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Why DEI Was Always a Dumb Idea: What we learned from the Swordsman Scene in ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’

I really loved the book about Howard Kazanjian called A Producer’s Life.  I’ve referenced it many times over the last several weeks because it was an enjoyable book.  It’s the most fun I’ve had reading a book in a while, and it is one that I promised myself I’d read if Trump was re-elected into the White House.  I wouldn’t let myself think about these kinds of things as what is in Howard’s book prior, even if I do love the topic.  For a large part of my life, I wanted to be a filmmaker, and Hollywood producers like Howard Kazanjian were the kind of people who inspired me.  He produced most of my favorite movies from a key period, when he was on top of the Hollywood pile with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and many others, with films from 1975 until 1982.   Howard was always good, but if you are trending good movies and who made them over the entire history of Hollywood, this specific period set the stage for what the industry would become, and mean to the world as a whole regarding entertainment.  So, I find it very interesting to study what went right and wrong during this period.  Ironically, learning these things is precisely why understanding DEI policies and why they failed is important.  Because currently, after the Trump election and his spectacular victory, the world is giving up on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, and rightfully so.  We’re not talking about a Republican versus Democrat position here; Howard Kazanjian, I would say, probably leans toward Hollywood liberalism and likely wanted Kamala Harris to win the election.  But with Trump back in office, the world is a lot better, and I have more tolerance for people who are not so bright on political matters.  Which is why I couldn’t let myself read a book like this before the election. 

In that book, I read a good illustrative example of why DEI failed and why companies needed to get rid of it for the sake of everyone.  Picking employees based on their skin color or assuming they are equal to other people and that they should be included in something just because they exist was always ridiculous.  Some people are better than others, and if you want something to be good, you have to find the best people and put them in place; that’s good management.  And in the movie business, good people are few and far between.  But Howard Kazanjian, during that period I mentioned, found a way to be around the best people in the business, and specifically, a conversation I had never heard about regarding the famous swordsman scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, being filmed in 1980 for a 1981 release.  Everyone, no matter who they are, knows the scene.  Indiana Jones is looking for his lost girlfriend, Marian, who the Nazis have captured on the streets of Cairo.  And he has to stop them with a glorious shootout with lots of explosions and good stuff.  Along the way, Indiana Jones is stopped by an Arab swordsman who wants to fight.  But the hero doesn’t have time for it.  What does he do?   People remember with great recollection that Indy pulls out his gun, shoots the villain on the spot with no fanfare, and gets back to looking for his girlfriend.  In all the documentaries of how that movie was made, we learned that Harrison Ford was sick that day and just did the scene as a joke because there was supposed to be a fight with bullwhips that was very elaborate, and the whole crew was sick of filming take after take.  When Spielberg saw what Harrison Ford did, he wanted to keep it as a new version and print it for the film.  But there was more to the story I heard in this book on Howard Kazanjian for the first time.

George Lucas still wanted his bullwhip fight scene.  One of the reasons he was making Raiders of the Lost Ark as the executive producer was to create a modern version of the kind of movies he liked as a kid, and he wanted a classic bullwhip fight like might have been in Don Q Son of Zorro, or Zorro’s Fighting Legion.  And he wasn’t convinced that just having Indiana Jones shoot the bad guy and get on with his business was the right thing to do.  So, here were the most talented filmmakers in movie-making history who disagreed with this famous scene.  So what were they going to do?  George Lucas decided to run two film versions by a test audience, one Spielberg’s way, the other with the bullwhip fight.  They were going to let market desire determine the film’s final version.  So they played George’s version first to a test audience.  People came out of the movie liking it, and Paramount Pictures felt they had a hit.  It was a good movie.  But when Spielberg’s version was seen, people applauded when Indiana Jones shot the swordsman.  And it became everyone’s favorite moment in the movie, even after all these years.  They made 5 Indiana Jones films over the next 40 years, but none would ever have a better moment than that one to mass audiences. 

Ultimately, even with all the talent of all these people involved, it was the marketplace that picked the scene. The filmmakers came up with ideas, but to determine the success of the enterprise, they tested the waters with market analysis. The audience clearly picked one version over the other, and the rest is filmmaking history.  Presently, they are test-screening the new Captain America movie for Disney, and it is going through all kinds of trouble because nothing is working.  The film is filled with a bunch of woke politics, and people don’t like it.  It’s going to bomb when it hits theaters in February.  Ultimately, that is why DEI programs destroyed market share and value for all companies, from cookie makers to high-tech offerings.  DEI was an imposed value put on the marketplace that would have been similar to George Lucas keeping his whip fight in the movie because he wanted it, to force the audience to like it because he did.  Instead of listening to them, which is what happened.  When companies try to impose themselves on the public and force values on them that they don’t have, failure is almost assured.  However, when products appeal to the audience’s sentiment, great success is possible.  It is rare because good ideas are complex, and companies often hang on to them even if the market pressure rejects them.  Only to plot an enterprise to its doom.  But when we say that getting rid of DEI suits all businesses everywhere, this is what we mean and why.  In capitalism, value serves the marketplace.  In authoritarian governments, values are imposed, and a monopoly status is sought that limits the viability of options.  And the world is far worse off because of it.  The best example of why some ideas work over other ideas can sometimes come from interesting places, which is undoubtedly the case with a movie most people agree has some value to them over time, and that is how Indiana Jones was created in that old classic movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Rejection of Freakshow Politics: Democrats had Joe Rogan, and they lost him because they had terrible messaging

There is a lot of talk by Democrats about what could have been in their messaging that could have caused them to win during this last election cycle.  And with Hunter Biden getting his pardon, one that everyone saw coming, there is a belief that he, or some other Democrat, could run a podcast to compete with Joe Rogan and that if only they had someone as popular on the left, they could sell their message.  Well, here’s the deal: Democrats lost because they made themselves the “Freakshow Party,” the political party of broken toys from Misfit Island, and their messaging was terrible.  When Biden was given power by a rigged election provoked by a manufactured Covid virus released from a lab in China to cause a coup in the United States, the first thing he did was put a gay guy like Major Pete on his cabinet and Ralph Levine for Assistant Secretary for Health and Head of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps as well as Health and Human Services, as a crossdresser right out of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.  Biden’s people were caught having gay sex and filming it in public buildings, and they fully expected to shut down anybody’s negative opinions on the matter, forcing many to count down the days until these losers were voted out of office.  And a lot of people couldn’t wait to vote against the Biden administration because of the Freakshow they put on and expected everyone to accept.  No amount of any podcast could justify the audaciousness of how Democrats positioned themselves for the 2024 election.  They can’t sell something to people that they don’t want to buy, and that is apparently new news to them.  But they should have listened because I have been telling them that for a long time. 

