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

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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A.I. and Robotics are the Keys to Future Economic Development: They don’t call off, do drugs, and protest for government expansion, which makes them wonderful

I am not afraid of technology in any way; ultimately, A.I. and robotics will end up working with people in much the same way as they did in Star Wars, as actual characters built by humans, but part of the real story of history as it expands.  Being worried about technology taking over the world, in some Terminator way, I think, is giving technology too much credit.  As I have said, the most dangerous thing in the world is a government unchecked to develop bioweapons like COVID-19 to terrorize the world behind the shadows of Davos, Switzerland.  And to let artificial intelligence go off and develop in similar ways such an example is scary.  But that is a current and significant problem, whether or not humans do it or artificial intelligence.  This is a reason we must have an effective government, to protect people from vile threats to the human race, like the World Economic Forum, but limited in what it can do to individual rights, so that government can never become so big that it abuses its authority tremendously, such as we have seen over the last several years, especially since 2020.  I understand the concerns about transhumanism, but I also know its need, which was presented quite well to my wife and I recently when it was late and we were hungry. We hadn’t had any dinner, and we were both exhausted.  So we went to the McDonald’s close to our house for some quick food.  Now, I hesitated going there because since Covid, they have struggled at this location to staff it adequately, and almost every order we have had from them has been horrendous; they miss lots of stuff, get the order completely wrong, and charge the incorrect amounts.  They have been slow because their staffing levels were inexperienced and unmotivated, and they often called off too much from work, making them short-staffed.

A trip I made with some friends to a Cincinnati area robotics manufacturer. There are some excellent options out there.

Many McDonald’s locations are now utilizing at least an A.I. menu board, which takes orders much better than humans do, and it works great, which was our experience at this particular McDonald’s.  It probably shaved 45 seconds off our total interaction time in the drive-thru, which is very important to me.  I often don’t have 45 seconds to give to anybody, so speed and accuracy in a drive-thru exchange are critical to me.  Our experience at McDonald’s was excellent that day, another thing I warned about years ago.  All this talk about pushing the minimum wage has devastated the economy, and I warned everyone what would happen.  Commercial outlets would replace human workers with machines, robots, A.I., or whatever they could handle.  That is certainly the case at Walmart today with self-checkouts and now at fast-food restaurants.  The labor it takes to keep open a fast-food restaurant is relatively high, and wherever you see a collection of them, such as at a highway intersection, there is a lot of labor needed for that area to sustain itself economically.  So, artificially impacting the profit margins of an economic enterprise has been devastating to anybody concerned with hiring labor.  To pay for the extra workers, companies must cut the amount of staffing they have to make for all the numbers to work out.  Socialists and communists think that businesses exist to provide jobs and that by forcing companies to pay an artificially high wage rate, they are doing everyone a favor.  But companies exist for the marketplace, for real economic value, so meeting those needs is their first concern, and when labor is artificially high in value, then all kinds of financial problems emerge when it comes to the amount of work produced. 

This a robot that is specifically for inspection. It works really well!

I included an accompanying video of a recent trip I took with some friends to a Cincinnati manufacturer of robotics, for my interest is to see what they could and couldn’t do.  Because it’s a simple math problem.  You don’t want to limit your economic development in a culture by the availability of labor, especially with Ohio legalizing drugs, the government using Covid to try to get everyone to work from home, people dependent on government for subsidiary income, welfare, and putting unmotivated people into the workplace, then having all the same companies trying to hire all the same people to do work.  Suppose there are only 300 million people in the United States available to do work, including the millions of migrants inspired to invade our country by the Biden administration.  There isn’t enough labor to sustain a 19 trillion dollar economy with a yearly GDP.  So if labor is not available, or if that labor has been tainted with destructive politics that has not prepared the marketplace with viable talent, then you have to solve the problem some way, and the most obvious is to do as McDonald’s and Walmart have already been doing, and that is to automate as much as you can and use robots to do the routine work that humans have traditionally done.  If you don’t, there is no way to facilitate the economic expansion that could take an economy like America up over 19 trillion dollars.  Suppose you want to do more work in a culture. In that case, utilizing the workforce properly is the key, and you can’t allow yourself to be limited to the availability of labor if you want an economy to grow. 

To make matters worse, not only is the labor of this current generation tainted with laziness, drugs, and horrendous work habits, there just aren’t enough of them.  With birth rates down, we don’t have enough labor to meet the economic needs of our commercial demands, so we have created a constraint.  But like the Japanese, who have used their limited labor well with a relationship with robotics and other means of simplifying labor constraints, there are many automated examples of economic expansion without actual human bodies building it.  Then there are the gross inefficiencies of the Chinese government, who have over 1 billion people ready to work, but they still can’t produce more economic output than America because their government is their primary constraint, as a communist, centralized government.  For America to recover from its 35 trillion dollar deficit, massive economic expansion under President Trump that pulls off all the restrictor plates is essential.  And there aren’t enough human bodies to perform the work, even if every illegal immigrant in the many millions was put to the task.  It wouldn’t be enough for the opportunities, economically, that are coming our way with the space race expansion.  So, I’m excited about robots and A.I. and whatever means of production can be utilized to fulfill market needs. Instead, I don’t like to see a lack of labor holding back an economy.  When I want a sandwich from McDonald’s, I don’t desire a bunch of excuses about call-offs and lazy, pot-infested losers holding back the economic exchange.  Robots and A.I. never call off work.  They don’t do drugs, drink, get divorced, and go through complex social hardship spells in life.  They are consistent and do what you program them to do.  And they don’t talk back.  They don’t protest for the government or demand paychecks when they aren’t doing work.  They are always there, and for an economy in need, that is what we all need for labor in the future.  Dependable, fast, and never complaining. 

