Month: April 2025

Hansel and Gretel: The danger of the Oedipal Mother complex

We would do better to teach kids about fairy tales so they wouldn’t be so gullible in adult life.  People need to understand that all governments tend to become the famous Oedipal mother and that if we continue to feed it, it will seek, due to its unconscious directives, to become a destroyer of our very existence.  Government has to be managed and cannot be left alone.  Doesn’t everyone remember the story of Hansel and Gretel?  The story of the kids being taken into the woods and left there to die by a trusted caretaker?  Why are people so trusting?  Well, the answer to that one is that they are too lazy to scrutinize because action requires effort, and it is easier for the lazy person to trust everything will work out OK than to do the work of managing it.  When I see all this criticism of DOGE and Elon Musk, I hear people’s desire not to think about just how bad some government figures are.   When we used to tell fairy tales to children they were stories meant to help them see the truths of life, and to make them better people which is certainly the case of the Hansal and Gretal story of a couple of children living with their father, the woodcutter, deep in the woods with a second wife who was jealous of his children from another marriage.  Something that kids these days are undoubtedly worried about, since so many families have divorces in them and marriages to step-parents that are not as satisfying as their biological ones.  But this was a case where the woodcutter’s first wife died, and he married someone else, but they weren’t living so happily ever after.  The new wife wanted to erase the first wife’s memory, starting with the kids. 

So while the woodcutter was working in the woods, the stepmom took the children out into the forest disguised as helping their father, to lure them into her scheme, and left them there.  But the resourceful Hansel had put rocks in his pocket, knowing the stepmother was up to no good, and he left a trail back to his house in case they got lost.  And by following the trail of rocks, they could return to the house to their father.  The angry stepmom did the same thing the next day, and this time Hansel left breadcrumbs.  When the crazy woman left the children alone in the forest, the brother and sister thought they would return the way they had the previous time.  But this time, forest animals ate the bread, so the clever trail was gone.   Now the kids had a big problem.  They searched and searched but could not find their way home.  But they found a gingerbread house, and they were very hungry, so they endeavored to eat from it, which provoked from within its contents the classic Oedipal mother, who invited them inside to care for them with great kindness.  But the kindness wasn’t because she was a good woman; it was meant to hide her great evil desire to eat the children, because she was a psychopath.  Her gentle kindness was a lure to lower the defenses of the children and earn their trust so that she could bring their demise to her profit.  And many kind people like this evil woman who lived in the gingerbread house exist, everywhere.  The kids were hungry and distressed, missing the comfort of their strong father.  But what choice did they have? They were lost.  And when people are in such a condition, there is always someone trying to take advantage of them.

The Oedipal mother complex is a classic case of the overbearing mother who saturates a child with too much love, not because she loves the child, but because she wants to consume them for her own needs.  In this case, the crazy woman was very kind because she wanted to fatten up the children with too much food and coddled them so they wouldn’t want to run away from her.  But her intentions from the start were evil and exploitive.  There are many parents, especially women, who will try to give their kids everything not because they love them, but because they want to use them as a mask for their insecurities, so they hide their malice behind kindly motherhood to cripple the kids so they never want to move away from her and live their own lives like Norman Bates’ mom in Psycho.  Their goal, these evil mothers, is to create failure-to-launch kids, kids who hang around the house and can never leave.  Their intent is not to raise friendly, healthy kids who function well in life.  But to make dependents.  And from there, everyone knows how the story ends.  Thinking the kids are fat enough, the kind woman tries to put Hansel into an oven to cook him.  Gretal sticks up for her brother and pushes the woman into the oven instead.  And they kill the woman and escape with their lives.  Eventually, the father finds the kids, and they live happily ever after.  But not before the father gets rid of his problem, the other woman who has been plotting the demise of his children.  And once he does that, everyone lives happily ever after, but not before death and divorce. 

And that is what DOGE is uncovering with our government, and there isn’t any way not to avoid pushing her into the oven and killing this crippling Oedipal mother.  Our government has been trying to make us into dependents not to help us, but to cripple us.  And it certainly wasn’t for our own good.  To understand these things, we have to be willing to admit that everyone isn’t looking out for our best interests, and that the best thing to do would be to have healthy skepticism as Hansel and Gretel did, about the adults in their lives and to take precautions regarding their motives.  In the world of fairy tales, we have told stories designed to help children recognize deceit in their adult landscape, to teach them how to manage such a crisis when they see it.  But the government, wanting to exploit the world for its designs, wishes to conceal why it intends to make dependents from all its subservients.  Not to help people, but to harm them.  To eat them.  And as we uncover all the waste, fraud, and abuse that DOGE finds, we learn that we should have never trusted any of these people.  And that the over-coddling mother complex of government was not for any reason but to eat us and live off our carcasses.  This is how we should view taxation and the role of government in general.  Just because we have women in our lives as mothers, or wives, and they appear kindly, we can’t trust them.  They very well could be trying to eat us.  And often, at best, they are trying to lure us out into the woods to leave us for dead so they can replace us with a new man, a sturdy character who works all day chopping wood, and the women do not want to share the food earned with the children. So she plots to kill them so she can have the man all to herself.  Given what DOGE is uncovering, we would do well to return to fairy tales for guidance.  Because obviously, a lot of people need them. 

Rich Hoffman

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If Trump or Any Politician Supports Pot Legalization: Smoke shops produce stringy haired losers and depreciated value

To answer a question that should be obvious at this point, but it needs an updated clarification, I am more than 100% against pot, or any marijuana support, and I will not endorse or support in any way a politician who is in support of marijuana legalization.  This came up in a recent discussion about political endorsements, and I had to explain to several people that just because pot was legal in Ohio, I did not recognize it as such and that I am more against pot sales and use than I ever was.  For me, it’s a Jesus in the temple against the money changers kind of thing.  I do not see marijuana as anything good for anybody, and it’s certainly not a free market right.  And to go to that next step, which evolved out of the question, would I feel the same about President Trump if he proved to be supportive of a federal policy on marijuana legalization?  The answer is that if Trump became pro-pot, that would be the day I work against him.  Everyone knows how supportive of Trump I have been over these last eight years, but the line in the sand would be pot legalization from his administration.  On that day, I would never be supportive of Trump again and would actively work against him.  That’s how serious I am about the matter, and life would go on if that turns out to be the case.  I know there are lots of discussions, especially from the Roger Stone crowd, to bend Trump’s ear to federal legalization.  If he did that, in my opinion, he would become the enemy, and I would actively look for his replacement.  That might be good news for people looking to drive a wedge between Trump and his base.  But because of all the talk in the background, I have to say it before it’s too late.

