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I Endorse Ben Nguyen for Lakota School Board: What a smart young man with a great future

Ben Nguyen is in good company.  When Nancy Nix invites me to her house to meet people she thinks will be the future of politics, she has a pretty good track record.  And I felt bad; I was running late when she invited me over to listen to a speech from a bright young man by her pool, as I had in the past.  I was stuck on an overseas call, and the time zones didn’t match up to the schedule Nancy had given me.  But when I did arrive, it was just in time to hear a speech by Ben Nguyen, a former student at Lakota schools who had just graduated and was now running for the school board.  And as I watched him speak, he had picked a spot by her pool to talk to the crowd that was just like another young overachiever, J.D. Vance.  A few years ago I had listened to the future Vice President give a very similar speech as Ben did from that very spot, which was before he was even running for the senate seat, and of course Nancy was right about him.  Ben also reminded me of another bright young mind who she promised me had a great future in politics, which was Vivek Ramaswamy.  I think of these guys as young, even though they were in their late 30s when I first met them, because, to me, they are.  I’m not a young person, so everyone seems young to me.  But Nancy Nix has a knack for finding good people in the crowd and getting behind them with a bit of help.  I was not surprised to learn that Ben Nguyen was an intelligent young man, and I enjoyed listening to him speak about why he was running for the Lakota school board in the November 2025 elections. 

Essentially, Ben is against the upcoming Lakota levy, which is the most expensive school levy in the state of Ohio.  He is also against indoctrination in public schools, and he has fresh experience, having just left school to learn what is really going on.  And he wants to do good things in life with his obvious talents.  He has siblings still attending Lakota schools, so he is concerned about public education in general.  He plans to do many things in the future, as his life is currently an open book.  However, to run and win the school board seat would be historic; he would undoubtedly be one of the youngest ever to do so.  But as I listened to him speak, he possessed the wisdom of a much older person, and he was only going to improve with time.  I had just recently watched Bernie Moreno give a similar speech from almost the same spot in Nancy Nix’s backyard, and he’s close to my age.  And Ben sounded just as well-versed politically, and he was very articulate and well-spoken.  He’s already a better political figure than most people who have been doing this kind of thing for three or four decades.  As I thought about Ben, I was skeptical due to his age as I drove to Nancy’s home.  I am one of those people who think it’s better to be old and broken, looking like a wet towel discarded in the sun, than a beautiful young person with everything working, because of the essential ingredient of wisdom.  Wisdom is hard to get, and it’s worth the age it often takes to get there, and what you lose along the way.  So I’m not automatically impressed with young people.  However, it was clear that Ben Nguyen was something special because he possessed a remarkable amount of wisdom at a very young age, which was evident in his family background, as he discussed.

And he was right in his speech about why someone like him needed to be on the Lakota school board.  I have been intensely critical of the public education system.  My thought on it was to erase everything John Dewey ever did and to start the concept of education anew in American culture.  I don’t think people are nearly as educated as they should be, and I deal with a lot of people every day who hold advanced Master’s and PhDs.  People aren’t that smart in our culture, and it disgusts me.  I’m not excited to support more of the kind of education that leaves people so ill-prepared for the world.  However, to Ben’s point, the current school board does not represent the kind of people who live in Butler County, Ohio. If we are going to have a public school funded by taxpayer money, we should have representatives on the school board who represent us.  After speaking with Ben, I think he would be great, and I will certainly be voting for him.  Needless to say, I fully endorse him and would love to see him win a seat in this upcoming election.  It would be a step in the right direction.  I’ve been a part of a lot of campaigns to put members of the school board in place to represent conservatives, but the efforts have been discouraging, leaving me wanting to blow up the whole system with charter schools and the elimination of the Department of Education as a whole.  But Ben Nguyen reminds me of why I have worked for good school boards in the past, and his personality appears to be well-suited to withstand the intense scrutiny that comes with the job.

Isaac Adi was also there to show support.  Isaac is a current school board member for Lakota, and he consistently votes in favor of Republican positions.  But he’s currently the only one.  He and I have seen each other at a few events since the highly publicized fallout he had with Darby Boddy, a school board member I had supported a lot and still do.  The pressure of those positions, by the whispers that come into them, is hard to deal with, and I wanted those two to work better together instead of against each other.  And Isaac was one of the reasons I no longer thought school board races were worth dealing with.  But seeing him there to support Ben, I thought the beginnings of something good were forming.  Of course, to get a good school board, it would take a lot more than just Ben Nguyen.  However, this was a good start, because until there is a good school board, Lakota schools will continue to mismanage money and ask for tax increases, as they have more in mind than just this bond levy on the November ballot.  They are also considering an operations levy in the very near future, and we don’t want a liberal school board rubber-stamping more spending, as they have been doing.  We need smart people who are willing to engage in lively debate and continually ask essential questions. With Ben Nguyen in that school board role, I see a lot of opportunity for good things to happen.  However, people will have to show up and vote for him because the Democrats are counting on a low turnout to maintain the status quo on the school board.  So people are going to have to rally behind Ben.  And after hearing him speak and explaining what he wants to do and why, the Lakota school district would be in a much better position.  And Ben Nguyen is certainly somebody voters can get excited about.

Rich Hoffman

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We Have To Teach People Why Capitalism is Good: The Vivek Ramaswamy approach to Zohran Mamdani

I think people misread Vivek Ramaswamy’s comments about Zohran Mamdani incorrectly, for the most part.  However, when Vivek placed an ad in New York challenging the socialist candidate for mayor to a debate, it raised several interesting questions that will undoubtedly be part of future discussions about politics.  Vivek, of course, is jumping into the conversation about New York politics because, as a capitalist who made a lot of money in New York and is now planning to be the governor of Ohio, he is uniquely positioned to have a debate with what the political left thinks of as a bright young star, in Mamdani.  But critics of communism and socialism expect a more visceral hatred of Mamdani than Vivek shows to people.  I’ve had the fortune of knowing Vivek personally, and this is true for most people: bright individuals who can debate any topic with anyone don’t have to get defensive every time a challenge arises to their belief system.  So Vivek can have a very cerebral discussion about Mamdani without getting too upset that the trend in Democrat politics is a radical leaning towards far-left, Marxist policies.  And most people have been taught, through years of Cold War policy from the over 50s crowd and onward, that we are to approach communists and socialists with anger, like they are the invaders we saw in the movie Red Dawn.  Vivek comes from a much younger generation, and that’s a good thing because, in the post-Trump years, many things are going to change.  People are realizing right now, and with Mamdani, just how dangerous all the socialist instruction in our public schools has been.  And most young people have had extensive exposure to it through public education. For too many voters, this issue has snuck up on them, evoking a lot of fear in people like Mamdani.