Rich Hoffman

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Who Should Trump Pick as His VP: It’s all about continuing the MAGA movement beyond 2028

Now that we know Trump will return to the presidency in 2024, people are wondering who his VP should be.  Yes, don’t take anything for granted.  We still have to win the election in such an epic landslide that the political left will be knocked off the face of the planet in the aftermath.  Don’t take your eye off the ball.  But as things stand, after the Iowa Caucuses and the blowout Trump won there, it’s evident that people want Trump back in the White House to finish what was started, then robbed from us.  Even China realizes what’s happening, and they won’t be able to cheat so easily this time.  They will try, but it won’t be as easy as it was in 2020, that is for sure.  Remember, Trump, did not lose that election in 2020, in which polling in Iowa asked voters what they thought about Biden and 2/3 of them believed that Biden was put in the White House for election fraud.  He was inserted as president, not elected.  I have verified this political sentiment over these last three years, and it’s true.  There was no mathematical way that Joe Biden could have had 81 million votes.  Even Fox News, reluctantly, now that they know there is no Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis in 2024, is jumping on the Trump Train for their own relevancy, even though they now have to discuss all the forms of election fraud that did take place, particularly with the ballot stuffers directly connected to the loose Covid rules.  So without that same kind of chaotic mess as we saw in 2020 and a push for as little voter fraud as possible, there simply is no way Biden can generate enough votes to beat Trump.  To answer Kamala Harris when asked about Trump’s Iowa results, “no dummy, you did not beat President Trump the first time; you cheated.”  And 2024 is going to expose that racket, especially.

So, of course, the next logical question is who the VP will be. And instantly, Kari Lake’s name comes up because she is like Trump in many ways. It would be my advice, and yes, quite a few people who read from me carefully and do care about and influence these kinds of things, that we keep Kari Lake as the hot hand in the Senate. Once Trump is in the White House, he needs a counter punch in the Senate to Mitch McConnell, someone who will give that old establishment a Trump-type person in those hallowed halls. Bernie Moreno is one of those future Senators who will dramatically improve the landscape. But Kari Lake needs to win the Arizona seat and use it to change how the Senate works. She would be best used not to play a second fiddle to Trump, who will soak up all the attention. With Trump, we only get to have him for four years, so we also need to set the stage for the next few decades. That means whoever is positioned for VP this time is simply placing the stage for a presidential run in 2028. Which at this point is not very far away. That VP pick will carry the Trump MAGA platform to the next level. Trump will retire, but the political movement must continue, and that is where things can get tricky. I think Kari Lake is there for the fight, but for how long? How long does she want to do this kind of thing? It’s one thing to fight for the injustice done to Trump. But we’re talking about the rigors of day-to-day management here, so whoever the VP is needs to be ready for at least eight years in office and to normalize the Trump agenda into a change state United States policy.

My first pick would be Kristi Noem for a lot of reasons. She has run a good state in South Dakota and is loyal, but she also knows how to take the lead. She has been very helpful to Trump and could certainly run for president on her own as a continuation of the MAGA movement. She is the kind of person who could keep the machine running once started with the second Trump term. Not that it matters so much, but it would be great for the Republicans to be the party that put a woman first in the White House and to take that away from the Democrats for history to remember. Just as it was Republicans who freed the enslaved people during the Civil War, I don’t care about identity politics in the least. But I always did think that Elizabeth Dole should have run for president in the past, along with a few others who were great in public and could give Republicans a woman in the White House. Kristi Noem would be excellent as she represents the rough-and-tumble cowboy image that America currently needs. After what she did a few years ago when riding that horse through Deadwood and onto the stage holding an American flag, Kristi Noem would be an excellent support to the Big City Trump and make a fantastic VP. A perfect “one-two punch.” And something that wouldn’t end after Trump’s second term.

The other pick and I think that Trump is already leaning in that direction, is Vivek Ramaswamy. I happen to know Vivek a bit. I’ve met him several times, and we know many of the same people, so I was not concerned about the “anti-Vivek” talk before the Iowa Caucuses. I had a pretty good idea about Vivek and what he was trying to do before he finally dropped out of the race after the election results from Iowa came in. Vivek wants to do good things, and he’s young and can speak very well. During this campaign, he would be a perfect VP attack dog, setting him up nicely for 2028. A guy his age who is, like Trump, independently wealthy is how you lay the foundations for a continuation of the MAGA political platform. I know how Vivek became wealthy; he had learned a lot in his young life, and I was present with him when he made a political transition. So, I can say that I trust Vivek in ways other people might not understand yet. You know, you get into some of these situations as Vivek did when he was a biotech firm CEO and worked closely with Wall Street and your perspective changes as you win the game and see what’s really going on. Elon Musk is going through a similar process right now, where you gain the kind of money that gives you freedom enough to see things clearly, and Vivek is one of those guys. I’ve personally talked to him about it, so I know where he’s at. And he would be a fantastic VP. And a great president, another person who could take from Trump what was created and carry it far into the future to not only Make America Great Again but to keep it that way, even grow it over the coming decades. But to do that, we have to have the right person, and if I had to pick, it would be one of these two people, Kristi Noem or Vivek Ramaswamy. But no matter what happens, Vivek has to be part of the economic recovery. He has some of the best ideas regarding that vital category of anyone on earth. And the real fight we are facing, which is the needed destruction of BlackRock and its grotesque global influence, Vivek is the guy who must be part of the oncoming Trump White House.

Rich Hoffman

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Make My Day Michelle Obama: Davos is Planning a Disease X to stay in power

I think it’s fair to say that I hate Michelle Obama and her husband, the terrorist Barack, the former president of the United States.  I don’t think there is one good thing that I like about them, and I see them as American terrorists who purposefully initiated an unwanted change to America to fulfill the terrorist intentions of Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dorn as an extension of their Weather Underground radicalism.  And additionally, through the Islamic radicalism always working in the background that was learned in the “God damn America” church that Obama grew up in with Reverend Jerimiah Wright in Chicago as pastor.  I don’t think, based on the evidence, that Obama was even qualified to be president and that terrorists used his skin color to hide his radical, communist extremism to usher in under the door the destruction of America, for which the Biden administration represents.  There is nothing good about them; the Obamas are poison intent to kill the patient, and their goal has been to kill Americans and the people who resist their terrorist acts of progressive transformation.  And they have been paid well to be those terrorists by lots of people hostile to the American way of life.  I have written millions and millions of words about the Obamas over the last 15 years, and everything I have said, as it usually is, has turned out to be 100% true.   And in many ways, the ways that the Obama family was forced down our throats in the early 2000s is precisely why Trump emerged into politics.  For all those who are upset that a person like Trump ended up in the White House for the first time, they can only blame themselves for shoving first the Clintons on us, then the outright terrorist, Barack Obama.  He was the Weather Underground president, and many of our intelligence agencies who want to see globalism happen with the destruction of America joined forces to give us the most corrupt three administrations in the history of the presidency, with the third term being what we have witnessed with the compromised, hapless fool, Joe Biden, the puppet of Barack Obama.

