing, resort to self-sabotage so they can at least get their identity to a place where they recognize the person they look at in the mirror.  That is sometimes far easier than adjusting to change, even if that change was something you fought hard to win.  In everyone’s minds, winning was a fantasy they never thought would come true.  Meanwhile, the real bad guys are out there, and terrorists are going to make Making America Great Again very difficult.  And Steve Bannon is needed for that fight.  And so is Elon Musk.  And so are labor unions, as they will need to do work, but they will need to change their approach to it.  We need everyone.  The goal of the parasites out there is to divide us with fear and chaos so they can continue to run their crime syndicates in government over us all.  If you thought New Year’s Day was bad, it will get far worse.  You can bet on it.  And we need everyone pointed in the correct direction and to put their differences aside because that’s what big-tent politics requires.  And to fight for what is truly needed as defined by an America First that can lead the world to a better tomorrow.  And we don’t have time for complex psychological issues that spawn from identity failures and quirky philosophies.  Let’s fight to win and surrender nothing to terrorism.  And let competition cover the employment issues, which is how greatness is born.  And evil is rooted out before it ever grows into a weed.    

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Procedural Compliance is the Real Killer: How communists are trying to destroy America

There is something very sinister and purposeful about the attack on President Trump by communist infiltrators.  Sure, without question, there is a level of actual malice at work with the assassination attempt itself by Thomas Matthew Crooks having over a half hour to perform the task, even taking out a range finder early in the process, which was seen by other snipers working the venue.  Crooks was allowed to climb up on the roof and crawl along it to get set up for the shot while Trump supporters were trying to tell law enforcement.  There were many bumblings that went on that were embarrassing, to say the least, for the Secret Service.  But the disturbing attribute of the shooting is that this was a young kid, only 20 years old, with his whole life in front of him.  Why would he want to even think of doing something like this?  What could be that bad to a young person?  The whole event has callbacks to the behavior patterns of the Las Vegas shooter and even Lee Harvey Oswald.  What we find unbelievable, which is part of the camouflage, is that third parties can manipulate thoughts to perform tasks they want to see done.  We don’t want to believe it because we want to think our thoughts are our own and that ideas of influence don’t jump into our minds and take over.  But the evidence points to the fact that they do; our thoughts are not always our own, especially under the consumption of psychedelics.  There are too many holes in the story of this shooter to believe that he acted alone.  And given the behavior of our intelligence agencies toward Trump, if they had the means to kill him by setting up some kid to take the wrap, they certainly would.  So, we have to consider that the story of this assassination attempt does not end with the shooter who was killed on the scene. 

But there is a more profound assassination attempt that was exploited that day through the Secret Service itself, and it was one that came directly from the communists of the World Economic Forum, flowing down procedures into the United Nations that take away individual merit and taint everything with the collectivism of procedural compliance.  The way that those who want to harm our country have been doing it is by implementing ways through collectivism that the ordinary people overtake the exceptional individuals through the equality of procedural fairness, and it is that which made the Trump assassination attempt so dangerous.  Individual merit, Trump supporters, saw the killer crawling across a rooftop 130 yards or so away from where Trump was speaking.  They saw something, said something, but nobody did anything.  And even the snipers who were set up behind Trump on another rooftop saw the shooter but did not shoot.  They say they asked to take the shot but were told no.  There will be a lot of ambiguity about who said what to whom, but the real problem was in robbing the guarding snipers of choice in the matter and forcing them to rely on procedural approval before acting as the shooter was setting up his shot, for over a half an hour, and even minutes in the end with people trying to engage him, which he knew clearly that we was never coming down off that roof alive.  So he calmly set up his shots and took them, almost hitting Trump in the head with only a fraction of an inch to spare.  Many people who want to sound tough talk about a shot from that distance as being easy.  Trump would have been a tiny target for a relatively untrained 20-year-old.  That shot was remarkably close, and if Trump hadn’t moved his head, it would have been a headshot. 