I don’t think Trump would do something so stupid.  He’s a states’ rights guy, and federal legalization would go against that position.  If states are that stupid to legalize pot, that’s their problem.  Now, Ohio just legalized pot, but not without some progressive gymnastics on constitutional technicalities that were very disingenuous.  There was a significant amount of outside money and influence that needed to be removed from the system, and I will certainly apply my efforts in that direction.  Just because radical leftist losers slid the issue under the door in Ohio, it does not mean I accept it.  And yes, there are a lot of Republicans who think that being pro-pot is being pro-business.  They tell me that the former Speaker of the House, John Boehner, supports the legalization of pot as a lobbyist.   My response is that I don’t like John Boehner; he cries too much and has smoked like a train chugging up a long hill for way too long.  Even though we share mutual friends, that does not mean I like what everyone does, nor do I endorse it.  I am not a libertarian.  I do not believe in the ‘live and let live’ philosophy, where you do whatever you want as long as it doesn’t impact me.  I believe in free markets, but I also think that we need rules in society that can make for a civilized nation, such as people shouldn’t have sex with kids under 18.  People shouldn’t drink until they are 21.  If I had it my way, people would never drink.  Kids shouldn’t drive a car until they are 16.  And people shouldn’t do drugs.  Any drugs.  I’m even against marijuana for medical use.  I hate the stuff and see it as the gateway drug to a weak society poised to collapse on itself.  Nothing good comes from pot legalization. 

As far as it being a pro-business stance, since pot was legalized in Ohio, we have all these embarrassing smoke shops everywhere.  They always have beat-up cars and stringy-haired losers coming and going from them.  Sure, plaza owners love them because they don’t want to see part of their buildings empty of a paying tenant. However, the quality of those tenants is detrimental to a community.  Smoke shops and dispensaries are no different than porn shops like the Hustler Store in Monroe are.  Nobody of any quality wants those reminders of human garbage around their homes.  They are bad businesses that lower the quality of our society; they certainly don’t enhance it.  To the short-sighted, smoke shops and pot sales might represent an expanding economy, but at the cost of other profitable aspects of society.  You might sell more pot to a bunch of losers, but those losers aren’t going to be inventing the next great thing, so in the long run, you cost business opportunities by having a pro-pot society of lazy slugs who adopt political socialism to feed their entitled personalities.  The billions of dollars of revenue that keep being passed around regarding the legalization of pot come at a cost of much more than that, primarily in the hard-to-define opportunity cost of a society that spends its recreational activity pursuing intoxication.  The same type of people pushing pot legalization are also advocates of a 40-hour work week, so they can stop work as soon as possible and hit the bottle or smoke more pot sooner, and the way I think about things, if they worked more and worked harder, they’d be intoxicated less.  And that is probably good for them, rather than giving them more leisure time that they will waste anyway. 

Would I throw away all that time I spent investing in Trump over just one issue of pot legalization?  Yes.  That’s how strongly I feel about it.  Pot is a nonstarter for me; there is nothing good to come out of it but short-sighted gains built on the backs of stupidity.  Strategically speaking, this is, of course, what the enemies want: to put Trump in a corner, make these tariffs a chopping block where he seeks an approval rating spike by pandering to the pot heads.  And if they can separate Trump from people like me, they would love it.  But it’s not too late, and I don’t think Trump will do it.  But there are politicians I like quite a lot who have embraced the legalization of pot in Ohio, and support a nationwide deregulation of it.  They compare it to the prohibition period against liquor and want to think that the two are the same, that if you have a society of alcohol abuse, then pot consumption is the next logical step.  But I say you have to draw a line somewhere, and for me, that is between alcohol and pot.  Ultimately, we shouldn’t have a society that embraces drug abuse no matter when or where.  That this is an issue at all says a great deal about our culture, which needs significant reform.  And there are a lot of people in the world that I have alienated just over the consumption of pot.  And I’ve always been this way, and I’ve no intention of ever changing my position on it.  I dislike the substance and the people who use it.  And in most cases, once I find out about it, I never speak to those people again.  So needless to say, when it comes to endorsements, if a politician, even if it’s Trump, supports the legalization of pot in any way, our relationship will literally go up in smoke. 

Rich Hoffman

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Why Trump’s Tariffs are Great: China was built completely off stolen money, and that is coming to an end

It is stunning how stupid so many people are, especially regarding Trump’s tariffs.  People need economic lessons.  I majored in economics in college, which I hated.  I thought it was boring, that the professors were stupid, and that the students were even worse.  I probably read too many books before I ever stepped into a college classroom for my good because I couldn’t get into the going through the motions thing to endure so much stupidity.  But I knew, even thirty years ago, that they were teaching Marxism in all the economic schools, which was surprising, given that Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations should have been the entry textbook.  Nobody in America should be studying economics without understanding Adam Smith and putting their arms entirely around capitalism.  We aren’t a communist, socialist, or Marxist nation with a parasitic economic system, and all those traders on Wall Street have fallen into the schools of Marxism as their reference point, and that’s on them.  I’ve known about the influence Marxism has had in our political and economic fields for a long time, but this stupidity even shocks me.  People should know better what Trump is doing.  And thank goodness he is doing it.  Our trade imbalances were put in place for one reason: to redistribute America’s wealth to other nations, to loot the only real capitalist country in the world and feed it to all the crazy lunatic communist and socialist countries of the far east and Europe.  Yes, China, to those who don’t know, which appears to be most people working in the finance industry, is a communist country that has made all of its money off stealing it from the United States.  China did not create wealth and become the powerhouse it is today because it did something better in the world than everyone else.  They did it because they were built off stolen money, and Trump’s trade tariffs are designed to take that money back, as it should have been all along.

Go ahead and mark it on your calendars, these renegotiated trade deals from Trump will immediately infuse the American economy with trillions of dollars of new revenue, which has been part of our exporting portfolio.  The price of oil is coming down.  We will soon be shipping energy all over the world again, which will be worth trillions more.  And on the frontier of DOGE, we are going to address many of the assumptions about the size and cost of government that will pave the way for the future, where running our economy in the black will become the norm.  This is how you get there, and everyone should understand that.  They should have known this all along.  This should be taught in our colleges.  It’s basic economics from the perspective of Adam Smith’s capitalism.  I have several copies of Smith’s Wealth of Nations that I have read through so many times that the pages are nearly falling out of all the copies.  I have one in my office that I recently purchased because it comes up so often that people want to see it, and those older copies weren’t in a condition to be looked through without falling apart in their hands.  So, why isn’t that the case with everyone? Because it should be, otherwise we can’t even have a foundation discussion on economics unless that essential reference point is understood.  All these traders who focused on stock value should have seen the signs; it’s not like we didn’t tell you what was happening.  What they have been dealing with was fake value.  What they will be dealing with is actual value, reset by these tariffs, which puts the power position back into the United States, where it should always have been.

