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Why I Have Not Been Cancel Cultured and Never Will Be: The Great flaw that the World Economic Forum never figured out

To answer a question that has been coming up a lot, especially these days, why I have yet to be cancel cultured out of existence is a good one.  Because it points to a fatal flaw in the World Economic Forum’s strategy for global domination, the foundations of that flaw were evident during and after Covid, and it is grotesquely apparent in the aftermath from all those who were suckered into believing what the Great Reset was aiming for their ridiculous “New Normal.”  Communism wasn’t going to be it, and they went all in on centralized control of everyone through the bureaucracy of the administrative state, and that fatal flaw was that they didn’t truly understand productivity.  They assume that everyone in the world is just as worthless as they are, as mindless bureaucrats who will do anything for a job because they don’t believe in the value of that job.  They feel they are given something, and their constant fear is that someone will figure out eventually that they don’t deserve that job, and that constant fear of that discovery drives them to do great evils in the world.  You’d be surprised how many CEOs of massive companies who make a lot of money feel that the rug could be pulled out from under them at any moment and that they might be homeless in the street with one swipe from their superiors in the World Economic Forum.  Those losers have gained so much power by exploiting this real fear in people who should know better.  This brings up the very relevant question, why don’t I worry about that kind of thing, and how have I managed not to be cancel cultured out of existence after all these years?  And the answer to that question is a good one that I’d like to see everyone understand because it is how you get true freedom in the world. 

Part of the reason that my answer might sound cliché is that the perpetrators of the fear want everyone to feel like such resistance is impossible, so they’ve stigmatized the obvious in the effort of mass social control.  But it’s all an illusion, mainly if you utilize the answer.  I don’t worry about cancel culture because the skills I have, precisely my best skill, is something that nobody gave me, so they can’t take it away.  Yet it’s something that the world wants desperately, and it always will.  Nobody at the World Economic Forum could ever stop people from enjoying what I can give them.  And that skill is that I make people around me better; I can continually improve their lives dramatically because I can read and utilize the fine art of subtly.  Most of the time, a problem, whatever it is, a psychological problem, a mechanical one, political, a narrative, a scientific one, have their answers concealed behind the subtlety of existence.  And if you can unlock that at will, you will find that you have a skill that people are always willing to pay for.  And they’ll pay for it in whatever currency they can give you.  This is one of the reasons that global forces want to control the money supply, so they can maintain how people get paid.  But there are many currencies out there, and you might say I am independently wealthy.  Not necessarily by physical money, but other currencies that matter much more, the kind of stuff that the IRS was never designed to measure.  And in that answer is the keys to freedom, which I have created in my life that nobody could ever take away, no matter how powerful they think they may be. 

That’s why I produce so much written content on this blog site for people for free.  I share my skill of reading subtlety because I can afford to.  Ultimately, I desire to make people better than they otherwise would be because I explain the real answers hidden behind subtlety for them.  I don’t personally get a lot out of the exchange, but I do like to see people live better lives, despite the forces that are trying to enslave them to the efforts of a liberal Administrative State and their communist intentions residing behind the entire endeavor.  For all the reasons that A.I. will never replace my particular writing style, because artificial intelligence will never be able to replace my ability to read subtlety in the world, there is no shortage of people behind the scenes who want what I have to offer, which is why I practically give it away for free.  I like to see people free, so I tell them how to be so.  But on all other matters, success in life, good relationships, an understanding of God and the afterlife, the mysteries of finance, history, psychology, legal practice, arts and entertainment, political philosophy, whatever the topic, there is always a hidden ingredient in subtlety that is just waiting to be discovered, which I see quickly, and can explain to people.  And for that reason, no matter the social conditions, there is always a long line at my door looking for my particular skill, which improves countless lives and always will.  I could have explained to the World Economic Forum the error of their ways three decades ago if they had listened, but they instead built their entire strategy on a false premise of production from day one, and they hoped to hide those flaws from themselves in subtlety, which they perpetually fear will be discovered, and exploited.  But of course, it’s too late for that. 

And that’s why I have never been cancel cultured and won’t be.  My life is not dependent on some loser to bring value to it or to decide that they’ll give me a job for which I should be eternally grateful.  I do many good things for many people that would otherwise be ruined by the mysteries of subtlety, where some of the worst people hide, hoping not to be exploited for the frauds they are.  But they fear most being discovered for the menace they present to the world, which makes it easy to conquer them, which I explain to countless people each week.  And to such an extent that I can afford to give away some of that good stuff for free to whoever wants to utilize it for their improvement.  I learned this skill of subtlety actually from an old samurai warrior in Japan many decades ago; it’s one of the nine ways of the samurai.  To understand the nature of all things as subtlety connects them.  And for access to that skill, my phone never stops ringing, and my email box is loaded with several hundred thousand messages on any given day.  And that will never go away.  There is no legal mechanism or a financial one that can stop it.  And I rather enjoy that leverage over the perpetrators of evil in the world and will continue to shower in the tears of my enemies because they fear subtlety and are haunted by it day and night.  And I’m not one to brag but to answer the question.  Why haven’t I been cancel cultured?  Well, I make people around me better.  The more people I’m around, the more improved they all will be.  And that is a skill that is most valued in the world by the needs of the human race.  Despite those who want to control those people for all kinds of malicious reasons but do not understand the subtle needs that people have, for which they will never have control.

 

Rich Hoffman

The Law of Fallow Ground in America: Corporations and Communist Governments are not in charge and never will be

One of the reasons I enjoy my time around Fast Draw Shooters, as a sport, is that most of them have reverence for old westerns and the values of the gunfighter instilling justice against bad guys as typically defined by a social dedication to the Ten Commandments.  I was at an event in Cleveland this past weekend, and we had a friendly little discussion going on about the moral erosion that is obvious to everyone.  Now these events are fun because everyone is armed with guns, and we wear our gun belts all day, and nobody thinks anything of it. It is productive because it puts me in the right frame of mind to discuss these things.  And I reminded people that the world isn’t as different as it always has been.  I reminded them of my report from traveling around the world that most countries, including England and Japan, love American Westerns, especially old ones.  If you turn on the tv in those places, you will constantly find a lot of old American Westerns playing.  Hollywood changed along the lines of the BlackRock view of radicalism that has caused much of the modern trouble.  But people are still people, and they always will be.  And I told these old gunfighters what I’m about to say to you, dear reader.  Never forget the Law of Fallow Ground, which, if you are a farmer or know farmers, is the deliberate rotation or avoidance of planting crops into the soil to allow it to replenish its nourishment.  If you keep growing the same crops in the same parcel of land over and over again, the product that comes out of the ground becomes compromised and much less efficient. 

