Jim Cameron Has Lost It: Democrat movies are bad for theatre owners and very irresponsible

I’m not rooting for this new Avatar film to be a bust. I want the theaters breathing; I want popcorn machines humming; I want the marquee lights on for people who built these auditoriums and stuck it out through shutdowns, strikes, and the great experiment of “day‑and‑date” streaming. I’ve always liked the filmmaker; I’m not rooting for him to fail. But I can read a marketplace, and I can listen to what regular moviegoers tell each other—at the concession stand, online, at church, at work—and they’ll forgive almost anything except being lectured when they paid to be entertained. If the third one—this Fire and Ash one—lands, I’m happy for every exhibitor who cashes tickets and sells a few extra souvenir cups. If it stumbles, the reason won’t be the craft; Jim Cameron still builds technical worlds like few others. It will be the message mismatch in a market that has shifted under his feet. And that shift isn’t in our imaginations; it’s in the numbers. Opening weekend? $345 million globally, $88–89 million domestic—second‑largest global debut of 2025 behind Zootopia 2, but materially softer than The Way of Water’s $435 million holiday launch in 2022. The third film’s premium formats carried a heavy share—IMAX alone did $43.6 million, and 3D/IMAX accounted for 66% of grosses—proof that the draw remains “event tech” even when general interest cools a bit. 1 2

And yes, Jim Cameron knows exhibition math, over the years, he’s been the best at it; these films play for legs, not for a single weekend spike. The first one opened to $77 million domestically but camped at No. 1 for seven weeks and marched past $2.9 billion lifetime—still the all-time champ after reclaiming the crown via China re-release. The second one opened bigger—$134.1 million domestic—and legged out to $2.343 billion worldwide. So “Fire and Ash” starting below Way of Water doesn’t predetermine the finish line, but it does announce the current climate: domestic ticket buyers are more selective; they save their premium formats for must-see spectacles and otherwise wait for streaming. 3 4

Cameron bets that Fire and Ash can give Pandora a human core the audience bonds with again. He’s been telling the press that family—love, bonds, empathy—moved to the forefront after Way of Water’s reception, and that the “Ash People” show a different angle on the Na’vi. The studios pushed all of that: ABC’s primer explains the arc and the 197-minute run; USA TODAY walked folks through the romance pivot with Spider and Kiri; People and the official Avatar site laid out the December 19 release, cast, and creative. It’s all there if you want the meta‑story of the franchise’s evolution and Cameron’s tinkering to tune it to audience reaction. 5 6 7 8

But I’m going to say the part people mutter in the lobby: Avatar is FernGully in space, Dances With Wolves in space, hippie parables in space. Beautiful, yes. Bioluminescent, yes. But the heart isn’t the creature; it’s the ride. You can see it at Disney’s Animal Kingdom—Pandora is a marvel of engineering; Flight of Passage is a technical knockout. People queue for hours, glow under the blacklight, and walk out saying, “That was cool.” Then they turn left and head for Everest or the safari. The land is loved; the Na’vi dolls are not driving retail like Marvel or Star Wars. Pandora is foremost an experience of tech and design. 9 10

That’s the sore truth Cameron wrestles with: he won the world by selling a technical spectacle and then tried to use that platform to teach environmentalism and human restraint to a culture whose purchasing habits—phones, trucks, streaming subscriptions—declare that they want harmony with technology, not a scolding about it. If you can make the metaphor land without the wagging finger, you’re in business. But modern audiences, especially domestic ones, have tuned their ears to “message movies,” and they pick them carefully. When they don’t like yours, you feel it in the Friday night cash drawer. Ask the theater managers: they’ll tell you that premium‑format demand spikes when the spectacle is undeniable—and the rest of the release slate lives or dies by word of mouth about fun, action, and escape, not the righteousness of the lecture. 1

And since we’re talking about keeping theaters alive, let’s talk economics. The domestic yearly box office has clawed back to $8.2 billion as of mid December 2025—up from pandemic lows but still well below the $11+ billion of pre-COVID years. Ticket sales around 726 million and an average price in the $11 range (with premium surcharges pushing the “effective” average higher for event weeks) tell you how fragile attendance remains even when tentpoles overperform. Zootopia 2 blasted the family corridor and crossed $1 billion in just 17 days—the fastest PG film ever to the milestone—demonstrating that when a title hits, America still shows up with kids and grandparents. But the recovery is uneven; mid-budget adult films continue to crater, and exhibitors need reliable pipelines of four-quadrant hits to pay the rent. 11 12 13 14

Operating a theater is unforgiving math: payroll, lease, utilities, insurance, and the studio’s cut, which is heaviest in the opening weeks. Concessions are the lifeline—popcorn and soda can carry margins north of 80%; ticket revenue shares may be 70–90% to studios in week one, easing toward 50/50 later. So the survival instinct for exhibitors is simple—give them blockbusters frequently enough that the concession engine runs hot, and use subscription programs to smooth the demand curve. That’s how you pay the $83K monthly OpEx and keep the HVAC humming. When tentpoles slide, and streaming conditions lead audiences to wait, that cash‑flow logic breaks down. 15 16

Industry analysts tracked closures: roughly 5% of U.S./Canada screens gone between 2019 and 2022; AMC closed 106 net theaters through 2023; Regal/Cineworld shed dozens through bankruptcy. Foot traffic dropped by double digits across major chains in late 2023–mid 2024 because strikes delayed releases. Even with 2025’s steadier slate, domestic totals were still hovering in the low eighths by December, threatening fatigue if the holiday anchors didn’t deliver. That’s the context in which exhibitors watch Avatar 3: if it has legs, the end-of-year swing can push totals toward $9B; if it behaves like a front-loaded blockbuster without the legs, the last two weeks don’t bail out the ledger. 17 18