I have been warning everyone about the problems with socialism for many years.  And while public schools don’t overtly have classes teaching Marxism in general, it is implicit in the background of almost everything done in the teaching process, including in kindergarten, when the teacher instructs you to share your toys with your neighbor.  And that everyone is equal.  Vivek Ramaswamy’s approach to the communist problem is to debate it, because he can.  Not to fight them in the streets or call them names.  There are many young people, like Zohran Mamdani, who will be able to utilize social media to capture the attention of young voters who lack opportunities to surpass their parents’ achievements.  For many young people who can’t afford to buy their own home or have children, life seems unappealing and not worth fighting for.  While most MAGA supporters of today’s politics likely have their own car, their own home with lots of property, maybe even a boat.  Several kids.  A pretty good life, and something that they want to defend from people who want to take all that from them.  Vivek understands that the under-50 crowd has vastly different motivations and perspectives, and that they don’t feel the need to fight for anything, because, from their perspective, they don’t have much to fight for.  Their minds have mainly been rotted out by the public education experience that taught them all the wrong Marxist things about social equality and the value of private property ownership.  Therefore, portraying our political enemies as revolting figures will not win over new voters, because those new voters essentially share Mamdani’s perspective. 

That’s why the future of the MAGA movement needs to include people like Vivek Ramaswamy and J.D. Vance, who can debate any issue with anyone, anywhere.  And Vivek certainly can, and that is the way to win over the next generation of voters.  If, during the Trump years, the goal was to overcome all the lies that had been told to us by a government that sought global socialism as its governing principle, now the shoe is on the other foot.  It’s not enough to question the government of socialists and to run them out of office.  The problem that J.D. Vance and Vivek Ramaswamy will face with young people is that many of them have to be taught the virtues of capitalism from scratch.  We can’t just hold up Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and tell them to read it.  They need to understand it relative to their thoughts as young socialists who we have let get out of control, rob away their hopes and dreams.  Fighting socialism and communism with the kind of Cold War hatred that we have in the past won’t work on today’s social media.  Capitalism has to be sold to people all over again.  It will help to have a successful Trump administration to point to so that young socialists can see for themselves how much better a capitalist system is than their socialist and communist teachings.  In the world’s plans, they never thought a Trump character would ever hold a position of power, revealing just how powerful capitalism could be.  His election was crucial in many ways at this particular point in history.  But do not assume that the new generation will have a hatred for communism as previous generations in America have.  It’s quite the opposite.  Most young people will have to be taught from scratch why capitalism is so much better, because they certainly haven’t been taught why in school, or entertainment, or their social groups. 

The shock everyone has felt at hearing Mamdani utter outright communist sentiment, wanting to be the mayor of New York City, what many think of as the capitalist capital of the world, is the reality that this new generation of young people is more prone to accept elements of Marxism because it’s all they know.  And for many, this issue snuck up on them as they realized how much of modern-day social media is dominated by young people who are just like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and now Mamdani.  We say today they won’t and can’t win elections if this is what the Democrat Party is.  However, this is what the Democratic Party has been for quite some time.  They just hid it all behind a social mask, but it’s always been there, and now that people see it and hear them talk, the realization they have toward it is hatred.  However, be cautious not to demonize all these young socialists, as the goal is to win over that generation in a competitive race for the minds of a new generation.  And understand that capitalism has to be sold to them because they were not taught its value, and they do not have a natural love for it.  It will take someone like Vivek Ramaswamy to explain it to them and show them why it works.  They can’t expect just to read Adam Smith’s book and draw their conclusions.  They will have to be taught, with considerable debate.  And Vivek is just the right mind for all that.  He understands the problem all too well, even as many are just now waking up to it and have been caught off guard.  The next generation in America has to be mainly taught from scratch.  Their minds have been ruined.  And hating them won’t convince them to join you.  We have to earn them to our side person for person. 

Rich Hoffman

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Dismantaling the Department of Education: The Ohio House overrides DeWine’s veto on property taxes

Remember, I told you this was going to happen, and now it is.  However, with the July 14th ruling by the Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision, the court granted the Trump administration’s request to temporarily pause a federal judge’s order that required the Department of Education to reinstate nearly 1,400 employees fired as part of a reduction-in-force.  The majority ruling lifted the injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Massachusetts, who had concluded that the administration’s actions aimed to dismantle the department without congressional approval and couldn’t be done.  A lot was happening with this ruling, which is why I am so proud of the tie clip I always wear that people comment on so much. I got it at the Supreme Court when I visited there in March, ahead of all these significant rulings.  Regional district judges were not going to be able to stop the Trump administration, and the mass layoffs that would dismantle the Department of Education were going to happen, sending the management of education back to the states, where, in Ohio, we know what that means with the incoming new governor, Vivek Ramaswamy.  Many education-oriented individuals point to a decision like this and argue that we are becoming a country not committed to education.  However, it’s the exact opposite; we need to get the administrative types out of the way so that positive reform in education can happen. This is why a Governor like Ramaswamy in Ohio is so important, as he has many fresh ideas that would improve education.  And getting the Department of Education types out of the way makes all that possible.  There is a lot to be happy about, but it’s hardly a surprise.  I’ve been warning about it for years, and as of 2025, everything is right on schedule. 