I told those old gunfighters that America was going through just such a period.  For many years we planted good things in the ground of capitalism, and the return to society was fantastic, and the world clamored to be a part of it.  Our old westerns were reflective of that culture.  People always did love them, and they always will.  The decision not to make those Westerns by a radicalized leftist culture of communist sympathizers run by financial tyrants is a kind of Law of Fallow Ground in the greater scheme of things.  This is a period in America where we are letting the soil rest.  For too long, Americans got used to everything coming out of America being good.  It will be again, of course, the yearnings of the Trump administration and his supporters represent that hunger.  But the world needed a break from what America produced because they didn’t appreciate it when they had it.  People are seeing how good those crops were and having conversations like the one I was having with those gunfighters, talking about how messed up the world is now, they are getting hungry for the good stuff.  They should have appreciated America when America was producing good crops.  They are not happy with this Fallow Ground period.  And when America is great again, maybe they won’t take things for granted as they have been.

I was getting a hamburger just north of Columbus, Ohio, at a Hardees, and I caught a conversation with a woman with the cashier complaining about how high the prices were for fast food these days, and she was shocked.  On the store sound system was a station playing 80s greatest hits because music isn’t very relatable these days, just like the westerns that used to be expected on television.  Occasionally something good comes out in entertainment, but most of it is garbage compared to how it used to be.  The people at that Hardees were far from political people, but they missed the excellent ol’ days when fast food was cheap, great music came out every week, and people had a generally optimistic view of things socially.  Human potential was celebrated, and American culture cultivated it in everything from hamburgers to pop music.  This was never more obvious than our plans for a Disney trip with the grandkids we had been planning for a while.  I have personally been very hard on Disney.  When I think of Disney programming, I think of Davy Crocket and the Zorro television show.  As a little secret that I don’t usually talk about, I was deeply inspired as a kid by the Zorro television show, and it’s no accident that my life as an adult reflects those values.  So despite all the woke garbage that Disney puts out now, I want them to see the amusement parks while they are still there.  Yes, I predict they will be gone in the not-so-distant future.  They will not survive this Fallow Ground period because they took people for granted.  People are moving on since Disney no longer represents those classic American values.  I have been shocked by how badly Disney has fallen on vacation planning.  Their brand damage is substantial and unrecoverable.   They haven’t planted anything new for a long time, and their crops are stunted, wilted, and not consumable.  So, they are dying.  Ten years ago, planning a Disney vacation was a much different experience.  They are almost begging people to visit now, which they never used to.  But in many ways, what is happening to Disney will happen to every American corporation.  This plot to collapse capitalism into a communist centrally planned society was destined to fail from the outset. 

Just because people see a barren landscape and that the Law of Fallow Ground was imposed on a culture by a hostile society, such as the levels of Marxism we now see injected into the American economy by radical leftists; the unfortunate answer is that we needed to let this happen so that we could restore greatness to the soil of our economy.  Giving the soil time to rest by allowing other things to grow, mostly garbage has been good because people will appreciate the good stuff when it returns.  And it will return.  Companies like Disney will likely be gone forever, as will many companies that have tried to take advantage of this Fallow Ground period and grow weeds in our gardens.  But once pulled and cleared, many companies won’t be there any longer.  But the values of our culture, shown in all those American Westerns which people worldwide appreciate so much, will return in whatever form they grow into.  And as I told those gunslingers, the values are still desired.  Because communist corporations have tried to plant weeds in our culture, people will tire quickly of their offerings and want a restoration of the good stuff.  So I don’t see all this depletion as permanent.  It’s a trait of the Law of Fallow Ground.  It’s a necessary period that people need to gain an appreciation for what America has produced in the past.  Once our culture makes those things again, people will appreciate it more because now they will have seen the option.  When Zorro was on television for the first time, produced by Disney, people expected a good society that understood why that show was essential and enjoyed.  Now they see the benefits and want more of it in the future.  The lesson is that corporations and communist governments are not in charge.  The market economy is the desires of people and values that most represent them.  And what we see today is just the Law of Fallow Ground, and the good crops from that ground will return. 

Rich Hoffman

Of Course, There Will Be Revenge: The Government crossed the line and justice must be utilized

What did they think was going to happen? Did they feel a criminal government of thugs would take over America as communists did in Russia, China, Cuba, and many other places without a fight?  Apparently, they aren’t brilliant in government, which was evident by the actions of Jack Smith and the Biden Department of Justice hit team.  Just because Trump said in a statement that if they came after him, he would go after them.  That’s a fair statement.  They won’t be able to hold power forever, especially illegally acquired power.  People still trust elections, and if elections don’t work, they will turn to something more brutal.  But accepting the dominance of some centralized government power isn’t part of the discussion.  It’s not going to happen.  And no, to answer many people’s daily questions, “Don’t you worry about being assassinated?”  No, I don’t worry about that kind of thing.  I see those types of events as opportunities for that kind of behavior to flow the other way.  Much the way Trump views it.  And that’s fair.  Intentions don’t equal results, and these loser leftists have many ideas about how the world should work.  But they cannot perform those intentions.  Their only success has been hiding their true strategies, which more people can now see for what they always were.  I’ve warned about them for many decades, and now people realize what I have been saying is more accurate than they wanted to believe.  But that’s OK.  I’m good; however, they all want to play in the sandbox.  But accepting tyranny and communism is not one of the outcomes.  And they should have done their homework and realized that before they went down this very dark path.  If they wanted a fight, which they do, they have one now. 

Of course, there is going to be revenge.  It can come from a second Trump term where the Democrats and their minions in the FBI take their long-deserved licks, or it will come in another form.  But punishment is coming, and it must.  Otherwise, there is no country.  There is no more significant threat to national security than the Democrat Party, filled with communists who want to take over America.  There is no threat in China from any world power that is more a threat to America than these insurgents in the American government who openly support communism.  Think of all the poor young people who have fought in wars in Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, and Afghanistan.  Any of them, wars where people have died and had their arms and legs blown off for some fight for freedom only to find out that the Biden administration represents a global insurrection toward communism that was planned all along, under the disguise of fighting for freedom.  Ukraine was finally the war that revealed the plan and the international money laundering operation it is.  Meanwhile, there are members of the House and Senate who are still cheerleading more war for all the same dumb reasons when everyone knows it’s not freedom we are fighting for.  It’s tyranny.  Then we peacefully elected President Trump to fix this government disconnect and see what they are doing to him now, using court cases to keep him from being on the campaign trail during the primary season starting on January 2nd, 2024.  That is a bit too obvious, but that’s what we are dealing with.  And they think they will get away with these massive abuses of power.  No way.  They have crossed the line with some truly nasty stuff. 