Meanwhile, the streaming battlefield grew sharper. Households averaged 2.9 paid streamers, spending ~$46/month, with Netflix the most used; Amazon introduced default ads unless you pay to remove them; Disney tightened windows on high‑performers like Zootopia 2, stretching theatrical exclusivity into 2026. Consumers say inflation bites their entertainment budget, but they don’t cancel streaming easily; ad-supported tiers make the price stickier. All of that pulls casual theatergoers away from opening weekends—unless the title is a true “you gotta see it on the big screen” phenomenon. That’s the point: theaters remain vital for communal spectacles; streaming dominates convenience. 19 20 21

So where does Cameron’s messaging collide with that behavior? Hollywood’s data on “woke” communication is complicated: some research finds inclusive advertising drives sales and engagement; other research warns consumers may perceive “woke‑washing,” eroding brand trust. In exhibition terms, the American audience isn’t a monolith—some will welcome explicit themes on environment, identity, or politics; others recoil if they feel preached to. When a movie becomes the avatar of a social crusade, it risks trading broad escapism for factional passion. That can be commercially fine when the target demos are wide (family animation, for instance). It’s harder when the film expects legions of repeat adult viewers to sustain $400M budgets. 22 23 24

Technically, Cameron is still a master. The franchise’s premium format share proves that—audiences paid more than the average to see the images in the best way possible. Guinness World Records still catalogs the original’s mountain of achievements: the highest-grossing 3D film at the time, the fastest to a billion at the time, and global king. Way of Water reinforced that technical leadership, but here’s the 3D lesson of the last fifteen years: outside of Avatar (and a handful of bespoke releases), 3D became a surcharge for middling conversions. Audiences noticed; the novelty wore off. When Avatar returns, people remember, “Oh, this is what 3D is supposed to feel like,” and they show up in IMAX. But it doesn’t rehabilitate 3D as a default; it just says “this franchise is the exception.” That’s both a badge of honor for Cameron and a ceiling he can’t escape: as long as the brand’s primary hook is visual immersion, the story has to be world-beating to keep legs beyond the tech hit. 25 26

You can ride that tech wave into theme parks. Pandora at Animal Kingdom opened in 2017 and became a crown jewel; it did exactly what the films do best—make you feel like you’re inside a place. But again, the halo is experiential. People gush about the floating mountains and Flight of Passage. They don’t fill shelves with Na’vi figurines the way they do Marvel characters. That’s not a moral judgment; it’s a merchandising truth that tells you what audiences connect to: the ride and the view. 10

Now, to the box office chessboard of 2025. Zootopia 2 became the highest-grossing American film of the year, blowing past $1 billion in record time for a PG title, with China acting as a rocket booster—over $430–$ 447 million there, second only to Endgame among MPA releases. Family content remains the most reliable play in a jittery market; inside Disney’s slate, you can see the split personality—animated juggernauts on one end, adult mid-budget dramedies like Ella McCay face-planting on the other. Exhibitors need the former to keep the concession margin pumping through the holidays, and they will take any Cameron-sized spectacle that keeps teens, dads, and gearheads buying premium tickets. 27 13 14

On that score, Fire and Ash didn’t exactly bomb, initially—it managed to gain a $345 million worldwide opening and posted more assertive China than Way of Water’s first frame. But domestically, it’s under the sequel’s pace. Not the kind of performance that a film like this needs, given how many resources went into making it. They are expensive to make and market. And this kind of performance doesn’t come close to what the industry needs. Analysts called out the new reality: three years after Way of Water—without the thirteen-year nostalgia gap—brand saturation and the streaming habit create a ceiling. Cameron is competing against his own legacy. The question is legs: holiday weekdays that behave like weekends, repeat viewings in premium formats, and the overseas skew that has always been Pandora’s ally. If the film holds like the first two, the break-even—reported budgets of ~$400 million plus $150 million in marketing—demand $1B+ to be comfortable. Disney’s decision tree on parts 4 and 5 will look at those legs, not the Friday surge. 28 29

But let’s say the worst happens and domestic audiences shrug after two weekends. What does that mean? It doesn’t mean theaters are doomed. It means studios must feed exhibitors with a genre spread that respects what Americans actually buy: action they can cheer, family movies they can share, comedy that feels “earned” not sermonized, and adult thrillers that find urgency beyond streaming. The market is proving it will sprint for the right reasons—look at 2025’s slate: Minecraft, Wicked: For Good, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth—all fueled weekends over $90–160 million. The domestic total we saw in Box Office Mojo’s year page—low eights as of Dec 22—can still jump if the holiday corridor behaves and Cameron’s legs show up. But the macro trend is stubborn: we’re not at $11 billion, and we won’t be until release pipelines and consumer habits align. 12 11

A word for the owners who lasted this long: your business is still, fundamentally, concessions powered by event content. Subscription passes (AMC Stubs A-List, Regal Unlimited) cushion attendance; laser projection, PLF screens, and dine-in service lift per-patron revenue. But your fixed costs don’t care about critical scores; they care about whether Friday brings teenagers who buy buckets of popcorn and dads who add an IPA. So when a Cameron tentpole arrives, you pray for the old magic: repeat viewings, premium surcharges, and a “must see on the big screen” vibe. That’s why, regardless of anyone’s politics, I want Avatar to do well enough to float the end of the year for the exhibitor class. 30

