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‘Revenge of the Sith’ Made 25 Million Dollars: Its all about the artist, not the product

My son-in-law said it best when we were on a family vacation in Florida and attending the Disney Parks, as we were at the Star Wars Land they have at Hollywood Studios, that Disney didn’t buy an entertainment franchise, they purchased a religion.  And they never understood it.  And you can see that with the new films compared to the ones that George Lucas directed himself, who created the franchise and sold it in 2012, with good intentions.  But honestly, and I hate to say it, Star Wars would have been better off if Lucas had never sold it to Disney.  I get why he did; he had many employees, wanted them to have something to do, and wanted to retire.  But Disney screwed up a lot with their woke politics and they significantly reduced the brand of Star Wars with their ownership.  And it has been a disaster.  Some good things happened, like their theme park presence.  But Bob Iger never understood what Star Wars was, the writers of the new movies had no idea what they were doing, and the films themselves were filled with woke ideas that modern audiences have soundly rejected.  And I have to say all that because we just recently had the now-famous holiday of May 4th, and I noticed a few things that were certainly interesting.  Primarily, the old movie Revenge of the Sith was re-released in theaters for a limited run to celebrate its 29th anniversary, and it made a really good 25 million dollars over the last weekend of April 2025.  It’s a movie that is free on television just about anytime that anybody wants to watch it, yet people were so hungry for Star Wars that they returned to the theater to see the movie one more time in actual movie theaters that says a whole lot about where people are and how valuable Star Wars is to our modern culture.

I wanted Disney’s ownership to succeed and Star Wars to be available to a new generation.  But Disney certainly screwed that up, what they have contributed to Star Wars was woke garbage that was astonishingly bad compared to what George Lucas directed.  And other people obviously feel the same way.  They aren’t rushing out to see the new Star Wars stuff that Disney produces. They rushed out to see the old movie and were quite celebratory over it.  I understand that there is real value in the old Star Wars movies. It is truly fascinating to see how corporate institutionalism, with all the money to work with, could not come close to duplicating that original magic.  But people didn’t let that stop them from celebrating the new Holiday, Star Wars Day, on May 4th, as in “May the 4th be with you.”  It was everywhere on May 4th 2025, from all kinds of surprising parts of society, especially at baseball games that now openly support the Star Wars Holiday, and people seem to really like it.  Even sports jocks like to brag about their Star Wars knowledge and are not afraid to geek out on May 4th dressing up as their favorite character.  And regarding Revenge of the Sith, it is stunning to hear how people today love that movie so much.  I remember when it came out and how people talked about it then, as well as the prequels of George Lucas in general, and I never would have thought that that movie would hold such a dear place in people’s hearts. 

But that is a testament to just how bad things are these days.  I knew it was bad when Disney got rid of the canon that George Lucas had built, leading up to the Disney merger by rewriting the history in novels, comic books, and then in the movies.  That was the biggest mistake that Disney could have made.  I said it at the time because my wife and I had personally read hundreds of Star Wars books, all of them ever produced at that time.  We tried to read some new ones under Disney ownership and couldn’t do it.  Disney was too woke to tell the story of Star Wars, a struggle for freedom from tyranny in deep space, a long time ago, and very far away.   Disney was incapable of getting it, and the story group at Lucasfilm was way too San Francisco progressive and anti-Trump to continue what George Lucas started.  That was obvious this year when Trump was back in the White House and stated how he wanted to make Hollywood great again.  Well, it starts by understanding what made it great to begin with, and clearly, people like what George Lucas did with Star Wars much more than what Disney was able to do with it.  And a sad wedge has now been introduced to the fanbase.  But this year, as opposed to the past, people are openly embracing the old Star Wars much more than just holding their nose to support the new stuff. And those very successful box office numbers for Revenge of the Sith are exciting.  People are hungry for good traditional values in the Star Wars movies.  But Disney never could get their arms around it. 

It hasn’t all been bad; a few Star Wars shows like Andor have been good.  Ahsoka is a pretty good show.  There have been a few movies there and there, like Solo and Rogue One, that were good.  But most of it has been garbage, including the most recent sequel movies.  You wonder how a bunch of people could sit in a room and, by committee, produce such garbage.  But George Lucas used to write stories in a notebook and with a pencil, a very anti-technology thing to do for one of the most technology-driven enterprises ever attempted.  It has been a lesson in arrogance, where institutionalism thinks it is superior to individual achievement.  However, with all that Disney had as resources, they could not do better than George Lucas did, all by himself.  Of course, thousands of employees made Star Wars great, but the vision started and ended with one guy.  And that’s what people wanted to see: the interpretation of an artist and their work.  Not some corporate collection of nonsense.  It’s like seeing a Picasso painting and thinking about the guy who made the art, as opposed to the same image produced by a museum committee trying to duplicate the genius of a Picasso painting.  People have voted; they love the old George Lucas stuff, but they don’t like the new stuff.  You don’t see people going crazy over the newly made Disney material.  But people will go to the movies dressed up to watch a free film that has been out for 20 years, because George Lucas, the artist, made it.  And they will spend time and money on that while rejecting the much more expensive new stuff.  And there is a lesson for the entire industry on May 4th, Star Wars Day.  Corporate collectivism does not beat individual merit, in any case.  Time in mass culture has proven that, overwhelmingly.  The artist is what people invest in, not the product or art itself.  And there can’t be any good Star Wars without the artist who created it, being the center of the conversation.  It was an experiment in entertainment that has shown a true trend that everyone should learn some hard lessons from.