As to Joe Rogan, they had him.  I’ve said about Joe Rogan that he was too liberal for me.  He voted for Biden and Obama and has only now been a Trump supporter.  The same with Elon Musk and many other Democrats who converted to the Republican Party in the wake of the assassination attempt against Trump in July of 2024.  I didn’t listen to the Joe Rogan podcast because he was a devoted Democrat, and I don’t have time in my life for people like that.  I only paid attention to him because he was moving toward Trump in the closing days of the 2024 election. After all, the Democrats were so embarrassing.  So, if the Republican Party was going to go into a big tent party, I was happy to hold open the flap to that tent to fill it with as many people as possible.  But this notion that if only Democrats had their version of Joe Rogan is ridiculous.  Because they had him.  As well as owning most of the media culture that there is.  People turned away from Democrats because they became the party of the Freakshow; they abused their relationship with everyday people to such an extent that they pushed people away.  And that is something they didn’t think would happen.  When people like AOC in Congress seem normal and rational, the Democrats have a big problem, and people are going to turn away from them just by association.  Democrats thought they could abuse their relationship with people, just as most corporations these days also believe because they feel like communists who can live in a bubble without competitive ideas to challenge them and come to the conclusions within their little world that they are all there is. 

They should have seen the writing on the wall when they mistreated their people, like Musk and Joe Rogan, for being critical of the Democrat party when they should have been listening.   With Rogan, the political left tried to cancel culture him for doing a podcast where anti-vaxers were on to talk about COVID-19, and the left tried to damage Rogan’s deal with Spotify.  I can tell everyone here that I went through all kinds of problems, especially with Spotify and YouTube, so I can understand Rogan’s situation because he had real money at stake in the protests.  But it was essentially an anti-free speech message that Democrats had, their modern version of the Berlin Wall.  Communists cannot afford competition with capitalist markets, and ultimately, when you have the wealthiest guy in the world on your side, but you are attacking the kind of world that made him rich in the first place, you are setting yourself up for a significant loss.  Elon Musk pays more taxes than any person on planet Earth, and Democrats just kept asking for more.  It’s like a husband who continues to keep cheating on his wife, and she stays with him for as long as she can take it, then decides one day, no more.  And she finally leaves.  And she should go if he’s not respecting her.  That’s what the Democrats did to their people, like Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Robert Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard, and many others.  There were a lot of Democrats, especially union members, who voted for Trump in this last election because the message was better from Republicans.  Democrats took it for granted that their platform was so powerful that they could shame people into voting for a Freakshow, a bunch of sexual deviants, and crack addicts with an addiction to all kinds of problems.  And presenting those kinds of people to the world was a winning strategy.

Ultimately, this problem is one I have been pointing out for a long time.  I write on this site because I know who reads it and why.  I do not write here for the ordinary, everyday person but for the influencers on the frontier of independent journalism, which is where all the action will be in the future.  Traditional media is dying.  Modern media platforms like Truth Social, Gettr, and Elon Musk’s “X” are the future, and the kind of competitive content out there will destroy a weak message.  So, I see my efforts as being very important to that process and an investment on my part to a better world.  For all those who aren’t sure what they can or can’t talk about, I provide a new way of thinking about it in a media culture increasingly driven by artificial intelligence.  And the Democrats showed a complete lack of respect for other people’s opinions over these last eight years, essentially since Trump entered office the first time.  In their desperation, they ran wildly in the other direction toward “freakshow” politics, such as the bearded lady at a carnival or the man with two heads.  And they scared off any fringy supporters they did have who were straddling the fine line between left-of-center politics and the right.  So they lost support because of their strategy, and giving Hunter Biden his own podcast would only accelerate their problems.  And that’s the thing: it is a free world; Hunter Biden could start his podcast tomorrow, just as anybody could.  But would anybody listen or pay attention?  I do it because people do pay attention and listen.  And I see the impact.  But who wants to listen to Hunter Biden?  Who cares about one thing that he says or does?  And how could a person like that move a political party toward success?  The answer is that they can’t, and that’s why Democrats lost.  They embraced the wrong strategy, which probably cost them their party.  As I always say, Democrats can’t win if they don’t cheat.  And that was certainly the case in 2024.  Where it was too big to rig, Democrats couldn’t win because they couldn’t cheat.  And they had no other strategy for winning because their messaging never respected voter opinions.  Only the guilt they could generate from their freakshow politics, which would always fail.

Rich Hoffman

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Starting Wars to Control People: It was always the global strategy by secret societies like the Skull and Bones

It’s been a dirty little secret for a long time, but it has been going on since the dawn of human civilization, and we are seeing it come to an end here in 2024.  And that is the strategy of starting wars to control mass society.  Most recently, the example of the secret society, the Skull and Bones at Yale University, is to produce political figures who would keep that trend going to maintain an aristocracy of globalism for which people like John Kerry and the Bushes would support as they moved into political positions.  This is why those forces are in a rush to start more war ahead of President Trump’s next term, because after he’s back in office, there won’t be any tolerance for it.  It’s also why the Deep State fought so hard to get rid of Trump the first time, spending eight years doing everything they could do to pound him out of existence and to ensure that civilian control over the American government would never happen again.  Yet it did, and now the panic is viperous.  Few know it because it is a secret society, but in the lobby of the Skull and Bones building is the word “War” written on the wall as their foundational concept, and it’s how they always planned to rule.  These people never had a desire for world peace.  War was what they used to grab power as a Deep State and to use that power to stay in control.  When we say Deep State, as in the case of the Skull and Bones, it’s the desire to run a government that is beyond the civilian elected government.  Any notation of control that the Skull and Bones have about their role in government is unconstitutional. 

Just as the Bohemian Grove people believe on the West Coast, the idea of a secret society to mold the next generation through hazing rituals to rule in the background was only going to be possible if they gained the ability to start a war in one region, then to push for peace in another.  For instance, consider the protests of the Vietnam War that have had so much documentary evidence to review.  On the one hand, the Deep Staters would push for the expansion of communism into South East China by using war first against Japan to soften up the Chinese to communist attack from the north flowing out of Russia.  Then the sad bell boy, Ho Chi Minh from the Treaty of Versailles monstrosity, poised and angry at the French occupation of their homeland in Vietnam, adopted communism as their calling cry to freedom.  Americans were called into the war by the same globalists who started the war to provoke war protests then and usher in the hippie movement that had communist foundations to open the door in the West for such thinking on America’s college campuses.  None would have happened without the pressure of war to drive social change.  The war wasn’t about freedom in Vietnam; it was about bringing down the West in the same way that communism brought down China.  And China was being built to become the first state of globalism, meant to do the same to the rest of the world, which we see happening today.  China, the creation of the globalist one-world order threatening the world financially and structurally, pushed everyone into communism so that centralized governments could control everything in the background.  Trump was the first Republican to call the bluff card on this mess during his first term when he started putting an end to all these phony wars, especially regarding North Korea.