As malicious as all that sounds, it was time that was the natural killer.  The shooter did not respect law enforcement enough to apprehend him, and he knew that because of procedural compliance, the authorities would not take him off the roof before he performed his task.  The Secret Service was locked up with indecision, and that looks to be part of the overall strategy, which points to a much more sinister menace.  Many of our procedures in every industry, including many of the woke policies we are currently dealing with in every sector, have come to us from people intent on destroying Western civilization.  As Thomas Matthew Crooks planned and performed his horrendous act, understanding the procedural anomalies and the ability to exploit them was part of his plan.  He knew that by the time everyone sorted out the unusual occurrence of him being on the roof with a gun shooting at the President, he would have done his deed.  But did he act alone?  Highly likely not.  And indeed not when it comes to the procedures everyone was following that allowed the shooter to take his shots.  The danger of this assassination attempt was baked into creating the venue by robbing the world of personal initiative and forcing people to behave with procedural compliance to rules and regulations that aren’t even set with domestic policy but United Nations assumptions.  And was quickly exploited by those who functioned outside of those compliance parameters. 

The best thing that could have happened was other Trump supporters carrying guns outside the security zone would have engaged the target and shot him dead before any shots were fired at Trump.  Trump supporters were trying to get law enforcement to engage, but they were too restricted with compliance to step outside of normal behavior.  After all, their procedures are primarily shaped by media stories like cop killings of dangerous people that have set off riots.  Always working in the background of those criticisms from the Defund the Police Movement are the seeds for days like this assassination attempt of Trump in Pennsylvania.  Nobody wants to make a mistake and kill the wrong person with overly aggressive police action, so when given a choice, their choice is to stand down.  Not engage.  When procedures take over initiative, you get the kind of mistakes in mass society that we see in these Secret Service failures.  We see them in every industry, including how we get our French Fries at a local fast food restaurant.  The personal initiative has been destroyed by procedural compliance.  It was exploiting that which gave the killer the open window he was looking for as a young person acting very knowledgeable about such things for a person of his age.  But because of procedural evidence, the real killers hide in the background.  After all, we have a body; we have a gun, and we have perhaps some motive, although, for a young person, he had remarkably little social media.  There are all kinds of things wrong with this person.  But given the evidence, we are taught that we can’t look at anything but the evidence we have.  So the killers made sure we had a shooter and a place of the attempt.  And everything else falls under speculation and conspiracy.  Which then lets the real menace reside hidden in the background. They are hiding behind procedural compliance and a public drowning in overstimulation to the point where they no longer know which way is up.  This is part of the strategy of killing America through process flows intent to destroy the most excellent economy in the world and the people who make it that way.  And it’s the real killer in this assassination attempt of President Trump.

Rich Hoffman

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The American Gastapo: Biden is the communist crime lord of a police state that must be defeated and dismantled

The only thing left lacking is that people are still in a state of disbelief that the political left is really that far gone and that they have control of so many of our institutions.  Many people, not most.  Most see it now, and perhaps when history views all this, they will realize all the whys and hows.  But of course, the FBI wanted a shootout with Trump’s team at Mar-a-Lago when they raided his home in Florida to confiscate documents the President had a right to have.  The acquisition of documents was just an excuse to provoke the President’s team into a gunfight, which Biden wanted.  So that charges could then be filed against Trump for an actual crime.  We’ve seen this game before at Ruby Ridge and Waco.  And other places.  It is how the FBI operates now under the control of the radical left, which we have seen in their coup attempts to remove Trump from office just because they didn’t want his administration picked by voters for a representative government.  The biggest threat to “democracy” is a corrupt police state, which we have.  And if you make yourself a political enemy of that communist takeover, they will come to your house and harass you into compliance.  And if you try to defend yourself according to the 4th, 5th, or 6th Amendments, you will find yourself in a shootout that can’t be won because the government has infinite resources to throw you out one way or another.  Your life will be ruined if they push the law far enough to provoke you into action. They can then honestly prosecute.  This is precisely what we saw happen under Janet Reno during the 90s under the Clinton administration.  That much worse was planned for President Trump. 