Hey, conservatives didn’t start it.  For way too long, we have been playing nice, getting pushed around by these losers in the Democrat party, getting suckered by the stupid Saul Alinsky book, apply mobster tactics to politics in genuinely destructive ways.  Communists have been backdooring our American government unchecked for many decades now, really over 100 years, and now it’s time to put a stop to it.  We weren’t the ones who started any of this.  But it is our task to finish it and to send a message to future generations.  When Mitch McConnell said that he didn’t think it was good for the country to impeach Biden, where was that sentiment when Congress was impeaching Trump twice?  But when it’s his partner in the Swamp from the senate, they’ve all taken money, much of it from the enemy itself, China.  It’s a kind of Senate club, so suddenly McConnell thinks it’s terrible to impeach a president because he would be exposed as a crook.  Many of them would be.  Likely, most of the Beltway culture is all in on the bad stuff, and they all have it coming.  They must be punished for their terrible actions, and they hope desperately to kick the can down the road just a bit longer.  They forget that the government is not in charge in America.  They are representatives.  They represent us.  They don’t rule over us.  And they certainly don’t get to come to our homes and assassinate people who disagree with them or arrest them in violation of the Bill of Rights.  No, no, no, the government is not in charge, and they aren’t going to be.  They have overplayed their hand, and Trump is the result.  And that is as good as it will ever get for them.

The essence of the ridiculous case against Trump on this latest Washington D.C. indictment involving January 6th, 2021, is that President Trump and everyone else has a legal obligation to accept what the government tells us about its election results and that we had a duty to get those results without question, or we run the risk of persecution.  The Marxist prosecutors intend for a liberal D.C. court to provide a caselaw as a continuation of the Alex Jones Sandy Hook case that went against the media personality last year, a clear violation of free speech.  And if it were to go against Trump, it would indeed be overturned in the Supreme Court.  But by then, the communists of the Biden administration hope to eradicate that court in the next rigged election of Joe Biden.  So these guys are playing for keeps, but our side has not matched their aggressiveness out of kindness.  But there certainly isn’t anything wrong with what Trump said about getting revenge.  Trump is the revenge candidate, and many Americans want it.  And if they can strike back against these corrupt government officials through a peaceful election, they certainly will.  But as I did say, after January 6th, I did not see what the rest of the world did, an insurrection.  To my eyes, the government got off lucky.  People were generally well-behaved.  What did they think people would do when a corrupt government stoked the fires of injustice?  And what do they think will happen in the future with continued abuse?  People have a right to be upset, and they are.  The miscalculation that people in America will fall into a docile state is another miscalculation by some dumb people who have mistaken kindness for complicity.  Revenge is on many American minds, and they will get it, one way or another.  The government needs to come clean if they want to sit at the table in the future.  It is a privilege for the government.  Not a divine right.  And understand the game, especially regarding the special counselor assigned to Hunter Biden.  They know they went too far and are looking for a slow walk to show fairness.  But they have no intention of doing anything about it.  They only intend to hide their activism through a mask of fairness because they know how angry people are. 

Rich Hoffman

The Joke Joe Biden Is: America’s enemies are laughing at us

What did anybody expect? I’ve been talking about the corruption of Joe Biden since he was vice president.  Even longer than that, the Democrats have run their party like a mob, and this Biden term is the culmination of all those years of taking advantage of good, regular people.  So nobody should be surprised by what we are learning about Joe Biden now.  His family has been getting rich off selling access to the many political offices he has held over the years.  And now, all the bad guys are cheering him on because every day he is in office is another day that the bar is lowered for future expectations.  And if you hate America, which most of the world does, because of the freedoms we expect to have, you love Joe Biden because he makes a fool of our country by holding an important position.  But the various news outlets seem perplexed with Joe Biden, with the level of corruption that is coming unraveled.  Well, news flash, Joe Biden is not the only one.  He is normal for members of the House and Senate.  Joe Biden has been doing what most of them do, revealed for years in Peter Schweizer’s books, such as one of his most recent, Red Handed.  In Biden’s case, as in Mitch McConnell’s, selling their offices has been easy money.  It has been a problem for a long time, and now people are learning what the rest of us have always known, and the difficulty is figuring out what to do about it.  Because there is so much to do something about.  When we talk about the government being filled with criminals, we aren’t making inflammatory statements but truthful ones rooted in a real challenge.

From the perspective of a criminal, Joe Biden is a perfect president because his very existence is undoing our society of law and order.  For the communists worldwide who want to see the American Constitution and Bill of Rights eradicated, which is undoubtedly an objective of the United Nations, Joe Biden makes a mockery of America in ways they have always fantasized about.  And what’s sad about it is that Biden was put in place with election fraud and an apparent exertion of power to show us that we were not in control of our elections or political system.  Biden was the biggest fool they could have given to us too, and they laugh about it each time Biden falls down the stairs and gets caught eating ice cream looking like some oblivious old man who can’t find his car.  Or he stumbles through a speech where nobody can hear him.  Their statement is essentially a dunce cap, “This is the leader of the free world?  Consider yourselves conquered.”  I knew in the 90s, and I used to write about it back then, that when Bill Clinton lowered the bar to what we expect from a president, a door was being opened for the destruction of America.  It started with “I didn’t inhale, and I did not have sex with that woman” to the Biden crime family openly selling the office of the presidency to China, which is a proven fact at this point, three years into his first term.  It was obvious where all this was headed, so it’s unsurprising.  Even though many of the Beltway types who want to think the gravy train will go on forever seem surprised.  All this was bound to happen once we let our guard down with Clinton. 

I always held it against Ronald Reagan that he frequently had raunchy jokes behind the scenes that I thought were inappropriate for anybody in the Executive Office, and he disappointed me.  So all this we are seeing now is unfathomable.  But the good news is that we don’t have leaders in America.  Just because Joe Biden was put into office doesn’t mean that all of America will follow him into oblivion.  And that is something the rest of the world hasn’t figured out about us.  We are not defined by “leaders” in America.  Just because Joe Biden is an apparent criminal sell-out, America doesn’t rally behind him, just as America hasn’t rallied behind the loser Women’s Soccer Team.  Americans like winners, and Joe Biden is not one.  So people are not supportive of Joe Biden.  In America, we like winners; they have to earn the right to represent us through merit.  That is the key to our culture; you must have respect in America.  You are not given consideration just because of a title.  So when hostile forces gave Joe Biden the presidency to America, he didn’t just win over 300 million people’s support.  That is how things work in China, Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, and other communist, socialist, and totalitarian countries worldwide.  But not in America.  People must earn the right to represent Americans.  We don’t have leaders, and if that leader is corrupted and made a fool of, Americans will quickly divorce themselves from that person.  Which then leaves them oddly displaced.  The general view of Washington D.C. is not supportive, and that’s how most Americans feel about their politicians.  But it doesn’t mean to them that their country is a disaster either.  Americans do not connect their success with the success of their politicians. 