I would also add on July 21st 2025 in the state of Ohio the Ohio House voted 61-28 to override Governor DeWine’s vetos on property tax measures in the 2026-2027 budgets, specifically Item 66 which eliminates the authority for political subdivisions to levy replacement property tax levies and restricts school districts levying certain types of levies such as fixed-sum emergency, substitute emergency, and combined school district income tax and fixed-sum property tax levies.  That measure is now headed to the Senate, where I fully expect it to pass, and change the way the state sees property tax in general—another benefit of the upcoming Vivek Ramaswamy administration.  Property tax is no longer the crutch for big government that it has been.  Trump’s administration is headed in a similar direction, viewing property as something precious and not forcing owners to become perpetual renters of their property through excessive taxation.  DeWine was concerned about the budget submission, specifically how property taxes are used to fund schools.  What all this means is that public school districts are going to face numerous changes, including how they collect taxes to fund union-run public schools.  It’s not just the elimination of the centralized Department of Education that is coming to them, but also in how they collect funds from local property taxes to run their progressive endeavors.  What is happening here is that education is being redefined into a marketplace value as opposed to what it has been, which has been a kind of Brave New World socialist indoctrination center that seeks to produce more Democrats as voters.  Many people believe that the previous rules have been fueling our nation’s destruction.  And across many changes, that perception is headed in a different direction.

When the Department of Education was created in 1979, it proposed using the power of the central government to protect union employees from the scrutiny of judgment while teaching children the same socialist values.  Such as taking the category of History in school and changing it to “Social Studies.”  And during this period, kids were being taught not that the creation of America was a great thing, but that it was built on the backs of enslaved people, corrupting thousands of children in the process through central government oversight, taking away from the states the ability to compete with other states for a better education system.  Because essentially, everyone was being taught the same flawed information.  Now, the priorities for education will be decided at the state level.  School Choice will become much more common, as it was well represented in Trump’s recent Big Beautiful Bill, meaning that we are moving toward a society where tax money will follow the student, not the zip code.  And that’s why this veto override in Ohio was so important, because it initiates a process of shifting away from property taxes funding all this centralized government and its growing expansion, to the point where people can no longer afford to own their property.  The public schools have, for years, not had to manage their finances well, which the teachers’ unions have been delighted with.  However, it has driven the per-pupil cost of teaching children out of the realm of reality and is too high.  This makes it impossible for the state to determine how to fund education for students, as the costs are so high and dependent on property taxes to cover the state’s funding gaps.  To achieve a truly competitive cost structure, the Department of Education must relinquish its power and be decentralized. 

What that means for public schools like Lakota, which I discuss frequently because they are in the district where I live, is that they will have to rethink everything they do.  And they will have to compete with other schools in the immediate area for the right to teach a student.  This year, in 2025, they have some costly levy requests that add up to half a billion dollars for infrastructure, the building of new schools after tearing down some of the old ones.  And for what, for teaching jobs that are changing dramatically and are being pushed by A.I. for ability.  When states like Ohio apply funding to students, rather than to the zip code institution, the fat cow that government schools have been living on will be gone.  And they are going to have to earn their dollars, which they are not used to.  This union-dominated structure was always poised to fail.  You can see it when you visit the White House; all the big unions are in the buildings just outside the front gates.  Government unions view the collection of taxes from an ever-growing government as the foundation of their existence, which means low performance standards for all involved.  However, we don’t like what these government schools have been producing, and we have been intent on changing it for the better.  And that starts with mass firings at the Department of Education by the Trump administration.  And for all the government school administrators who are tempted to cry foul, I warned you, and you should have listened. They were mad that I said such things, and now they are going to find themselves extinct. And the fault for that will be theirs, because they were told what was going to happen and did not prepare for it.   Reforms to education are necessary because what we have had has been inadequate and expensive.  And at every level, from funding to curriculum, significant changes are coming.  And schools will have to adapt, or fail to exist at all. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Magnificant Army Parade: Smoking out the domestic enemies

I’m happy that my wife and I recently visited Washington, D.C., and saw all the key places along Constitution Avenue in front of the White House, where the great Army Parade took place on June 14th, 2025.  We had spent a lot of time in the precise location where the stage was set up for President Trump and others to view the celebration, so it was extra special for me, given the context of that visit.  It was a very patriotic event that we much needed, and it’s so good to see President Trump back in the White House.  This is the kind of thing many were unsure would ever happen again in America, especially after the 2020 election theft and the COVID-19 lockdowns.  It seemed at the time as if we would never see such celebrations in America again.  However, this one was the first of its kind, where Army sentiment was on full display with tanks and troops marching in full patriotic fanfare, which occurred very early in President Trump’s second term, and the world was watching.  And it couldn’t have come at a better time; the country certainly needed it.  With the world plunging toward war, with lots of hostile characters trying to create chaos in the background, whether it was the fights in Iran, the war in Ukraine, or China posturing to attack Taiwan, the many Marxist groups were gathering for No Kings marches all over the United States at the same time.  And without this epic Army parade, things would have looked pretty bleak.  However, it was so successful that it made it very clear who the world’s villains were, and they seemed rather foolish by comparison.  Something that would not have been so obvious if Trump had not thought of celebrating the 250th birthday of the creation of the Army before America was even born. 

For anybody to protest that parade was pretty foolish.  Trump has never sold himself as a king of any kind, so the desperate attempts to paint him as a tyrannical dictator only indicate just how much of a threat law and order are to the chaos of destruction that the political left intends for us all, which has been hidden carefully behind polite society.  However, when a majority of society views something like an Army parade and enjoys it under the common appreciation of our nation’s flag, radicals against it appear much worse than they typically do.  It’s hard to preach against something so positive, yet that was the position of the anti-American protestors who have been attacking ICE deportations, American support of Israel over the PLO, and now a resurrection of appreciation for military recruitment and career advancement.  The combined efforts of many hostile characters working in the background were aimed at eroding the idea of America and turning our country into a collective entity of the United Nations, thereby losing all sovereign control to foreign, centralized banking.  It was never more apparent just how bad the messaging is of these radical groups than by June of 2025, when they still haven’t figured out why Americans voted for President Trump again in the recent election.  The bottom line is that they don’t understand what makes people work, and believe that they are so stupid that they would just mindlessly follow the Marxists trying to stop America from existing.  Trump was never trying to position himself as a king; he was popularly elected to do a job.  And he is doing it very well. 