North Korea was built to be a sympathetic target to draw attention away from China.  As pretty much a useless threat to the world, they would launch their empty missiles out and over the Sea of Japan routinely, as the media would report the antics frantically to the world, hoping to provoke public reaction toward animosity toward the ruler, Kim Jong Un.  And who could forgive what the North Koreans did to the young man from Cincinnati, Otto Warmbier, who was tortured ruthlessly?  Fortunately, Trump saw through all these strategies and ignored the warnings of how dangerous Kim Jong Un was, and reached across the border to shake the young man’s hand and develop a friendship.  Left to their own devices, most people will do terrible things to each other, such as what happened to Otto Warmbier.  And that is actually how the Deep State recruits their people out of organizations like the Skull and Bones, with embarrassing sexual confessions meant to bond members for life, to use the deceitful nature of other human beings to mask their true intentions of a global aristocracy.  Those same rules apply to global politics, and nobody was ever supposed to give a member of the Axis of Evil, as George W. Bush always said of North Korea, a chance to be redeeming.  But what Trump exposed was the phony threat North Korea was to the war, provoking the Deep State to come after him even more vigorously and to attempt to inspire assassination attempts on Trump’s life, just as they did with President Kennedy.  All this mess started with these secret society members, such as Yale’s Skull and Bones, entering politics and bringing with them the philosophy of war to instigate trouble around the world so that they could be the firefighters to put out the fire they started themselves, which was certainly the case over oil in the Middle East.  All while ignoring the massive amounts of oil that were always in the United States and could have killed the enemy with competition and capitalism if they wanted to, and saved many lives and the dismemberment of innocent people.

This brings us to the ending of the Ukraine war, which was phony from day one.  When that war started, provoked by the Biden crime family for many reasons that only helped the Deep State maintain political control over the world, anybody who was flying a Ukrainian flag in the United States was seen as a fool.  People were catching on to this silly game and wanted an end to it.  The Deep State plan was to push Vladimir Putin into a war where he would lose and become the next China, just as Japan had forced China into a weakened position.  With Russia, the attack was to destroy it as a sovereign country.  And the same Deep Staters were trying to convince people that Putin had put Trump in office and that all of them needed to be removed to have a good world.  But the Deep State, run by these secret society losers, went too far, and this process of Trump exposing it shattered the illusion of self-government.  In a somewhat honest election, Trump was re-elected to the White House, and all the wars around the world that had been brewing are suddenly going to have cold water thrown on them all.  And that’s how the Deep State gets destroyed because the only real power they had was just as the Skull and Bones people had, through secrecy and mutual dirty laundry on each other to bond them to villainy.  And start wars to drive the political narrative, allowing them to gain control.  It was a game that suddenly ended in 2024 for the first time in human history.  Secret societies were dedicated to these war-like causes long before the Skull and Bones people came along.  However, this trend extends back to all known times, and it only ended when Trump went back to the White House, backed by a government of people who had expressed control over their government for the first time.

Rich Hoffman

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Individuals Beat Corporations Every Time: Why success happens

This could apply to anything, but studying why some movies released at the theater are better than others is critical because of how the movie business works.  People get together and tell a story, and the value of that story is released to the public for them to vote on.  People tend to think of Hollywood as very glamorous, but in truth, very few people who work in the industry ever get to be a part of an extraordinary success, a ratio even less than in other fields of endeavor.  So it is always interesting to understand why some people put together a string of hits, such as Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, along with producer Howard Kazanjian.  An even more important example is the role that George Lucas’ first wife, Marcia Lucas, played in some of the most memorable and good movies of all time.  Also, why did a small, family-owned company like Lucasfilm lose its magic once it became a corporate conglomerate under Disney?  All this was in a fabulous book called ‘A Producer’s Life,’ which was about the life and times of Howard Kasanjian, who produced several of the Star Wars movies and the start of the Indiana Jones franchise, among other classic films like Cool Hand Luke, The Wild Bunch, and working with Alfred Hitchcock.  This book caused much stir when it first came out because Marcia Lucas was just as upset about Disney killing off Han Solo as I was for many political reasons.  That was just another example of how corporations that use processes to isolate individual contributions produce products in the world that are not as desired by the market.  In the case of the new Star Wars movies, the belief was that the film itself held all the magic and that a girl could replace a character like Han Solo to accommodate all kinds of woke rules wrapped around the axil of globalism. However, the Disney people never understood Star Wars, and this book had the opinions of someone who was very close to Star Wars, who was the key to their success initially. 

The book came out in 2021, right in the middle of the Covid monstrosity, and Biden had just been inserted into the White House, so I wasn’t in the mood to think about movies.  But I promised myself that if Trump returned to the White House, I’d get the book, take a bit of a vacation, and allow myself to think about some fun things.  For me, these are some of the most fun things, and they show how entertainment impacts culture as a whole.  And when it comes to those movies, Indiana Jones and Star Wars, few people have put together the kind of hits as filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.  The corporate belief is that just anybody can make a good movie or a good anything if only enough money is spent on the project, and in film, typically, the industry attracts all the same kind of sharks looking for an easy dollar as Wall Street does.  But few of them, if anybody, understands what makes hits and misses in the marketplace.  I have always wondered why George Lucas was so good from 1975 to 1982.  After that period, George Lucas wasn’t very good at all.  He may have been interesting, but he had lost his touch, and I always thought it probably had something to do with his wife, Marcia. 

There were two good Star Wars movies, and then everything fell off the rails with Return of the Jedi.  The movies were self-funded and only distributed through 20th Century Fox.  George Lucas hated corporate filmmaking; he wanted to make independent films from a family-driven company.  This allowed someone like the film editor, his wife, Marcia Lucas, to put her personal touches all over those early movies, which were key to their successes.  Something Disney and all its resources today don’t have is that personal touch.  During Return of the Jedi, Marcia and George divorced, and she ran off with the stained glass window guy working on their Skywalker Ranch.  That sounds kind of cheap and stupid, but George Lucas was working hard at the time to maintain his independence from the studio system, so he was putting all the pressure on himself.  This is another reason why those family-made movies were so good.  It wasn’t the board of directors or BlackRock assets making the decisions; it was George Lucas.  But it drove a wedge between him and his wife, and he never recovered.  Neither did she.  They should have stuck it out, but that’s history now, and the results tell quite a story.  Because she worked with her husband, Marcia knew how to get the best out of the coverage shots he provided as a director and could make a story pop on the screen that resonated with audiences.  You have to be an excellent person to produce good work, which gets lost in all corporations: those individual contributions.  For instance, if SpaceX lost Elon Musk, the company would fail quickly.  We always see it in sports: a star player carries a franchise.  As the saying goes, there is no “I” in team, but there is in win.  Teams are not values, they are places where people can hide so they don’t have to deal with the pressure of taking on too much responsibility.