Biden’s people didn’t want to go through all this lawfare, in which an all but made-up guilty verdict was handed to the jury for one reason: to say that Trump is a felon.  They don’t care how reckless the case is; they don’t care if it is overturned on appeal.  They want the stigma of calling Trump a felon on television leading up to the 2024 election.  It’s all they have left as people have made it clear they don’t want Joe Biden.  The case against Trump in New York is all-in desperation from a very corrupt police state created by a radical Marxist movement from the political left to impose global communism on the United States against the wishes of voters.  It’s not like people are choosing any of this.  It is being imposed on them with a hostile takeover using brute force.  So yes, before there were any court cases, Biden’s DOJ wanted to eliminate their political rival in any way possible, using a raid of his home as the match to start the fire.  Luckily, Trump wasn’t there when the raid happened, but he looked pretty well prepared for it and handled it correctly, making it a public relations nightmare.  The FBI wasn’t ready for that, and it’s what I recommend everyone do while we still have the hope of a civil society.  If we live in a Mad Max world of the apocalypse, then sure, use force to subdue any attackers.  Be prepared for that day.  But don’t turn to it as if it were your only option.  There are a lot of other amendments that work very well in our Constitution, and you should use them to make fools out of the tyranny imposed by this modern left.  Make no mistake: these are not our friends but hostile agents of institutionalism.  And they do intend to kill to make their point.

Reports now show that Merrick Garland was prepared for a bloody firefight as they had a triage center alerted nearby for casualties.  So these guys are playing for keeps, and once the New York case goes nowhere for them, upon which all their hopes rest, the level of desperation will be tremendous.  The court that matters, the court of public opinion, which corrupt police state participants cannot control, is not with Biden’s communist rule, which we see all over the world as examples, such as China, Cuba, and even Russia.  In those countries, a political party is expected to put out hits against its rivals.  And that is what Biden is trying to do here in the United States, and the FBI has proven itself to be the American Gestapo.   That is the correct term for them, and they should be defunded entirely and replaced.  I have seen enough from them to know that they are corrupt, even down to the field agents, and they can’t be trusted with anything.  For me, that process started during the Christmas mass shooting in San Bernadino when the FBI didn’t want to call the act of violence a “terrorist act,” even though the shooters were a couple deeply involved in Islamic terrorist thought.  To contaminate the crime scene, the FBI allowed reporters into the apartment of the killed shooters only a few days after the attack in an apparent move to cloud the circumstances and change the narrative to a Christmas tragedy instead of what it was: a terrorist attack against the American way of life, specifically a Christian holiday.  The same could be said of Sirhan Sirhan, who killed Bobby Kennedy, the attorney general of his brother’s administration.  He was a Palestinian radical who found himself in a position to kill Kennedy.  But looking back, it seems like more of the work of the CIA and FBI than a politically motivated individual.  Sirhan Sirhan was a convenient cover story way too reminiscent of the October attack by paratrooping terrorists who assassinated Israel concert attendees ruthlessly and in cold blood just at a time when elections around the world were leaning toward populism.

We could do this for days and days; the evidence of the behavior is entirely conclusive and ominous.  The bottom line is that we can’t throw money at these losers and expect them to work on our behalf.  They are corrupt by the nature of all humans to head in that direction if left unsupervised with unlimited power.  And to keep power, the people propping up Biden as the modern version of a communist crime lord are using that power in any way possible to eliminate rivals.  And at this point, there is no question about what they did in the 2020 election and how many people they were prepared to kill to hold that power.  They would do anything, including raid Mar-a-Lago, the home of a former president, and attempt to assassinate him with the cameras rolling outside.  But to do it, they had to provoke him, and what they found when they got there was a person who played them better than the FBI was able to play.  Randy Weaver would have done better if he had not tried to have a shootout with the FBI to defend his rights.  It could be said to be justified because it was the FBI who was in the wrong.  It was the American government that was breaking the laws.  But how Trump has handled things is far better than a shootout where that same communist government can then control the narrative in the matter.  That is why Trump is still leading and winning the election race.  The New York case is the Biden White House’s last hope and support mechanism.  Because the hit job they intended in Mar-a-Lago got turned around on them in ways they weren’t prepared for.  Which is a new playbook for beating tyranny that should be studied carefully.  Because this fight is a long way from over.