But imagine what the rest of the world must have thought.  Again, I frequently get the chance to travel and talk to people from all over the world, so I have a perspective that isn’t confined to what people are doing in my own backyard.  And the world isn’t a very good or safe place.  Most governments are lacking because they are centralized and driven by administrative controls.  So people have come to accept deficiencies in expectation due to this collectivist nature.  Most places in the world have some degree of socialism, communism, or overall Marxism at the core of their society.  That has been tried in America and can easily be found on most school boards, corporate boardrooms, finance institutions, the medical industry, and all labor unions.  However, people themselves have rejected those traits and have been hungry for an alternative, which the free market in America has been able to nurture, and to significant effect.  And the reminder of why that is was on full display with the Army Parade.  Tyrannical ideas can’t take hold in America because of the Second Amendment, and because we have an all volunteer military that keeps bad guys out, leaving some of the most hostile forces in the world to fund radical demonstrations like what was seen by the No Kings protests, primarily financed by Marxist groups and figureheads like the billionaire Neville Singham.  We usually talk about people like Alex and George Soros for that kind of thing, but in truth, there are many handfuls of these Marxist types who use their money to pay for their own sort of army, the disenchanted youth, to be their ground troops of destruction.  And the poor kids are too stupid to understand how they are being used as a disguised military overthrow of our government by Marxist protestors.  And in the background, constantly, they have hidden themselves, because there weren’t better things happening in the world that exposed them.  This Army Parade was so positive and impressive that it made what they had been doing look insignificant by comparison, and the contrast is stark.

As a result, people are finding that they like the world President Trump is presenting, much better than the stringy-haired hippies of public education advocating for Marxism.  People like those in the military wanted to celebrate it with the President in such positive fanfare.  It was such a nice event.  As I mentioned, I thoroughly enjoyed my recent trip to Washington, D.C., with my wife.  It was great to have Trump back in the White House.  But it was even better to take that area between the Washington Monument and the White House and have a military parade to show the world the miracles of capitalism, and a solid, well-funded Army with a deep, sustainable history, controlled by popular elections under self-rule.  Quite the opposite message from what the protests were trying to sell, that came out flat and jaded.  Unlike in the past, when people would give their opinions the time of day.  There is now a lot of history that people are ashamed of, so the communist playbook of protest and discontent isn’t registering.  However, a military parade in front of the White House was something the world could rally behind, demonstrating that Trump understands all too well how to project America’s values to the world in ways that no modern-day consultants could comprehend.  That display was pure Trump, and understanding the market value of freedom, and how it helps keep the world in check.  And it dwarfed all the rallies cheered on by the Marxist and socialist groups in cities all over America.  The Army parade dominated the news cycle and deflated the Marxist balloon, just in time, too.  And I think it started a new tradition, which is about time.  The first months of Trump’s second term have been great.  But I think we are just seeing the beginning of many great things to follow.

Rich Hoffman

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Vote for Mark Welch as Trustee of West Chester, Ohio: The island of misfit toys wants to ride the success of good politics

Mark Welch, the long-standing trustee of West Chester, Ohio, has undoubtedly been one of the main reasons that the northern Cincinnati community is one of the best places to live in the world.  And that’s not just me saying that because I like West Chester, Ohio.  Years ago, some effective policies were implemented to limit government overreach and foster a free enterprise approach to the growing community. This was achieved through a collaborative effort, led by then-trustee George Lang, with Mark Welch subsequently elected to provide a much-needed second vote.  It used to be that George was always outvoted two to one, and he needed someone who could share his vision with him. The result was a period of prosperity in West Chester, Ohio, which has made it unquestionably one of the best places to live anywhere in the world.  As a result, many people have moved into the area, bringing with them political ideas reflective of their origins, which have evolved.  George is now Senator Lang of Ohio, representing the 4th District.  However, Mark Welch remains a trustee who is now up for re-election in 2025.  With his excellent track record, he should have an easy re-election to his seat.  But we don’t want to take anything for granted.  Another long-time holdout, Lee Wong, who is very sympathetic to Chinese causes, is also up for re-election.  He is the kind of person who a lot of Democrats vote for, so he tends to get support from the many moderate Republicans, and the Democrats so there is some concern that in a race that is introducing the long term police chief to the mix Joel Herzog, that if Republicans don’t work together, that damage could be done to the seats in West Chester. 

Most of the time, there aren’t many people who run for these spots, and it could be assumed that Mark would win his seat back and that there would be room for Joel Herzog to join him.  Lee Wong, under all considerations, is vulnerable for many reasons, but he plays nicely enough with Republicans to avoid drawing too much hate, which is part of his strategy.  In a three-way race for two seats, it can get tricky.  The ideal situation would be for Republicans to show up and support Mark and Joel, thereby putting Lee in third place.  However, as I mentioned earlier, Lee will likely draw Democrat votes without needing to do much campaigning.  And the way these elections work is that it’s the best of the candidates who get the highest vote count.  Therefore, the top two vote-getters will win the seats.  And if it were just between these three, I would say Mark Welch would have no problem retaining his seat.  Joel Herzog is a good guy who comes highly recommended by everyone who knows him.  I have mentioned that, as a former police chief, it would be challenging for him to negotiate police contracts as a trustee with impartiality.  But most people agree that the good stuff with him is so good that that’s not a concern in his regard.  To regain the support of two conservative West Chester trustees, it will require a coordinated effort to retain Mark and help Joel win without one of them losing to Lee Wong.  The current belief is that Lakota schools will attempt to put a levy on the ballot, which is expected to attract many big-spending Democrats, making the math for Lee much more favorable than in previous years.