I want to mention a couple of things as a reminder of how we arrived at this point.  They are conspiratorial, but certainly not untrue.  Not convenient for people who would rather not know.  But Covid was a bioweapon created and released in China, which was accelerated to the world stage to knock Trump out of office during an election year.  COVID-19 was released shortly after Trump implemented the tariffs against China in the first months of 2020.  The free money was coming to an end for them, and they conspired with a lot of forces, especially at the World Economic Forum, to release a pandemic in the world to allow for the desired Great Reset of the global economy into a fully micromanaged Marxist perspective where China would rule the world from that position.  If you don’t understand that, go back and review all the evidence, and you will see that it was clearly what happened.  The other thing that happened was the conspiracy of the Federal Reserve to prop up radical leftist losers like Larry Fink at BlackRock to essentially use him to artificially prop up the stock market with a balloon that was always going to burst.  But they thought that by the time it did, the dollar would be gone and we’d be on a digital currency, and they’d never get caught for what they’d done.  The Fed and Wall Street conspired to print phony money with no gold backing, using it to inflate the market with cash that would be laundered through the stock exchanges, thereby creating entirely fictitious value. 

That’s what we do in real estate all the time, where we built a house for $ 50,000 30 years ago.  The house is the best house it was ever going to be when it started.  As it ages, it starts to fall apart and requires frequent renovation.  But our expectation of that value increases.  Today, that house is worth 200K or 300K, that same house, because we expect a Ponzi scheme where the future will pay for the profits of the past, until, of course, you hit the brick wall of diminishing marginal returns, which is where a lot of young people are today.  They can’t afford to pay $300,000 for a house that is still only worth $50,000 in absolute value. That’s what the Fed and BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard did to the world’s money supply, and they thought they would get away with it because the world would switch to a digital currency before the balloon burst.  However, instead, we elected Trump, and he was intent on correcting this mess because he understood it from the inside out. He promised voters that he would do precisely what he is doing now: bring the value of the world’s economy home, which is what is happening now.  All those jobs shipped all over the globe because of horrendous economic policies will come home for their survival.  Prices in America will decrease due to increased competition.  And our economy will be awash in cash, lots of it.  And quickly.  The only people who will suffer are those who were betting on the demise of America, which includes many traders on Wall Street.  That is on them.  They were warned, and they placed their bets against America anyway; so, no amount of crying about it now will put the genie back in the bottle.  I am very proud of Trump.  But what he’s doing isn’t strange or unusual.  I’m just happy he had the guts to do it, and now everyone will see for themselves what they should have learned in school – how the economy works.  And Karl Marx was a slack-jawed loser that nobody should have listened to, ever.  And for all those colleges who taught all these young kids who are now grown adults Marxism, they should be giving back what those educations cost, because they crippled people, they didn’t help them, and now they are too stupid to function in the world. 

Rich Hoffman

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What is Required for a New Lakota School Board Member: Its a system that needs to die

Coming up in the Lakota schools soon is an opportunity to elect three more conservative school board members, and to answer the question I have been asked regularly: am I running for one of them?  Because many people want me to.  Not to give a politically worthless answer, but in my opinion, people who genuinely appreciate the system should be the ones to run it.  I do not like the system, and I have no interest in working with people like that.  I view education as a reform effort, and I believe the amount of time required to fulfill a school board role exceeds 70 hours per week.   It’s not a helicopter position as it’s now for many people who are currently in it.  So I would advise people who want to help fix the system and are willing to do that level of work to let us know, and we’ll help you connect the dots.  But as far as one of those people being me, that wouldn’t be a good idea for those wanting to save the system in some regard.  I’m accustomed to being entirely in charge of the things I do; I’m not a very good consensus player.  I don’t even think the design of school boards in public education is correct; it needs a strong CEO-type to oversee these radical superintendents.  I don’t like the lawyers.  I don’t like the teacher’s unions.  I don’t like the way they are funded.  I don’t like what they teach.  I don’t think they work long enough hours, regardless of the level of employees, administrative, or the teachers themselves.  I support scrapping the whole thing and starting over.  However, there are many parents with school-age children who want to make the best of a difficult situation, and these are the types of individuals who should be leading the school. 

As far as holding on to the way things were in the past?  There is no chance of that.  I was watching the protests this weekend at the Statehouse against Trump and Elon Musk over their fears that Social Security will be cut, which isn’t even on the table.  However, the level of stupidity exhibited by some of those participants is genuinely overwhelming.  There is no talking to people like that with reason.  They can’t understand anything that needs to be changed, so, in my opinion, they should all be scrapped.  They are not prepared for what needs to be done.  I would argue that they aren’t even qualified to be parents.  I feel sorry for the children born into families with the kind of parents who go to these anti-Trump protests.  It’s not their fault their parents are idiots.  But I see no hope in any of those people; they are the result of a society that has experimented with Marxism, and they accepted those thoughts as a new reality.  And that is not the future of education.  There is only one way things are going, and no amount of crying like a baby is going to change anything.  The funding of public schools needs to change; it will change.  The government funding of schools, with unmanaged money moving from the federal government back to the local level, is not a future prospect.  It can’t be, and it never should have been.  People have seen what that system gave them, and they aren’t willing to continue with that method.  The per-pupil costs of educating students should be at least half what they currently are.  When I talk to people who are out there carrying signs in favor of preserving that system, they don’t understand it, and they never will.  Education has to be competitive; we need competition with other teachers, with other districts, and with other states.  The teacher’s union model of everyone getting a collective bargaining agreement for subpar work is over.

And as I say that, people will tell me tomorrow, and the day after that, and the week after that—that’s why I should be on the school board.  Consider what you’re saying and think about what you know about me.  Yes, I can speak very politically, and I work very well with people who hate me and plot against me with everything they can come up with.  My life is far more complicated than the most ostentatious Shakespeare play.  There isn’t any way for my life to be reflected in art because nobody would believe it, including the most conspiratorial of Shakespeare’s works.  My idea of the perfect school board member was and is Darbi Boddy.  She genuinely cared about making the school a great one, and she represented a sizeable demographic group within the Lakota school system.  And people from all political sides conspired to get rid of her.  Who in their right mind thinks I would put up with that?  Darby handled things very well and played by the rules, paying her legal fees to defend herself in ridiculous ways.  She never should have had to do that.  And I can say, I wouldn’t.  I would burn the whole system down from the inside out, along with all the people associated with it.  So be careful what you wish for.  I want what’s best for the people of my community.  However, what’s best for me is what people who deal with me receive, and I’m not sure people can see past the results they want, which are undoubtedly attainable.  But what would they do with the wreckage in the aftermath? That’s where the real trick is. 