Rich Hoffman

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He Who Owns the Gold Rules: Why the Pentegon won’t be able to get rid of Pete Hegseth

I was thrilled that Pete Hegseth got rid of Susan Rice at her Pentagon job.  I disagree with Bill O’Reilly when he says that the military brass in the Pentagon will run Pete off from his new Secretary of Defense role, as Trump appointed him to reform the military.  I don’t think they will be able to, and here’s why, and why everything that Trump is doing is going to work—he who owns the gold rules.  The administrators are not in charge.  And they are being exposed, and they have lost their leverage.  Susan Rice represents that era of administrators who purposely sought to give away America’s gold so it couldn’t rule the world.  I heard a very funny interview recently from a British reporter trying to challenge Natalie Winters from the WarRoom about America and its place in the world, and let me just say, there are a lot of people who are in for some hard lessons.  Never forget that the real issue is socialism against capitalism, and to make socialism and communism work, there have been many globalist types who have purposely given away America’s gold so that it wouldn’t be able to rule.  And when this globalist reporter couldn’t talk down to Natalie as a young woman, he was exasperated by her arrogance.  But she knows, and everyone else is learning, that the key to stopping globalism is to stop giving away American values to countries that don’t deserve it.  Susan Rice’s firing by Pete Hegseth is part of a larger pattern emerging from the Trump administration, and it is precisely why we voted for him.  People like Susan Rice, a former U.S. National Security Advisor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under President Obama, are not going to be allowed to run the Pentagon in favor of policies that weaken America and strengthen the rest of the world that has adopted socialism and communism.  And she won’t be the last to go.

The national security issue is a simple one; I talk about it all the time with my gunfighter at the bar metaphor.  The gunfighter can have his back to the room and not worry about everyone trying to kill him, because everyone wants to find some way to get what he has, because he has value.  As I say, “he who owns the gold, rules.”  Other people may try to steal that gold, but they dare not when you have a superior military or a reputation for being the fastest with a gun, because it’s too risky to confront.  They would rather wait until you sleep and try to steal it that way.  And in the case of our Pentagon, people like Susan Rice have been undermining American independence for decades.  And if we had put some regular general in the system of Pete Hegseth’s current role, we’d get another nobody giving away American wealth to achieve peace.  As a communications expert, Pete Hegseth knows how to sell America to a new recruiting class, and his value has already seen a sharp increase in recruitment.  But for the pretentious people who work at the Pentagon and love to spend a lot of time in Georgetown eating and shopping with inflated wages and lifelong appointments that they don’t fear losing, the old days are over, and they are never coming back.  Globalism has been a bad deal, and one of the most significant bleeding wounds America has had has come out of the Pentagon from people like Susan Rice.

Negotiations with other countries are simple.  Do they have gold?  No.  They have crappy economic systems because they adopted Marxist ideas, which is the case in most of the world, including that English reporter who was interviewing Natalie Winters.  The truth is, America has the most excellent economy, even with far fewer people than China, and that is because of our capitalist markets.  And the bureaucratic administrators of the Washington D.C. culture have been working to undo that, and they will not be allowed to.  They don’t have the power anymore and won’t have the power to eliminate Pete Hegseth from his position.  They have been trying to create a scandal to pressure Pete and leak information to the media to accelerate that pressure.  But this is where things get fun, that’s why Trump put a media star in that position so that he could undo the rumors and pressure, because he knew from the beginning where the threats were.  And those people won’t be able to get rid of Pete Hegseth.  But Pete can undo them, which he started with when he fired Susan Rice.  Who cares what other countries think, or how fair it is for them?  They don’t get a seat at the big boys’ table if they don’t have gold.  Those are the rules of the world, and the only way to get gold in a capitalist economy is to become competitive and have things that the world wants.  Not to wait for globalists like Susan Rice and the Pentagon losers from the administrative state to steal gold from America and give it to the worthless and corrupt so that they can feel like they have a seat at the table.  No, they need to grovel like all the other Marxists. 

This is The Art of the Deal, as Trump has known and written about it for many years.  You have to know your leverage point and not allow others to think they are equal.  If you have something the world wants, you have some leverage to negotiate with.  We don’t need a governing Pentagon and a United Nations stealing American wealth, then lecturing us about sidewalks and roundabouts.  The administrative state has no value in such a world, and to destroy it, Trump is exposing that in favor of those with real value, and Susan Rice and the gang can’t compete on that level.  The English reporter talking to Natalie can’t either.  And they find such a concept of competition reprehensible, because they have been trained as Marxists.  But that house of cards is coming down and being exposed for what it always was.  Remember what I said many years ago about Trump’s second term?  If people wanted to understand it, just read The Art of the Comeback, where he was underwater by billions of dollars, and a homeless person sleeping on the street was much richer than he was.  And how he climbed out of that dire situation, and pretty quickly.  A few years later, he was the star of the hit television show The Apprentice, now on Amazon Prime.  Everyone should watch it and learn, because that is happening at the Pentagon.  And the world with the Trump administration knowing economics better than most practitioners anywhere.  If you want to be valuable in the world and have a seat at the table, find something you do well and use it as leverage to make a good deal.  Don’t grovel like a bunch of Marxist losers.  That trend is over, for America.  And we are never going to return to that policy.  And those guilty of it, like Susan Rice, will be fired for poor performance. 

Rich Hoffman

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Republicans Can Win A Super Majority: Democrats only won anything with election fraud

I keep hearing that Democrats are holding their noses trying to get to the midterms, where traditionally, voters pick the other party once the party in power has had a chance to do their damage.  Democrats think that automatically, they’re going to win back at least the House, that they will be able to stop the Trump agenda, and that everything will snap back to normal.  But I don’t think so.  Democrats, more than ever, have a terrible platform that Americans are rejecting.  And of course, you know what I always say, that Democrats can’t win anything if they don’t cheat.  In the last election, many of the close calls we saw in the House and Senate races came in areas where election fraud occurred.  So if Republicans had watched the election results better, there would be more Republicans in the House than there are, and the majority could be much larger.  I think Republicans, if they prevent Democrats from committing election fraud, can gain a super majority and take their current results to even better standings.  And I think that is because of the current temperament of the country.  I do not see Democrats picking up any seats, even in local elections.  Based on their performance, they have destroyed their brand and are struggling to find any message that resonates with voters, and they don’t have it.  This is a different time than anything we had seen, so historical precedent is entirely out the window.  I do not see a scenario where Republicans lose anything so long as they keep the elections honest, because it is that bad for Democrats.  And even among themselves, they have a lot of people who have crossed over and joined Republicans because the Democrat brand is so bad. 