Then there is the issue of Ann Becker. A couple of other prominent Democrat challengers, affiliated with the Kathy Wyenandt area Democrats, who are certainly in the minority, are also running. Still, they are organizing to tag-team their efforts with the Lakota school levy push, so they hope to have higher than normal voter turnout to capture some advantage.  Ann Becker is the third trustee who was formerly a Tea Party conservative, serving as president of the Cincinnati Tea Party and the West Chester Tea Party.  She used to have a show on 55 KRC to discuss Tea Party topics, but Ann Becker is long gone these days.  She used to be a good tag team vote with Mark Welch, but she has changed quite a lot over the years, to the point where she might as well be a Democrat.  Therefore, electing Joel and retaining Mark become that much more critical.  When I first met Ann, whom I have been good friends with for a long time, she was associated with the levy supporters of Lakota, and we were at odds politically.  However, I always liked Ann, and she made a transition into the Tea Party movement, where we saw many things eye to eye.  People would warn me that she used to be a Democrat.  But I liked her anyway.  I also like Kathy Wyenandt, too, as a person.  However, Democrats are not adept at handling money or policy, and the needs of West Chester require a particular kind of mind. Unfortunately, Ann has lost her way and reverted to the person she was before I met her, before the Tea Party movement.  These individuals might be friendly, but they shouldn’t be in government. 

The other two candidates stepping into the crowded race for those two trustee seats are both Democrats: Alyssa Louagie and Amanda Ortiz.  I don’t think either one of them has a chance, but they think they do because they plan to tag-team the Lakota levy, which many are counting on Ann to lend her support as well.  So, we suddenly have a lot of Democrats taking a calculated leap into the mix, hoping that something will stick.  There is also a risk of losing what made West Chester great and falling into the same trend that muddles so many other communities, which assume that their success stories can survive with Democrats moving into positions of leadership.  People see things going well, so they give the misfit toys a chance, out of the luxury of success.  Then democrats ruin everything, and they want to attach themselves to the success story of West Chester, and the game for the rest of us is to preserve that success by re-electing Mark Welch and adding Joel Herzog.  However, the Democrats want to capitalize on the success to fund their social engineering projects, which will then alter everything great about West Chester, turning it into just another typical community that has seen its success fade because it was taken for granted.  And if we let the Democrats have a greater share of the seats at the table, we could easily end up with three Democrats as trustees, which would be detrimental to the interests of the other parties. That provides some early math to put the situation in perspective.  I think it will be good for Lakota to put out their ridiculous school levy because it will bring out more MAGA, Trump-voting Republicans, who will only help Mark hold his seat.  I think the math works in Mark’s favor to pick up votes this year, given the anger at Lakota schools over their proposed tax increases.  But we’ll see.  What we do know is who is running, and it’s now that the strategies for preserving West Chester need to be developed, before it’s too late.  And taking a long view, Joel would be great, but the more strategic seat comes up in a few years. To protect West Chester, we need a strategy and a lot of players willing to support the long view, especially in a crowded field.

Rich Hoffman

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We Have Discovered Atlantis: What’s left of it is in North America

I feel very comfortable in saying that I believe the lost civilization of Atlantis, as Plato described it, is best reflected in what remains of the North American mound cultures, and that a significant portion of that culture ultimately ended up in the Ohio Valley.  And I can say that because it is very controversial and challenging, given our previous assumptions, because I think it’s one of the best examples of the failures of institutional thinking, which I find repulsive, defective, and socially corrosive.  To illustrate the shortcomings of institutional thinking, the story of Atlantis is a perfect example. At this point, given all that is known, I believe the timing is right to discuss it, well ahead of the eventual realization that will follow.  I have a pretty good track record in these kinds of matters, and part of that credential is demonstrating the ability to see things far ahead and to be right about them.  At this point, I think it’s wise to say that the mound builders of North America can best help us understand the lost civilizations of Atlantis and Mu.  However, we also see them all over England and South America, with a mound culture that utilized the science of geometric shapes to establish a relationship with supernatural forces as part of their technology, deeply committed to star power.  Our previous assumptions have been incorrect, and this is important to establish because when we talk politically about a “Native American,” what are we talking about?  I would propose that the evidence shows that a Native American was a native of the homeland of Atlantis and that by the time Columbus followed a bunch of old maps already well chronicled to North America, those cultures had been in decline for many thousands of years and had fallen back into groups of warring nomads hunting and gathering for basic sustenance. 

The Middletown Mound, lost right in front of our faces

It’s such a big idea that I have seriously been considering obtaining a PhD to drive the point home, because credentials help an established culture trust information that can be rattling to their foundational beliefs.  My problem with that is the time involved to do so.  My schedule is already too busy for a task like that just to help people understand the inevitable.  However, the idea that the Clovis people emerged into North America and settled in the manner that pre-Columbian archaeology has established is, at this point, preposterous.  It’s also important to understand why, so that we don’t carry over the same traits into other parts of our lives.  This is something that has bothered me for a long time.  And it became much more so after I visited Stonehenge and saw that essentially the earthworks there were identical to what I saw in my hometown of Ohio where there are a lot of mound structures that are not for burials, but ritual significance dedicated to a culture using occult technology that had already been well established before building them.  There are thousands of them, everywhere, that the social structure of a shaman-based society communicating with the spirit world was not an anomaly, but an accepted culture with an intense past, dating back 250,000 years to just before the last Ice Age.  We had a global civilization that spread across the world, utilizing occult technology that is still evident in methods of magic and sorcery, which persist in pockets here and there, and in speculation.  However, the proof lies in the mounds of the world and their often very complicated alignments with stars, which utilized a form of communication that was more than just superstitious for them.  It was a significant part of their lives, and it was global in scope, not regional. 