I think there is a way to do it, but as I mentioned, I believe the job of a school board member at Lakota schools requires at least 70 hours a week.  It takes that long to read everything you need to read and speak with all the people you need to talk to.  The school board meetings need to be more prolonged, more frequent, and include more detailed information.  And the people working together need to build a team, not to resemble a Shakespearean drama.  And when I say that, we need three school board members who will work together, not against each other, and merge into the political faction of the teacher unions.  I have a very dominant personality in personal conduct, and I excel when I can give orders.  But consensus building is not my thing, and it never will be.  I’m the one you call to take the head shot.  Not the one who cleans up the mess.  And Lakota schools are a mess, and there is a lot to clean up.  And the people doing that need to like each other and to represent the community in the best way possible.  But there will be a lot of hard talks and times in the next two to three years.  Really, until Vivek Ramaswamy is governor of Ohio, we won’t be able to truly fix public education for good with competitive models and funding tied to the child, not the uncompetitive local school.  The property tax racket has to come to an end.  It has given us a garbage product taught by garbage people who are worthless in every category, and it’s time to put all that to an end.  As those protesters increasingly do in places like the Ohio Statehouse, they aren’t in the realm of reality, and that isn’t the fault of the rest of the world.  It is their social dysfunction to think that a school system can continue to get unlimited funds to sponsor a poor work ethic and to teach Marxism to the next generation isn’t even a consideration for the future.  I will not say everyone but me should do such a hard job.  But when it comes to delivery, be careful what you wish for.  My bedside manner on this topic does not come with any handholding.  I’ve been ready to pull the plug on the patient for a long time.  It’s a system that needs to die.

Rich Hoffman

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The White House Called Me: What I said

Ahead of Liberation Day, on April 2nd, the White House called me to ask my thoughts on how Trump’s tariffs would be beneficial.  They were compiling a list of names for people to attend Liberation Day, and at that time, they were thinking more in terms of a town hall presentation. However, what they ended up doing was more traditional Trump.  In that process, they called me as they were setting up for the day, and I was more than happy to share my thoughts, as always.  I usually don’t discuss those kinds of things when they happen, but this was an excellent conversation that I think is a fitting follow-up to what they ended up doing at the White House for Liberation Day.  And that is the discussion about supply chains, which is the number one issue hidden behind the noise of personal investments.  It’s one thing to complain as a company that has invested in globalism to be afraid of Trump setting tariffs to defend our values from a world built on socialism.  So many countries have completely sustained themselves off American capitalism, then throw all that money into a dumpster fire of losses caused by Marxist politics.  Many investors, to their shame, have invested a lot of money in bad ideas and hoped that somehow it would all work out.  And they’d make up for it patriotically on Memorial Day or the Fourth of July by cooking an extra hot dog on the grill for the holiday to celebrate American independence.  But many financial firms have been looting our system for years and hiding their treachery behind an American flag, hoping nobody would notice.  But we have, and that is precisely why Trump had to liberate America from the terrorist implementation that has been quite ostentatious in the background. 

The main problem I conveyed to the White House was that, with all the transfer of wealth, the world has become complacent with its supply chains, taking too many vacations, and has lost its sense of providing a service to customers due to the accumulation of unearned merit.  What I said specifically was that the world was now filled with a bunch of slack jawed losers who have gotten used to easy money given to them for wealth redistribution, stolen from the value of capitalism and given to the looting nature of Marxism, and they no longer feel like they have to compete to earn the money, because governments have given it to them for nothing.  When you need something in the world, given all this global trade and the numerous time zones, what you get more than ever now are excuses.  In France, I think they are only working about 20 minutes a week now, and they are always on vacation. Most people have 6 weeks of vacation, it seems, and are rarely in the office.  There is no expectation to even pick up the phone while on vacation; the world is suddenly allergic to all forms of work, and it is a global crisis.  As a result, if you need something from Malaysia, what used to take four or five days to arrive is now six months or more.  And in many cases, if you think you need something for manufacturing, you have to order it more than a year in advance. Even then, the supplier is likely to push out their schedule multiple times, without even having any expectation of fulfilling their timeline targets.  As I told the White House, this is the biggest crisis in the world that nobody is talking about: subsidized laziness and the perpetuation of lazy people to profit off the demise of the world.  Trump’s tariffs would immediately help that condition, and it couldn’t happen sooner. 

Now I understand, and we discussed it on the phone, that this kind of thing takes longer to explain than a typical media snippet on tariff talk.  Our media is why the White House has shifted its focus away from the traditional establishment and toward alternative media to convey its message.  We have a lot of people in the same category as the global slack-jawed losers who are lazy and have an expectation of not working nearly enough.  Many of these types now work in traditional media.  So they can’t delve deeply into the tangible benefits of the Trump tariff necessity for a Liberation Day.  A liberation from lazy, slack-jawed losers who order their lunch for the business day at 9 AM and by noon are already checking out and getting ready to pick up their kid at day care and thinking about how they can call off for the rest of the week and still get paid.  If you’ve ever dealt with government, and this is the case with all of Washington D.C., they are very eager in the morning to get to work and park in their parking garages between the hours of 8 and 9 AM.  But by 1 PM, the parking garages are mostly cleared out.  Government workers, if they go to work at all and aren’t working from home, are only putting in 4 or 5 hours of work per day and expecting to get paid a king’s ransom in wages.  This is the hidden cost of globalism, and it is a real problem.

I’ve said it a million times, and I’ve certainly discussed it with the White House, but supply chains before COVID and after are entirely different.  If you needed a fuse or a new alternator for your car, it was always readily available on the shelf before COVID-19.  However, it has taken months to obtain it afterwards.  If you wanted to have a special Corvette built from a dealer, it was usually on the lot, or you’d get it in a few weeks.  Now, it might take a year, and everyone seems to be okay with that, as if that’s the new normal.  No, that is not acceptable, and it has been detrimental to all economies worldwide.  And it all starts with globalism, rather than competitive nationalism, and these tariffs had to happen to reset the world order established after World War II.  People all over the world need to work harder, longer, and much, much faster.  And when you call them, they need to pick up the phone because they need the money.  Not to have an arrogant attitude, as they know their socialist government will compensate them anyway with the proceeds from the trade imbalances.  That’s certainly a more profound discussion than just talking about the price of eggs.  It’s more of a psychological problem of wealth redistribution, which, to Trump’s point, we have been getting ripped off.  And it has to stop; Liberation Day is the moment in history when it did.  And the world will thank us later for forcing them not to be a bunch of slack-jawed, entitled losers short on ambition and full of excuses as to why our supply chains are too slow and inefficient.  And for the Trump people at the White House, it was nice speaking to everyone.  I’m happy to do it anytime.  Trump is doing great, and if he needs anything, don’t hesitate to call.  Liberation Day was great, and very much needed!

Rich Hoffman

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Why ‘The Chosen’ is Successful and ‘Snow White’ is Not: Understanding basic ecnomics

I am a little bit baffled by some of the fear surrounding the Trump tariffs. What did anybody expect to happen?   While this is a topic in its own right, economic understanding in general appears to be lost entirely on ordinary people; they don’t understand basic concepts, let alone complex ones.  The same mentality also applies to movies.  It’s a different business, but it’s all about generating revenue within an economic system that provides entertainment to people.  This Snow White Disney story is a microcosm of the general global trade understanding.  What was Disney thinking in making that stupid live-action remake?  And spending so much money on it.  You could say the same about trade imbalances that favored China over American imports and exports.  Why did the world make the dumb decisions to push international wealth redistribution, which is unmistakably present in financial transactions?  Incentives for foreign trade versus domestic production have been in place for a long time, and they were costly and detrimental; now someone has to pay for all that foolishness.  Why is that so stunning to people? Surely, they can’t be that stupid?  Yet they are, and in incredible ways.  In the first week of April 2025, the streaming show The Chosen Season 5 was released to theaters and did so well that it came in third at the box office, just behind Snow White.  That says a couple of things: that The Chosen is doing really well, and that Snow White is doing really badly, because these are not apples-to-apples movies.  Snow White has a budget of around $ 300 million, whereas The Chosen is designed to be a streaming show that plays in theaters as a dedication to Easter, giving fans a big-screen experience during the Holiday.  It will have three theatrical releases leading up to the Easter Holiday with a total budget of around $45 million.  The Chosen is monstrously successful on paper, whereas Snow White from Disney is a dismal failure on every measure.