One time, when the character of Indiana Jones was being created, Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas designed the character before principal photography, and they were all talking about giving Indiana Jones some flaws that the audience could relate to, such as making him smoke and drink too much.  But as she often did with many of those early Lucasfilm movies, Marcia stepped in and gave her opinion that was critical to the effort’s success.  Keep in mind that these three moviemakers were some of the best of the best in the business. But it took George Lucas’ wife to point out the obvious.  She told them this was a kid’s movie and they couldn’t have Indiana Jones drinking and smoking.  He’ll lose all his charm, which they didn’t understand then.  But George listened to his wife, as usual, and the character became one of the most beloved in all movie history.  They are still trying to make money off Indiana Jones, with Disney running the studio.  But they don’t understand the character because they don’t have someone like Marcia Lucas in the editing room polishing everything up.  They have access to tens of thousands of talented filmmaking types, but very few understand the subtlety of success and failure.  Without question, Marcia Lucas, as a high-quality individual, made those early movies better.  She also made Lucas, Spielberg, and Harrison Ford better.  Better than any of them would ever be again once she was no longer a part of their lives.  After the divorce, it went all downhill from there.  They still made good movies, but they had all lost their touch, never to duplicate it again.  And no matter what business we’re talking about, that same kind of ratio applies.  Corporations often don’t get it; they mimic what made them great and hope nobody notices.  But to become great in the first place, there is always some charismatic individual, or a collection of them, who come together and make magic happen.  And without those individuals, no process in the world can promise success, purposefully or by accident.  Family-owned businesses are some of the best ways to achieve that success, and Lucasfilm was a family-owned business in those early days.  Once they became a corporate conglomerate, they could no longer make magic, and the brands they were associated with died in the court of public opinion. 

Rich Hoffman

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Elon Musk Has Found His Szechuan Sauce: Turning a One to a Zero

Mar-a-Lago has been the center of American politics, as I said it would be on day one of removing Trump from office in 2021, since then.  And it has replaced the White House as the place to be and do business with America.  But what I never thought would happen would be that I would ever see Elon Musk, the wealthiest person in the world and poised to become the first trillionaire, sitting at the big kid’s table on Thanksgiving with the Trump family, President Trump, Barron, and Melania, dancing to the YMCA song.  I thought it was an extraordinary historical event, maybe one of the most significant events ever, and I have seen many things.  For context, this particular Thanksgiving event had been building all this time, since Trump left office, or was pushed out, and was now culminating into this fantastic celebration where so many improbable things emerged in that wonderful moment captured on video with Trump backslapping Musk like a little boy, or dear old friend and having essentially two of the most powerful men in the world be not rivals with each other, but soul mates, and deep friends who know their place in history, and are happy about it.  These kinds of things never go together, and if Trump had not taken that bullet to the face and lived, this Thanksgiving celebration never would have happened.  It only happens in cases such as when Jesus Christ was killed and came back to have dinner with his disciples, a kind of post-death celebration of eternal life.  This is the best Trump we could have hoped to have gotten, and it came with so many improbable resolutions that the world is uniting around Trump for all the reasons that they were all so wrong.  Suddenly, everything reversed course and swung in the other direction.

As I watched Elon Musk sitting there obviously enjoying his newly adopted father, which is what Trump has become to him over these last few months, I was thinking of a Rick and Morty episode that I like a lot where the character Rick Sanchez destroys the entire Federation Government by changing a 1 to a 0 in their galactic financial markets just because Rick wanted to get the dipping sauce from McDonald’s that was part of a Mulan promotion called Szechuan Sauce.  I don’t know if Elon Musk is the most intelligent person on earth, the way that the character Rick Sanchez is the most intelligent human being in the entire universe.  I have known people like Elon Musk regarding intelligence, and if they turned the mirror just a little bit, they could be just as wealthy.  Those kinds of social measures do not seem to matter to Elon Musk.  To him, money is just a tool so he can build and do extraordinary things.  And for the MAGA movement, he has become the replacement for George Soros, who used to fund all those left-leaning causes.  Elon Musk, after that assassination attempt, admired Trump so much that his brilliant mind was able to see something emerging that he needed in his life, and that was to overthrow the kind of government that was keeping his SpaceX company from doing what it needed to do, and that is to carry humanity to space.  This transformation with Elon Musk is something I pointed out almost two years ago when I saw his book recommendation for Johan Norberg called The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World.  I reviewed that book and pointed out at that time that something compelling was happening when a person like Elon Musk was stepping away from the World Economic Forum and stepping in to open support of global capitalism. 

Everyone disagreed with me, and they wanted to argue about why Trump would never be back in office and that Elon Musk was an asset to China because of his relationship with Tesla, making factories there, and having to dance to the strings of the communist government.  He was also the poster boy for Klaus Schwab at the WEF.  I saw this all happening when I was introduced to Vivek Ramaswamy at an event right before the release of his book, Woke Inc., by the wonderful Nancy Nix, Butler County’s fabulous auditor.  Maybe someday Vivek will tell a story about what we discussed, but even then, it was becoming clear to me where the world was heading, and people with their finger on it, like Trump, Vivek, Musk, and others, were crawling out into the light of day.  Books like Vivek’s and Norberg’s could not be written and not shatter an established order because the only reason that order had power was through deceit.  And now people were talking about these kinds of things.  You never know how little things end up becoming big things.  That’s why you do everything. 

And I was the only one saying that the polls were lying and that Kamala was never ahead.  Only Rasmussen was showing a contrary election that showed that Trump could win.  But I was even more aggressive than them because I looked at a more significant trend that nobody else seemed to see, not even Elon Musk.  But once he did see it, as Trump was nearly assassinated, everything from there just clicked into place, and perhaps the most improbable event in all human history happened on Thanksgiving down at Mar-a-Lago with Musk dancing to the famous YMCA song while sitting next to Trump for Thanksgiving Dinner, 2024.  Musk was happy that he found his Szechuan Sauce.