Newark Ohio

Of course, the central point is to assume that there could never have been an Atlantis civilization because the established sciences have already established the timeline for all human beings.  According to them, established science suggests that humans originated from the Indus Valley, Mesopotamia, and Egypt, approximately 6000 to 4000 years ago, and evolved into the technological world we see today.  I am saying that the evidence suggests that what was well chronicled in the Bible were the last remnants of a previous culture that had existed for hundreds of thousands of years, perhaps even millions, and that their entire society was built around occult technology.  Not mysticism, but actual utilization of supernatural forces, and they formed their whole belief structure along those lines until Yahweh put an end to it and built the Jewish people to rebel against the premise of that whole, global culture.  However, this is the point of view of the Book of Genesis, where the culture God wanted to destroy wasn’t just a few hundred years of emergence.  The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was not a blip on the surface of the earth, erased just as fast in a catastrophe.   They are likely many tens of thousands of years old, and the evidence for it is literally everywhere, and only hidden by institutional assumptions provided by the frail moorings of academic society.  To challenge that foundation, it is necessary to shake the foundation of other assumptions that are just as ridiculous.  The point of the matter is to establish the value of thinking outside the box on many things. We can initiate this process with a premise like Atlantis, and likely many other ancient cultures that predate our known assumptions by a significant period.

Chillicothe, Ohio

Even in our modern understanding of Freemasonry, it is well discussed that the Hermetic society emerged from the lost continent of Atlantis, which is why Plato was interested in the topic, and that the civilization of Egypt emerged directly from it.  But I would say, based on what we know about the mound cultures, Egypt wasn’t the only place.  And even in North America, we see the same kind of rebellion against it emerging with the same sort of Hebrew law and order rising to overthrow that old technology.  It wasn’t just in the Newark holy stones that we see this, but in earthworks that have clear indications of Jewish influence.  And I am saying now that I’ve seen enough to say that I think this is how it will all go down.  We have discovered the lost civilization of Atlantis, and what remains of it is reflected in the North American mound culture.  It’s everywhere around the world, but was most evident along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers due to the extremely high concentration of earthen structures aligned with the stars.  We know that Atlantis failed long before a natural catastrophe supposedly sank it in the Atlantic Ocean; it had become corrupted by magicians and sorcerers who exported their thoughts around the world well before there was ever an ice age.  Most of their civilization has long since eroded.  However, what remained were their beliefs and technologies, which emerged in the mound-building culture and can still be observed.  What has lasted is just a fraction of what it once was.  However, it’s enough for us to ask the obvious questions and challenge our previous assumptions.  And I think for our own good, we need to shatter those previous assumptions and the thought process that created them.  The Atlantis story is a good example of why we need to do that, because the process will help us with many other things, unlocking many better attributes of modern culture that we had not previously considered. 

Arkansas

Rich Hoffman

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Harvard Does Not Have the Right to Federal Money: Rethinking College Completely

Harvard is making a fool of itself with its legal action, or intent, against the Trump administration for withholding federal dollars over progressive policies being taught at that institution.  Remember, he who owns the gold rules.  The beggars in need of money do not have the leverage to command policy.  They must do what is required to get the money if they want it.  They don’t get to set policy.  Those are the rules, and they will be now, and forever.  Harvard University does not have the right to federal money.  They must do what the federal government requires to obtain that money.  And that’s the end of the story.  But let’s have an honest conversation about colleges in general, as we should be cutting off federal funding to all of them.  We should not be funding the education of people with federal dollars, which goes for all public education in general.  Education has not given us an enlightened society.  Rather, they have been recruiting centers for Democrat policies that damage kids badly in the critical years of their lives, generally.  Some kids escape into adulthood if they have good family support at home.  But most have their minds destroyed for the first twenty years of their adult lives because of our education system and we are at a point where we need to ask questions like the one at Harvard, why are we spending federal money on such a waste of money, and should we continue to use the college system as a form of higher education.  Or should education be obtained in other ways?  Because the way it is now is a complete waste of money, and kids are learning all the wrong things.  Not only would I call it a worthless experience, but it’s damaging to people the way it has been set up, and we need to change it if we want to fix what’s wrong at the core of our society.

I don’t discriminate against college-educated people.  But I have found that our current education system teaches people to think in a box when learning to think out of one is most needed.  I would point to Robert Persig’s Metaphysics of Quality for a really solid philosophical and psychological analysis of our current education system from top to bottom.  To use his metaphor, we teach people to live in the caboose of life, not to be in the engine room at the front of the train of leadership.  And that’s where we need all people to be.  Trump clearly gets it, and he doesn’t care at this point in his life if people get mad at him by protestors from Harvard or any other legacy school.  The question we have before us is whether or not a college education is effective, and the evidence shows that it’s not.  And a lot of people are functioning as adults with crippled intellects because they had their intelligence robbed from them during their college experiences.  To succeed in the college environment, they have to learn to think in a structured box of information when the real problems are out of the box, and require people to solve problems there.  People who do not have college backgrounds can get into a useful state quicker than those with a lot of college.  But those critical years up to age 22 set people up for most of their lives, and mistakes made at that point in their lives usually last a lifetime.  I have seen people reform themselves by their late 40s and 50s.  But the amount of pretentious time they spend as entitled in the box thinkers, usually cripples them for life.  And it is a real problem.  Just having education funded by the government is not the question.  It’s what people teach, at the heart of Trump’s withholding federal funds from Harvard over DEI policies.  In our culture, as it should be, you pay for what you value.  You shouldn’t have to pay for it if you don’t value it.  Harvard, or any other educational institution, is not promised money for producing a bad product. 

This came up as I was at another one of those lunch meetings, with some people who would call themselves very powerful, and we were talking about this topic and people specifically and one of these people said that so and so was a Man from Purdue University, as if that said everything that needed to be said.  This person had a predisposition to hire applicants who came out of Purdue University, which I think is profoundly dumb.  But it’s what he believes as an employer.  And his comment sparked quite a debate.  I am usually polite about my thoughts, so we had a good conversation.  But to compress two hours of talk into a few sentences here, he maintained a completely irrational hiring practice of hiring people from a university system that produced bad results that he constantly complained about.  And when I suggested that maybe he should hire from the University of Cincinnati, Dayton, or Ohio State, he acted like I was asking him to put on a rival team’s jersey on NFL Sunday.  His belief system was part of the problem in why he couldn’t find good recruits to fill his job requirements.  And when I told him for his technical positions, he would do better to hire 12-year-old kids who hadn’t been taught to fail than kids who have spent the next 10 years of their lives learning to appease liberal college professors, because they would bring those same practices into the work place, which would make them useless, he thought it was the craziest idea he had ever heard and was quite animated by the suggestion.  But it was true and he knows it.