Oh, you might say we can’t prove election fraud, that there is no evidence.  Here’s the thing: just because people refuse to look at the evidence doesn’t mean that it’s not there.  Our court system let us down with election fraud cases because lawfare is dangerous to our society.  In most of the places where Republicans lost seats to Democrats, they were in areas where voter ID laws allowed undocumented immigrants to vote.  In places where voter ID made it hard to cheat, Republicans generally won.  What does that tell you?  Are the places where there are measures against election fraud Republican areas?  That controlling election fraud is a Republican concern?  Or that by default, anywhere that Democrats can cheat, they have the opportunity where there are loose laws allowing them to do so.  Whichever it is, that is not good math for Democrats.  They don’t hold an equal presence at the ballot box, which is now more apparent than ever.  So there isn’t any hint that Democrats will pick up anything in the upcoming midterms.  The horse race the media likes to go through during each election cycle isn’t there.  The Democrats don’t have anybody who can win a national election because their platform has been rejected as a failure.  That’s why Trump has won three elections in a row, and what started a decade ago was the hint of things to come, that people were done with the kind of politics that gave us the socialist disaster of Barack Obama.  Building a platform off guilt just wasn’t a smart move, and now that people have seen an option, they will never go back.  And Democrats just aren’t prepared for it.

Did you see the sit-in that Democrats did on the steps of the Capitol?   My wife and I were just in Washington, D.C., and saw some of the typical protestor types there and down on the Mall, and they came out flat.  Nothing is resonating with Democrats, none of their usual talking points.  And I think it is mainly because President Trump is a kind of traditional Democrat who pulled away so many other Democrats from the party, like RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Elon Musk.  As a Republican, I’m not exactly happy about any of that.  I don’t like Democrats; I see them generally as broken people with broken ideas.  However, regarding party politics, I understand the need for a big tent party with many people who think different things.  That’s how you win elections, when many people want to head in the same direction.  So, an America First policy has allowed Democrats to join Republicans and for the GOP to expand its tent to accommodate all newcomers.  But you don’t see the same thing ever happening with Republicans joining Democrats.  We have been purging the RINOs from the party for several years now.  You don’t hear about the Mitch McConnell types or the Mitt Romneys.  Many party bosses who held the order of political theater together are gone, leaving Trump to control most political perceptions.  And as we visited Washington, D.C. this time with Trump in office, it was apparent everywhere.  The entire place felt different, even out by the airport.  No, this was a different kind of Republican Party than what we have had in the past, and suddenly nothing is appealing about any Democrat, leaving those most hopeful to leave the party in favor of the public sentiment. 

So, election fraud is the key.  We still haven’t properly prosecuted the election fraud that we know about.  The system hopes everyone will go back to sleep, but I don’t see that happening.  If Republicans make it hard for Democrats to cheat, especially on the voter ID issue, I’m saying that Democrats can’t win those elections, and Republicans will pick up many seats, even to the point of a super majority.  And a super majority is determined here by control of at least 60% of a body.  Looking at the math, Republicans could have come close in the last 2024 election to getting such a majority, but they went to sleep.  Everyone was watching Trump, and the momentum shifted so dramatically in his direction that even the fraudsters didn’t have the heart to fight anymore.  But a lot of those regional races where Democrats just barely beat the Republicans to keep it close in the House and Senate, most of those races were won by Democrats through fraud.  And if the mechanism were in place to prevent that fraud, the Republicans would have won.  This is why Democrats are so adamant about the illegal aliens.  They need them for voters, and they can’t afford for over 10 million illegals to be deported, because that is most of their voting base.  And even with them, people from other countries are voting for the America First position.  They aren’t voting for Democrats.  So don’t assume that Democrats will win back the House, or anything in the upcoming midterms.  I think Republicans can completely control their destiny if they take away the potential of election fraud.  And that if they do, Democrats may never win another election on any level, because their brand is so bad.  But now is not the time to play nice.  Reform elections so that voter ID is a requirement everywhere, and Democrats will not be able to win.  Republicans can win a super majority if only they support elections that prevent fraud with voter ID.

Rich Hoffman

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The Wall Street Casino: Never build an economy off slot machines

I’ve heard a lot of dumb talk about the state of the economy at the end of Trump’s first 100 days in office, but people who have been profiting off the chaos for a long time expect it to continue.  Specifically, the condition of the stock market and GDP growth are at a very slow 1.7%.  I would say to everyone, don’t be a sucker, all the economic reporting over the last several years has been phony bologna built on a house of wet cards.  We’ve been in depression territory most of the Biden years, and it was never reported that way because of the Fed’s Modern Monetary Theory of printing fake money to prop up our entire monetary system artificially.  And because they don’t like Trump, they are turning off the faucet to make him look bad.  But real value, where things matter, is improving dramatically, especially on the energy front.  There is a lot of opportunity for massive economic growth, but the control over the usual measures has been ripped away from the bad guys, who aren’t happy about it.  So don’t be a sucker and listen to their cries for help.  And certainly don’t think the stock market is a good measure of economic growth.  At best, the stock market is a gambling casino.  It is designed so the house always wins; sometimes, they let out enough money to encourage people to play.  But you can’t build a policy based on it.  Just as nobody in their right mind would call spending money and reporting winnings from a casino or horse racing as real value, other than in just getting lucky.  You cannot build a national monetary policy around the casino game of stock market investments.  And if anybody thought that the stock market provided guarantees on investments, then they are the victims of a sucker’s game meant to take advantage of the gullible. 