I know the world will catch up, but nobody will see what has hit them in a few years.  The way all this added up to this Thanksgiving event was a change for the entire human race, and it was so good that it almost made up for all the misery we have experienced over the last 8 years.  The first few years of Trump were great, but we learned many ugly truths about our world and its governments that moved out of conspiracy theory and into observable facts.  It happened fast and will continue to accelerate at a mind-bending pace.  And Musk knows it.  He had been trying to solve this engineering problem: how can you make the human race a space-fairing society?  Well, you have to build a political system that can accommodate it, and first, you have to start with world peace.  How can you do that, support the guy who they were trying to kill, and essentially change a 1 to a 0 and collapse their entire world order so that we can get a colony of over a million people on Mars within a few years?  Musk solved his engineering problem, and he found in Trump precisely what he needed, and he was so happy about it that he hadn’t left Mar-a-Lago since the election of 2024.  While everyone was celebrating, we saw just a glimpse of what the world could be, and it was very positive and happening in such a way that nobody saw it coming.  Except for me, nobody called it the way I did out of all the media markets.  And personally, because of all the grief that I took over everything I had been saying and continue to say, seeing Trump and Musk together on Thanksgiving was the best gift I could have received.  In this case, it’s a gift that keeps on being given.   Musk turned the world from a 1 to a 0.  And I love it!

Rich Hoffman

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The Velvet Hammer: Life is more like playing poker than we’d like it to be

A lot of people are upset that Trump had a lunch meeting with Mark Zuckerberg at Mar-a-Lago after all that Zuckerbucks had done to cause trouble in the 2020 election and censor people politically on his Facebook platform.  After all, he was one of the most evil people from the past, and here he was, groveling in front of Trump, looking to be a part of the future.  And everyone’s first instinct is that he should be in jail, perhaps worse.  My first reaction was that I would never sit down with an enemy like that.  I tend to hold grudges forever, and I get all the people who do me wrong back for things they’ve done to me or tried to do to me, even if it takes decades.  I never get over anything.  Most people at least think that way, even if, in reality, they tend to be more forgiving.  But then I was reminded that it was just this past week that I was called a Velvet Hammer by a friend of mine.  I tend to tell people to “go to Hell,” where they thank me for the opportunity by the time I’m done with them.  That is something that I have learned to do over time, and I think it comes with any successful experience when it comes to people. You have to really open up the toolbox of communication to deal with a variety of people who all want different things.  My first reaction to being called a Velvet Hammer was that this person was telling me my way of fighting with people was like a woman, which is one of those woke things that we’re not even supposed to consider these days.  But women often don’t fight directly about anything and seldom ever say what they mean.  They might deal with another woman thinking, “You dumb bitch, you’re trying to steal my husband,” when in reality, they say, “We should get a latte at Starbucks sometime.”  Conversely, men would deal with conflict much differently; one moment, they might want to fight in the parking lot, and the next, they are the best of friends sharing eternal bonding.  Men get over things fast, by biological necessity.  But in the business world, with men and women being thrown together like no other time in history, where those elements have to be dealt with in some way, successful people must expand their communication ability to be effective. 

That’s something I have learned over time, which is to develop many ways to communicate with many tools in the toolbox rather than a hammer and chisel to get an idea across to people resistant to it.  In many cases, there are legal parameters that you always have to be aware of, so you can’t say things to people that they could then legally use against you or that culturally violate basic assumptions about work that have been shaped by radical leftist politics and a media culture that leans dramatically to Marxism.  You might feel very strongly about something, but you can’t express it to people who think very differently about it because they don’t have the right kind of mind even to hear what you are saying.  So I have had to learn to express myself to the limits of the people around me, which is why that Velvet Hammer designation came my way because the situation was very delicate, and I did have to tell people to go to Hell while at the same time having them thank me for the experience. 

And naturally, Trump, being at the top of the business world for many years, has had to learn this Velvet Hammer approach.  It is satisfying to tell people what you think of them, just as it is rewarding to punch someone in the face when they’ve done you wrong.  But the playground politics doesn’t translate well into the business world.  Maybe it should; perhaps the world would be better off if people always said what they meant about everything.  But that’s not how humans are wired; there are always subtleties with people, and often, it’s best to keep your enemies close so you can see how they will play their cards.  Life is much more like poker, where the other players are constantly lying to you, than a religious confessional, and to have a relationship with them, which is often necessary, the best way to navigate is through communication methods that are beyond their innate experiences learned from childhood on conflict resolution.  You can still hit them over the head with a hammer, but a little velvet on it helps delay the realization about what you are doing until they’ve given you what you want, and they don’t realize what you are doing to them until it’s too late.  Trump has mastered this technique without question, and that’s what he has been doing with Mark Zuckerberg.  Can he use the dumb kid to good effect, trading jail for reform on his deep past with working with the three-lettered intelligence agencies to bring America down from within?  While people might instinctively want to see Zuckerberg hang, Trump, the intelligent business guy, wonders if there is some way he can profit from the situation Zuckerberg finds himself in, which is the best way to make a good deal for yourself. 

And when you are a winner in your engagements, you can afford to use a Velvet Hammer rather than desperately fighting for your rights to exist.  Having your enemies come to you and grovel at your feet is the best reward.  Zuckerberg is trying to survive in a world he went all in on destroying, and now he has to wake up each day trying to appeal to the people he most hurt.  And what can be learned from his network if he’s allowed to share a bit in that world?  After all, that’s what Mika and Joe Scarborough did from The Morning Joe Show on MSNBC was the same thing Zuckerberg did, and that was to see Trump and grovel in front of him since he had won the election and the right to shape the world from the Executive Branch.  Defeated foes have been boot-licking and groveling like this for thousands of years.  But as the one having their boots licked, the way to get them working in your direction is with a velvet hammer. Not a sledgehammer that crushes them out of existence.  You want to know what people are up to because they seldom reveal it deliberately.  If you want to work with lots of different people who all have other motives, and you want to win them over to your way of thinking, then you have to find a way to get them under control and pointed in the right direction in ways that make it look profitable for them.  In Zuckerberg’s situation, Trump has a full checkmate on him, and everyone knows it.  There is only one path for Zuckerberg and Trump to control it.  So when a business guy gets that kind of leverage over someone, there is a lot more profit for Trump in utilizing it to proper effect than in having the satisfaction of Zuckerberg being hit over the head and having his soul crushed.  Because, at that point, he’s just another useless carcass.  However, making him an asset is why President Trump is rich. He learned how to use the Velvet Hammer, and he does so often.   