So it was no surprise, given what we know about Joe and his chances of keeping the White House, that the Obamas are panicking. President Trump is poised to recapture the White House. The world is in a panic. The opening dialogue in Davos, where the World Economic Forum is in a panic as well, is that they need to release the lab-created “Disease X” so that they won’t have to face prosecution from another Trump administration that must pay them back for what they did to the world with Covid. Would they rather kill off the world to save their Gaia “earth” from the parasitic humans on it? You bet they would. In a heartbeat, many of them are legitimately crazy and should be nowhere near public policy. More on that one later because that is a concern all its own. These dangerous forces have been unleashed because we have been too kind to them, and that was certainly the case with Barack and Michelle Obama because we wanted to prove that we weren’t what they called us, racist slaveholders when it was the Republican Party that ended slavery, and we fought a war over it. People with shallow understandings of history thought they had to accept the terrorism of the Obama terrorists to prove they could get into leadership positions with people of color when the intention all along was to use racism as a Trojan Horse to destroy the concept of domestic America so that globalism could take over as the ruling force. But the polling shows that Trump will be president and that Biden has no chance of winning. So, all the panic-driven rants are starting to take shape with just a few months to go before the next election. That will be a lot harder for them to cheat so as to hold power the way they have in the past.

Michelle Obama has been testing the waters to indicate that she might get involved in the election by offering herself up as a candidate because it is obvious that Joe Biden is not up for the job, and Democrats are praying that either she or Gavin Newsom gets in the pool to save them from the inevitable. Democrats and globalists must pay for what they have done to us over the last several decades. They created Trump, and they are going to have to suffer for what they knowingly did, which, in many cases, is far worse than mass murder. I would love to see Michelle Obama run against Trump because, in many ways, it would be a proper payback. After all he’s been through, Michelle Obama is not going to save the Democrat Party from the revenge that America must issue toward its enemies. Trump would be able to destroy the Obama brand once and for all; honestly, that’s what we need to see happen. It would be suitable for Americans to watch that slaughter publically through the election process. I would even say such an event would be the hand of God working retribution against those of ill intent. So I would like nothing more than just beating the election fraud president, Joe Biden, one of the most corrupt people on the face of planet Earth, but the destruction completely of his puppeteer, Barack Obama, and his goon island wife, Michelle Obama. There aren’t harsh enough words in the English language to describe my hatred of those communist terrorists.

Obama’s presidency spied on Trump as a candidate, and these people have done everything except pull the trigger of a gun to kill the MAGA president, and if they could, I have no doubt they would have by now. The best thing about Trump is that as a former president, he has some of the best security in the world, and these are not the days of Kennedy when the CIA could kill a president and lie to the public so quickly. Such an act these days would set off a civil war of armed conflict that would make the one where Republicans eliminated slavery from the Democrat slaveholders in 1864 look like child’s play. The World Economic Forum, the Chinese antagonizers, and every Marxist on planet Earth that has been plotting the death and destruction of Americans know what the stakes are, and we are there. We either have an election where they lose all their power, or we have a bloody civil war with a nation that has more guns than people. That’s why the most guilty are planning the release of Disease X in Davos. They are making the vaccine for it now so that they will live through the release. Hey, don’t take my word for it; listen to their meetings, they are openly talking about it, and if you read the Robert F. Kennedy book on The Wuhan Cover-up, you will know that I’m being nice about what they intend to do to avoid the revenge that is coming their way. Michelle Obama isn’t going to get herself dirty; she and her terrorist husband are getting in line to get that vaccine so they can survive the next virus release, this one much more deadly than Covid, so they never get that day in court, or that embarrassment of losing power after the 2024 election. They are living a good life, and they aren’t going to stop, even if they, and all their criminal counterparts, have to hit the destruct button to keep the mobs from their front door. Because, at the very least, that is what the future looks like for them due to all they have done to deserve it. Go ahead, Michelle Obama, make my day. Watching the destruction of the Obama brand would be very gratifying.

She is an anti-American terrorist who hasn’t yet been able to destroy her target. And she is unhappy about it.

 

Rich Hoffman

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Drawing a Line in the Sand: Shut down the Government, Shut down the Border, and force one-day voting, verified with an ID and a paper ballot

Just a note to Mike Johnson and the other Republicans who are getting caught playing in the Democrat game in Congress that was created by radical, unionized labor attached to all these ridiculous government unions. The name of the game is not to keep a majority in Congress. I’m sure the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, thinks that his job is to win a more significant majority in Congress while he is Speaker and that he doesn’t have much latitude to negotiate with the opposition regarding budgets because if just a few more Republicans retire, then he will lose his Speaker role and the House will go back to the Democrats. Then he won’t have any power to play this game. So, from his perspective, I can understand why he would think he has to play nice with everyone on a Continued Resolution regarding the federal budget and how to play that game in 2024. I am happy that my congressman, Warren Davidson, and fellow Ohio House member Jim Jordon have not been happy that Johnson is playing nice with the Democrats and RINOs regarding the budget. These are not the times for timid souls, and with our national debt heading to 35 trillion dollars within a few more months, this is not a time to spend more money. Republicans must stop the bleeding and at least get the budget back to under pre-COVID numbers (I would say pre-1990 numbers), and everyone has to admit to what’s going on. There are hostile forces in the world who are taking advantage of the United States and intend to spend us into oblivion like a bunch of reckless teenagers who suddenly have their parent’s credit card; only they never plan to pay back the money. They intend to collapse America financially, and that would be the type of people designing the Davos meeting next week, where the first topic is the Role America Plays in the World as if it were up to them to figure that out.