I have been saying this for a long time, and have cautioned Trump people to attach their name to any stock market increases.  The stock market has exploded since Trump was in office the first time, but that isn’t because of Trump’s economic policies, it as a move by the Fed to wash printed money into Wall Street so that firms like BlackRock could gain purchasing power to leverage debt and produce buyouts of companies so that radical leftist boards full of woke politics could take over and manage American companies and they were controlled by the direct CEO letters that Larry Fink would send out to the market, and people would listen because people’s 401K plans were used to hide the ruse.  People would not question this insurrection of America’s monetary policy if they thought they were making a lot of money on the stock market.  But in truth, it was an artificial bubble created by deceit to gain control of American industry and to implement DEI policies to control their management systems.  I have had a front row seat to all this, and I can say that what I’m saying is that I’m putting it nicely.  Maybe too nicely.  But I am sympathetic to all the suckers out there who have fallen for this trick.  If everyone had just thought of the stock market for what it is, a casino, there would be a lot fewer broken hearts now.  I’m not against casinos or the stock market.  But know the game we are playing.  The system is not designed to make people wealthy,  Only to convince them to play the game so they can wash all that phony money injected into the market with real value from the suckers who play the slot machines in the casino, where the house always wins.  And in this case, the home is the Fed. 

Trump would do better to separate himself from the Stock Exchange and stick to tangible assets, such as drilling for oil and an energy policy that can be exported and has real value.  But the liberal media reporting has cooked the books for a long time and isn’t suddenly going to print the truth.  They didn’t suddenly become honest with Trump’s first 100 days in his second term, after Biden was pushed out of office with a massive election victory.  The financial media need suckers from their gambling tables, and BlackRock and the other money managers need real value to wash the money of the fake stuff the Fed has been printing.  They don’t want the GDP to grow without their fingers on that growth so that they can manipulate the results.  And they certainly don’t want their scam to end.  I would recommend that Trump’s White House separate itself as much as possible from Wall Street because a massive correction is coming, and many people will be very upset.  But a lot of real wealth will also be created.  But not from the casino of Wall Street.  Real value in housing, energy, defense, technology, and health will emerge under the capitalism of the Trump administration, and a hateful media culture will not like it.  And they will try to steer people away from Trump’s policies because they know they will lose control of the process during this next Trump term.  The stock market was always a house of cards that would fall at the slightest gust of wind. 

Andrew Jackson warned of this condition when he was president in the early part of the 19th Century and had his famous war with the banks.  We are in a battle for who controls our finances.  Financial people have been happy to let Tea Party types who have grown into MAGA supporters talk about free speech and fiscal responsibility, so long as they continued to seek value for their money from their casinos.  But there isn’t a single money manager out there who is selling investments that do not attempt to take advantage of the short gains of the casino slot machines that come in the form of quarterly reports in industries propped up with phony Fed money, while in reality, socialist policies have capped off our markets in detrimental, and truly destructive ways.  The flashy lights keep everyone from seeing the drunks playing the game with free alcohol provided by the house to numb our senses, and convince us to be easy suckers with prostitutes on our arms posing to be future wives so long as they continued to hit it big.  And to do that, you had to keep playing the game.  No, that game is for idiots; if you have been one of them, that’s on you.  We are taking control of our monetary system, and the casinos aren’t going to be happy about it, and don’t expect them to be.  But don’t expect the United States to build its economy on a gambling platform only.  You can’t make a society off a policy meant to protect stock market gains that were purely fictitious.  And the Fed has dumped so much phony money into the system, they fear people finding out about it.  So, for Trump’s part, let them learn the hard way and don’t attach any part of the administration to the stock market.  It was always a bad measure that bad people controlled for manipulations that have been bad for America.  And it’s time to stop playing that corrupt game rooted in dishonesty and villainy. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Collapsing Birth Rates in America: There just aren’t enough good men for women who want kids

Let’s face it: one of the biggest crisis issues today is that there are just not enough good men out there. Our society is not producing them, and much of that is purposeful. But we have to talk about it, and the prospect of collapsing birthrates. If you think we have financial problems now, with Social Security and the legacy costs of government employment, then just add to that the prospect of a generation in 20 years where there are fewer people in your economy to work and pay taxes to keep those benefits going. The problem is even more serious than that, but to put it mildly, we need an expanding birthing population, not a declining one. I would argue that the average birthrate per family should be much higher than that of two children. Elon Musk and President Trump are good examples of a nontraditional family approach where each man has produced many kids with multiple women, which is not what I would recommend. I like the idea of romantic love as the troubadours proposed it. But out of necessity, women who want children turn to nontraditional ways of getting there and redefining what a family is. And to understand that, we have to look for historical examples of how the Bible dealt with these problems in the past. Romantic love was an excessive luxury from a culture that could afford it. Most of the time, and in most regions of the world even to this very day, arranged marriages to secure the production of children in a family unit was the primary concern. The happiness of the participants was a distant priority. So, this notion of picking a soulmate and bonding with that person for life is a very new one. And maintaining a sexual union with that one person is an evolutionary idea, not a foundational concern. And sadly, we are seeing too many people these days having to face the music on what all that means to them.


The story of Jacob, father of the Israeli people, is a good example and the center of a lot of controversy, especially when we talk about Mormons practicing polygamy. To avoid the legal stigma of having more than one wife, people are turning to loose sexual associations within the context of mature relationships to produce children by multiple women, which is what Elon Musk has been doing. And women, if they want children from stable and good men, they have to make severe concessions to their expectations in life. And that’s how it was when Jacob met Rachel by a well and fell in love with her. Real troubadour love. And she was excited and went home to tell her family about it. But her father was having a hard time marrying off his oldest daughter, Leah. So he tricked the young Jacob by telling him to labor for him for 7 years to win Rachel’s hand in marriage. Then on the wedding night, he put a veil on his oldest daughter and sent her to Jacob to consummate the marriage. In the morning, Jacob was upset that he had not slept with Rachel, but her older sister, Leah. So Jacob complained to the father, and they made a deal. Jacob would work for the father for another 7 years to win Rachel’s hand, too. Because he really loved Rachel, he did not love Leah. But he ended up, after fourteen years of labor, having two legal wives and two concubines, one coming with each of the daughters. The women had to make all kinds of concessions to earn their way under Jacob’s roof because the value system of that time was the production of children.