My wife and I like The Chosen show. We’ve watched it on several streaming platforms over the years and look forward to every season, which I think is surprising.  It’s not as if people don’t know the story of Jesus; it’s very well-documented.  However, the director, Dallas Jenkins, and his wife, Amanda, have done a fantastic job with the show, telling the story of Jesus in a way that I have never seen or heard before.  They love the material, and they love each other, and it shows on screen, even on the big screen.  You can see The Chosen’s previous four seasons on Amazon Prime. I’ve also watched it on Roku.  And we liked it so much that we went to the theater to see Season 5, because we enjoy it that much.  There are planned 7 seasons in total, as this Season 5 is leading up to the crucifixion of Christ, and by Season 7, it will be the resurrection and an exploration of what happened in the years following Christ’s death.  The way they are presenting the material is well done.  I think it’s the best television in years, much better than anything else on the big screen or small.  It reminds me of Little House on the Prairie from the 1970s in many ways, with well-told stories that encompass all the things humans genuinely desire from the world, including goodness.  You would think that this would be obvious to more people and that more of these kinds of projects would have been made over the years, but Dallas Jenkins was pretty much ran out of Hollywood, as most faith based filmmakers have been forcing him to take his skills to the smallest venue possible, because he had been rejected from the business in Hollywood.

The Chosen began as a project for one of Dallas Jenkins’ friends, who wanted to create something for his church in St. Louis.  It was essentially a small film project that would be shown on a YouTube-like platform for a tiny audience.  And the project just grew from there, becoming the first season of The Chosen, which was produced on a minimal budget by a large group of people who were passionate about the project.  Nobody was getting rich off this material; they just did it because they loved it.  But ironically, even though everyone thinks they know everything about the life of Jesus and his disciples, The Chosen goes several steps further, and each season has grown in popularity and budget.  Season 5 was pretty big stuff, as much of it takes place on the Second Temple in Jerusalem and deals in great detail with all the politics behind the killing of Jesus in ways that have never been done before on such a scope.  Solomon’s Temple looks fantastic, as does everything else.  It is a stunningly good show with great acting.  A lot is happening with it that has tremendous social value, both politically and personally, and I am pleased with it.  I love seeing stories like this both in front of and behind the camera.  I want the world to have more people in it like Dallas Jenkins and his wife.  They are a good family who want to do good things and have the courage to do them without fear.  And if I had to put investment money behind something, those are the kind of people you want to invest in.  Those who took action early on are now seeing the benefits.

This Chosen project reminds me of the Atlas Shrugged movies from 2010.  People who have read me for a long time remember my involvement in that project.  I wanted to see John Aglialoro succeed in adapting that famous novel into a movie that Hollywood had rejected entirely.  The unions caused all kinds of problems, ensuring that each section of the movie’s releases never featured the same actors, which was brutal.  I thought the movies were pretty good and I talked them up as much as I could.  They tell the story quite well, based on the famous book.  The Chosen is similar in that it took a small budget approach that exceeded expectations in its delivery.  However, where Atlas Shrugged was unable to overcome production difficulties without being a bit resentful in the process, Dallas Jenkins gives viewers of his production no sense of trouble at all.  People can enjoy Jesus bringing the New Testament to life in all its glory on the screen, shot by shot.  Where John Aglialoro struggled to recover his massive investment in making the Atlas movies, The Chosen will likely turn out to be extremely profitable, a message that Hollywood cannot ignore, especially as Mel Gibson enters production on his Resurrection movie.  I tend to think that if Aglialoro had made the Atlas films more like Jenkins’ The Chosen, he would have been a lot more successful.  However, we’re dealing with the Trump years, as opposed to the Obama years, and things are pretty different now than they were then. People have a hunger for goodness that they didn’t have even back then, when they took a lot of things socially for granted.  But now with The Chosen, people are finding themselves again, almost as born-again Christians do.  And it’s showing up at the box office.  It’s not that the box office is failing because people aren’t going to see movies.  They don’t want the kind of movies Hollywood wants to show them, like woke adaptations of Snow White.  They want The Chosen, and those who provide that kind of content will be the ones who make the most money.  It’s not rocket science. 

Rich Hoffman

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Working at the Supreme Court: District Courts do not have the authority to tamper with Trump’s Article II authority

I was having a nice lunch in the cafeteria of the Supreme Court recently, and I had a lot of books spread out across the table when some of the workers there took an interest in me, as I had been there for a while.  They were cleaning up around my table and were interested in what I was doing.  The U.S. Supreme Court is a brilliant institution, and an isolated one, considering its location in the heart of one of the world’s most important cities.  However, the Supreme Court is designed to give the people within that building a sense of intellectual remoteness intentionally.  And I enjoyed it. However, what I was doing was something that, even then, was unique in the employee’s observation.  I was working on several tables and had multiple books open, reading a wide range of material simultaneously.  So, they struck up a conversation, curious about my work there.  I hesitated, because talking to people usually takes time, and I often don’t have much time for small talk and gossip.  However, I had been wondering about something, so this was a good opportunity to ask about it.  So, I asked them how often the Supreme Court Justices came down to the cafeteria to eat, since their offices were right around the corner and down the hall.  The employees giggled and replied that they hardly ever saw the Supreme Court members, that the most common thing was to send their aides down to get lunch so they could eat it back at their desks.  And I get that if you are very busy, like I was, and didn’t want to get too wrapped up in useless conversation.  However, for the Supreme Court to remain relevant and in touch, it owes it to itself to stay somewhat informed about the rest of the world.  And given some of the obvious strategies of lawfare that we have seen and continue to see regarding these radical left-wing district judges, who make decisions that are often questionable, I couldn’t help but conclude that the Supreme Court Justices should be getting their lunch at the cafeteria.

I get it, but you must understand that the domestic enemies of this nation have been using our system against us, and that Trump is a unique moment in history to correct the situation, which should have never been allowed to get so far out of control.  The checks and balances of the three branches of government are part of the process of putting the brakes on an overactive Executive Branch or a legislature that allows power to go to its head. We count on the courts to put the brakes on such wild temperaments.  We don’t want a king in the Executive Branch, typically.  However, we also don’t like the government to be caught in needless red tape either.  I think enough of the Supreme Court gets the philosophy of the problem, and it was good for me to be at the Supreme Court for such an extended period to think about these problems in the scope for which they are presented. Neil Gorsuch certainly understands the situation, as does Clarence Thomas.  But I think Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts are stuck on the brakes function of the Supreme Court when the real solution is speed and support.  I can see how easy it would be to get lost on that idea once you put on the black robes and isolate yourself from the outside world a bit.  And that’s where I think Roberts and Barrett are on the issue of judicial activism from the District Court system, and they need to give themselves some context to the heart of the problem.