And the politics—since we’re being honest—matter in a way studios underestimated. The 2016–2025 period trained Americans to see media as partisan signaling. Some studies say inclusive marketing drives sales; other data points to backlash when consumers smell inauthenticity. The Bud Light saga, Target backlash, Disney controversies—they taught brand managers to avoid overt culture‑war stands unless they can carry the consequences. Films became lightning rods. When a blockbuster’s press tour tilts into liberal advocacy—it can polarize the chatter that would otherwise be “did you see that set piece?” Cameron seems to have steered Fire and Ash toward grief, family, and character, perhaps as a recalibration. But if the audience has already filed Avatar under “lecture about environment,” you need months of word‑of‑mouth to prove you’ve delivered a narrative they can feel passion for. 22 31

Cameron at his peak was never “woke” in the modern meme sense; he was a master of romance in catastrophe (Titanic) and man‑versus‑machine (Terminator), of Marines versus xenomorphs (Aliens). Those are universal frames you fill with craft, pace, and heart. Avatar’s universalism is visual; its message is particular. The bigger the individual, the narrower the net. Maybe Fire and Ash, with Lo’ak’s POV and Neytiri’s grief, has found the core that makes Pandora feel like a home family fights for rather than a lecture on planetary stewardship. Reviews and audience scores suggest the gap between critics (67%) and audiences (91%) is real—if the crowd likes it, the legs can happen. That’s the best-case path: the people drown out the pundits and get their friends to go. 32

As for me, I’m still walking into Pandora at Animal Kingdom and grinning at the floating mountains. I’m glad the tech exists, but my wish this holiday is practical: give exhibitors enough cash flow to survive. Give them Zootopia 2 numbers every Thanksgiving and Cameron-sized legs every Christmas, and then scatter a year with mid-range hits that fill Tuesdays. Give the owners who survived a marketplace with streaming siphons and political crossfire a break. They’re the stewards of a civic experience—strangers laughing together in the dark—that no algorithm can replace. If Fire and Ash ends up short of the Way of Water’s heights, I hope it’s still long enough to keep the box office humming while studios recalibrate toward stories that are fun first, message second, and always worth buying a large popcorn for. And when the exhibitors tally the year—$8.2B domestic, maybe a late surge to $9B if the holiday miracles stack—they’ll know the path forward. Audiences haven’t disappeared; they’ve become choosier. Earn the trip. Earn the concession upsell. But a fair warning for Cameron and the rest of the Hollywood lefty types, when you find out that people don’t support your fantasy messaging for a Democrat platform at the movies, don’t be surprised that people reject you. 33 11

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Footnotes

1. “Box Office: ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Powers to $345 Million Globally… Premium formats accounted for 66%; IMAX $43.6M.” Variety/Yahoo syndication (Dec 21, 2025). 1

2. Box Office Mojo: Avatar: The Way of Water totals and opening; franchise legs. 3

3. Wikipedia: List of box office records set by Avatar; regaining #1 worldwide via 2021 China re-release. 4

4. ABC News: “Everything to know about ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’” including runtime and Dec. 19 release. 5

5. USA TODAY: Cameron’s emphasis on relationships; Ash People context. 6

6. People.com: Fire and Ash overview; Ash People framing; Dec. 19 release. 7

7. Avatar.com: official runtime, cast, awards notes. 8

8. Walt Disney World: Pandora – The World of Avatar land overview. 9

9. Pandora – The World of Avatar (Wikipedia): acreage, attractions, opening history. 10

10. Deadline: Domestic box office crossed $8B in 2025; holiday expectations tied to Fire and Ash. 33

11. Box Office Mojo: Domestic Yearly Box Office (historical totals). 12

12. Deadline/Hollywood Reporter/Variety: Zootopia 2 crosses $1B in record time for PG; China lift. 13 34 27

13. Variety: Ella McCay opening; mid-budget adult titles struggling. 14

14. eFinancialModels: Concession margins and opening‑week revenue shares, typical breakdown. 15

15. Financial Models Lab: Example OpEx profile (payroll, lease, utilities) for a theater. 16

16. IndieWire/Yahoo: NATO/Cinema Foundation report—average ticket price $10.53 (2022) and ~5% screen decline 2019–2022. 17 35

17. RetailStat industry outlook: chain closures, strike impacts, foot‑traffic declines. 18

18. Forbes Home: 2025 streaming habits—average subs and spend; Netflix share. 19

19. Inside the Magic: Zootopia 2 theatrical window held into 2026. 20

20. Nielsen Consumer Survey (2023): inflation concerns; ad-free streaming preference stability. 21

21. Kantar Brand Inclusion Index (2024): Inclusive advertising drives purchase decisions. 22

22. Journal of Brand Management (2023/2024): “woke” brand communication engagement; polarization nuance. 23

23. International Journal of Advertising (2024/2025): woke‑washing risks to brand trust. 24

24. Guinness World Records: Avatar records; 3D/IMAX dominance; analysts projecting Fire and Ash domestic potential. 25

25. ScreenRant (Oct 14, 2025): 3D boom and decline context; post‑conversion fatigue. 26

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Bibliography & Further Reading

• Brueggemann, Tom. “The NATO Annual Report… Average Price of a Movie Theater Ticket.” IndieWire, Mar. 9, 2023. 17

• Rubin, Rebecca. “‘Zootopia 2’ Crosses $1 Billion Globally…” Variety, Dec. 12, 2025. 27

• Tartaglione, Nancy. “‘Zootopia 2’ Crosses $1 Billion… Fastest Hollywood Animation Ever.” Deadline, Dec. 12, 2025. 13