That is good because the head of America is not so easily cut off.  But it also allows people like Biden and many other politicians to get away with massive crimes because people would rather not pay attention to their actions.  The political system in America is so little respected that people generally tune them out, which is precisely why we have the mess we do have.  The enemies of America are happy with this result. It prevents good management of the country’s resources because people aren’t paying attention.  So, the worse news about Joe Biden, the more Americans tune out politics and allow the criminals to loot openly off the system.  Even though America can live well without its political class, it still makes a condition where massive crimes can be committed because nobody wants to consider them.  In such a climate, it is no wonder we have criminals in many of these elected positions.  The mob doesn’t have to operate in the darkness anymore.  There is far more easy money and crime to enjoy in politics.  While most people are disgusted by the process, as they turn away from the management of their country, it leaves the eyes off the real crimes that occur with increasing frequency, climaxing with Joe Biden and his fellow government conspirators.  And because people aren’t paying close attention, it makes them vulnerable to the many lies told to the American people to keep them asleep.  The result is what we see in American politics, a joke of a system filled with a criminal class that has made us look bad on the world stage, much to the delight of our enemies.  And you better believe it; we have enemies, lots of them.  And Joe Biden is their kind of guy.  Then as long as we put up with these criminals in government, we are sure to get more of them and have the problems that we do, because they know that the public isn’t watching them. 

Rich Hoffman

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Larry Fink: The President of the World and power of the new country, BlackRock–as created by the Fed

Here’s the problem with the Federal Reserve, and it goes back to 1913, when after many attempts at centralized banking, the Fed was created to handle monetary policy.  And it hasn’t been an experiment that worked, it simply ushered in a communist approach to banking that was aligned with a progressive invasion of the United States at the turn of the last century, and essentially the policy of the Fed has been to cover up its many mistakes over that entire duration.  I am not so much of an anti-Fed guy.  I think a country needs to manage its money supply.  But letting the banks form a partnership with the government has been disastrous, and the ultimate form of that destruction was in the creation of Larry Fink, the most dangerous man in the world.  Larry Fink would be nobody if not for the Fed.  Jerome Powell, Janet Yellen, and Ben Bernanke used reckless quantitative easing to print endless amounts of money and pour it into Wall Street, where people like Fink would flow it into the economy.  And the net result of that scandalous activity has made BlackRock, the company Larry Fink manages that controls around a ten trillion dollars of assets, the most politically active company in the world, and Larry Fink is far more powerful than an American president, even to the point where this unregulated power can then control elections and policy that superseded the American constitution in dangerous ways.  By printing phony money and giving it to people like Fink to manage, the Fed gave the government power it never would have had otherwise, and now the results are out of control.  Most of the bad things we are seeing now in the political world are because of Larry Fink, his connection to the World Economic Forum, and a leftist radicalism that is being imposed on people that they would never vote for. 

People are starting to get it when these are the discussions on the Joe Rogan podcast, which discussed this topic recently.  People are now seeing how out of control this Larry Fink thing is.  Larry Fink, because of BlackRock and the way the Fed made it powerful with Modern Monetary Theory, and that it now manages the money in China, as the only money manager that can do so, is essentially the president of the world, ruling behind the scenes and imposing politics that is far removed from any representative form of government.  This was a hostile takeover using Larry Fink as the figurehead to do what people like Napolean, or Genghis Kahn, the legendary figure in history, known for his conquests and his role in founding the Mongol Empire. He was a skilled warrior and a brilliant strategist, and his military campaigns changed the course of history. Despite his reputation as a ruthless conqueror, Genghis Kahn is still remembered as one of the most influential figures in world history. Alexander the Great similarly comes to mind.  Larry Fink is right there with the rest of them. Still, he was not a warrior; he was a person willing to carry the water of the shadow government running behind the Fed. This corporate alliance sought to take power in the world, and they made their move by propping up Larry to be that new world conqueror.    

And you conquer this new world by not taking over countries.  You ignore the politics of nations, take away the people’s will, and take control of where they work, how they spend their money, and on what.  Larry wanted to be in politics during college and just happened to be in a position to acquire wealth through Wall Street.  He only had success once he was willing to partner with the Fed after the housing collapse of 2008.  But what risk was there really when the Fed was ready to print infinite amounts of wealth and pump it into Wall Street through Larry and his friends?  The writing is certainly on the wall with this one, much more dramatic than in Nebuchadnezzar’s time, the attackers planned the downfall of America, and the plan was to cover it all up before people realized it with Central Bank Digital Currency.  It was a different kind of war which Fink has been talking about in his letters to CEOs, such as the one in 2022, “In consultation with our stakeholders, BlackRock has also joined the global effort to isolate Russia from financial markets, the ramifications of this war are not limited to Eastern Europe, they are layered on top of a pandemic that has already had profound effects on political, economic, and social trends.  The impact will reverberate for decades to come in ways we can’t yet predict.”  Then ultimately, Fink finished up his address by saying, “As I wrote in my letter to CEOs earlier this year, (2022) access to capital markets is a privilege, not a right.  And following Russia’s invasion, we saw how the private sector quickly terminated long-standing business and investment relationships” to implement political objectives.  I’ve read all of Larry’s dumb letters to CEOs each year and always thought of him as a fool.  But he’s a very politically active fool who was given the power of money through fake monetary Fed policy to take global military power through the private sector to bypass the actions of war generally regulated to countries to play out. 

That is why Larry Fink, the very left-leaning political activist that nobody voted for, is directly connected to the radical Marxist activism of the World Economic Forum and was given the power by the Fed, which is also connected to the World Economic Forum, and strategies by China for global communism is the most dangerous person in the world.  He now manages most of our 401K plans and conquers us by capturing wealth, part of his leftist ideology, whether we like it or not.  And now that BlackRock is the majority shareholder of most American corporations, he has taken away the average shareholder values and converted them to ESG-driven stakeholder values.  And at some point, people will be furious at Larry Fink and the Fed.  But they hope that before people figure out what they have been doing, America will be on a digital dollar, and they can hide their scam behind the push of a button where a centralized authority will control all value for all money.  So while the world looks at the conflict in Ukraine, the potential conflict in Taiwan by China, or the latest missile flight in North Korea, the real fight has been by BlackRock, led by Larry Fink, to take over the world’s supply of money, and to place it in the hands of the real threat in the world, the World Economic Forum.  And because we are all a little complicit in the action because of our money management, we tend not to look at it in favor of a more classic interpretation of war.  But those wars no longer matter.  The real fight is with finance, who controls it.  Larry Fink is now more powerful than any president in the world, and he knows it.  But he didn’t get that way from well-fought battles as a master strategist.  But because he was willing to be the bag man for the Fed, which is a power they never should have had in the first place. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Fed’s Plans for a CBDC: It’s the entire reason for the Biden presidency, and they are close