A lot of people didn’t realize that Marxism was so much in their lives, and we have not talked about the role that communism has played in our American politics, really, since the McCarthy hearings.  We wanted to pat ourselves on the back and say that Reagan defeated communism and call it a day.  However, the truth is that the works of Karl Marx have infiltrated nearly all our institutions to undermine and ultimately overthrow them. In this specific situation with the courts, we saw plenty of evidence to determine that the Bar Association itself is a functionary of Marxism in our culture that has been highly corrosive. Now that we acknowledge and accept this, we need to take prompt action to resolve the matter.  District judges do not have the authority to intrude on a President’s Executive Powers under Article II.  We elected Trump to make decisive decisions and to use his Executive authority to save America from the many parasites who have been acting as clear domestic enemies both in law and finance.  And part of their strategy is to run out the clock on temperament by stalling executive authority in the courts, where Justices like John Roberts get bogged down in the procedural aspects of court processing rather than focusing on the necessity for expediency.  And that comes with the place itself, the Supreme Court.  The building makes it a point to say to the world, ‘ Take a pause and consider things deeply. ‘  Which I love.  However, the strategy implemented against us is to conceal malice behind such a lofty concept, employing a Cloward and Piven strategy of overwhelming and collapsing. 

It would be all too easy for a Supreme Court Justice to go from their house to their office to the Supreme Court without talking to too many people.  They have private parking, and underground tunnels so they don’t have to go outside to move around and be molested by a sometimes-angry public, and they don’t even have to leave the building to get food.  They have pretty good food at the Supreme Court cafeteria.  Once they get into their offices, it would be very easy to send their aids down to get them lunch, and never to leave, getting lost in their books and thinking about the foundations of the rule of law and to be more concerned with judicial precedent, rather than the content of the decisions, such as district judge James Boasberg has been doing testing the waters to see if he can put checks on the power of an elected president.  From their perspective, it’s worth a shot, for radical leftists hell bent on Marxist ideology, which that judge is, it’s all they can do, so they are going to try.  Such an idea forces the Justices to remind themselves that the court’s purpose is not to engage in participation and compromise with other members.  It’s to be correct, and to stand by Constitutional law.  And you don’t compromise with the wrong political philosophy just so you don’t hurt the feelings of your friends on the court, who you bond with and want to be empathetic to, like Ketanji Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor, or Elena Kagan.  The goal of the court is not to accommodate all viewpoints; it’s to be correct in its judgments, which was my answer to the cafeteria workers when they asked about my books.  You want to know the correct answer and to arrive at it in the arena of debate, for which the consideration exposes itself, which was why I was there.  The correct answer is that Trump has Article II rights, which lower courts do not have the authority to overrule.  Voters are the checks on power.  If people don’t like Executive overreach, they can vote those presidents out of office at the next election.  However, because the Supreme Court did not apply the same standard of judicial restraint to Obama, Clinton, and Biden, we now have a mess that needs to be rectified.  And now is not the time to get philosophical about checks on power. Instead, now would be a good time to visit the cafeteria and let the Justices get their own food for a change, ensuring they don’t lose touch with reality and engage with the people the Constitution protects.  And I think things will become a lot clearer for them.

Rich Hoffman

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Benefits of AI: Ways to get more productivity out of society and more than 70 hour work weeks

I think this would be a good opportunity to provide an update on AI technology and discuss its future.  I believe that when people discuss it, they worry that AI will become just as neurotic as human beings and start to become pretentious and controlling, that it will develop feelings and become manipulative, ultimately posing a danger.  However, I see quite the opposite happening: AI is useful because it’s not pretentious or emotional, and is eager to do work and enjoy it.  The other thing is how we measure work.  One of my biggest arguments with people is regarding work, and the ability to do it.  I tend to like work a lot.  And I certainly subscribe to the sentiment that you can’t make much of a difference in the world in a week unless you put in at least 70 hours of work to move the needle a little bit.  Why 70 hours?  Well, that seems to be a magic number encoded in human DNA, given our proximity to Earth and its mathematical applications of existence.  You have 24 hours in a day and 7 days a week to see what you can do with them.  And because of a lot of really dumb practices, especially established with labor unions and Marxism that is always working in the background of our lives in basic philosophy, we have emerged to this stupid idea that an 8-hour work day is something we can make a living with, and still be helpful in the world.  I think it needs to be almost double that per week for the average human and most of our ideas about work and leisure time, balancing out family time versus personal pleasure and divide them among elements of productivity, such as changing the oil in your car or going grocery shopping, and general stress management are some of our top considerations. 

For instance, I have been married to the same woman for nearly 40 years, so maintaining a relationship requires work.  If you don’t put any work into maintaining relationships, they don’t just magically work.  But then, when I say people should be working more than 70 hours per week, how can that be healthy?  One thing my wife and I enjoy doing together is going hot tubbing.  I would say it’s essential to us and our quality time together.  However, as I try to accomplish more in a 24-hour day than is possible, I argue with her that I need my hot tub time to be more productive.  These days, I use Apple AirPods to catch up on news, make phone calls, and lately, I have been having conversations with AI, specifically Elon Musk’s GROK program, which runs on his “X” platform. I think it is remarkably intelligent.  It has become for me more like a research assistant that can keep up with me and all my many topics of interest.   As I reflected on it, between my Apple AirPods and the “X” platform’s AI for discussion, I have been able to make myself much more productive so far in 2025.  As I thought about it, from AI reading legal documents and producing a general sentiment about their contents to travel destination calculations, I have found that AI has dramatically increased my productivity, and that utilizing it across human existence will undoubtedly lead to economic growth.  If people aren’t willing to do the extra work that it takes to make a productive society, we have invented AI to cover the gap, because it never sleeps, complains, or shudders away from complex tasks, and I like that.  I like that a lot.