Rich Hoffman

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Once You Win, Now What: Learning to deal with the pressure of being on top

So, now that we’ve won some crucial elections, and Trump is going to be back in office and will make it a priority for America to win again, what happens now?  Winning is tricky, not just in winning once or twice here and there but in having a winning attitude every day, no matter what is happening in your life.  And to answer another question I get asked all the time, why do I participate in so many competitive events throughout the year, especially in shooting sports?  What’s the point?  Well, to have this conversation, actually, and this is a point I make abundantly in my Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, winning is very difficult because once you win a time or two, you end up on everyone’s target list for personal destruction.  The social ostracization begins with the masses who don’t win very much and it can get pretty tough.  So I compete a lot, not for the fun of it but for the practice of staying sharp in maintaining a winning way of thinking, which then cascades into other parts of my life.  But for many, winning is easy.  As an outsider, you put all your efforts into something.  You win, then become the king of the hill.  Then what do you do? You now have people looking at you as the one to topple.  A lot of people suffer greatly when they win in politics because once the shoe is on the other foot, and your competitive enemy now looks at you with the obsession of beating you, you might likely find yourself spending most of your time looking over your shoulder instead of maintaining a winning attitude which caused you to win in the first place. 

Since I compete a lot, I get to see the ugly side of people working hard to win at anything, from bowling to golf.  A win over peers makes life a little bit better and makes all the mundane things we do in a day just a little sweeter when we win.  Humans are competitive people, which works best in capitalism when people compete for market share.  But I can tell you, especially in shooting sports, that some people you compete against get pretty crazy when they think obsessively about beating you once you establish yourself as the one to beat, and if they can’t beat you, they get pretty mad.  Learning to deal with that pressure is a large part of the battle because everyone can win a time or two just by random luck.  But how do people manage the expectations of being a winner?  That can be a bone-crushing, soul-draining endeavor.  Maintaining a winning attitude once you become the king of the hill that everyone wants to knock off takes a lot of work and personal motivation.  It would be easy for me just to put trophies on the wall and say, I won a lot and was pretty good.  But continuing to grind through more and more wins isn’t for me about winning; it’s about dealing with all the people who want to knock me off and dealing with that pressure.  Even if it’s a little thing.  The competition from people who always want to beat you sharpens you up for life’s real battles.  If the pressure under leisure bothers you, then real stuff, where it counts, can destroy you.

I was at Top Golf recently with many people, and you wouldn’t believe how competitive everyone was in getting the best score.  I don’t golf much, but I was doing very well.  And there were people there who golf all the time.  It’s the primary recreational activity they do in life, and they were losing and were mad about it.  My strategy to compensate for my lack of finesse with the various wedges was to use the driver to hit the ball as hard as possible toward the 300 point holes in the back of the course.  And most of them were going in.  And it was driving my competitors crazy.  I often have the same reaction in a fast draw.  I have a very fast draw where I shoot right out of the holster at my hip.  And it’s hard for people who have been shooting for a long time to deal with that because the core skill is going a little slower to go fast, which is the opposite of driving a golf ball by relying on hitting it hard every time.  Typically, people who win a lot find something they can excel at, and they leverage that against variability and emotion for consistency of performance.  And they usually end up winning more than average against other people.  That was certainly the case with several political campaigns.  One of the reasons Trump has been so dominant in politics is because he learned to win in life, so defending his king of the hill perspective was nearly impossible for losers who wanted to use mass collectivism to hide their incompetency, such as was the entire campaign of Kamala Harris.  Once she showed herself as a loser who didn’t know how to win anything, she was easy to beat, even with the media trying to cheerlead her on.  Democrats weren’t prepared for an honest election where they had to win.  They had built their entire political platform on cheating and couldn’t handle the pressure down the stretch, no matter how much money they spent, just like the guy who buys all the fancy golf clubs competing against a person who handles the pressure of winning better.  Money can’t solve the problem. 

A lot of people in life can’t handle the pressure of being a winner.  So all they ever really achieve is the rock-chucking part of wearing down an opponent.  Whoever is the king of the hill at that time makes themselves an easy target for all the rock chuckers.  Someone recently told me, “Do you know how much people hate you?”  It was as if it was my social obligation to be liked and to lose to make them feel better about themselves.  Because they were too lazy to become winners, they resorted to the classic peer pressure application of saying, “You should let me win if you want to be my friend.”  Well, why would anybody want to be friends with a loser?  What’s the fun in that?  I like seeing people working hard to beat me at things because it improves them.  I think, especially in a capitalist culture, that people are forced to make themselves better by making me a target for their perfection.  And if they sneak away a win here and there, I am usually happy for them.  I have a lot of trophies, so I like to see other people enjoy victory, especially if the competition makes everyone better.  That’s the name of the game.  But once you are a winner, you must expect everyone to come after you.  And that will undoubtedly be the case with these political wins.  Don’t be happy to put the trophy on the wall and rest on your laurels.  Once you win, you must continue to win and strive at it with every breath in your body, every day.  And by making winning a daily practice, you will find that it helps you in everything you do.  And that the world around you will benefit from the competition. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Best Way to Show How Useless You Are, Work From Home: Ahead of D.O.G.E, it would be great if federal employees just resigned by the hundreds of thousands

There is no better way to show how useless you are than not being at work and nobody missing you.  And ahead of Trump becoming president and his staff moving into their positions, federal employees are threatening in mass to resign.  Around 2.3 million federal workers in roughly 24 civilian agencies employ about 98% of that number.  Just over half, 1.2 million, work in jobs that require them to be fully present. The remaining 1.1 million are eligible for remote work, or what they are calling “telework.”  Of those, around 228,000 are in remote positions and are not expected to work in person.  Of the remainder of those 1.1 million, they spend only 61% of their working hours at an office, meaning they report for work only sporadically during a work week. And for anybody working in a job that does not require you to be fully present or that you are off a lot, you only prove that your employer is wasting money on you because they have learned to function without you.  COVID and the work-from-home policies that came with it were some of the dumbest ideas in the history of the world and were a prequel to the concept of just giving everyone a universal wage just for existing, as the attempt was to redefine what productivity meant to an economic culture.  And now, even three years later, many of these federal employees, and many who work with government contracts at large companies, still believe that they can work from home doing a few Teams calls with people and to call that work.  Behind that lunacy is this assumption that we can get to a zero-emission world if people just stopped coming to work and stayed in their homes. The government would pay you to do a job they created without any value on a spreadsheet.  It was always a dumb idea.

Darryl Parks and I, from WLW radio back when he was the guy who ran the whole place, used to talk about this on air all the time: federal employees were useless and made way too much money for doing too little.  Most of them belong to labor unions. Everyone remembers the protests in 2012 when Senate Bill 5 in Ohio was put forth that would strip any government worker from belonging to a labor union and impose collective bargaining on taxpayers who had to pay the bill.  All government jobs created are essentially a tax.  They have created positions that only serve the growth of government, which often works against taxpayer interests.  Public school teachers were some of the worst back then, demanding extraordinary amounts of money for essentially working only 6 or 7 hours a day and having off all summer.  The anger that came from the idea of stripping government workers of their ability to join a labor union didn’t go over well politically, and many Republicans lost their way during the outrage.  And I was in the thick of it; I received a lot of radical union harassment ranging from death threats to open conflict everywhere I went publicly.  I was the face of the effort in many ways because I was on WLW radio all the time talking about it, which directed a lot of anger in my direction.  For which I have no regrets.  It got bad at times, and a lot of people got hurt. You would have thought they’d learn their lesson.  But 8 years later, when Covid came along, all they did was justify everything I said about them.  When they had a chance to shut down schools, attempt to keep people from attending church, and use the virus to stay home from work perpetually and still get paid, they proved how useless I had been saying they were all along.  And it was a redeeming moment that many people noticed and suddenly wanted to do something about. 