Republicans must admit that they don’t have a majority. They have some like-minded people who have a dozen or so RINOs who behave like Democrats. So until the Freedom Caucus types have a majority in Congress, there is no absolute majority. Mike Johnson is in that role without a majority, and if he plays along with the RINOs and Democrats, he will lose his brand forever and certainly won’t be any good to anybody in the future. So what he should do, as well as the other Republicans who are fiscally conservative, is to draw a line in the sand on the budget. Shut down the government or shut down the border. And leave it all right there. Nobody will care if it causes the Republicans to lose the majority in 2024. They will care if Mike Johnson continues to play softball with the Democrats for fear that he will lose his Speakership with that very slim majority. If Kevin McCarthy cared about the Republican Party, he wouldn’t have retired, making that majority even narrower. You can never let the enemy determine the ground for battle. You always have to exploit the weaknesses of your enemy, which is what the Democrats are doing to Republicans: their fear of losing a majority, rather than turning the tables on the Democrats, which is to exploit their reckless spending at a time when we technically have been in a depression economically for a few years now, only propped up by phony media numbers to attempt to make Joe Biden look better. However, all economic indicators show the truth, and Democrats need to pay for that truth by not letting them hide behind Republicans through this little game of budget talks.

Nobody is going to care if the government is shut down. Instead, Republicans would likely pick up more of a majority in 2024 and beyond if they stood for something and fought back.  I know many of these politicians aren’t used to hardball negotiations; for many of them, their government work is kind of a pre-retirement job or a way to work their legal profession without hustling for customers.  Government work is safe, stable employment that pays pretty well.  So they do the government work instead of working in the dog-eat-dog world of the private sector.  So, we are not talking about the best people in society doing these government jobs, such as representing us in Congress or the Senate.  But when you are talking about the kind of money that countries can steal from its people through taxation and how that money is then spent, especially on government unions where the wages are way too high for the minimal amount of work that we get from those positions, most of these nice guys, like Mike Johnson don’t have a chance in negotiations.  They don’t know how to play hardball, so they are easily suckered when the pressure is applied, and that’s how the Democrats like it.  They like chaos and compromised people who operate with lots of guilt that they can exploit for their infinite needs as social parasites.  And there is no peaceful way to deal with them.  Republicans must learn to play hardball, and they should start now.  Don’t worry about maintaining the majority.  Just do what’s right, and the people will reward them, likely with much larger majorities and absolute power.  Not this sissy stuff they have now.  Don’t play their game. 

This is another reason why it is essential to talk about the massive election fraud we have had in the past and why all Republicans need to get back to paper ballots and one day of voting.  All those dumb ideas of multiple get-out-the-vote campaigns have only invited election fraud.  There is one day of voting on a paper ballot, and you must prove that you are an American citizen with an ID to vote—end of story.  Shut down the border.  Shut down the government.  Return to paper ballots and one day of voting with a verified ID.  And Republicans would find that they would have a much more substantial majority than now, and they’d have the ability to have absolute power over the finances.  This little majority they have now doesn’t do anything for anybody.  Don’t be afraid to lose it.  Let the Democrats choke on it now while it still matters.  Don’t put your names on any continued resolutions for more debt.  Cut off all the parasites who have embedded themselves in our budgets and exploit them for what they are.  But don’t get caught in this silly keep-away game that the media uses to determine wins and losses.  To maintain the slim majority in Congress, Mike Johnson has to work with the people trying to destroy it.  Be ready to give up that Speaker role and toss it back to Democrats so people can see what they are.  Put your energy into preventing election fraud and getting rid of those losers.  Instead of playing the losers’ game and continuing to waste money on a big government none of us need.  Shut the government down and make it so that Democrats are the ones responsible for closing Yellowstone and the Smoky Mountains.  The government shouldn’t control those recreational areas anyway.   Play hardball and play to destroy the opposition.  Put them on stage so people can see what they are.  And don’t feel you must get along with them. Instead, kill them politically for the enemies of America that they are, and don’t feel you have to hold hands with evil to hold a majority in Congress that isn’t real.

Rich Hoffman

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Why The Bad Guys Want to Destroy America: Because they want to hide their massive crimes by getting rid of those who will prosecute them

It’s time to admit to ourselves that America, as we have thought of it, has been lost for a long time. We have always thought of it as something that would always be there for us, an immovable monument of truth, justice, and a way of life that the rest of the world envied for a good reason. We have been played for suckers by people who obviously don’t respect us for designs of evil perpetuated by extremely corrupt people, and we have been born and raised to think it is our obligation to always turn the other cheek and forgive those intentions. When Trump says that if he is not re-elected that he thinks America will plunge into a great depression, one that will make the one from the 1930s look easy by comparison. I would argue that we are already in a depression, everything costs over 30% more and our dollar is about to be wiped away on the world stage. Additionally, they have been lying to us about the recession and depression numbers as it has all been propped up with the same kind of phony money that BlackRock has used from the Federal Reserve to prop up investments that were never made to represent real commercial interest, but only the tampering of a corrupt government intent to print money and buy their way into continued power and a media that will whore themselves to any Democrat position to facilitate the destruction of America so that a new world government can rise in the aftermath. Yes, the moment that people no longer believe in our elections and that they can get Trump back into the White House, all the air would come out of the balloon and anything left of consumer confidence would dissipate into vapor. It’s not an inflationary statement to say such a thing, as it is true today. We just haven’t admitted it to ourselves yet because we have been holding out hope.

I watched the Trump speech in Iowa carefully, the very long one he did in Newton. I was thinking about a couple of things as I watched it, the first was one of Trump’s books, The Art of the Comeback which is a roadmap of what he intends to do when he gets back into office. He’s been way over the cliff before, so he knows how to handle the pressure and there is a plan to get out of it. When he says that we can wipe out our 34 trillion dollars in debt, he’s right. We can solve all our problems, and we can do it pretty easily with the right kind of guy in the White House. And I would argue that America needed to arrive where they are now to get behind a president who needs to do what he needs to do. We can do this, but it will take an overwhelming election and the kind of mind that is specifically like Trump’s to pull it off. Because the other thing I was reading was the monstrosity of a letter that Dr. Fauci was behind that convinced the White House to pull off the ridiculous plan by Richard Hatchett. The paper Hatchett wrote that caused the lockdowns and promoted the China strategy, not for health reasons but to crush the concept of the Bill of Rights. It’s on pg. 382 of The Wuhan Cover-up by RFK. Then on pg. 386, he makes his recommendation to the Chinese, “There is a literature which I would certainly encourage the Chinese authorities to review.” Which was his direct attack on the Bill of Rights from a 2007 study and a 2006 Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan, which he wrote. Once the Chinese bit on the plan they then turned it toward the White House and put it into Trump’s lap, knowing it was an election year and he would have to listen to them.