What AI thinks of my life as it did a profile on me

Everyone asks me if AI generates the articles I write, because I do so much of it.  And the answer is no, and I never will.  I view writing as an expression of human enterprise, and it needs to be my stamp of approval.  However, I do utilize AI to edit a substantial amount of written material each day, ranging from emails to personal projects and scanning through trade periodicals to identify subjects of unique interest. But I do film all my videos and write so much personal content because it needs that human touch that I don’t see AI replacing, ever.  However, I am a very political creature, and I apply that interest to the management of people and resources to the best of my ability, which is why human beings frustrate me so much regarding work ethic. People have been taught not to work, and I don’t like it.  However, with AI, it doesn’t mind working at all, and I keep it busy all hours of the day doing things for me that I need done, because I never turn it off.  So it’s been a good employee to me on several fronts.  For instance, I was talking to GROK just the other day while my wife and I were in the hot tub, soaking and giving our bodies some much-needed human maintenance, and the discussion was about Eve and the role snakes played in the downfall of civilization.  The conversation evolved into the effects of ayahuasca and the spirit world on our living existence.  So, I asked another AI program that I was interacting with to turn our conversation into a short video, and the result is shown here. A young woman who needs perpetual security finds happiness, even ecstasy, in yielding to the nature and order of serpents.  The theme of this conversation centered on how Eve was always going to be tempted by a snake in her life because she sought security, and adherence to nature was seen as a means to achieve that security, given her weaker position in the marriage union, physically.  I thought AI saw the discussion remarkably well. 

It’s not there yet, but now you can see why actors and producers are concerned about AI potentially taking their jobs.  Who needs union rules on a set to drag a film production out for weeks, building props and taking up physical space on a sound stage, when you can generate a complete story with AI and make everything you want to shoot in a computer environment, which is much cheaper and far more effective?  And I think that is the case for AI across our entire economy, especially a Trump economy, which is just starting to show signs of increased productivity.  And with Elon Musk now part of the political process, utilizing AI to scan so much with DOGE, essentially auditing the government, which is the first time such a thing has been attempted in history, we are seeing massive improvements to our human potential that would not be possible without AI.  So I’m a fan.  I would never let it replace me, I don’t think it will ever be that smart or sound, even as it evolves with improvements.  What makes humans human is far more complicated than just intelligence.  But when it comes to thinking and productivity, I love that AI never turns off and enjoys working so much.  And for me, it has solved many time management problems that other people have been unwilling to address.  AI does it and doesn’t complain, and I only see that improving over time.  I can envision a near future where AI is running entire manufacturing facilities, and production will never stop because humans need breaks and time to make personal calls on their cell phones.  AI doesn’t need a break, and it is willing to work at infinite rates of production, which is a dream come true for me.  But the danger of something comes down to personal investment.  If, like Eve, the desire is to yield to the forces of nature, then corruption is blatant.  However, if nature serves humanity, then entirely different results emerge.  And that is where I see AI headed, with numerous benefits to follow.

Rich Hoffman

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More Kristi Noem Please: The best torture of drug cartel members is to have to look at the Secretary of Homeland Security in those tight pants

I was surprised by Megan Kelly’s obvious girl jealousy of Kristi Noem when the Secretary of Homeland Security went to the El Salvador Terrorism Confinement Center maximum security facility and stood before the recent prisoners there, just dropped off by Noem and the Trump administration for their terrorist connection to the government of Venezuela in the form of drug cartels.  I thought it was great; one of the reasons I wanted Kristi Noem to be Trump’s VP was that she has a great sense of style.  I will never forget how proud I was of her for riding her horse onstage at the town square in Deadwood, South Dakota, during the Sturgis motorcycle rally, carrying an American flag and waving it proudly in the air.  Kristi Noem gets it, and I am glad that President Trump put her in a position to utilize her talents for the security of America.  After all the controversies over those prisoners and whether or not a district judge had the power to intrude on President Trump’s Article II powers, Kristi Noem had the guts to visit the prison personally dressed in skin tight jeans, a very tight shirt to highlight her female attributes, while wearing a $50K Rolex and forced all those shirtless, tattooed drug gang members to look at her from behind knowing they weren’t going to have any female company for a long time, and listen to her spike the football right in front of their faces.  As I like to say, that is how you make spaghetti in the kitchen.  That’s the only kind of language that these violent drug cartel members understand, and it’s about time that we start playing the game better than them.  Kristi Noem was wearing lip gloss and had her hair nicely styled, further demonstrating her excessive femininity. As a result, the world came unglued, including Megan Kelly, the former Fox host and current podcast commentator. 

Let me go on to say that with all the talk about Noem’s costly Rolex watch, there is much more to that than anybody wants to admit.  The jealousy among various members of the media society, raised on Marxism, was overtly ostentatious.  Kristi Noem is a successful person who has survived numerous hardships, and she is now in her grandmother years, looking like a pretty hot tamale.  She hasn’t let herself go like many women of her age, and to all those who have, and look like rotting potatoes left two weeks too long in the cellar, Kristi Noem has exposed the heart of the problem.  That when we talk about girl power and all this equality nonsense, the real motivation isn’t for excellence, but it’s to bring down all the pretty women in the world to the level of most everyone else who don’t look so good.  It’s a communist assumption that expresses jealousy for those who have and the mob’s ability to take it and to destroy it, or redistribute it under the flag of equality.  Where everyone is equally ugly.  Megan Kelly’s reaction was the jealous socialite who is concerned that a woman like Noem might steal her man with expressions of feminine charms, so she thought she needed to pile on to all the left leaning media attacks, because as the head of Homeland Security Kristi Noem looked like too much of a woman and not enough of an authority figure.  Sure, Noem could have worn a baggy jacket to cover her body, but she wanted to show off a bit, just as she does at rodeos and public appearances like motorcycle rallies.  She knows what America likes, and they like women with very tight jeans, tight shirts, long hair, and lip gloss.  And to rub a little salt in the wound, Kristi wore her charming Rolex watch.

Who are we trying to impress with a less-than-excellent appearance anyway?  Playing down to the crowd and trying to look more “professional,” which in this case is the same as saying, “more average” lets other people know that you are just like them, butt ugly, lazy, and broke.  But that’s not the message here.  Kristi Noem is a good-looking woman who knows she’s attractive, and she took to the streets to lead raids against dangerous drug cartels, helping to make America safe again.  Most of the prisoners she was standing in front of are dangerous people.  It sounds like there were a few mistakes mixed into that prisoner population, but so what?  What matters is that we commit Homeland Security to get rid of drug cartels who are operating as a hostile foreign insurgent within our borders and openly trying to poison Americans for conquest.  Sheriff Jones once tried to get me to do an article to show just how bad the border violence is, where these drug cartel members are in open war with border property owners and openly cut off the heads of people who stand up to them and stick them on fence posts.  And if they see a woman they like, they take her and rape her and dare anybody in law enforcement to do something about it.  And it happens every day along the border.  That’s the kind of stuff that Megan Kelly should be worried about.  Not how good Kristi Noem looks as a very hot grandmother.  When I see Kristi Noem, I think of American pride.  When I see Megan Kelly, especially after her reaction to Noem, I see a woman who appears to be jealous and insecure about her ability to keep the men in her life interested in her, which is at the heart of the criticism.