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

We must stop terrorism person to person

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

Rich Hoffman

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Jesus Lived and Died in Kashmir: Why the Led Zeppelin song is so popular, and how Islam hides the truth

I’ve never been much of a Jesus fan from the Bible. I like the character from the show Chosen, but the way Jesus has been portrayed everywhere else has always been to me, something more Eastern than Western. I love his dad, Yahweh. Now that guy I can understand, making a footstool out of your enemies, an eye for an eye, punishing entire nations. That is someone I can relate to. But his son is more like the spoiled second-generation kid of a cutting-edge self-starter. He might be a super nice guy, but I have always found the message of giving your enemy your cloak if they want to take your shirt personally revolting. Many people don’t like to talk about these things because religions have some strict rules on the matter, but I’m not much of a rule guy either. I understand law and order, but all too often, the rules are made by all the wrong people so that they can control their peers without the armed conflict of tradition. I love the Bible; I have read it thoroughly and still do. But I’m not sure that people understand what the Bible means and that honoring God means accepting those human mistakes. I certainly don’t believe that humans understand God perfectly and without flaws. Instead, I see that the Romans wanted to unite their empire and used the concept of Jesus, the scapegoat, to perform the task, and the world reacted with other religions, such as Islam. To this day, the conflicts in the region of the Near East are suspiciously occult-driven and hide behind a veil of religious belief that is keeping us in these modern times from knowing the whole truth and nothing but the facts. Something else I do love is the truth, not belief in how other people interpret it out of fear or anxiety over their afterlife.

A very interesting book

Another thing I have never liked is the Led Zeppelin song, “Kashmir.” It’s not a bad song; I think it’s a fantastic one, but I have never liked it, and I hate watching people dance to it at rock concerts. It’s one of those personal revolting attributes of life that has existed since I was a little kid. I was reminded of this hatred while traveling recently in Japan, where I had just explained to people I thought the reach of King Solomon’s empire had a heavy influence on their early culture, with the many keyhole tombs that they call Kofun tombs that are all over the Osaka area, and elsewhere. I base that on several books about Solomon that never made it into the Bible’s final cut, so when you read about the reach of his empire, oddly, there is almost no mention of tapping into the East. I have a great map that I love out of my favorite Bible and I love it for all the things it doesn’t show. Remember, I always judge things not by what people tell me but by their actions, and in this case, that map shows more in what it doesn’t offer than in what it does. A person as influential as King Solomon would have been trading along the early version of the Silk Road, which extends from Europe, over the northern part of the Himalayas across China, down through Korea, and then into Japan. I propose that the cult of King Solomon found its way to early Japanese emperors.

The Old Silk Road, known for many thousands of years pre-dating the ancient world as we know it.

Based on wide reading from many sources, the topic of Jesus being influenced by the Buddhist cultures of India and that of the Hindus and the Jains makes perfect sense.  Where was Jesus from the Bible in those teenage and young adult years up until around age 29?  Which, in those days, was a pretty mature adult.  Then, suddenly, he shows up and starts teaching the people of Israel.  I’ve heard the stories over many years that Jesus never actually died on the cross and that he had lived and died in Kashmir, which is in northern India, right in the middle of the hot zone for all modern political terrorism, surrounded by Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Nepal with Iran and Iraq looming nearby.  I have for most of my life also been a massive fan of Biblical Archaeology Review and can report a much more significant than average interest in the kinds of things that lots of outstanding and intelligent scientists have found digging in the dirt in the ancient Holy Land.  It is rich and abundant, but nowhere near the effect it could have if there weren’t conflict in the region.  And when it comes to the Old Silk Road, the entire span of it these days is wrapped up in political turmoil, I think on purpose, to keep investigations into the truth of the past from ever being revealed.  Because a story isn’t being talked about, that should be.