I have always said that Covid was an attack by the World Economic Forum that controlled policy in China to use them as a military weapon against America for its complete destruction. I have always said that the World Economic Forum through centralized banking has been an acting hostile nation working against America as a sovereign nation and that they intended to use the Covid bioweapon which is what it was, as coordinated by Peter Daszak from the CIA controlled asset EcoHealth Alliance, Ralph Baric who was Dr. Fauci’s premier gain-of-function researcher out of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill who purposely, and audaciously utilized ligation technology to hide the human tampering which made Covid more transmissible to humans from its normalized state, to make it a bioweapon. And of course, there is Dr. Fauci, Bill Gates, all of China, Klaus Schwab, Tedros Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, there is a whole list of characters who committed treason against the United States in a very deliberate way and they thought they could get away with it because of Baric’s fingerprint removal process in the manipulated viruses. Only, researchers from Duke University and the University Clinics of Wurzburg found a way to see these invisible identifiers and they have been able to trace back that manipulation into SARS-CoV-2 which was proof that Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates was counting on never getting out to the public. Or a former president like Trump learning what was done to him and his administration that caused 16 trillion dollars in losses in America alone and destroyed over a million small businesses. Who is going to pay for all that? Not to mention the many lives that were lost in the many millions and millions as a direct result of this scandal. Then as if that weren’t enough, all these same characters pouring straight out of the World Economic Forum were involved in the greatest election fraud the world has ever seen in the 2020 election.

This has been an attack on our culture to hide massive crimes behind their ridiculousness

All these bad guys thought we would never see what they did, but they had no choice.  They were so in trouble over Covid that they had to put a puppet president in office to control the future investigations into their massive crimes committed with Covid, the release of a bioweapon created by Americans, connected to the strategic intentions of the World Economic Forum, pawned to the low regulatory environment of China so that they could use their communist cover to keep it all a secret and to use that leverage to unleash a long hatched plan conceived by Richard Hatchett to destroy the concept of a Bill of Rights in all Western Cultures.  Trump now knows all this, but he certainly didn’t in January of 2020.  But Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates knew what they were doing and they did it purposely, and maliciously, and now we have all paid dearly for it.  So yes, there needs to be a revenge tour, and Trump is just the kind of person we need for it.  But before we can ever make America Great Again, and pay off the massive depts committed by these horrendous thieves and criminals who deserve to be put on trial and convicted for mass crimes against humanity.  Remember, we know they tampered with that virus and can prove it.  But so far, people have not had the guts to admit to themselves what happened, we must put things in perspective.  And before we can fix it, people must get their minds wrapped around it, starting with Trump’s re-election.  And what then must come next has to be proportional payment for the massive crimes that have been committed against us with the intent to destroy us utterly, and completely.

Rich Hoffman

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I Support George Lang Emphatically for Senate in the 4th District of Ohio: Staying strong under intense fire in 2024

With George Lang’s term as an Ohio senator coming up this year, he’s up for re-election in 2024, I happily endorse him for another term.  George Lang has done a great job in the 4th District of Ohio, and I wish every politician were like him.  If they were, we’d be a lot better off as a country.  Yet, many people, especially my readers, have developed a healthy distrust of politicians of all kinds, and I know many wonder why I like George Lang so much, even though he is considered a mainstream politician.  After all, Candace Keller had filed to run against George, which she had done before when it was for a representative seat, and the campaign took a turn for the worse in the mudslinging.  I personally like Candice, her husband, and her family.  I tend to get along best in the world with people like her.  On most things, our politics are very much aligned.  But because she has filed and intends to run against George, I must talk about a few things as to why I am such a supporter of the very powerful senator for the 4th District and explain why he’s not a RINO as is so common a designation for a mainstream politician.  While I am certainly no fan of RINOs, I must set the record straight going into this election year as to why I have always supported George, which sometimes mystifies people.  But from my perspective, it’s an easy decision, because George Lang is a very good person from the ground up and I have known that side of him for a very long time now, around 15 years.  And he’s very much the same person now that I have known all that time, which brings to mind three examples that would put some rationality behind the decision-making process.

Yes, George Lang associates with compelling people and has for many years; John Boehner comes to mind as he was marching toward the Speaker of the House role in Congress.  Along the way, George and I formed a friendship as fellow Tea Party members who were very upset by the direction Barack Obama was taking our country, which goes all the way back to 2009.  Well, all this was before President Trump came along, but in 2012, I had a significant negative news story designed to push everyone away from me.  I was okay with it, but there were a lot of Judas types who were perfectly willing to kiss my cheek in public to be thrown to the wolves, to say it nicely.  We had an event in the back room of a local LaRosa’s restaurant to rally support for me in the wake of intense fire.  Guess who stood with me under the fierce fire in public.  There is a picture of us all at this event, but guess who took the picture?  George Lang came, probably on the same afternoon he was having lunch with John Boehner, Speaker of the House at the time.  My name was all over the media, on all the primary sources so he had a lot to lose.  But he came anyway and was even willing to be in the picture.  It was my suggestion that he take the picture and that we keep him out of it.  So we took the picture, and I learned a lot about George Lang that day, which has lasted for over a decade.  He’s the real deal and he will stand with you under intense fire.  He had much to lose being associated with me, especially by the donors.  But as I have seen many more times than once, George is strongly inclined to do the right things, especially under great fire.