I love Jackson Hole, Wyoming; I spent some time there recently with my family.  It’s where the Fed gets together with bankers from all over the world, it’s the bean counter version of Davos, and it’s something I have paid attention to for a long time.  It’s also where one of my favorite movies, Every Which Way You Can, was filled.  While there, I had to visit all the filming locations for the big fight at the movie’s end.  And it is there that my daughter and I like to get new cowboy hats; there is an exceptional store on the square that is fantastic.  But it is there that I wanted a hat because I wanted to think about the notion that much of the world’s problems are created through monetary policy, and it’s a reminder that Jackson Hole, as lovely as it is, brings out the most pretentious in these stiff bankers, and aligns them with all the horrendous out-of-touchness that is typical at the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos.  Smart, stiff people suddenly surrounded by beautiful mountains who start to think of themselves as the gods from Mt. Olympus.  Then suddenly, they lose track of reality and become the kind of tyrants people scream “freedom” from.  But that doesn’t make Jackson, Wyoming, a bad place because people go there and create bad monetary policy.  I see it as a place of adventure, and during that most recent trip, I pulled my RV through the McDonald’s drive-thru to get my grandchildren some chicken nuggets before heading south into Utah for the next leg of our journey, which caused quite a stir.  They had never seen anybody do something like that, which maybe is the actual message. Perhaps they should because a bit of managed recklessness is essential to significant economies and avoids disastrous discussions about the Fed proposal of a CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency)

Of course, the Fed wants to abuse its power, most institutions find those temptations too seductive, and there will never be a group of people who handles too much responsibility well.  That doesn’t mean you never have groups of people with massive responsibilities, it just means that you can never allow them to have too much power, and that is what all central bankers are looking for in the world, more security for them and less freedom for you.  It’s also why I say that the election fraud was so bad in 2020 because many financial forces aligned with the World Economic Forum are looking for stability that the Trump economy was set not to provide for them.  So they conspired together to commit the most significant election fraud in the history of the world, and they did it essentially to make a CBDC in America possible. (Central Bank Digital Currency) The Fed is already practicing Modern Monetary Theory, so it’s all on the table with a CBDC to control every aspect of our lives. That’s the plan and has been the plan coming up every August at these Fed meetings in Jackson Hole for a long time now. Suppose you know anything about those timid types who desire with all their hearts some centralized stability in global communism. In that case, you can understand why they cheat in elections, especially in 2020. They will do anything to win again and protect their worldview. ANYTHING!  The current status of Central Bank Digital Currency is that many central banks around the world are exploring the possibility of creating their digital currencies. The goal is to provide a secure and efficient way of conducting transactions while maintaining control over monetary policy. Some countries, such as China, have already begun testing their digital currencies. However, many questions and concerns still surround implementing CBDCs, including privacy, security, and financial stability. It will be interesting to see how this technology develops and how it will impact the global economic landscape in the future.

Joe Biden was put in place in 2020 over President Trump to establish a CBDC during his term.  The first term would set up the conditions; the second would get it done.  This is the one world currency discussed and why the World Economic Forum wants to go to a cashless society.  Most everything the radical leftists in the world, who now run many of these central banks complete with ESG scores as their primary drivers, is to impose a China model, communist-driven, CBDC into the American economy, which will then give complete control of governments over people by changing values of money with the push of the button.  This is why Biden’s radical communist party has no concern whatsoever about the debt and why Modern Monetary Theory, which they deny they know anything about, is such a lucrative strategy for them.  They can wipe away debt with the push of a button because the value is determined by those controlling money, not the actual production provided by economic activity.  And suppose it’s a one-world currency controlled by the influences of the World Economic Forum, which already controls the Federal Reserve in the United States. In that case, nothing can stop them from completely dominating the world’s money supply.  That is the end game that the Fed is talking about this year in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, as they look at the lovely mountains and sip lattes early in the morning as they watch elk cross the street.  Isn’t nature so beautiful?  It makes you want to impose ESG scores on banks to fulfill fake climate change criteria to advance the concept of a CBDC into a Liberal World Order. 

It is with a CBDC that the Biden administration hopes to disconnect people from their lives by turning them off entirely from economic activity.  If the only currency available is those controlled by corrupt centralized governments, people will have no choice but to capitulate.  That is how it is in China increasingly, and the Biden administration is drooling over the prospects in the United States.  They couldn’t quite get it done fast enough to be in Biden’s first term, so they plan to do it in the second if he lives long enough.  But that is why they want a brain-dead stooge in the White House.  For them, Kamala Harris will do just fine.  All she has to do is sign where they tell her to.  They could care less about anything else because if they control the money, they control all of society.  If you don’t like it, they don’t care.  They can turn you off at the gas pump with the flick of a button.  They can steal all your savings.  Take your home if you don’t vote how they want you to.  And life as we know it will then be controlled by the lunatics at Davos because of the Fed policies set at Jackson Hole every August, as they have been working toward this CBDC concept.  And yes, it’s every bit as bad and more than you can imagine.  Yet they think nobody will catch them on it until it’s too late, which has already blown up in their face.  That means that this year’s trip to Jackson Hole by the global bankers, especially those directly connected to the Fed, is to do damage control.  Not to present the status as much as how to keep it alive through this next election cycle and the threat to them of another Trump term.  Good for us, bad for them.  Very bad.

Rich Hoffman

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The Government Caused Mess of PPP Loans and Student Loan Forgiveness: To stay in power, they are planning the next pandemic released through a deadly bioweapon

Mark it on your calendar; the Democrats aren’t just going to give up their criminal empire with the Global World Order.  They have been taking advantage of Americans behind a thin façade of helpful activism recently.  But they were always out for the worst the human race can imagine.  The Biden White House is preparing for another “pandemic,” as the communists at the World Health Organization are starting to talk about again because they see what’s going on with populism around the world, and it’s getting harder to cheat in elections.  They aren’t going to play fair; they will try and implement another Covid virus, this time one that is deadly because it’s their only option.  The Biden White House is soaked with serious scandals; people already don’t believe that Biden was ever elected president.  And now people are catching on to how bad this pedophilia problem is everywhere.  We’re not just talking about sex tourism in Vietnam or Jersey in the British Isles right off the northern coast of France.  We are talking about a massive problem that goes well beyond Jeffery Epstein.  People are learning, and they are seeking action.  So, you better believe it; they will try to unleash another virus to halt the impact of the 2024 election where nothing else has been able to stop Trump.  And before they let him in office to crack down on the cartels and drain the Swamp in Washington D.C., they are looking toward another virus to unleash before they all end up in jail for the damage they caused during the first pandemic, which was wholly made up by governments as a bioweapon and released in partnership with China to establish a global Great Reset of all capitalist economies and to gain centralized control converting them into communist ones along the lines of China’s model.   Don’t kid yourself; yes, these people are killers, and they are that malicious.  They will kill a significant portion of the population before they get caught and punished for what they’ve done in the past, and they are indeed planning it as we speak. 