• “Avatar: The Way of Water – Box Office Mojo.” boxofficemojo.com. 3

• “List of Box Office Records Set by Avatar.” Wikipedia. 4

• “Pandora – The World of Avatar.” Walt Disney World Resort. 9

• “Pandora – The World of Avatar.” Wikipedia. 10

• “Economic Contributions of the US Movie Theater Industry (2019).” Ernst & Young for NATO (Cinema United). Aug. 2021. 36

• RetailStat. “Movie Theater Industry Outlook.” Sept. 12, 2024. 18

• Forbes Home. “2025 Media Streaming Stats You Should Know.” Nov. 27, 2025. 19

• Nielsen. “2023 Consumer Survey Report.” Nov. 2023. 21

• Kantar. “Brand Inclusion Index 2024.” July 15, 2024. 22

• Journal of Brand Management. “How persuasive is woke brand communication…” Dec. 21, 2023 (Vol. 31/2024). 23

• International Journal of Advertising. “Is woke advertising necessarily woke‑washing?” 2025 (accepted 2024). 24

• Guinness World Records. “Unbelievable amount of records Avatar has broken…” Dec. 19, 2025. 25

• ScreenRant. “The Rise and Fall of 3D Movies: Avatar’s Unfulfilled Promise.” Oct. 14, 2025. 26

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Nick Fuentes Picked a Fight with the Heavyweight, Vivek Ramaswamy: And he’ll get his teeth knocked out and his jaw broke, just like Jake Paul–but he’ll be rich

Jake Paul’s recent fight with Anthony Joshua is the perfect illustration of what happens when spectacle replaces substance. Paul, a YouTube celebrity with millions of followers, stepped into the ring against a world-class heavyweight—a man with Olympic gold and years of professional dominance. The pre-fight theatrics were designed to sell the drama, but anyone who understood boxing knew the outcome was inevitable. Paul fought briefly, suffered a broken jaw in two places, and left the arena humiliated in front of tens of millions of viewers. Yet, for him, the payday—reportedly $92 million—made the beating worthwhile. It was never about winning; it was about monetizing attention, even at the cost of personal dignity.

In many ways, that’s exactly what Nick Fuentes is doing with his attacks on Vivek Ramaswamy and, by extension, the MAGA movement. Vivek is the Trump-endorsed candidate for Ohio governor, a heavyweight in political terms, and Nick is trying to build his brand by picking a fight he cannot win. The goal isn’t policy or principle—it’s clicks, donations, and notoriety. Like Paul, Fuentes is willing to take a beating if it means short-term gains. But compromising integrity for a few bucks is a dangerous trade. Real influence comes from credibility, not shock-jock theatrics, and when the dust settles, Vivek will be fine. Nick, on the other hand, risks being remembered as the guy who sold his future for a viral moment.

Before we get lost in the weeds on Nick and the “war” he’s trying to gin up against Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio, the first thing to understand is that this is a publicity grab, a brand‑building exercise in the attention economy dressed up as a crusade. Tucker Carlson’s long sit‑down with Nick dropped late October 2025 and lit up the right for weeks—not because Nick said anything new, but because platforming him without hard pushback sparked a visible fracture among conservatives: Shapiro condemned the interview as “normalizing” a Hitler apologist, Heritage’s president defended Tucker as a free‑speech stand, and even Senate Republicans openly rebuked the tone and content. That intra‑movement rift is real, it’s documented, and it tells you what lane Nick is driving in: controversy converts to cash. 1 2 3 4 5

When Nick went on Piers Morgan Uncensored in December 2025, he doubled down—“Hitler was very f***ing cool,” he said, shrugging off historical atrocity with aesthetic fanboy talk about uniforms and parades. That wasn’t clipped speculation; it aired, it was challenged in real time, and it produced the predictable outrage cycle. He also conceded “at least six million” Jews were killed, but framed Holocaust memory as a mechanism to browbeat white Christians—a rhetorical move that’s been part of his pattern: push past decency, trivialize mass murder, court the shock. The point isn’t whether he “means” it; the point is that publicly saying it pays in a donor‑driven creator market. 6 7 8

And sure, people will ask how a 27‑ or 28‑year‑old ends up with this microphone. There’s a timeline: Unite the Right 2017, Groyper wars harassing mainstream conservative events in 2019, deplatforming cycles from YouTube for hate speech, and then re‑ascendance on platforms willing to host him; he even turned up at Mar‑a‑Lago in November 2022 when Ye (Kanye) brought him to dinner with Trump—a fiasco the former president later said he didn’t foresee. That dinner is a hinge in the public memory; it proved how oxygen flows to extremism when spectacle meets lax vetting. 9 10 11 12 13

Now, does Nick hurt Vivek in Ohio? No—he helps him by contrast. Ohio 2026 is shaping up as Ramaswamy vs. Acton, and the fundamentals are what they are: Vivek’s cash advantage, statewide endorsements, and consolidated GOP backing set the terrain; Acton’s own story is COVID‑era and compassion‑branded, but even Gov. DeWine has publicly said those shutdown decisions were his, not hers—undercutting the “Lockdown Lady” moniker his party uses. Because, DeWine is really a Democrat, and Amy was his girl. On balance, the race is competitive in public polling but leans Republican in a red‑trending Ohio; when the smoke clears, voters will choose jobs, affordability, and competence over influencer theatrics. That’s why a shock‑jock swipe from Nick won’t move the needle—it hardens a tiny niche while most Ohioans tune out the performative nihilism. 14 15 16 17 18 19