As I returned from Japan in one of the many airports I had to travel through, a young lady who looked more Indian than Chinese sat by me with her headphones, listening to that Led Zepplin song. I could hear it clearly even though she was in her own little world. And I was thinking of the Silk Road. So I picked up a copy of Suzanne Olson’s book Jesus in Kashmir and read it, which confirmed a lot of what I had been thinking for a long time, and biologically, I think most of the world understands it too, which is why that Kashmir song was so popularly received and continues to be an icon of pulp culture. I tend to believe the stories that Jesus was either cut down or had stories by the Romans who made up his death for their convenience. Because there was no body, it was explained away as an ascension to heaven. They wanted to impress their Roman supervisors, so the regional overlords and the Jewish political influence wanted to let everyone know they got rid of the rebel Jesus from their society. And that Jesus escaped, injured, back to Kashmir, where he had spent much time as a youth, married there, and had many kids. And died a king, and the tomb is still there, hidden not by sight but by politics.

The way that Romans interpreted Christianity served their empire well and the church that would follow.  Be like Jesus, sacrifice yourself to the state, and prepare yourself for the afterworld by being friendly, compliant, and much more like Gandhi than that radical warlord of a father, Yahweh.  Even Jesus managed to put a soft edge on the plight of the Hebrew people, the descendants of Abraham who had been traveling to Kashmir for thousands of years.  Moses, as does his brother Aaron, has a tomb in the Kashmir region.  So does Mother Mary and other characters, including the remains of King Solomon.  When you consider this Kashmir story suddenly, many mysteries of the Bible start making a lot more sense.  But proper investigations into those mysteries are stifled because of the politics of modern warfare that keeps anybody from looking under the veil, as radical Islam seemingly keeps regional control on purpose.  Which then, we are all reminded of this recent conflict with Israel.  We are witnessing a shell game that takes place over most of the world to prevent people from learning the truth of their past and future.  And much of that truth is hiding in plain sight, which we subconsciously understand, in songs like Led Zepplin’s “Kashmir.”  But because we fear death at the hands of terrorists, death in the eternal fire of damnation, or the cry of public scrutiny because our quest falls outside the established religious parameters, we find ourselves prisoners to the obvious.  And part of that obviousness is that Jesus lived and died in Kashmir.  And the implications of that are jaw-dropping and necessary.

Rich Hoffman

The Best Way to Fight Terrorism is to Buy a Gun: Israel should have had private gun ownership

I think my wife’s reaction to the attack on Israel is similar to most people.  She is such a sweet, loving person, and not some radical ideologue, that her opinion represents the majority.   And as we watched the footage of all the poor young women being beaten and raped by the thugs of Palestine, she turned to me and said, “I want to buy more guns.”  I asked her how many guns she wanted because we weren’t lacking in that department.  For my concealed carry, I always have my .50 caliber Desert Eagle.  When people ask me about my leather vests, I always wear them because it’s the only thing I can wear that conceals that gun in public.  Additionally, I carry with me at all times a Smith & Wesson .500 Magnum with an extra long barrel to keep the recoil down when firing.  Some people think that is too much heat in a civilized country like America, but I have much experience that says otherwise.  The default mode for all humans is just above that of a wild animal.  The only thing that brings about civility is good laws through a decent religion.  Governments have never been able to install a philosophy that protects people from a centralized state.  So, the key to a civilized society that ensures destruction from a villainous perpetrator is gun rights.  And instinctively, my wife understood that as she watched the carnage from the news coverage and heartbreaking reports.  So I told her we could go up to the gun store at the end of our street and buy as many guns as she wanted.  I’m always good for a few more guns.  They are the best votes you can make in a society that you want to be civil and law-driven. 