I can also say that I have seen George work with Governor DeWine with the door closed and the pressure very hot.  My thoughts on any management, especially politics, is that you get much more done with the door shut than with dueling press conferences.  And George has been highly influential in these kinds of meetings. A lot goes on in the senate in Columbus, Ohio, that has George Lang’s name all over it, but he never seeks the credit.  And I’ve witnessed it several times personally with Governor DeWine, where just a few people were in the room, and George had to make his point.  These are no powder puff conversations; George is stern when he needs to be and knows what to say and when.  And as professionals should be, George and the Governor were able to shake hands and get things done at the end of the conversation.  I would point to the recent flip-flop by DeWine on the transgender surgery ban for kids as one such example.  DeWine does listen to people when he steps in it.  And George has been one who can shut the door and talk to him without compromising who he is politically.  This is a skill that many people never develop in their lives.  It comes easily to George.  Many people in his position get washed away by the giant waves when you spend time with some of these prominent personalities; it’s easy to happen.  But George can play at a very high level and never lose himself in becoming a RINO.

George has such an excellent personal foundation and can do the things I am talking about because he sincerely loves his wife.  I have known that side of them, and I can say that one of the reasons George and I have maintained a friendship all this time is because he has a great relationship with his wife, which I respect.  I don’t know many people who love their wives and kids like George Lang.  And it has been my observation that this is the key to George’s success.  When you can love a spouse the way George does of his wife Debbie and your kids the way he does, then you can love your country, your political party, your Constitution, your commitment to business, everything with that strong foundation.  And that’s ultimately why I like George so much.  I know a lot of politicians, but I don’t know of many who have such strong foundations as George Lang does.  If you can love a wife the way he does her, and she does him, then you are doing something fundamentally right at the start.  And that can then translate into many good things you do in life.  So, when it comes to other politicians, it may not be their fault that they aren’t as skilled as George Lang is.  And people frustrated that they don’t have those skills might assume that he possesses some voodoo magic in his associations with the very powerful.  But I know him very personally and know that his secret sauce is the love of his family, which allows him to play big ball without losing himself along the way.  Because at the end of the day, no matter what happens, he has his family, which is really all George wants in life.  And that makes him very good as a senator and someone we are lucky to have in the 4th District in Ohio.  I wish we could have him forever, but for now, at least one more term.

Rich Hoffman

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China’s War with America and the West: An economy of deception meant to completely destroy us

I must point to several articles I did on Unrestricted Warfare, as indicated by China several years ago, for the present context to be understood. But for all those peace lovers out there who think there is some concession that can be utilized in the world to have good relations with China, you are all smoking crack. China has been at war with America for years, and our politicians have been too stupid and compromised to do anything about it. But this is a different kind of war, one that attacks explicitly our weaknesses, with the same intent of social destruction, but to exploit our love for attention, security, and peace. And the most dangerous characters in a war like that are not the Chinese nationals who might work at your local Chinese food restaurant making you sweet and sour pork. It’s your neighbor who slept with a Chinese honeypot disguised as a political intern who turns out to be a Chinese spy. Or the businessman looking for a World Economic Forum invite to the next event in Davos because they planned their business expansion around the communist Chinese economy. Or even the local newspaper, which is owned by a big conglomerate that has been looking at the market opportunities in a country that has over 1 billion people in it, who all are like slaves to overly imposing parents. The best war and the most effective tactics are to fight your enemy in ways that are so deceptive that your targets don’t even know they are at war. To say we have all been gullible is a vast understatement. The war that China has waged on us has taken advantage of the greed of weak people and turned them against our nation for the purposeful destruction of it. And we’ve let it happen primarily unchecked.

You can look at the massive amount of drug use that is going on, which is purposely embraced by our political culture these days because they are all compromised in some way by the hidden war of globalism that has put China at the head of the table for all kinds of tactical reasons. These are not the days of Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign, where drug use was understood to be dangerous to society. In the war of today, that is the point. Poison people in a trade-off for quick and easy feel goods, and watch your enemy destroy themselves with attrition. You don’t even have to fire a shot. And with the open borders that we have, there is little to no restriction of that poison coming into America, primarily from the weaponized drug cartels that are flooding our streets with deadly poison meant to kill us. In almost every cultural category, you will see the aggressive influence of China penetrating that field, buying up our assets so that they can manage the decline. I’ve pointed out that you can see this influence most in Hollywood, especially Legendary Studios, where China became the owner of that traditional Warner Bros. branch to make communist propaganda movies, and people have noticed. They’ve stopped supporting the Hollywood product, but one way or the other, China was going to either destroy Hollywood or the consumers of the product, hopefully both. They have conducted a purposeful campaign of destruction to kill outright everything resembling Western culture, and they are purposefully deceitful in their actions. But when China tells Biden that they are going to attack Taiwan right to his face, you can bet that they will. They had planned to all along. And Biden has no choice but to let him because if not for China, Biden would not be in office, and his family would likely be in jail prosecuted for their many crimes against our nation.

To comprehend their viciousness, all anybody has to do is look at the medical trade journals, such as what we saw with the Lancet during COVID-19. There has been a lot of talk about Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci using trade journals to manipulate the public away from COVID treatments and toward their vaccine development, which was meant to gain control of society in general with centralized regulation. The vaccine push as we know it now in 2024 was to convince people that they would need the government vaccine to stay alive if they wanted to live. China, in partnership with deceitful traitors in the American government who leaned left and wanted communist China-style politics, built Covid as a bioweapon. They maliciously manipulated COVID through gain of function to become transmissible to humans, which was the whole debate between Dr. Fauci and Senator Rand Paul, so that their deadly virus could spread to humans and bring the entire world under the foot of a communist government led by China. All this and much more is chronicled in the excellent book by Robert F. Kennedy, The Wuhan Cover-up. We’re not talking about a conspiracy theory book here; we’re talking about a severe presentation of a legal prosecution against American traitors, by the thousands, who have been working to bring us all under the submission of the Chinese military intentions. And they have been using their wealth, given to them by money managers like BlackRock, to conduct a war of destruction against every living American through their manipulation of our colleges, finance institutions, and particularly trade journals like the Lancet, which allowed Gates and Fauci to use advertising dollars to trade reputation for military effectiveness so that Covid would do maximum destruction as a bioweapon, and prevent society from learning they could have taken hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin to stop it.