And this is an excellent opportunity to think about what they did do before, which has come up lately regarding student loan debt and the PPP loans provided during Covid to allow businesses to continue paying their payroll as the government shut down the economy leaving everyone in indecision as to how to handle even basic business needs.  What they share in common is a government that stuck itself into the middle of everyone’s lives and made a mess of things.  In America, when we talk about “freedom,” we mean freedom from the stupidity of government.  The government is supposed to serve our essential management needs for a country, but they aren’t supposed to get in the way and rule over us like some spoiled brat aristocracy.  And since the falsely placed Joe Biden has been trying to buy votes among stressed-out young people who are encumbered with too much student debt from a product grossly inflated, which is a college education made that way because the government has tampered with the market by supporting labor costs driven that way from teacher unions and other progressive activism.  The defense of using the government to give relief to those loans by government forgiveness was thrown in the direction of the PPP loans as if they were all the same thing.  And they aren’t.  With Student Loans, that was a choice to hopefully buy into the aristocracy of a tiered system created by the government to manage society with opportunities to “teach” kids Democrat platform options, such as communism, by providing them with a gateway opportunity to get paid more money as an office bureaucrat in the Administrative State.  The government caused PPP loans as a reaction to a condition the government caused, which was the purposeful mismanagement of the economy which businesses must function within. 

PPP loans are loans provided by the Small Business Administration (SBA) to help small businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. These loans were meant to assist enterprises struggling to stay afloat during these difficult times. The loans could cover payroll costs, rent, utilities, and other essential business expenses. The loans are forgivable if specific criteria are met, such as using the funds for eligible expenses and maintaining employee headcount and salary levels. Overall, PPP loans were an essential resource for small businesses looking to weather the economic challenges caused by the pandemic, which the government caused.  Covid 19 didn’t happen in nature; it was made horrible by people who work in communist governments and want to use terrorism to drive people from capitalist markets into communist ones.  And people have been trying to throw them all into one basket as an either-or situation.  PPP loans for many companies were necessary because governments tampered with their way of life.  Student loans are kids trying to buy into an aristocracy of the Administrative State driven by more government activism intent to control society and regulate economic activity as a central communist authority.  I can personally convey the horror stories of the PPP loans because the government was hostile, primarily through the IRS.  They tied up a lot of money, and when it was time to return it, they didn’t want to.  Many companies didn’t make it through Covid because of the government, and it has cost people a lot, which has never yet been redeemed. 

And here we are almost four years later, and nobody has gone to jail over what they did during Covid, for the purposeful murder of people with the bioweapon that was made in a Chinese lab in Wuhan and released, purposely to be just one of the many contributing causes of election fraud in America.  Yes, the people involved are that bad, even worse.  And to cover up their crimes, Biden’s communist-oriented administration has been telling kids to go to college, get liberally indoctrinated, and grow up to become wishy-washy Democrats for the first part of their adult lives, and they’ll pay off their debt.  So, they can pay all those incredibly expensive and equally worthless college professors, mostly all Democrats, a wage they clearly wouldn’t get in the free market where their value is much less.  The college debt was a choice.  The PPP loans were not; that was survival, which, even so, often didn’t work.  And years later, companies are still trying to sort things out from the government mess they injected into the situation.  And it’s all bad and created by government stupidity, which they want to provide more with a communist takeover of the global economy.  No thanks.  They have done quite enough damage.  And now that they are caught, people realize just how bad they have been and who did what to whom; punishment is on everyone’s minds.  That is why they plan to do it all again and expect to use student loan forgiveness to at least put the young people back to sleep so they can stay in power a bit longer through a rigged 2024 election because it’s their only option.  Besides killing off those seeking justice, most people are screaming because it’s their only way out, this time from an angry mob that isn’t as gullible in 2023 as they were in 2019.  Just don’t underestimate how bad government can be or how deadly when fighting for their own survival.

Rich Hoffman

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It Would Be Easy to Defend Trump on this Third Indictment: There’s only one horse in this race, all the others are still in the barn

I’d be happy to volunteer for President Trump’s legal team to argue this third indictment.  I could do it in front of an entirely Democrat jury and make a successful case for a not-guilty verdict.  Without even reading the specifics of the Jack Smith prosecution of President Trump and any connection to the January 6th insurrection dialogue that the perpetrators of election fraud to put Joe Biden in the White House instead, is clearly a free speech case that will fall apart quickly in a courtroom.  Just as most of these Democrat prosecutions will if they ever see a courtroom.  I don’t think this one will be from Jack Smith.  My opinion about it is that it’s pure desperation from a bunch of people who know they were not elected into their positions and that their power and authority are completely phony.  Trump was elected legitimately, and these government prosecutors have been involved in a political coup that utilized with undeserved power acquired through theft and manipulation.  And this is getting way too predictable.  We all knew they were going to try to do this because they have no other way of trying to stop Trump from being elected.  And again, Joe Biden was going to get destroyed by this upcoming IRS whistleblower, so to defer attention in the media, they did what Democrats always do; they tried to make the story about someone else.  So, they played this card hoping to shake attention away from Old Man Biden, who is the real guilty party.  Yeah, I would happily defend Trump in court on this one.  Any lawyer should be able to if it even sees a court date.  I do not agree with many of the theories that are out there that are in love with the horse race of politics.  This abuse of power by the Biden Department of Justice is a short-lived threat. 

In the end, there is only one horse in this political horse race; all the other horses are still in the barn.  It doesn’t matter if it’s the Republicans or the Democrats, Trump is the only horse on the track, and there isn’t anything anybody can do to change that.  This is not China, as much as many of the Administrative State people looking for perpetual security with government jobs would like to think.  These personal abuse legal cases motivated purely out of self-preservation of the bad guys aren’t going to last long.  All it does is give people who like to talk about the horse races of politics something to discuss.  When it comes to the actual race, Trump has already won.  Many talking about that horse race think that the Democrats have this all figured out and are using these indictments to make Trump the Republican nominee because it’s making him so popular.  And that Democrats want to run against Trump as opposed to all the other options.  And that Trump will be killed in the general as all the suburban moms and soft-shelled tacos will drift back to Biden, and the long string of corruption associated with the Democrat Party can then continue.  News flash, the Democrats aren’t that smart.  They don’t have that kind of horsepower. 