And here’s the part nobody wants to say out loud: this is a business model. The pundit economy rewards dopamine spikes—outrage, taboo, transgression—because creator monetization has shifted from legacy ad rails to direct fan funding. Platforms like Rumble now integrate Bitcoin tipping (with Tether) so audiences can spray micro‑payments across controversial content in seconds. You don’t need brand safety; you need attention. That’s why “Hitler is cool” becomes an economic lever: it draws fire, it drives views, it pulls in tips from an aggrieved subculture that feels ignored by institutions. In this incentive structure, “being unhinged” is not a bug; it’s a feature. 20 21 22

So, the math here is straightforward. Nick’s short‑term revenue maximizes by attacking Trump‑aligned figures like Vivek; it creates a pseudo‑rebellion narrative (“I speak the truths your gatekeepers won’t”), harvests donations, and inflates his standing with under‑30 males who see no path in a culture saturated with porn, atomized dating markets, and collapsing family formation—all frustrations he riffs on. But that same strategy destroys long‑term trust and any real governing coalition. Tucker’s interview gave Nick oxygen; Shapiro’s response—and the broader backlash—marked the boundary lines of mainstream conservatism. Vivek will do well to stay above it, keep on policy‑first, and connect with Ohio’s economy and families, and let the theatrics burn themselves out. That contrast, in the end, will decide everything. 3 23 5

I’ll add one more note because I’ve lived this choice set: taking money and chasing the algorithm means someone else owns your argument. Independent voices who refuse the pay‑to‑play goose—whether that’s bot‑inflated follower counts or crypto tip farms—give up the easy ego pop in exchange for credibility with serious people who need facts, not theatrics. In Ohio, facts look like campaign filings, union endorsements crossing over, county‑by‑county organizing, and policy planks about taxes, education, and industry. That’s where Vivek is playing. That’s where this race will be decided. 15 16

While Vivek Ramaswamy will be fine in Ohio—his strategy is solid, his Trump endorsement is strong—he could easily swat away Nick Fuentes by pointing to the Jake Paul fight as a metaphor. Picking a fight with a heavyweight when you’re clearly outmatched is reckless, and Nick’s attempt to derail Vivek’s campaign is no different. It’s a stunt, not a strategy, and it will fail.

But here’s the deeper truth Nick is tapping into: the rise of a disenfranchised generation. Under‑30 men are angry, disconnected, and increasingly unwilling to pursue marriage or family because they see the culture as broken—porn saturation, hookup norms, and progressive narratives have eroded trust. Nick speaks to that frustration, and that’s why his voice resonates even when his tactics are self‑destructive. This is the future of media and politics: decentralized, unfiltered, and without institutional guardrails. Legacy platforms can’t contain it, and the genie isn’t going back in the bottle. Even when Vivek wins and MAGA thrives for now, the next wave will be shaped by these angry young men who feel robbed of a normal life—and commentators like Nick will only grow louder in that vacuum.

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Footnotes

1. Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes published Oct. 27, 2025; episode listings and YouTube analytics confirm timing and reach. 1 2

2. Coverage of the interview’s fallout and intra‑GOP rift (Heritage defense; Shapiro’s critique; Senate Republicans’ reactions). 3 4 5

3. Piers Morgan interview (Dec. 8–9, 2025) where Fuentes said “Hitler was very f***ing cool”; additional reportage on his Holocaust remarks. 6 8 7

4. Fuentes background and extremism timeline: Unite the Right, Groyper wars, deplatforming, ideological positions. 9

5. Mar‑a‑Lago dinner (Nov. 22–25, 2022) with Ye and Fuentes; Trump’s later statements on not recognizing Fuentes. 10 11 12 13

6. Ohio 2026 overview: Ramaswamy’s fundraising and endorsements; Acton’s profile; DeWine clarifying COVID decisions. 14 15 16 17 18 19

7. Creator‑economy monetization and Rumble’s Bitcoin tipping integration (Tether partnership; rollout timing). 20 21 22

8. Shapiro’s extended takedown of Tucker/Fuentes; the boundary between mainstream conservatism and the groyper fringe. 23 5

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Selected Bibliography

• Tucker Carlson x Nick Fuentes: “Tucker Carlson Interviews Nick Fuentes” (Podchaser listing, Oct. 27, 2025); “Tucker Carlson Interviews Nick Fuentes” (YouTube). 1 2

• Intra‑movement rift: USA TODAY analysis of interview fallout; POLITICO on Shapiro’s critique and Heritage backlash; Fox News coverage of the AmericaFest sparring. 3 4 5

• Piers Morgan interview: The Independent, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and The Forward reports on Fuentes’ Hitler comments and Holocaust remarks (Dec. 2025). 6 8 7

• Mar‑a‑Lago dinner (2022): USA TODAY, NBC News, ABC News, POLITICO accounts and Trump’s statement. 10 11 12 13

• Ohio 2026: Cleveland Scene and Columbus Underground on fundraising and endorsements; Acton campaign site; NBC4 on DeWine’s COVID responsibility remarks; Ohio Capital Journal profile. 14 15 24 17 18

• Creator monetization: Cointelegraph and industry reports on Rumble’s Bitcoin tipping rollout and Tether partnership. 20

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Thanksgiving, Family, and the Weight of Choices: Why Generations Rise or Fall Together

Thanksgiving is one of those rare moments in American life where everything slows down just enough for us to notice what really matters. The smell of turkey fills the house, football hums in the background, and for a few hours, the world’s chaos takes a back seat to mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. I love this time of year. I love the family gatherings, the laughter, the jokes that only make sense to people who share your last name. But, Thanksgiving is also a fascinating study in human nature. You sit around that table and, without saying a word, you can see the weight of another year on everyone’s face—the triumphs, the mistakes, the quiet regrets.