When it was observed that every news organization and trade journal followed the “established norms” of the Lancet during the Covid crisis, you can see China’s massive influence in owning so much of corporate America.  Employees at those organizations needing a paycheck quickly fell under complete compliance and would determine that the truth could be shaped to be anything that China wanted it to be.  And when anybody said “trust the science,” what we were seeing was China exploiting our messaging with their propaganda to destroy our society essentially, and they didn’t care if people died along the way.  This is not a war that most people are prepared to deal with.  But it’s the kind of war that China, which is still a backwater economy only propped up by globalist investors with leftist ideology fantasies of a centralized authority utopia, wants to fight.  It’s the only war they are prepared to fight, and they have now been conducting it for a long time by targeting weak people of power in America and buying them off with easy money and sexual compromise, and they have been doing it by the millions.  The worst troops in this war are not the troops marching in the square in Beijing.  They are your neighbors with a full bank account and a retirement pension built off confiscated wealth from Chinese money.  And the intent is ruthless and deadly.  And we saw just a hint of their intentions with Covid and their network that is well at work in America for our ultimate destruction.  Compromised assets like Joe Biden will do anything they say because, as the Biden laptop has shown, the Biden family is a compromised asset.  That’s how China does it: they buy up senators and members of Congress with a tradeoff, such as sexual favors or money that comes easily to those willing to steal to get it, and in trade for those fun and nice things, lowlifes like Biden will become their loyal servants.  And we’ve seen the result, which is purposeful and intentionally destructive at every level.  Their intent for our destruction is even worse than you can imagine, and then some by using an economy of deception conducted by research whores to destroy us from within, without firing a shot.

Rich Hoffman

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“Your Mom is a Whore”: How government grows and why people let it

One thing we don’t talk about enough, and we should, is the cause of big government in the first place.  It’s one thing to point it out, and to complain about, and to blame some secondary condition, such as the evils of the World Economic Forum or the secrecy and malice of the CIA.  But in truth, I would say the number one reason that Bill Cooper was killed on his front porch by a couple of Arizona law enforcement had more to do with one of the most intelligent statements I have ever read in a book, which William Cooper accurately put his finger on as the root cause of all conspiracy theory, and the evils that follow.  In his book Behold a Pale Horse, Cooper pointed out what caused most of the problems in the world, which was devastating to all the people and groups out there who want those problems to continue so that they will have power over people in general, especially from government expansion and the abuse that comes with it.  And it wasn’t the talk about UFOs enslaving civilization, which is undoubtedly in that book, or the secrecy of power groups who operate in the shadows with a tax-eating shadow government.  Those are all true things, but not the reason I think they killed Bill Cooper. Instead, what he said about the natural psychological state of children and their parents that was the secret sauce that resides behind all government power.  And it is the biggest challenge to creating a country like America.  And that the way to destroy America was to exploit this weakness.  To strengthen it would be to help people with this essential problem of self-fulfillment and reliance on individual behavior instead of social collectivism.  Bill Cooper’s analysis in that famous conspiracy theory book is one of the most intelligent and powerful statements ever put on paper regarding mass society. 

The essential problem is this, and it’s a specific human issue in that people spend 18 years learning things, and most adults don’t live stable lives raising children over those 18 years.  They may do well at raising kids initially when all the rules are straightforward, and children depend entirely on their parents to function.  This is as opposed to other animals, such as young deer, that can stand up and run around just minutes after birth.  Humans have vast, complicated intellects not designed to be the drivers of mere animal behavior, basic sustenance, the acquisition of food, procreation, and shelter during heavy rains.  Humans take time to make, not their biological bodies but their minds.  At any point during those 18 years, even though their bodies may be ready to reproduce at 12 to 13 years old, their needs for thoughtful expression and social function continue into their 20s.  It takes a long time to build a human being, and then they don’t last very long after all that emotional investment; they are usually dead by age 70 to 80, with all that effort lost to time and what insecurities that bring to the effort of such an endeavor.  Many adults look at life and say, “Why try so hard if it’s all going to be over so fast.”  So they don’t do their jobs in instructing the youth, and the youth end up carrying on that trait to their children, then their children, and more children perpetually for infinity, leaving the world in the mess we have been talking about throughout human history.  Almost nobody gets this process right, which is the root cause of most trouble in the universe.  Suppose we were talking to aliens from the other side of the galaxy living in a type 1 or 2 civilization. They likely would have the same frustrations that they have been unable to overcome in their highly advanced technical society. 

We have tried to compensate for this problem in various ways, but none have worked, especially on the education frontier.  The social answer to this problem is to have the state educate society for its perpetuation of power as a collective entity of its own, viewing the people of society in much the way individual people might look at the cells of their body, as communal heaps of life that work together for the function of a living being.  The government was created to fulfill these needs and insecurities and thinks of itself as an individual, as “the state.”  And it expects people to fall in line to the service and maintenance of it as an organism in the plots of life as we know it, everywhere in the universe.  And as much as people talk about personal freedom and self-expression under Constitutional law, most people never develop individually to live that kind of life because they grew up with unhealthy relationships with their parents.  They often do not get the type of security and reliability of thought that humans require from their insecure parents, so that trait of confidence is never passed on to the children.  And they grow up to perpetuate the mistakes of their parents, who essentially got where they did in life through the same flawed method. 