One woman can only produce so many kids in her lifetime, so in families like Jacob’s, which was common in the near east and is even a common practice to this day in that region if a man can afford multiple wives, the institution of marriage is not to preserve the troubadour concept of individual love and its fulfilment to a personal journey, but the production of a large family with lots of children to populate the earth and multiply proportionally. Out of those four women, the 12 tribes of Israel were made, which created all of the Jewish people we think of now. It was complicated; the older sister, Leah, was scorned because she was unloved. She did her duty but wasn’t the sister Jacob wanted, so it was far from a happy home. And out of necessity, because there aren’t many good men today, women are finding themselves in situations similar to Leah’s. They want children, but they may not be able to afford a man of their own in the troubadour sense of romantic love, because our society has pushed that concept aside in favor of a depopulation agenda that has targeted the human race for disposal, and a biological terrorist to the sustenance of nature on earth. And that failure has left a lot of broken hearts and desperate women who have found that a career servicing the state did not fill the hole in their hearts of producing children in the context of a family they could believe in. So we are seeing the remnants of a massive social experiment that has failed grotesquely and left many people wanting, even to the point where President Trump’s three wives and children, who came from all of them, appear normal by today’s standards.


The Bible is about a lot of things, but there is a lot of sex in it. One of the more dramatic ones is the story of Abraham and Sarah, who had the son Isaac late in life. But before that, because Sarah couldn’t produce children, she wanted her husband to sleep with her handmaid Hagar, who made the son Ishmael. Isaac became the father of the Jewish and Christian people. Ishmael, the scorned son cast away once born by the jealous and regretful wife, became the father of Islam. We see how that went; the world is fighting with each other like brothers fight over a father’s love and respect. However, the root cause of the problem was that not enough good men and women were willing to make concessions to have children and build a family. And that is where many women are now, and it’s a shame. But it’s something we have to deal with to solve our birthrate problem. We need to produce more children for all kinds of reasons. And we need to do it in this generation. There was a reason that during western expansion, Americans produced big families with many children, and the Bible was a motivating factor for that belief system. And the production of children was the primary concern. The idea of romantic love and dedication came to those who could afford such an idea. But the first thing we must deal with is that we need more men who are worth building a family with. And that is the significant crisis of our time. There aren’t enough good men for women to produce children with. And that needs to change, dramatically. Oh, there are a lot of men, for the most part, one for every woman. But most of them aren’t worth the trouble, leaving women desperately struggling to make concessions that they shouldn’t have to make.

Rich Hoffman

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The Case of Emily Nutley: Why do so many teachers want to have sex with their students

Let’s talk about Emily Nutley, the 43-year-old former head counselor and director of academic services at St. Xavier High School, the prestigious all-boys Jesuit Catholic school in Cincinnati, Ohio, who pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery on April 7th, 2025.  She had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student who eventually got tired of her and told authorities about the scandal, which prompted an investigation, and the prosecution of the case by Melissa Powers, who I think is a fantastic prosecutor.  It wasn’t hard to prove the merits of the case since Nutley sent the student nude pictures of herself to his cell phone, so that pretty much was that.  But why, here as a young woman who was married with three kids, she had a master’s degree and lived in a very nice neighborhood in Mason, Ohio.  She had a great job.  Everything looked on the outside to be a pretty perfect life.  So why would she throw it all away to have a sexual relationship with a kid?  With so many options, why would she make such a horribly bad decision that would ruin her for the rest of her life?  And here’s the real issue: if she hadn’t pushed the relationship to the point that she did, where the kid got tired of her, how long would it have gone on, because it was the student who said something?  How many of these cases are going on that nobody will ever find out about because there hasn’t been a whistleblower?  And when there is a whistleblower, how many get covered up by the administrators trying to protect the school’s reputation?  In my experience, a lot.  There are a lot of Emily Nutleys out there.  I know the type of “pro teacher” employee that Emily Nutley was.  They are very common and prone to the same behavior; this is no isolated incident.

This case reminded me of when I was in high school a long time ago.  We had a Spanish teacher who was about the same age as Emily, at the end of her childbearing years and was hot to trot with all the emerging maleness of high school.  She was very willing to help certain guys in class with their homework.  She was well perfumed and would unbutton her shirt when she’d lean over you to help with something you were working on.  Very awkwardly, in front of the whole class.  And she was very willing to show off her goodies and lay them on your shoulder when she explained things to you.  My friends and I called her Senorita Slut because it was apparent she was climbing the walls with sexual tension.  This kind of thing is by no means new.  Emily Nutley isn’t the first and certainly won’t be the last.  And I’d say that her situation is quite common.  When you start talking to people in these schools, behind the polite decorum of professionalism, there is a lot of sex going on.  There is teacher-to-student sex.  Teacher to teacher sex.  And there are a lot more cases of teacher and parent sex than many people would like to admit to.  The teacher is explaining to a parent the conditions of their kid in class, and before long, they are exchanging phone numbers and sending each other nude photos over coffee at Starbucks.  If they don’t have a firm grip on their values, people fly off the handle pretty fast, which was undoubtedly the case with Emily Nutley.

I feel sorry for the former teacher; Emily’s life is ruined, and she’ll never recover.  Watching her plead guilty in court with her dad there to support her is just a train wreck of serious mistakes that any rational person should be able to avoid easily.  But she threw it all away for nothing, and now she will never be able to put it behind her.  In court, she attempted to place the blame on her husband for neglect, indicating that her sexual frustrations were because he wasn’t fulfilling his husbandly duties.  But what does she expect as a person in her 40s with three kids and many social requirements that a school teacher living in Mason is expected to live up to?  Sex for mature adults is not easy to come by, so life has a way of chipping away at people.  That doesn’t mean that you take up sexual residence with a student in your school.  Why him and not one of the many options for sex with just about anybody that’s out there these days?  It’s a lot easier now than when I was in school with Senorita Slut.  So why did she do it, and what can we do to protect ourselves from it?  And my answer to that is that you can’t do anything about it.  It’s a systems failure.  It’s what happens when people get together and is part of our biological coding.  When an intellectual mind fails to overcome biological desire, bad things happen.  And in public and private school settings, no matter how much money parents are paying for an excellent education, there is a desire for sex among human beings with each other.  And the more we rationalize surrendering to animal behavior in society, the more people like Emily Nutley are going to start sending naked pictures of themselves to their students.