What is family, really? People say it’s blood, but I think it’s more complicated than that. Family is biology, sure, but it’s also choices—every choice we make and every choice our kids make. And those choices stack up like bricks over time, building the life we live. Some people build palaces; others build prisons. Thanksgiving is where you see the architecture of those choices on full display.

When you’re born, you don’t get to pick your family. You’re handed a set of people and told, “These are yours.” But as life goes on, family becomes less about biology and more about decisions. Who you marry, how you raise your kids, what values you teach them—those choices ripple through generations. I’ve raised kids and now grandkids, and I can tell you this: the quality of a family gathering isn’t determined by the turkey on the table; it’s determined by the choices everyone made to get there.

I’ve seen families where bitterness hangs in the air like smoke because bad decisions piled up—wrong marriages, financial disasters, grudges that never healed. And I’ve seen families where people genuinely enjoy each other’s company because they made better choices. It’s not luck. It’s not fate. It’s choices.

I’ve always said this—and sometimes people look at me funny when I do—but I treat kids differently than I treat adults. Why? Because kids still have options. They haven’t stacked up a lifetime of mistakes yet. They’re like a blank canvas with endless possibilities. Adults, on the other hand, well… by the time you hit your 40s or 50s, the mistakes start showing. You can see it in their faces, in their posture, in the way they talk about life. Every bad decision leaves a mark.

I’ve sat at Thanksgiving tables and watched this play out. You see the cousin who married the wrong person, and now every conversation is about how hard life is. You see the uncle who spent his 20s chasing quick thrills and now looks like a relic of his former self. And then you look at the kids—bright-eyed, full of energy, thinking they’re invincible. They don’t know yet that life is a marathon, not a sprint.

That’s why I invest in kids. I talk to them differently. I try to steer them away from the mistakes that everyone else seems determined to make. Because if you can help a kid avoid even half the bad choices their peers make, you’ve given them a head start that will pay off for decades.

Life is like a marathon. At the starting line, everyone looks the same—bunched up, full of energy, ready to run. But five miles in, the pack starts to spread out. Some people are way ahead, others are falling behind, and the gap keeps growing. That’s what choices do.

And the stats prove it. By middle age, the spread is enormous:

• 41% of first marriages end in divorce, and the odds get worse with each attempt.

• The average U.S. household carries $105,056 in debt, with mortgage debt alone averaging $268,060.

• Over 40% of adults are obese, and the highest rates are among people in their 40s and 50s.

These aren’t random outcomes. They’re the result of choices stacked up over decades. The people who finish strong aren’t the ones who sprint early—they’re the ones who pace themselves, make smart decisions, and stay disciplined when everyone else is falling apart.

Here’s something I’ve noticed over the years: misery loves company. People who make bad choices don’t just suffer quietly—they want everyone else to make the same mistakes. Why? Because it makes them feel less alone. If you’ve wrecked your finances, married the wrong person, and let your health go, it’s comforting to see the next generation do the same. It’s almost like a twisted form of validation: “See? It’s not just me. This is how life works.”

But let’s be honest—it’s not “how life works.” It’s how bad decisions impact outcomes. And the numbers back this up. Divorce, debt, obesity—they’re all connected. Stress from debt leads to overeating. Relationship breakdowns lead to depression. Depression leads to bad health habits. It’s a cycle, and once you’re in it, climbing out feels impossible.

I’ve seen this at family gatherings. You hear the stories—another year of bills piling up, another kid in trouble, another health scare. And everyone nods like it’s normal. But it’s not normal. It’s the result of choices. And the sad part? People cling to the idea that something magical will fix it—a lottery win, a miracle from God, a quick fix that wipes the slate clean. But most of the time, that fix never comes.

Here’s the good news: the cycle can be broken. It’s not easy, but it’s possible—and it starts with the next generation. The key isn’t to make kids perfect. The key is to help them avoid the big mistakes—the ones that derail lives. Teach them that life isn’t about following the crowd. Because the crowd? The crowd is headed straight for debt, divorce, and diabolical outcomes.

So what do you do? You teach kids to think long-term. You teach them that every choice is a brick in the house they’re building. Pick the wrong bricks, and the house collapses. Pick the right ones, and you’ve got a fortress.

I tell my grandkids, “Don’t chase what everyone else is chasing. Most people are running toward misery and calling it fun.” I remind them that life is a marathon, and the people who finish strong aren’t the ones who sprint early—they’re the ones who pace themselves, make smart decisions, and stay disciplined when everyone else is falling apart.

And here’s the beautiful part: when you do this, you don’t just change one life. You change a family. You change a legacy. Because good choices ripple forward just like bad ones do. Imagine a Thanksgiving table where everyone is healthy, happy, and financially secure—not because they got lucky, but because they made choices that built that reality. That’s possible. I’ve seen glimpses of it in my own family, and it’s worth every ounce of effort.

Thanksgiving is more than turkey and football—it’s a mirror. Every year, when the family gathers, you can see the story of choices written on people’s faces. Some look vibrant, full of life, laughing easily. Others look worn down, carrying the weight of years of bad decisions. And it’s not just physical—it’s in the conversations. You hear who’s struggling with debt, who’s on their third marriage, who’s battling health problems.