Often, kids get loving parents who confuse their role in providing security with being afraid of everything that threatens it.  Then, by the time those children become teenagers, their puberty hard-wired behavior becomes their escape velocity only to become independent of their parents to learn life is hard, and they fall flat on their faces only to run back to the arms of a parental figure that can help them.  Since they can’t run back to their parents for that security, often, they create a big government and its various tyrannies to duplicate that infantile parental experience to give them a barrier to the dangers of life.  And those who want to be perpetual parents, always telling people what to do to mask the fact that they don’t know much themselves, use government to continue this dysfunctional relationship to keep the solution off the table.  We have identified the problem in works of philosophy, such as the founding documents of America clearly express.  But often, the people’s minds are not prepared for the responsibility of self-government because of all this sabotage of the parental role that produces such dependent children perpetually in need of parental roles that the government seeks to grow and expand for their own survival.  By weakening children’s minds, the defective parent can disguise love for the menace of keeping those children dependent on their parental fulfillment, realizing that the children never grow up and move away or that the children might surpass them in some way or another.  This vital part of the human relationship between parents and children sets up all the world’s tyrannies.  While parents might grow old and die away, freeing the children of their bonds to the traditional terror of low-intellect relationships, the government only changes the roles of the parental players.  The personalities might come and go, but the entity itself only continues to grow from one generation to the next, worsening until it either collapses or forces rebellion against its tyrannies from the minds who learn better what should be and refuse to accept what is, which is where we find ourselves on this razor thin precipice with the future gazing at us as a challenge.  How we handle that challenge is the cause of some of the most ostentatious fear that permeates the universe, which is conducting itself into a grand fortissimo in this current time in a fascinating way to watch.  What made Bill Cooper such a threat to the order of things was that with him essentially pointing out to his readers that their “mom was a whore,” he was undercutting the desire that mother government had to continue a relationship that benefited her at the expense of all the children.  Which couldn’t stand, so she plotted to get rid of him so that her children would never learn what she was doing to them with dependency disguised as safety.  And at the center of it all is the cause of most problems in the world.

Rich Hoffman

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‘Magnum Force’ is the Best Movie to Understand in 2024: No, you aren’t crazy, it was the world that went in that direction

It wasn’t always how it is now; there used to be good movies, and they were far from woke.  And it surprised me when Steve Bannon brought up one of my favorite movies on his podcast, the Warroom, at the end of the year in 2023 because I don’t hear many people who even know what it is.  But it reminded me of several things, one of which is the answer to all the woke options out there.  Going into 2024, the best movie ever made that deals specifically with the 2024 election is Magnum Force, with Clint Eastwood from the five-movie Dirty Harry series.  It is a unique plot that deals with police corruption, crime and punishment, and doing the right thing while society is trying to drag you into doing all the bad stuff.  It also reminded me of how I raised my children; every year on New Year’s Eve to bring in the new year, we would watch the Dirty Harry marathon, where we watched three of the movies on New Year’s Eve, then two more on New Year’s Day.  But among them all, my favorite of the five, was Magnum Force, and still is.  So it certainly got my attention when Steve Bannon recommended the movie on the Warroom.  Magnum Force is about that fine line between right and wrong and features a group of cops who go rogue to eradicate the bad guys, which has evolved into real life dramatically in the current FBI, CIA, and other intelligence agencies as discussed through the Trump administration’s exposure of their various antics.  It’s much worse in real life than in 1974 San Francisco when the movie occurred.  But the problems are the same and people can watch those movies and see how things have gone wrong today because those movies were warnings all those years ago of what was coming. 

When people ask me, which happens every week, why I’m not in the movie business, the answer is that I wanted to make movies like Magnum Force, and Hollywood isn’t built to accommodate those movies anymore.  I think it’s great that there was a period when movies like Dirty Harry movies were made, and they certainly provide a quick check that we are not all crazy compared to how things are now.  I used to show the film to my kids and their boyfriends, then spouses, every year, not just for entertainment but to show them how values have evolved and that America was once a place that made movies like Magnum Force to express ideas through entertainment that were valuable to the audience.  When we look at what San Francisco has become, the warning signs were always right there, and they were apparent to me when the world was still good and made sense.  I was showing my kids these movies to close out a year and usher in the new one to teach them values, which looks to have worked.  They are emotionally solid people even now, even the tag-alongs who emerged from those relationships.  They might have thought of me as old fashioned at the time, a dad showing them old Clint Eastwood movies that were much slower than the quick-cut movies of today filled with woke messaging.  But they watched them to appease me and to spend time with me.  And even now that they are in their 30s, it’s become a running joke in our family that they still remember and value. 

What’s so special about Magnum Force, directed by Ted Post and written by excellent writers, is that it deals with corruption and how it happens, either by the side of the criminals or the cops who are supposed to enforce the law to keep society together.  Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry character finds himself locked in a vice between those two forces, representing the very fine line that often presents itself in these cases that is more than realistic.  When I was growing up, I wanted nothing more than to make my movies using Magnum Force as an example.  But I was so frustrated with the business because it had changed so much that I moved to other things.  My brother lived in California for a while and has some producer credits, so we know what we are talking about when we say it; they don’t make movies like Magnum Force anymore for many reasons.  One big one is that movie writers are too busy getting lattes on the Santa Monica Pier rather than living life and letting that experience show in their art.  Most of these young people don’t even know how to shoot a gun because they have grown up in such a woke period.  They don’t have the experience to write a gritty crime drama like Magnum Force because they don’t understand the complexities of life, so how can they write about it?  But compared to what’s being made today, Hollywood is way off the mark.  But it wasn’t always that way.  If you want to see great movies, they used to make them.  You don’t have to put up with the crap they make now.  You can always watch the old films about real problems unfolding way ahead of their time. 

I did run into someone who knew about these old movies, even though it’s a mild influence.  But someone noticed that one of my carry guns is a Smith & Wesson .500 Magnum, the most powerful production handgun in the world.  It used to be the .44 Magnum by S&W back in the days of the Dirty Harry films, and I always found his reasoning for using such a large weapon for police work compelling.  I carry an S&W .500 Magnum with the extra long barrel, over 8 inches, because so many of the bad guys these days are wearing Call of Duty body armor they can get off Amazon, and they can get armor for their cars, so it makes sense.  You don’t want bullets bouncing off windows and off of people, even in populated areas where people could be hurt subsequently.  You have to hit what you aim at, which is a theme of the Dirty Harry movies in general, which are about so much more than movies made now are.  But for a sanity check, most of America used to think in the way that the Dirty Harry movies are represented, and I would argue that they still do.  Watching them now, they are much better than the garbage produced in Hollywood.  And I would say that you have options if you are looking for entertainment and a way to understand the themes and actions coming at us in 2024.  Watching Magnum Force will be far more valuable than the nightly news.  And you may learn something.  It had warnings that people scratched their heads at in the past, including John Wayne, who thought Clint Eastwood’s character was too cynical and not “pro-American” enough.  But as we have learned over the next 50 years, what the Dirty Harry movies were all about is what we see now.  And it can be scary unless you know how to walk that fine line, which is the point of the movies entirely.   

Rich Hoffman

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