I think at least 10% of the adult population of any education system has sexual activity going on with either the students or other adults in the school.  At least.  The only way that people like Emily Nutley get caught is that things get out of hand and someone says something.  Most of the time, the relationships fizzle out.  When we learned in Lakota that a superintendent had sexual fantasies about sex with some of the students that they shared, which came out in a police report, a window into that world was all too clear.  Sex in educational endeavors was common.  Putting aging women in a room full of emerging young men with their whole sexual lives in front of them is a dangerous combination.  And when you couple that to porn addiction among adult males and the lowering of social standards, you have a hazardous combination of things that are impossible to manage.  As I said, our education system is grotesquely broken, and I gave up on it long ago.  This case has an aggressive prosecutor in Melissa Powers.  It had naked pictures of the teacher sent to the student, the whistleblower.  And it had a confession by the perpetrator.  Her husband divorced her.  She lost her job.  Her kids will never forgive her.  And she currently awaits sentencing.  But without the whistleblower.  Without the prosecutor.  This would be just one more widespread occurrence in all schools, where humans desire to express themselves sexually to other people for a whole bunch of really dumb reasons.  And yeah, I feel sorry for Emily Nutley.  In many ways, she was doing what a progressive society encourages.  And she followed those rules to this complete social destruction, and she has lost everything in the process.  But even more than that, there are lots of these things going on; our education systems are not safe places. Instead, they are some of the most dangerous places, and the predators who hold master’s degrees are well paid, have families, and prestigious titles in society.  But behind it all is a lot of scandalous behavior from bored minds seeking fleshly affirmation, even at the promise of self-destruction.

Rich Hoffman

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Yes, We Are Going to Arrest Judges and Put Them in Jail: “Imagine” a world where law breakers actually get punished

Yes, to answer the question, we will put judges in jail.  If they break the law, they will be arrested and thrown in jail with everyone else.  And that is a lesson that Judge Dugan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, learned in late April of 2025 as she was trying to help an illegal alien escape as agents were in her courtroom to deport the guy.  We have been talking about the radicalism of our judiciary, who have come to believe that they don’t have to live by the same rules that the rest of society does, but that they have gained king like powers to resist temporary challenges to social order by elected representatives, like Trump in the White House.  So their goal is to put on the brakes and use the process to stall out temperaments.  Their commitment to the hostile policies of the Open Border movement, which is globalist in nature, was never more evident than in their resistance to the Trump movement.  During the last term, we saw that resistance to the popularly elected Trump came from the FBI and other forces at the Department of Justice.  Now the shoe is on the other foot, and Trump has control of those arms of government.  Because people gave him that power through an election, and now we see as a last line of defense these radical leftist judges who always think they could make up the law from the bench and build the kind of society that they’d like as liberals.  This has been a tactic that has emerged more from the background, the longer Trump has been in politics, because the radicalism was always hidden behind polite society.  And to expose it, Trump needed to make society less polite.  We were dealing with a “screw you over with a smile on our faces” culture that was very manipulative and malicious. 

But Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the Pam Bondi Justice Department, with Kash Patel and Dan Bongino working on the FBI side, and we suddenly have many different government agencies we can feel good about.  Before Trump was elected back to office, the FBI was helping judicial radicalism, which is why all these sanctuary cities thought they were going to be able to defy Trump.  But now that cover story has been stripped away, the judges are all alone and exposed.  A former ex-judge in New Mexico was also arrested with his wife for essentially doing the same thing as Judge Dugan. Retired Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife Nancy were arrested at their home by Homeland Security, now ran by the great Kristi Noem, for tampering with evidence by destroying the cell phone of his wife as they were harboring Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, a 23-year old Venezuelan national and suspected member of the Tren de Aragua gang.  When they say, “but there is no evidence,” they say stupid things like that because they know their role in destroying evidence and think we’ll never figure it out.  These old judges who think they are in command of the legal system know that to get convictions, you have to have evidence.  So we have a whole subculture of radical, Marxist liberals who think that if they destroy the evidence, our judicial system will never prosecute and get a conviction.  I have seen this process up close, so it’s a huge problem.  Marxists have been playing on the gullibility of good Christian people for many years, and honestly, we’re tired of it.  That’s why people voted for Trump: to give us these new government agencies that had been corrupted by indecision in the past, but now will enforce the law, even when we know that people like Hillary Clinton are destroying the evidence of her email correspondence.  Or that proof of election fraud was wiped out by the courts, which wanted to certify someone they politically support.  Or in the case of illegal immigration, this judicial couple felt they had the power to change immigration law with a protest by using the system against itself.  And now with Kristi Noem, that shell game is no longer working.

And that is the real fear, the radical left’s observation about arresting judges for getting in the way of Trump’s deportation policies.  Before Trump was elected, he made it clear that he was going to go to war with the drug cartels.  And now we see who has been helping them ruin our country, all these radical leftist judges who are sympathetic to the destruction of our country.   Go through the musical libraries of couples like that one in New Mexico. You’ll find a lot of hippie music and progressive artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan, and they are probably in love with John Lennon’s communist song, “Imagine.”  These are not flag-waving Constitutional patriots.  These are hostile hippies now aged and abusing the power they were given as legal professionals to articulate their politics as senior citizens.  And whatever Judge Dugan thought she was doing by trying to sneak off an illegal immigrant in her courtroom through her private chambers only indicates how deep this problem has been for decades.  These judges have been trying to cripple America with soft on crime policies and to change the nature of the American people with open border policies written while pot smoking losers who now run public policy sit around and listen to that stupid John Lennon song, “Imagine.” 