But here’s the thing: Thanksgiving also gives us hope. It’s a chance to reset, to remind ourselves what matters. For a few hours, the bills and the stress fade away, and we just enjoy being together. And if we use that time wisely—not just to eat, but to inspire—we can plant seeds that change the next generation.

Family is a gift, but it’s also a responsibility. It’s not just about biology—it’s about choices. Every choice we make ripples through generations, shaping the lives of people who haven’t even been born yet. That’s heavy, but it’s also empowering. Because if bad choices can create misery, good choices can create joy.

So this Thanksgiving, as you sit around the table, look at the faces you care about and ask yourself: What legacy are we building? Are we passing down wisdom, or just repeating the same mistakes? Because the truth is, the cycle doesn’t have to continue. We can break it. We can teach our kids to run the marathon wisely, to pace themselves, to make decisions that lead to health, happiness, and freedom.

And if we do that—if we choose better and inspire better—then maybe, just maybe, the next Thanksgiving will feel different. The laughter will be louder, the smiles will be brighter, and the weight of bad choices will be replaced by the joy of good ones. That’s something worth being thankful for.

Rich Hoffman

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I Love War: The greatest joy in life is destroying your enemies

Erika Kirk’s statements at the memorial service for her husband were nice, but it has been something that has come up in my direction many more times than a few this past week. I am more aligned with what President Trump said about his enemies: I hate them. I don’t want to get along with them. And I would be bored to death in life if I didn’t have someone to fight. The idea of going to Heaven and sitting around playing a harp on a cloud all day for eternity is not appealing. Forgiving enemies is not something I will ever do. I love war, and I love being in fights with other people. I love to destroy my enemies. That destruction either happens fast or it happens over a great many years, depending on the circumstance. But one way or another, the destruction of my enemies is something that is going to happen, and I spend a lot of my life thinking about it. The idea of waking up every morning, sipping coffee, and watching the dew gather on blades of grass without having to fight is incredibly dull to me, and I would not be happy. So even though the concept of Christianity is to forgive your enemies and all kinds of platitudes that I think were incorrectly interpreted over time into organized religion, that is where my thoughts end on these kinds of things. I may share a lot of values with very religious people, but if there is no conflict involved in communicating those ideas, then I lose interest really fast. Because to me, the fight is the only thing that matters, and if people aren’t fighting, they aren’t trying to get to the truth of a matter.

Human beings are so deceitful; they have numerous value systems that protect their motivations behind the creative lies that surround their lives intensely. That is the first problem with a society of peace: a lot of truth gets buried behind deceit. When people ask me why I can sniff out so much truth about things, and have over a long period of time, it’s because I like to fight for that truth about people. The pressure of conflict brings about the truth in people and exposes them from their hiding places. In my experience, that is the only way to understand what people are all about truly. Otherwise, they will conceal their true thoughts behind the façade of polite society. If you love the truth, you have to love the means of extracting it from society in general, and the only real way to do that is through conflict. People often reveal a great deal about themselves through conflict that they would otherwise conceal. Along with war, I love uncovering the truth about things. Whatever that truth may be. I love war because I love the truth, and you can only learn it through conflict. Because people, all people, will lie to protect their version of the truth until their dying day, if they are allowed to. The reason for conflict is to settle differing ideas about things. And to avoid war is to suppress the truth about what those things might be in favor of some common understanding that is usually a watered-down version of reality. So the assumption of peace is the surrender of the truth, as people are willing to fight for it. And that lowers the value of a society in general as a result.

I suppose this has arisen recently, before Erika Kirk made her statements, because many truly reprehensible individuals believed they had some leverage over me. And they have been very frustrated by my reaction to their aggressions. Most people conduct strategies assuming that peace is the motivating factor in a human being. To wake up in the morning and be left alone so that everything is just perfect. I don’t see the world like that. If there isn’t something to fight, then I’m bored. So when I have a lot of enemies trying to plot my demise, I am far happier than if everyone just left me alone. Many people are frustrated by my approach because they assumed, like most people, that I would do anything for peace. They should have done their homework. Ever since I was a little kid, most of my thoughts have been about war and fighting someone over something. That’s why I love politics. That’s why I love the business world. That’s why I like most things, because they involve people, and those people are often at cross-purposes with each other. I love uncovering the truth behind concealed smiles and handshakes. I never sit down with people and look for common ground or ways to enjoy another person. I want to challenge them, with everyone, and to discover what it is they don’t want to be known for to the world. I never assume that my interactions with anyone will be peaceful, and if they are, I lose interest in those people quickly. In my youth, I wore army fatigues everywhere, under every circumstance, because they reminded me of my love for constant fighting. I never wanted to join the military to “serve.” Serving others was always a misguided idea because what if, in doing so, those people were found to be unworthy of my dedication, which is a common discovery in all institutionalism. However, the fighting aspect has always been appealing.

The teachings of Jesus are appealing ideas on the surface. But if you like the truth of a matter, you will either be killed for it, as Jesus was, and John the Baptist was, and as was Charlie Kirk, and many others. Or you will have to fight everyone, and like it. And that means everyone, because most people are very deceitful even within their families. There are plenty of fights, and if you want to know the truth about things, you’d better be willing to fight for it. Fighting is more than just the physical aspect, because humans are very emotional creatures; they create many layers of deceit in their lives to protect themselves from the harm of judgment. And the more people you deal with, the more deceit you can expect to be exposed to. The only way to get to the truth of anything is through conflict, in stripping away the things people use to protect themselves so you can get to the foundation of their intellects. Such a thing is never given up voluntarily; you have to pound away at their defenses to know who they really are, which only happens under duress. So, if many people have found that they now have a handful with me, they should have thought about things a bit more carefully. I am only thrilled when the world around me is on fire, and that is how it will always be with me, even in Heaven. Heaven to me would be at the gates of Hell putting evil’s heads on a pike and spitting on their tortured bodies. Everyone else can play a harp at the golden gates of Heaven and sing songs to each other in a quest for peace. Which, for me, is the same as serving an obligation toward dishonesty. Only in war do people really tell the truth, even in Heaven.