And that’s how it is for most people.  We fund education on hope and beliefs built on feelings rather than facts.  We like our favorite college sports teams, so we support the entire institution teaching Marxism to the next generation. We don’t say anything about it because we might have won some money on a March Madness bracket.  And that is part of the shell game.  We root for college sports, which entertain us.  But we ignore what they are teaching until we find our kids coming back from college as unrecognizable Democrat ground soldiers for liberal social policies that they spend the rest of their lives trying to unlearn.  And a lot of parents save up a lot of money to throw their kids away, essentially into a system that is broken and addicted to federal taxpayer money.  Trump has every right to withhold those funds, and no lawsuit can force the public to pay for its own demise, which is what that Harvard issue will come down to.  It’s the same problem for every college education system and public school.  We have to have an intelligent discussion about what education should be, and what we should do to pay for it.  Not just unthinkingly throw money at it and hope everything works out OK.  Because it hasn’t been working, and in the state it’s in now, the best thing we could do for education is to stop funding failure.  And force education institutions to compete to see what works and what doesn’t.  Because as long as they are fat, dumb, and happy off federal dollars, Harvard and the rest of them have no incentive to change.  And they need to change a lot!

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.    

Love it! Because it looks cool. And it’s tough!

Rich Hoffman

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Elon Musk the Reporter: Free speech will destroy tryanny every time

I figured it out long ago, and Elon Musk can now do it at a much larger level.  Free speech and citizen journalism are tremendously powerful tools and are the key ingredients to a prosperous society.  If left alone, in most cases, people in collective masses become corrupt and dangerous.  So all this anger toward Elon Musk is understandable, for the way he expressed himself during the budget battle in Congress over the continuing resolution that started at over 1500 pages and ended up being just a few hundred by the time it was all said and done.  I explained to everyone that this was how D.O.G.E. would be effective.  They didn’t need to have an office somewhere where they stamped approval in some bureaucratic way, like everything else in government.  No, D.O.G.E. initiated by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would be more like reporters, doing the job the media should have been doing all along.  And because Musk bought Twitter and turned it from a three-lettered mind control device into a platform of free speech where he has over 200 million direct followers, a lot of this has caught the radical left and deep state establishment figures off guard.  No, they will not be able to control any of this.  They lost their power long ago and were only propped up by legacy media looking to do their dirty work.  But free speech was always the key to our personal Constitution in the United States, and it has been the killer of globalism for many decades now.  All people needed to do was figure out how powerful their opinions were.  This is why I put so much work into my own efforts; it has worked for many years and made things better where they otherwise would languish in obscurity. 

I used to participate in a lot of media, write for newspapers, and appear on television.  I did a lot of radio.  I was even in a few movies.  So, I understand the entertainment culture and news broadcasting that most people use to interact with information very well.  I am that guy who used to show up and give speeches at public gatherings, especially at school boards.  And there was just something wrong with speaking to people who gave you only 3 minutes to speak.  Newspapers would only give me 250 words to make my point.  Radio would only put you on for around a 15-minute segment.  Millions of people heard it, but the information was often lost to people before the next segment started.  I learned a long time ago because I saw how things were cooking in the kitchen, and letting the bad guys determine how long you speak in public and how much you could write regarding news and opinion was wrong.  And it kept people from speaking freely to other people.  So, I gradually started my own blog site and launched this news and opinion effort that has been very effective for over fifteen years.  I learned what worked and didn’t, and I gradually stopped appearing on other people’s radio and television shows and just started doing my own where I could write as much as I wanted and say as much as I desired about anything and everything under the sun.  If you didn’t care about making money that other people would pay you for the work, then freedom would become the primary currency, and people would get different perspectives from what they previously didn’t have. 

When Elon Musk bought Twitter and converted himself out of political necessity away from a left-of-center globalist to a MAGA Republican who has been accused of either being one of Trump’s kids because they have become so close after the election of 2024 or the president himself, Musk bought a free speech platform that had been used to shape public opinion and turned it into something that reflected what people actually thought.  And what tyranny cannot live up to is public scrutiny.  So, in many ways, Elon Musk became much more potent than any figure on planet Earth, including the President of the United States, because he could evoke what people thought about something instead of limiting what they could see and hear in a way to push them into a thought process that reflected the values of institutionalism.  It was never going to work.  The crazy authority figures of the world should have known better and learned their hard lessons from the Berlin Wall and the many control mechanisms they have in China.  Free expression is a powerful weapon, which is why it’s the first of the Bill of Rights in the American Constitution.  And if you are Elon Musk thinking about how to have governments functioning properly on faraway planets so human civilization can thrive, we must solve this problem once and for all here on Earth, here and now.   We can’t allow tyrants to rule through limited knowledge and control over opinion.  And that’s how these crazy, debt-ridden CRs have been passed by our government for years.  They are full of garbage that nobody knows about and sold to the public with a gun to the head, saying essentially, “Pass this bill to get funding for cancer research by ignoring the funding of bio labs in Ukraine and all kinds of other dangerous stuff that the lobbyists have stuffed in there with goodies and corruption galore.” 

The power Elon Musk used in December of 2024 was not the power of a president or a government insider.  It was the power of opinion, and he was using free speech in the way it was designed to educate the public and let them make decisions about things themselves.  And for all that, the Beltway culture withered in pain over the CR debate.  And people haven’t seen anything yet for all the pain it caused.  This is precisely how D.O.G.E. is going to work.  It won’t be from policymakers and long meetings with peer review that government reform will be done.  It will report what is happening and build public pressure to reform through free speech.  I can report on this matter from my personal experience.  There is nothing that any of the bad guys can do about it.  They won’t be able to stand up to it, and they won’t be able to stop it.  Short of turning to violence themselves, which I have had to deal with myself on many occasions.  Once they realize that violence won’t get them what they want, it will make it much worse for them, and they will become very frustrated with the results, much like the way many reacted to Elon Musk during the CR negotiations in 2024.  Musk doesn’t need to be president.  All he needs to do is allow people to have an opinion on something and give them things to think about through his X social media platform.  So what happens next will be bewildering to many people.  But there is nothing they can do to stop it.  Free speech is the check on power that it was designed to be.  Unfortunately, in years past, too much free speech was controlled through various corporate controls directly connected to the political structure.  And that allowed bad guys to do bad things.  Well, not any longer.  That is why 2025 will differ significantly from any other historical period.  The debate over the 2024 continued resolution for congressional spending hasn’t seen anything yet.  And it’s about time!