Well, “Imagine this,” a world where lawbreakers go to jail.  And those in charge of judgeships are arrested for using their bench as a political weapon to undo law and order, rather than preserving it.  Finally, we have a Justice Department, an FBI, and a Homeland Security willing to do the job as needed.  And this is just the beginning.  So yes, we will be throwing more judges in jail and prosecuting the radicals regarding judicial review.  If they want to be relevant in co-equal branches of government, they better be willing to work as hard as Trump does to do a good job.  Up to this point, the people we have had in the White House had too many advisors, and they enjoyed the ceremonial aspects of the job too much, but they weren’t in love with the work.  These judges don’t work very much; they drink too much wine and listen to too much old hippie music, which corrupts their minds about the task.  And they aren’t going to stop Trump with weak political positions and a 9-to-noon daily work schedule.  The world isn’t going to slow down to the political sentiments of the Marxist left.  They will have to compete with capitalism, with value, and with laws that protect those values, rather than being an insurgent trying always to undermine them from their benches.  And regarding evidence, action is some of the best evidence of what people get caught doing.  And Judge Dugan was caught tampering with the arrest and deportation of an illegal immigrant.  But she’s not alone.  We need many of these people to clean up our system.  And it’s good to see that we finally have people willing to do the work.  One arrest at a time.  Put them all in jail.  And if we need bigger jails, let’s build them off the money we save by destroying the drug cartels! 

Rich Hoffman

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King Trump: He can stay as long as he wants

I personally wouldn’t mind if Trump ran again in 2028.  This past week, he officially put out merchandise that promoted the idea, but I think he’s just having a little fun with the radical left, who are afraid that they will never get rid of Trump again.  And that, like FDR, he might try to stick around beyond two terms, and that he’ll declare himself king.  I would be okay with Trump sticking around as long as he wants to.  I sleep better at night knowing Trump is in the White House and someone like him is making good decisions for our country.  But I don’t think Trump is all that serious about it.  I think he’d like to retire and play golf.  We are lucky to get what we have out of him, which in the end will be 12 years of a Trump presidency.  Two of those terms officially.  One of them unofficially.  But regardless of the measure, it will be a significant part of his life.  Democrats have much bigger problems besides Trump; they have made a hard turn toward open socialism, and that will hinder them from now on.  There is no longer a blurring of the lines as to where they stand, which is evident in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign swing these days.  She is the future of the Democrat Party, and she is a hard left person who won’t play well to a national audience, so Democrats have more trouble than just Trump.  But they fear that he just won’t ever go away, exacerbated by the Trump campaign merch indicating that he was already campaigning for 2028.  It will take a long time to fix the many parts of America that are broken, on purpose, by radicals we used to trust.  So I’m in no hurry to see Trump go anywhere.  If he wants to stay president for another twenty years, I’m perfectly fine with that.  I’m sure we could establish some legislative modification to accommodate him. 

But logically, we still have the unsettled matter of his stolen second term, and everything the government did to him to try to destroy him.  We’re not just talking about what he has done to offer himself to the office of the presidency, but the over-the-top attempts to kill him that took from all of us that critical second term, and inserted the loser Joe Biden in an obvious attempt to destroy our country.   People go to war over much less than what happened to Trump, where they clearly stole the election from him, put him on a plane, and exiled him from politics.  At least they tried to.  So I think everyone owes Trump some exceptional consideration.  No matter what anybody thinks about him politically, I think of him more as a reformed Democrat than a traditional Republican, but he’s a great executive.  He knows how to put the right people in place to get things done and to cheerlead things along with the power of positive thinking.  And the White House is a much better place with him in it.  I was just there a few weeks ago and can say that everything around the White House is better with Trump.  There is no way that Democrats are ever going to get the world back that they once ruled over.  Trump or not.  People picked Trump.  Trump is far from a king.  The American people wanted him, now for three elections, and they will want him as long as they can get him.  Trump can stay as long as he wants. 

Election fraud is serious business, and it has to be punished.  It’s not enough to have people sheepishly apologetic now that Trump won the election with so much support, even after all they tried to do to him, including the former VP, Mike Pence.  On that terrible day of January 6th, when the government certified that election, knowingly committing fraud, most of the key players who were involved were erased from the political landscape. People like Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Mitt Romney, and some of Trump’s most prominent critics are no longer relevant, politically.  That is something that nobody is really talking about.  It’s not so much about what Trump intends to do or can’t do as radical judges try to stall his administration out, hoping to outlast him in Washington, D.C., to ride out the election cycles.  But what matters most is that the opposition to Trump is much weaker than it has ever been, and it had its back broken on that day of the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, during the summer of 2024.  And I don’t see it ever recovering.  Rather, the Marxist insurgency, which Bernie Sanders and AOC have always been, was smoked out and exposed.  And if they are going to win elections ever again, as Democrats, it will be under much different circumstances.  In that case, it will be the Marxist and communist crowd rather than hiding those attributes behind progressive causes that define the future of politics.  And communism isn’t something they pick for themselves.  It is something that is taken, and Democrats have already blown that.  Their coup attempt was in 2020, and we lasted through it to get Trump back.  And they have no plan B.  Trump is redefining the presidency in America, which should have been happening for several centuries now.  Nobody has quite been able to make the Executive Branch as effective as Trump has made it; we are now in completely uncharted territory.

When Trump is done, all people will want to return to the kind of president Trump has been. His media engagements.  His tireless work ethic.  He has even been involved in the NFL draft this year.  Trump is everything to everybody, and he never stops doing the job.  And people, even his political enemies, will not want to return to the purely figurehead president who sat in the White House disengaged and only there for the photo op, while the lawyers ran the world.  However, there is a big difference between a king and what Trump is.  He is a successful guy who offered himself to do a job for America.  He’s even paying for the new flag poles at the White House out of his own pocket.  A king rules through power.  Trump is a representative of the American people, picked by them to do work on their behalf.  Trump is not now, nor will he ever be, a king.  We are lucky to have him.  We are fortunate to have Melania, too.  We are lucky to have the American system produce good people who can afford to represent us in the White House.  And I want Trump to do that job as long as he wants, forget about the norms.  Forget about the political theater of the media rat race, where they perpetually talk up candidates and make money off the advertising for new political offices.  I want someone to do the job, and Trump has set a new standard that Democrats will never be able to live up to.  Even Republicans will struggle to find someone as charismatic and practical as Trump.  And we are a much better country with Trump in the White House, which I would like to see extend well beyond 2028.   But I don’t think it will, by Trump’s own choice.