Israel’s most significant problem that facilitated all this carnage is that they don’t have gun rights for individuals, which opened them up to this attack.  They have a good military and generally a decent government, which is a deterrent in most cases.  But their lack of personal gun ownership allowed the house-to-house raids in Israel and the Hamas checkpoints, which stopped and slaughtered entire families.  I would further add that if not for individual gun rights, there would have already been terrorist raids like we saw in Israel in the United States.  I do not doubt that there will be attempts by some radical terrorist cells to bring similar horrors to our communities.  That is the intention of the open border policy people.  Hamas is just another terrorist weapon that agents of evil in the world can tap into at will to inspire fear and death for political advantage, and this attack in Israel was far from a spontaneous event.  It was the result of a culture that built into it the vulnerabilities of a liberal world order on purpose so that mass control of the population through fear would be easy to achieve.  I get the ability to travel extensively, and I can report that countries that do not have personal firearm protections and functional religions are ingredients for outright destruction.  Without personal protections and military-grade defense of private property, society cascades into chaos quickly.  The people of that society are either too compliant to be inventive and economically potent or too dangerous to coexist with other people.  Only through the maintenance of private property and a standard of value everyone can share does success in a social regard begin to function correctly. 

I could tell many personal stories I have had from my past where carrying such large caliber weapons makes perfect sense, even if it’s not the shared experience of the everyday business person or soccer mom hauling their kids around to sporting events.  On more than one occasion, I have learned how dangerous people can be just one carload away at a traffic light, so I keep myself prepared for the worst they can offer.  Government rules do not deter villainy; instead, they attract malicious characters like flies on a hot summer in July.  The more guns a culture has, the safer that society is.  And that would be my recommendation based on a lot of personal experience as a lesson from this attack on Israel.  Any government that says it wants to control the private ownership of guns is setting up that culture for personal violence, especially in the United States, where the open border policy in the south has purposefully allowed so many characters with a bad reputation into our country.  The same people telling us they want to take our guns are also creating a policy where Hamas-level terrorists are moving into our cities and communities with just as much hostile intention as they attacked Israel during Yom Kippur.  Only fools would follow such ridiculous instructions.  If they could, they would have attacked already and are always looking for a vulnerability to exploit.  Should society always be that close to complete mayhem?  Well, that’s up to the people’s values, and religion is a means to regulate society into some mutually agreed sentiment of value.  But in an open society with free expression, where governments tend to be corrupt on a good day, people must be able to protect themselves.  Because the government won’t, can’t, and is inspired to evil on its own.

So, if you are considering getting a gun, I would say to do so.  I would also say to carry one with you all the time.  Everywhere.  Do not trust the government to protect you.  It’s great if they do.  But don’t be a sucker and expect it by default.  I told my wife she can buy as many guns as she wants.  I recommend purchasing a new weapon every month and supporting our gun manufacturers.  With more than 300 million guns in America, I want to see more than a billion in private ownership.  And the bigger, the better.  Criminals break the rules, and there is something to steal wherever there is value.  Something to bring harm to.  Israel is a country of value in a pit of vipers who live a substandard, collective existence.  To adequately protect their people, they should have had private gun ownership for those days when Hamas would attack them and perform such acts of terror as we have just witnessed.  It can happen in America, too, and while you can’t remove such intentions from the mind of the malicious, you can stop them once they start shooting and minimize the carnage.  To have a free society that protects private property from even the government gangsters, which, even under the best circumstances, they are, you must always carry firearms with you.  You must have your house filled with them.  And if you want to vote for true prosperity, you can buy lots and lots of guns to let the world know you are more than prepared for anything that might come your way from dangerous personalities.  Buying guns is an act of civility and law and order.  Without the maintenance of every individual in a culture toward that objective, there is no hope to wrestle away from the villains of a stable society of mutual respect.  Only with superior firepower can a society hope to thrive from those despotes of civilization that always want to crawl back into the cave and retreat and stop human progress to fear every approaching thunderstorm that streaks across the sky, unleashed by the gods because somebody forgot to sacrifice a goat.

 Rich Hoffman