Since COVID-19, people who live everyday lives and don’t work for a lazy, bloated government getting paid too much money for doing too little decided they didn’t like this arrangement.  Federal employees typically made 30% more than regular workers, and voters were unhappy about it.  They might have listened to me back in 2012 when Darryl and I spent all those Saturdays talking about how dumb it was to have all those government workers charging too much against the taxpayers for useless jobs.  But most voters weren’t ready to do anything about it.  At the time, they thought it was a good gig if someone could get it, a federal job that was overpaid and didn’t require much performance.  So I was in the minority back then, along with other Tea Party-minded people.  But time proved our arguments extremely valid, and all the violence leading up to Covid was much warranted.  I had to hurt many people for a not-very-good reason just because there was a belief that collective bargaining had a right to overrule individual opinions.  And that if everyone didn’t just shut up and put up with their radical labor union mentality, they had a right to force you to think what they wanted you to think.  Well, that didn’t work out very well, and many of them who engaged in such violence learned the hard way what a bad idea it was to take that position.  But COVID only washed away their arguments and forced the masses of society to see just how dumb and worthless these federal positions were.

I’ve been saying during every government shutdown to call the bluff of federal employees who are always willing to strike if they don’t get to extort trillions of dollars from a budget that is entirely out of control.  Nobody will miss those workers if we shut down the government.  But politicians would get weak-kneed just as they did with SB5.  However, with the work-from-home policies from COVID-19 and the federal employees still working from home all this time later, people now see the truth, and politicians are starting to smell the roses.  If you are working in a job where you don’t physically have to be at the office talking to other people, you are not working in a real job, and you can and should be removed from the payroll.  A job is not a right, it’s a privilege, and usually, the people who provide the pay for those services are getting screwed over if the employee they are paying for doesn’t respect the job enough to be in an office working hard for the contents of that position.  But when it comes to the general federal workplace, we have too many people doing too little.  And the best thing they could do ahead of the efforts of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, D.O.G.E, is to quit.  Nobody will miss those workers.  When you work in a job where nobody misses you or knew you were ever there, you know you are working in a useless position.  And I think having millions of these workers suddenly unemployed would be great.  There are other things to do in an expanding economy.  And we don’t need to be paying people to work from home.  And if many of those people all simultaneously put in their resignations, nobody will miss them. They are proving once and for all that all the money we have spent on these federal employees was a waste of time and money all along.

Rich Hoffman

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Playing Poker with the Senate: The Art of the Deal with Pam Bondi

I think what we have going on with Trump is a lot of The Art of the Deal and a good sign of how he’s going to handle things in this next term.  This is the difference between a successful business guy and a bunch of people who sought political life because they couldn’t do anything else.  Over the years, this has been a real problem. Our current Senate has a lot of new people who lean toward the MAGA view of the world, but there are still RINO holdovers, and when J.D. Vance walked the proposed Matt Gaetz around to interview all the senators ahead of confirmation, it was like playing poker and walking around the table to see what kind of hands the other players had.  I thought Matt Gaetz was an excellent pick for Attorney General.  Probably the best pick.  But immediately after touring the Senate, Matt Gaetz mysteriously withdrew his name, and Trump announced that Pam Bondi would be the new pick, almost as if that were Trump’s plans all along.  He had talked to Pam about it, and a plan was playing out.  And what Trump learned was that there were 4 or 5 senators like Mitch McConnell who were hard no’s on Matt Gaetz and would not be convinced otherwise.  So rather than fight that uphill battle with great media fanfare, Trump just changed tactics and put a woman in that place to take off the edge for the more progressive senators and Democrats on the confirmation vote. 

Pam Bondi has done the Attorney General job in Florida during the Rick Scott as governor years.  Before that, Florida politics was a lot different as Jeb Bush set the standard, so these days, with Ron DeSantis, it’s a much different place, a much more conservative state.  When Pam Bondi was Attorney General there, she was pretty good.  My opinion is that she was more talk than action.  However, she has been loyal to President Trump and stood by an America First agenda, no matter what happened.  Is she the person who will kick down doors and drag the bad guys out for a hanging? I don’t think so.  But I think she will take on Trump’s personality in his administration, and I think that was always the gig.  I think Trump and Matt Gaetz have other plans looming in the background since he so quickly announced that he was leaving Congress during the next term.  His district is conservative, so that shouldn’t hurt during a special election.  But what we have going on here is a lot of poker playing that is not normal.  And the media doesn’t know how to report it.  And the political machines are not smart enough to understand what is happening.  Trump has a lot of senator confirmations that are going to be tough, but essentially, he put forth his most controversial pick, making all the rest seem very normal by comparison, and paraded him around to see how the Beltway would bet.  And he got his answer and gave the rest of his picks the ammunition they needed to pass confirmation in the Senate.  Although I was looking to Gaetz, Pam Bondi is about as good as we can get for a position like that, but it comes down to the Art of Making a Deal, which has always been Trump’s thing.  We will see a lot of deal-making that will come out very good for all of us.  Trump and the private sector are beating down the political machines of K-Street in a way they have never experienced before.

And that’s the name of the game in most things in life, especially poker.  I think it’s a great game, especially Texas Hold Em’ because it teaches players how to make a good hand win and how to recognize a good hand from a bad one.  Or, how to play a bad hand and still win.  Poker is about strengths and weaknesses and making the most out of personal circumstances.  It’s not about luck as much as manipulating the other players.  A player at the table could have the best hand in the world, and the person holding the bad hand can still beat them by coaxing them to fold.  And I think that’s what Trump did to the entire Senate, now led by John Thune, and appeasing the Mitch McConnell holdovers.  Trump looked at their hands and saw what he needed to do.  Matt Gaetz will be involved in something that does not require Senate confirmation but that won’t be announced until all the confirmations happen.  Once the Senate angers Trump, he’ll pull out Matt Gaetz and get things moving again.  If you are a fan of The Art of the Deal books or Poker, this is shaping up to be an exciting four years, and the established order of things is not ready.  The many media members who have learned to report political news a certain way are about to have the tops ripped off their business; there will be so much every day that nobody will understand how to process it all.  But this Matt Gaetz situation is just a hint of things to come.