Rich Hoffman

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The Importance of Kari Lake Running Voice of America: What the world needs the most of

People will increasingly realize just how important communication is to a culture.  Out of all Trump’s picks for offices that need to work with a new government, I think Kari Lake’s being assigned Director of Voice of America is one of the best and most important.  After all, we just saw what radical leftists wanted for the world.  We saw their Brave New World authority concepts, and they tried to implement them and destroy our American Constitution along the way.  We saw them cancel the fireworks at Mt. Rushmore and any references to patriotism and memory of great American moments.  We saw flash mobs attack our heroic statues and attempt to overthrow our nation in every way.  So we can never forget how terrified our enemies are of the American message, and trying to keep it out of the mind of the world.  To perform what they wanted, the enemies of America, both foreign and domestic, needed to erase the idea of America and personal freedom from the minds of the many.  Luckily, one of Trump’s excellent skills as a builder of brands is an appreciation for the ability to communicate.  And he understands why selling the idea of America to the world is essential.  So he has appointed Kari Lake to do just that, which I think is a much more important job than a Senator or Governor, which she clearly would have been suitable for, but had both of those opportunities robbed from her through gross election fraud by criminals who wanted to hijack America and turn it into something else.  And how do we know they cheated? They kept counting individual ballot drops for weeks after these elections and contaminating the batches with percentages of mail-in ballots not verified by photo ID, and they kept counting fake ballots until they defeated her in the election.  Through election fraud, they kept Kari Lake from winning her last two races, because they know how good she is as a communicator.  So bad people conspired to keep her out of politics.

The Voice of America has a special place in my mind.  From my perspective in Liberty Township, I grew up looking at the three towers off on the horizon toward Mason and would listen to bits of it on AM radio.  I was an oddly patriotic kid growing up.  I listened to a lot of AM radio, especially WMOH, which was just down the road in Hamilton, on a CB unit I had that stayed on all the time.  Also near the Voice of America towers was WLW radio, which broadcasts 24 hours of freedom all over America, and I loved it.  My bedroom my mother painted in red, white, and blue stars by hand, which looked like a monstrosity about to perform at a 4th of July parade.  And she did all that because even at ages one and two years old, I had very patriotic inclinations.  I was one of the official Ronald Regan campaigners in grade school in the 7th grade.  I worked hard for Reagan, and I despised Jimmy Carter even though most of the kids in my school had no idea who those people were during that pivotal election of 1980.  I was a weird kid, and many people think I’m a strange adult.  But with my background, I understand all too well how important it is to sell the idea of America to the privacy of people’s lives, whether it’s while they are growing up or looking for entertainment at their homes.  There are many competing ideas out there for entertainment value, but I always thought America should do more to promote itself to the world, so they could learn to be more like us.  Because I have always loved the idea of “us”.  And I have spent much time trying to spread that love as much as possible.

Oddly enough, I grew into an adult who frequently appeared on WLW radio.  I loved the power of talk radio and have watched it evolve.  Because of my friendship with Darryl Parks, the old program manager at WLW radio, I moved away from corporate radio, as there was no future in it, and grabbed on to the independent media formats, which are now turning out to be the last refuge of such a vile conspiracy.  The bad guys believed that by taking over the corporate media controls, they would control America’s message, which turned out to be excessively wrong.  But the attempt at it shows the obvious danger. And Voice of America, like the Truckin’ Bozo Show on WLW, became captured assets to control the message of what America was.  During a particularly tough period in my life, one that probably would have killed most people, I was working 16-hour days five days a week and 8-hour days on the weekends.  My wife and I had only one car, so I rode a bicycle 12 miles each way to work for five years.  I was being sued by multiple people for multiple things, grotesquely unfairly.  But I was a hot-shot young person who was into lots of things, and there were a lot of bad people who wanted to pound me out of existence.  I learned to carry a chip on my shoulder that turned into a mountain after I survived all these things, always thinking in the back of my mind about that patriotic room my mom had painted for me and the goodness of fighting for the right to be happy, and free in the world. 

My only bit of happiness during that rough period was that Paul Harvey would come on WLW at 3:30  AM and do news and commentary, complete with his daily “rest of the story” broadcasts on the Truckin’ Bozo Show.  So that kept me going, believe it or not, when I had nothing else to look forward to.  I couldn’t afford legal representation for all those lawsuits, so I had to do the work myself.  Which I was successful at after more than three years of court cases.  So, I understand hardship, and I greatly sympathize with the pain that the entire world goes through for similar reasons.  Looking back on it, I think God pushed me to become very strong so I could help many people by understanding their perspective.  I loved Voice of America so much that even now, I visit the VOA Park several times a week to record my VLOG broadcasts, which I have found is much more potent than all the radio I listened to as a kid because there were no corporate controls to the effort.  So I get it with Kari Lake; she was very successful in traditional media.  Trump, who was very successful in media also, understands this importance.  Voice of America has become a captured asset of the enemy over the years, but now it will be the Voice of Maga.  And I know that over 300 million people are listening to it every day who are going through their life circumstances like mine, where there is no ray of hope but maybe a little 30-minute radio broadcast in the middle of the night, and that’s all they have to hang on to live for a few more minutes.  The world needs to hear more about how great America can be and is.  Kari Lake is just the person who will do it as the new Director of the Voice of America.  As history remembers it, this will be one of the most essential things that Trump does as President.  And we’ll reflect on how great it was that Kari was available to run VOA back to greatness for the many lives worldwide looking for a positive message.

Rich Hoffman

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