Clay and Buck, on the new show that has replaced Rush Limbaugh, is nowhere near as insightful as Rush was.  Rush would understand what’s going on, but those guys and their Fox contracts keep them from seeing reality.  Or maybe they just miss it because they are too conventional.  I heard them utter that theory about Democrats, and it’s clear that they are swinging and missing.  Trump isn’t in trouble.  There could be 100s of indictments by this corrupt government, which won’t change one thing about this upcoming election.  People are mad; they want revenge for the way Trump was ripped off during his first term and had his presidency taken from him in an all too obvious coup, ran by our own government with Covid, that sought to destroy our entire economy just to preserve the losers in the Swamp.  And if Trump isn’t on a ticket where they try to strip him off the ballot in all 50 states with some made-up technicality, then there will be a lot of unleashed anger that the Democrats are all too aware of.  They’ve looked at the numbers, and they know they cheated and by how much.  And they know that the American people do not support the Democrat platform.  And now we are at another election, and more people believe that the 2020 election was stolen than during that first year.  The movement has only grown, and Democrats are terrified of those eventual ramifications.  They hope they can run out the clock by keeping Trump out of the election because they know they won’t be able to beat him in the general.  Because Joe Biden never had 81 million votes.  They rigged the election the old-fashioned way, the way elections have been rigged in China, Venezuela, Russia, and all over Central and South America and Europe.  They cheated on so many fronts that it’s almost ridiculous at this point, and people have seen it for themselves.  The Democrats who played along have some tough days coming, with or without Trump.  And they know it.

I watched a recent Fox News interview with Trump and Bret Baier carefully, as it was important for the reporter to remind President Trump that he did not win the election.  That was coming from Fox News and Rupert Murdoch’s position as a media owner from a foreign country.  That wasn’t a reporter letting the facts take him wherever they went.  That was an activist trying to preserve the Beltway institution from an outside challenger who clearly won, but that victory was canceled by nefarious means, such as judges who refused to review the case for the implications it would have caused to the institution of government itself.  And the reminder that all 50 states had a recount and that Trump still lost because they counted all the same fake ballots that were put in place by Facebook, and a lot of FBI activism to finish off the coup they started while Trump was in office, revenge for firing Jim Comey and not bending the knee to the fourth branch of government, which was never supposed to exist in the first place.  I’ve talked to Frank LaRose, our Secretary of State in Ohio, about this election fraud issue.  Everyone knows what states like Pennsylvania and Michigan did to stuff ballots.  Frank did well in Ohio, so there was a good margin for Trump.  But other states had more open laws made more open by early voting and Covid mail-in ballots.  And the cheating got so out of hand that it took 81 million votes to beat the actual real number that Trump received, which was more than any other president in the history of America.  The suburban moms did not stay home the way Fox News said they did.  Trump had a frightening number of votes even after all that was thrown at him.  And his support has increased; it hasn’t gone down.  That’s why they are doing what they are now with the Department of Justice and the dummy Jack Smith, who is willing to make himself look like a fool to save his friends in government who have built quite a criminal empire out of their positions.  But in the end, the Bill of Rights matters, and these ridiculous charges are going to be exploited easily.  

Rich Hoffman

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Does The CIA Use Mind Control: How our thoughts work and for what purpose

Don’t you ever wonder where your thoughts come from, those random little ideas that pop into your head like, “Why don’t you jump” while standing next to a high space? Or “Why don’t you just punch that guy in the face.” How are such thoughts produced, and where do they come from? Are they from demons who reside in the background and jump from body to body, depending on their flavor of the moment? Or are those thoughts of some deep subconscious production? Or even yet, are they productions of the CIA who have found a way to implant thoughts into a mind much the way a radio receives information from a radio wave? We tend to think of our minds as off limits to the outside world, as our ultimate safe place. Nobody can read our thoughts; if we want to shut out the world, our minds are our last refuse. Nobody has a right to our thoughts, so we have built up a false sense of security over time regarding our minds, what they can do, and how secure they are. But the CIA has displayed an over-interest in mind control in the distant past, during the 1960s, and we should not just assume they weren’t successful. Instead, I think their lack of publication of results says that they were all too successful and that mind control is much easier than we have been led, on purpose, to believe. This idea of mind control often arises when we wonder about false flag events and other mass shootings. A radical government looking for someone to blame for something would find it safest to use people in ways that mass society has not yet accepted as a reality. So, of course, they would use such a method, and as we have seen in all aspects of their lives, they will abuse any power given to them because it’s a temptation beyond their ability to control.

Now when we talk about mind control, that doesn’t mean we lose self-control. But people most susceptible to mind control from some third-party government hostility are those less in control of their thought processes, like drug users, dumb people, highly emotional people, and people without a strong resolve. People who are intoxicated are particularly vulnerable to outside influences on their minds. So controlling people’s minds isn’t as easy as just turning on a radio or speaking into a microphone to broadcast a message. Getting a message into a mind is only part of the battle. Getting people to act on it is quite another. That’s why it’s crucial to understand mass school shootings; for instance, most of the gunmen are from broken homes, have a history of drugs, and are likely taking medicine for depression. If you are a hostile government, for instance, and you want to inspire a false flag event through a mass shooting that will consume the news cycle to keep people from talking about other problems in the world, then such depleted, weak minds are the kind of people you’d be interested in influencing. But assuming that such a thing isn’t happening because we don’t believe the technology is there yet is preposterous. While people debate the feasibility, it provides easy cover for the malicious to perform their malice, which is all too common nowadays.

Every time you witness a magic show, you are seeing a form of mind control, a purposeful deception in a mass audience where mind manipulation is a shared experience. Most good salespeople are naturally good at mind control. And it used to be difficult to ask a girl out for a date before the Internet made things all too easy by turning a no or a shy opposition into a yes. Influencing the mind is a common practice among human beings, so naturally, the governments of the world would be very interested in developing mind control technology for their own survival. And from what we’ve witnessed from our government and other governments and their financial powers that prop them up, there is a strong desire to control people’s minds. Advertisers try to do it every minute of every day through mass media ads. And when government gets in trouble over some issue or another and needs a deflection, or they want to inspire gun confiscation legislation, then some drug-using menace to society might then find the thought of performing a mass killing popping into his mind, either through a direct message broadcast to his weak mind from a government agent seeking a cover from the shadows. Or perhaps some evil spirit is conjured up through some mass ritual of occult reverence, and that spiritual assassin fulfills the request by jumping into the seat of an unoccupied mind. Why else would there be government policy on marijuana, an obvious mind-altering drug where intoxication is so openly embraced? I would say that it makes it much easier to control a society that doesn’t have strong thoughts, and drug use makes it easy for governments to rule over weak people. But does it happen at all? Well, you bet it does. It happens much more often than we believe it does. The mind is a receiver of all kinds of information, and we still don’t understand well how thought is produced in the brain. So the ability to manipulate a thought is one of the most valuable traits a menacing government addicted to world domination would strive to utilize. 