You don’t always get things the way you want them.  But what’s important is that you turn unfortunate circumstances into victories however you can.  Seldom does anything work out the way you envision them.  And putting Matt Gaetz up for an AG nomination was an over-the-top bold move.  But not for the reasons people thought.  Rather than place him in a very contentious position as Attorney General, he used him to discover what the other players at the table were holding as cards.  Once J.D. Vance and Matt Gaetz learned who had what at the table, Trump put down his hand to blow them all out of the water.  And that was Pam Bondi, a pick just as good as Matt Gaetz, but she appears much more reasonable because of her polished personality after years of working in established administrations under challenging conditions.  She is the kind of person even RINO members of the Senate can vote for, if not for her politics, but because she’s a strong woman, and nobody wants to be on record going against that.  So Trump played the hand he had to best effect once he knew what the other players had.  And that’s how you win in these games, whether with a more substantial hand or a bluff.  Winning is the goal, and when it comes to getting Pam Bondi confirmed by the Senate in a way that will not harm his other picks, Trump just showed why we voted for him as the best option to Make America Great Again and why he was so successful throughout his life.  This is how business is done, and the world of useless politicians won’t be able to compete with him.  This is only the start of a lot of deals that will be made, and as Trump has shown over and over again in the past, making deals is his favorite thing to do in the world.  And he’s good at it.  And this nomination of Pam Bondi for Attorney General is just the beginning of many great things to come. 

Rich Hoffman

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Things Will Never Be the Same: Public education taught us all the wrong values

It’s true; the game has changed forever, and I have been pointing out this for a long time.  The trajectory of social change didn’t just happen with one election, and as the political left attempts to cleave for power, and many RINO Republicans, there is a movement toward a universal law that has not been recognized so far in the human race.  It essentially goes back to the crucifixion of Christ and, what it meant to the human race and how many thousands of years leading up to it were inevitable.  It’s how human beings see themselves and have built class structures to protect the most timid among us from the harsh realities of existence.  However, the American experiment was the net result of this trajectory, and it has taken us another few years and some change to even get our minds around that reality.   It’s essentially what happened during the 2024 election and why entire government departments must be peeled away.  We also need to understand why we cannot have a Department of Education teaching global socialism when our entire education approach needs to change, starting with how John Dewey originally saw it.  We have learned all the wrong things socially and built our government systems around entirely the wrong premise.  And now, we have outgrown those assumptions, which will be exploited with this new space economy.  The human race will no longer be judged on the systems that seem essential on earth, the social structure around the campfire, or the city municipal building.  We are about to learn that all those previous assumptions were incorrect from the start and that the creation of the United States was a moral crusade built on many years of human failure.  And that America, as a concept of capitalist markets, was an answer that, perhaps for the first time in all human existence, is trying to do things correctly. 

Most of us had no choice, no matter where we came from, but our education systems were built on the wrong assumptions about what brought value to human endeavor and what that human input meant to the universe as a whole.  We have religions that have attempted to conceive the challenge, but the lessons of Jesus Christ cannot be ignored.  The long line of interpretation throughout the following 2000 years certainly fueled the need for creating an America, and those lessons ended up in our Constitution for lots of reasons that were meant to change the relationship of social order for the furtherance of universal existence and eternal quests for the nature of conscious thought.  We don’t exist to create power structures that are terrestrially based but to unleash the power of human creativity for the needs of multi-dimensional necessity that is directly connected to the intellect of human input across time and space for the ultimate price of Heavenly necessity.  We don’t exist to run for political office and get invited to fancy Christmas parties so other human beings can measure our worth by social popularity.  It’s to do much bigger things, and in many ways, the human need for its destiny culminated in what we saw with the 2024 election.  The results were always going to be the results.  Humanity would overcome its terrestrial limits for social order and escape into a new way of thinking.  We have all learned the same bad ideas from education systems that were unprepared for what we were supposed to be doing.  In our public education, we set the wrong priorities, so of course, it’s no surprise that we have grown up to believe all the wrong things.

As Bill Ayers has always said, our public education system was created to create a class structure that did not steer away from the mistakes we have always made in civilization.  That there would be an aristocratic order.  In high school, the cool kids who play on sports teams set the parameters for social order.  Then there is the middle class. In school, those are all the ordinary people who exist to support the impressions of an aristocracy and their net value.  To be among the popular kids, there must be many people who aren’t favored to give value to the merits of popularity.  Anybody can be famous as one person in a room by themselves.  To have value for popularity and aristocracy, there needs to be a vast middle class to prop up those at the top.  All social orders on planet Earth have followed this line of thought and have all been wrong.  Then of course we have the losers, the derelicts, the criminal scum bags of the lower class.  People who make the aristocracy feel good about their station in life in this kind of yin-yang existence.  To be good, we must have an element of bad to contrast the lives of those in charge.  When we set up public education in America, we did so to squeeze every person into one of these three categories and for them to remain in that situation for the rest of their lives.  The goal was to maintain a social order that everyone seemed to understand, not to challenge the human race’s creative output.  Going back to the killing of Jesus, whatever meaning religions might want to place on the event; the political issue was that the established order could not put up with a challenge to their static order.  The Essenes at the time, with whom Jesus and John the Baptist were associated, had a different way of viewing their relationship with eternity that did not involve the earthly social structure.  That is why John the Baptist was killed in the fierce fashion that he was, to satisfy the whims of the aristocracy that felt these young rebels threatened its power. 

We saw the same attempts to destroy President Trump for all the same reasons.  He threatened the social order and the structure we learned in public schools.   He was preaching a populism that wrecked the power structure of the Middle Class and empowered them to govern themselves as the Constitution promised.  Not to be ruled over by unelected bureaucrats.  This could not be tolerated by those who were protecting a power foundation they never had a right to have in the first place.  We could analyze a long list of persecutions, including the killing of Socrates, and they all have in common what President Trump just survived and was elected into office.  Instead of a crucifixion, which was attempted many times against Trump, which he survived under every condition, we had a man of exile returned to power through an election process and a Constitution that took away government power so as not to suppress human intellect for the first time in all human history.  That’s why Elon Musk, who had been thinking about governments on multiplanet endeavors, quickly supported Trump as president and found a new best friend.  Because he understands what happened, the human race cracked the code and would never be the same again.  Many are confused because they have learned all the wrong things about a life that has meaning in entirely different ways than they previously understood.  But when that assassin’s bullet missed Trump, the entire scope of the world changed for good.  And humanity started a journey to becoming a multiplanet culture.  And everything we have learned and done all this time was now on the chopping block.  And those who bet their entire lives on the value of aristocracy suddenly found themselves challenged to their very foundations.  And we were never going back ever again.

Rich Hoffman

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