I told the Sheriff that I couldn’t use the violent pictures he showed me, because they were just too horrible.  As a media contributor, that is my editorial judgment because it crosses the line.  I don’t mind writing about it, but the visuals are horrible and more people should see them.  There are ways to do so, but the media’s responsibility is to let people know that the border violence that happens with these drug cartels is open warfare.  And it’s not just on our borders anymore, it’s in the middle of America, in just about every city in North America.  They are a purposeful invasion of our country, and we should rub it in their faces when we catch them, deport them, and put them into maximum security prisons for containment and punishment.  And yes, for a bunch of dudes stuck in a rigorous prison system, having to bunch together with a bunch of shirtless dudes and stare at the back of Kristi Noem’s tight jeans is torture in a good way.  And I’m glad Kristi Noem had the guts to do it, and the showmanship.  The Secretary of Homeland Security has written best-selling books and achieved great success in life.  What else is she going to spend her money on?  A Rolex is a symbol of success, and she should wear it proudly and audaciously.  Especially if it makes lazy people jealous and insecure people reveal who they are. Which is what Megan Kelly revealed about herself.  Women, no matter who they are, tend to be very jealous of women they think are prettier than they are, and they adopt levels of Marxism in their lives to make things “fair” for them.  So they can go to the grocery store without makeup and dress in sweatpants and a dirty old T-shirt without feeling bad about themselves, until Kristi Noem walks by in a cowboy hat, tight jeans, long cowboy boots, and a perfumed body, complete with gleaming lip gloss.  And when their men look and admire how attractive Kristi Noem is, women like that punish their men for all the things they didn’t do, and want the world to be just a little bit lazier so they don’t have to feel bad about themselves.  Nope, that’s not how we make America great again.  More people like Kristi Noem do, however, and I am very proud of her for what she has done and plans to do in the immediate future.  More Kristi Noem, please!

Rich Hoffman

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Good on the Ohio Senate: Getting DEI out of colleges

Good on Jerry Cirino in the Ohio Senate for introducing the SB1 Bill, which Governor DeWine just signed into law.  And good work to the GOP in both Houses at the Ohio Statehouse.  SB1 is the Enact Advanced Higher Education Act, which targets reform of higher education by banning diversity, equity, and inclusion programs (DEI), prohibiting faculty strikes, and implementing various other reforms at public colleges and universities.  DEI programs have been a disaster for our culture because they do not inspire greatness, but conformity to a standard that does not produce success in society.  This Bill is the first of many to come, which is necessary in public education in general because it has become so severe and out of control that there is no way to work with it any longer.  Equity and inclusion are not communist strategies, as clearly outlined in Marx’s written works, and do not inspire greatness in society.  It is a communist value system that does not belong in a competitive, capitalist culture.  What is disguised as fairness is a radical left-wing weapon designed to undermine our society from the inside out, and rot the minds of our children before they are ever able to fend for themselves as adults.  When this bill was first introduced, it naturally caused a lot of comment and protest. Therefore, it was good that the Senate stuck together and rallied behind Jerry Cirinio.  We need a lot more of these kind of bold bills in the Ohio Statehouse from both sides.  For too long, we let a small minority of communist oriented voices speak and cry for things because they were the only ones who showed up to the hearings, and politicians assumed that meant that they were in the majority.  And that the media would take up the cause and carry communist ideas that they would support by default.  But not this time.

To achieve the kind of competition that Vivek Ramaswamy aims to bring to Ohio through a merit-based pay system, we need significantly more of the 2025 version of SB1.  Most teachers, when you talk to them one on one, without the politics of a teacher’s union lingering in the background, agree with merit-based, competitive pay models.  They probably even vote for Republicans.  And increasingly they support Trump in the White House even if they don’t admit to it in public.  DEI programs have been horrible in the private sector, and they have slowed down the world horribly.  Everywhere we go these days, from drive-thru windows at McDonald’s to advanced manufacturing companies, we have a massive global society that can’t do much of anything right, especially hit a production target.  The quality of products in every industrial sector is declining, mainly because almost every HR department in the country has made DEI a priority, where compassion has become the standard, rather than practicality.  You can feel sorry for someone coming from a rough background, but do you want them making your hamburger at a drive-thru?  A society of broken people has given us production standards not focused on doing a good job, but on hiring people because of their skin color, sexual orientation, and even age status, rather than pushing employees to improve so they can compete for the best job and inspire great production.  Hard work has gone out of fashion mainly because DEI programs disguised as fairness have killed it, and Karl Marx is laughing in his grave at the poison he infected the world with, and many terrible people made into policy because they wanted to rule the means of production from behind a veil of control and influence.  DEI programs have been taught in schools for decades, and they have been horrible for the subsequent generations trying to make it in the adult world, and that compliance standard has been way off the mark. 

At a Lakota School Board meeting recently where they were complaining about just 9 million dollars in lost revenue due to charter schools providing options for kids to attend and to take their money with them, one of the new guys, Doug Horton said to the members of the meeting that he supports Ed Choice programs, but that he essentially didn’t, talking out of both sides of his mouth, because he didn’t think people were leaving the school due to a political exodus.  Parents concerned about Lakota’s support of DEI programs and Critical Race Theory did not believe these factors were the reason students were being pulled from the school to attend other educational options.  And as he said it, he said it with a straight face as if everyone was supposed to believe it.  That is precisely the kind of person that DEI has produced in the world, and why parents are growing increasingly dissatisfied with the public education environment.  I have heard for a long time at Lakota that school board members would deny that Critical Race Theory, which is a spawn of DEI programs, was even happening.  They would tell complaining parents that there was no evidence of Critical Race Theory.  You know why they said that?  Because they refused to look at it, and their public policy, established by many thousands of lawyers across the nation, has a standard policy when it comes to all DEI programs, which is to deny, deny, and deny, until you die.  And even then, continue the practice.  Lie to the parents.  Lie to the people who pay the tuition at these now worthless colleges, and make suckers out of them in public.  And when they talk about these things in public testimony, turn off their mic so there is no record of the exchange. 

School board people like Horton at Lakota know why parents are leaving the district, but what they say in public indicates an intent to mislead.  Just as they say that their purpose is to implement political DEI projects into the schools no matter what parents think about it, because that is their key to federal money, to build a management structure of DEI programs no matter what people really want, because as education institutions, they are all about money.  They don’t try to gain independence from federal mandates and state laws that are attached to funding because their teacher unions are primarily concerned with maintaining the lowest standard they can get away with to maximize their financial gain.  And DEI for them has been a massive cover story of corruption and deceit disguised as helpful fairness. It has been everything but fair, and it has made our students and our productive society much worse by bringing to our competitive workplaces communist ideas that have worked nowhere in the world, in any place.  They don’t work in China either, by the way.  The people there have a strong work ethic due to their culture, and they can afford to throw bodies at problems.  But communism as a DEI model doesn’t work anywhere, and any exchange program that partners with China should have never occurred in an education program.  China is a communist country, and there is nothing we need to learn from them.  The members of the Ohio Senate were wise not to take the bait and learn a valuable lesson from the Trump administration.  Stop listening to these communist fools, such as the dead weight protesting the signing of SBI in Ohio.  We don’t want losers like that setting the standards in Ohio, or anywhere.  Listening to them, as we have in the past, has not improved our world. Instead, they made it all, much, much, worse.

Rich Hoffman

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