With all the talk about 5G, our minds are constantly being bombed by radio waves, internet signals, signals bouncing all over the earth from satellite communications. Our cell phones are continually broadcasting and receiving information, and all those waves of information are passing through our minds. So, it should be obvious to conclude that those many random thoughts, like “punch that person” or “call that person a name,” or even worse, are coming from outside sources from our own minds and that our minds aren’t so secure. If you have noticed, when you pick up your phone, it knows when you are looking at it. Our mind broadcasts information that goes to our extremities, but do we think it stops there, within the confines of our bodies? I would think not. And as of yet, we have only assumed that our privacy is a priority based on biological science. Yet it’s time to think seriously that there are lots of influences out there that have cracked the code. And your best defense against those forces is to have sanity as your best defense. The ability to override those random messages that come into your mind to rationally discard them. But once that rationality is lost to stupidity or drunkenness, then the mind is fair game for all kinds of maniacal purposes. And don’t be silly; the CIA cracked the code to mind control many years ago. They use it for their needs, which, as we have seen recently, are not the domestic needs of national security, but the efforts of globalism among a drug-induced population of victims being used for sheer evil and purposes of global conquest. They may not be able actually to make people commit a crime, but they sure can push a button and make many think about it, which is the first step to action. And the less resolute a targeted mind is, the easier it is to get them to do what you want them to do.

Rich Hoffman

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In Politics Friends Come and Go: But why do political parties exist in the first place

When it comes to politics or anything in life, get a dog if you want a friend. Dogs are programmed to serve our human needs for friendship. But don’t expect friendships in politics ever to sustain some deep seeded need. There is only one purpose for politics, and that is the management of community resources. Finding meaning in it of some social value is a path in life that will obviously have many challenges, most of which will be unfulfilling. Even on the best day of political exchanges, there will be disappointments because it never works out how you might want it to. Yet one of the many traps that emerge in politics is when a person involved finds that they get to sit at the table with all the cool kids, which is how the lobby system works at the federal and state level. That appeal to be accepted by your peers can be very alluring. And all too often, it causes good people to go bad relative to what people think they voted for. This is how we end up with RINOs in the Republican Party. They may not start out that way, but they certainly turn out to be far off their original position over a number of years, and it’s at that point they have to figure out if they can still be useful to a voting public. But we are dealing with people here, and I can think of a few politicians that I have known for a long time and may personally like. But, due to life circumstances, they are not as conservative today as they were ten years ago or even five years ago. And when that happens, they have to figure out if they are in politics to serve some deep seeded need they have or if they are only doing it to gain some joy in social acceptance, presenting themselves one way, when ideologically, they have drifted into a more liberal view of the world. 

In politics, I still stand by former Speaker of the House Larry Householder, who was just sentenced to 20 years in prison over the FirstEnergy scandal. I found that case much like Sheriff Jones and Attorney General David Yost went after Roger Reynolds, the former Butler County Auditor. I feel sorry for the FirstEnergy people; they provide energy through a couple of nuclear power plants, and the political left is looking to destroy those companies and replace them with solar farms and wind power. I don’t think there was any justice in putting Householder in jail, I think its 100% politics, using rules to destroy your political rivals, and in that case, the FBI was weaponized just like it has been against Trump and the road to the start of the corruption leads to Mike DeWine’s door, the governor of Ohio who likely didn’t want a rival power in Columbus at the Speaker position. Look at the drama with the coup they had just this last year with the Speaker, so politics is a dirty game. People on the out go to jail, and millions of dollars get wasted in the name of acquiring power. I can say that as I just recently saw DeWine and his wife at a social event, and he’s turning back to his liberal ways again now that he’s in his last term and Trump hasn’t been in power for a while. And mentioning Sheriff Jones, you might remember all the drama between him and Representative Thomas Hall. They had been bitter enemies, but now they are getting along quite well. People move on positions all the time; the question always remains, can they actually do the public who votes for them any good, or is everything they show the public fake while what they do behind closed doors a different representation along the political spectrum? 

And that’s certainly the case of a few names within the Butler County Republican Party presently. Life happens, and people find that their political views of the world change, sometimes quite a lot. But when you hold leadership positions and hang on to those positions, why would they do it if they aren’t that conservative anymore? Politics is one thing, and it’s easy to have political opinions in a vacuum of reality, in an untested environment. But when you love your kids and the kids move in a direction that challenges those conservative beliefs, do you try to take the party to a hard left position, or do you give up the leadership roles to take care of your family? Loyalty isn’t the question, but it’s what is expected in public office that does matter. Because votes expect the brand of conservative opinion that reflects them, this is how the RINO problem began initially. I’ve been involved in many meetings where powerful politicians became upset with being called RINOs. Because they didn’t see that they had become more “liberal” in their political discourse. John Boehner, who lives in my neighborhood and is good friends with several people I know very well, comes to mind. He used to be Speaker of the House, but he had to resign due to heavy calls from people in the Tea Party who thought he was a RINO. It hurt him. I hurt for him, so I never really jumped all over him too much. The world wanted a more conservative representative, and he wasn’t it. So, he needed to step away. And that is certainly the case for other area Republicans who find themselves in a similar situation.

Doing the right thing is hard. But ultimately, politics isn’t for the representatives; it’s for the brand of the party, and the party exists for the people who vote. This fantasy that people have that Ron DeSantis might fill the void of Trump is ridiculous because the move toward Trump is because people have become frustrated with RINOs, and they are looking to purge them from their party. And the same thing will happen in the Butler County Republican Party if RINOs emerge and take leadership positions; the voters out there will work to get rid of them, just as they did John Boehner. There may be perfectly valid reasons that people become RINOs. John Boehner cries a lot, and once people learned that about him, it changed how they saw him. Voters want tough people, not compromised people who have lost their confidence socially, who have made mistakes that are embarrassing, and who seek to hide those things socially through party leadership. It ends up not helping anybody but worst of all; it weakens the voter impression of their Republican Party representation. The most important thing is to protect the brand, and forcing voters to accept more liberal leadership isn’t going to help engage voters in the polls. Telling Darbi Boddy to calm down and play nice with RINOs won’t help the party brand. It hurts it. Because people want more Darbi’s and fewer John Boehners. I’ve heard the complaints, and it’s a topic in need of perspective. Essentially, I do have friendships with people who have moved to the hard left. And I will still like them even if I disagree with them politically. But protecting the Republican brand should be something everyone can agree with. Sure, there will be political squabbles. But they come and go. In the end, what ultimately matters is whether voters have a party that represents them. And if they don’t, why does it exist in the first place?

Rich Hoffman

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