Rich Hoffman

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The Attack of Illegal Immigration: Why Democrats are willing to die on the hill of defending an MS-13 gang member

Now, everyone sees just how important, as a military incursion, the open border policy has been to those who want to destroy America.  When Democrats are willing to die on that hill, to make as their next George Floyd some loser gang member in El Salvador a sympathetic character, hoping that by making him the face of the illegal immigration movement, they might hold off fate from bringing their movement to an end.  You have to remember that it does come down to politics; most of the source countries of illegal immigration are socialist, communist, or some form of Marxist, and the hope has been to overwhelm America with these political ideas so that American capitalism would all come crashing down.  It’s the same intent of the World Trade Center terrorist attack.  They were never intent on saving our country, but to overthrow and destroy it.  And every advocate for our destruction should be managed as the threat they showed themselves to be, with serious charges of treason and sedition.  But to make this MS-13 gang member their hill to die on tells you everything you need to know about the contents of their Democrat minds.  They have no other plan but our destruction, and Trump is stopping their plans, and they are terrified of what happens next.  Kilmar Garcia, the MS-13 gang member with the tattoo of that designation on his fist, is the best the Democrats have in hopes of stopping Trump’s deportation policy, which is quite astonishing, since the 29-year-old is such an obvious case of gang violence that comes from these immigration policies.  The best that the lawyers on behalf of Garcia could claim was that he didn’t have any priors, but of course, the reason for that was that he was undocumented to start with.  And he operated off the grid of conformity, so he wasn’t exactly the kind of guy who was easy to pick up.  He was deported for the crime of being an illegal alien, whereas Democrats don’t view breaking immigration law as a crime at all.

Of course, the tactical goal of this escapade is to keep this gang member front and center and highlighted in the courts so that Trump will be tied up from further border enforcement by deporting another 10 million people that Democrats hope will destabilize America from within and topple the whole system.  For Democrats, illegal immigration is a Trojan Horse, and American destruction is their goal.  And violent criminals are their military hope, the poisoning of our society with drugs that come from the long arms of gang activity.  So Democrats have put all their hopes and dreams on people like Kilmar Garcia.  And Democrats are hoping for more color revolutions like they achieved with the George Floyd case a few years back where the death of that drug abuser would incite a destabilizing riot from the mobs of discontent and burn down entire cities and align corporate America behind Democrat politics like a bully stealing the lunch money of innocent people.  Democrats know, as I have said many times, if Democrats can’t cheat in elections, they can’t win, and they need these 10 million illegal immigrants to give them a cover story in hopes of voters who will keep them in power with free government giveaways.  Democrats know that many of these people come from hostile countries rooted in Marxism, so as long as Democrats remain the Marxist representative of a political party in America, they hope for either votes from these illegals, or the hope to at least have a head on the voter rolls that might lean in that direction.  But the problem with that is that many illegals have been supporting Trump, even against their best hopes of being shielded by Democrat politics, which has been surprising.  One thing that people from other places have as an admirable trait is that they like their families.  And Trump is better for families than the Democrat Party.  Democrats are the anti-family party.

When we talk about the election fraud from 2020 many point out that Trump lost his court cases in court because the processing of those cases took longer than the constitutional parameters for inauguration of a new president, so the game was rigged in a way that favored insurgents, and that’s what George Soros and his little boy Alex have been exploiting all along.  They have invested a lot of money in the downfall of the American judicial system, starting with Attorney Generals all over the United States, and regional District Attorneys, such as Big Tish James in New York, who is a great example, as well as the regional prosecutor Alvin Bragg in New York City.  Where just a few years ago, there was a lot more trust in the courts than what we have now, there is always lingering a sense of violence among judges who do not rule in favor of the mob, so the Soros types have been exploiting that to destructive effect and that is what is behind all these Democrats visiting an MS-13 member in El Salvador.  This playbook of sentiment has worked for them many times.  And it’s all they have, while they have it.  The Supreme Court is worried about being firebombed in their homes and by radical Democrats, so that’s why many of those election fraud court cases did not stick in court.  And that is what is behind this push on illegal immigration.  They couldn’t care less about the gang member Garcia.  They are worried about the flood gates opening for the next 10 million who are awaiting the status of these proceedings. 

The real argument centers around enforcement.  Democrats propose that illegal immigration should not be enforced, so when they talk about the criminal background of Kilmar Garcia, they are not considering his illegal status as a criterion for deportation.  They assume that the same rights given to all American citizens also apply to all the world’s people, which isn’t the case.  And just because there has been a lack of will to prosecute gang members like Garcia, Democrats think he should be considered available to all the protections that American citizens enjoy as a fundamental right.  So, as is typical with most Democrat ideas, law enforcement is reluctant to prosecute gang members connected to illegal immigration because the courts have been reluctant to prosecute, due to the radicalism of the courts.  Police know where the gang members are, but the mountain you must climb to get a prosecutor to present those cases to a grand jury is very steep.  It is much easier to arrest someone for spitting on the sidewalk if they are white and are American citizens because the work will stick.  The undocumented status of the illegal immigrants opens up all kinds of additional problems that prosecutors would rather not deal with.  So many criminals have to do terrible things even to get court consideration.  Because once you arrest them, what do you do with them?  What jail can hold them in an illegal status?  So they fly under the radar, and Democrats indicate that they haven’t been arrested because they played the refs on both sides.  That doesn’t mean that crimes weren’t committed, but like the election fraud cases, Democrats have made it difficult to prosecute them and then claim that the targets weren’t charged.  Just as they do with the Supreme Court when Chuck Schumer suggests that the mob attack members of the Supreme Court at their homes, then claim legal victory when that same court avoids making a hard ruling that might incite a mob.  That is what is going on with this MS-13 case; unlike times in the past, people can see the game better than ever. Essentially, because Trump has been willing to have these public fights, where before, no Republican dared to touch the issue.  When they should have been doing it all along. 

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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