Rich Hoffman

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I Endorse Ben Nguyen for Lakota School Board: What a smart young man with a great future

Ben Nguyen is in good company. When Nancy Nix invites me to her house to meet people she thinks will be the future of politics, she has a pretty good track record. And I felt bad; I was running late when she invited me over to listen to a speech from a bright young man by her pool, as I had in the past. I was stuck on an overseas call, and the time zones didn’t match up to the schedule Nancy had given me. But when I did arrive, it was just in time to hear a speech by Ben Nguyen, a former student at Lakota schools who had just graduated and was now running for the school board. And as I watched him speak, he had picked a spot by her pool to talk to the crowd that was just like another young overachiever, J.D. Vance. A few years ago I had listened to the future Vice President give a very similar speech as Ben did from that very spot, which was before he was even running for the senate seat, and of course Nancy was right about him. Ben also reminded me of another bright young mind who she promised me had a great future in politics, which was Vivek Ramaswamy. I think of these guys as young, even though they were in their late 30s when I first met them, because, to me, they are. I’m not a young person, so everyone seems young to me. But Nancy Nix has a knack for finding good people in the crowd and getting behind them with a bit of help. I was not surprised to learn that Ben Nguyen was an intelligent young man, and I enjoyed listening to him speak about why he was running for the Lakota school board in the November 2025 elections.

Essentially, Ben is against the upcoming Lakota levy, which is the most expensive school levy in the state of Ohio. He is also against indoctrination in public schools, and he has fresh experience, having just left school to learn what is really going on. And he wants to do good things in life with his obvious talents. He has siblings still attending Lakota schools, so he is concerned about public education in general. He plans to do many things in the future, as his life is currently an open book. However, to run and win the school board seat would be historic; he would undoubtedly be one of the youngest ever to do so. But as I listened to him speak, he possessed the wisdom of a much older person, and he was only going to improve with time. I had just recently watched Bernie Moreno give a similar speech from almost the same spot in Nancy Nix’s backyard, and he’s close to my age. And Ben sounded just as well-versed politically, and he was very articulate and well-spoken. He’s already a better political figure than most people who have been doing this kind of thing for three or four decades. As I thought about Ben, I was skeptical due to his age as I drove to Nancy’s home. I am one of those people who think it’s better to be old and broken, looking like a wet towel discarded in the sun, than a beautiful young person with everything working, because of the essential ingredient of wisdom. Wisdom is hard to get, and it’s worth the age it often takes to get there, and what you lose along the way. So I’m not automatically impressed with young people. However, it was clear that Ben Nguyen was something special because he possessed a remarkable amount of wisdom at a very young age, which was evident in his family background, as he discussed.

And he was right in his speech about why someone like him needed to be on the Lakota school board. I have been intensely critical of the public education system. My thought on it was to erase everything John Dewey ever did and to start the concept of education anew in American culture. I don’t think people are nearly as educated as they should be, and I deal with a lot of people every day who hold advanced Master’s and PhDs. People aren’t that smart in our culture, and it disgusts me. I’m not excited to support more of the kind of education that leaves people so ill-prepared for the world. However, to Ben’s point, the current school board does not represent the kind of people who live in Butler County, Ohio. If we are going to have a public school funded by taxpayer money, we should have representatives on the school board who represent us. After speaking with Ben, I think he would be great, and I will certainly be voting for him. Needless to say, I fully endorse him and would love to see him win a seat in this upcoming election. It would be a step in the right direction. I’ve been a part of a lot of campaigns to put members of the school board in place to represent conservatives, but the efforts have been discouraging, leaving me wanting to blow up the whole system with charter schools and the elimination of the Department of Education as a whole. But Ben Nguyen reminds me of why I have worked for good school boards in the past, and his personality appears to be well-suited to withstand the intense scrutiny that comes with the job.

Isaac Adi was also there to show support. Isaac is a current school board member for Lakota, and he consistently votes in favor of Republican positions. But he’s currently the only one. He and I have seen each other at a few events since the highly publicized fallout he had with Darby Boddy, a school board member I had supported a lot and still do. The pressure of those positions, by the whispers that come into them, is hard to deal with, and I wanted those two to work better together instead of against each other. And Isaac was one of the reasons I no longer thought school board races were worth dealing with. But seeing him there to support Ben, I thought the beginnings of something good were forming. Of course, to get a good school board, it would take a lot more than just Ben Nguyen. However, this was a good start, because until there is a good school board, Lakota schools will continue to mismanage money and ask for tax increases, as they have more in mind than just this bond levy on the November ballot. They are also considering an operations levy in the very near future, and we don’t want a liberal school board rubber-stamping more spending, as they have been doing. We need smart people who are willing to engage in lively debate and continually ask essential questions. With Ben Nguyen in that school board role, I see a lot of opportunity for good things to happen. However, people will have to show up and vote for him because the Democrats are counting on a low turnout to maintain the status quo on the school board. So people are going to have to rally behind Ben. And after hearing him speak and explaining what he wants to do and why, the Lakota school district would be in a much better position. And Ben Nguyen is certainly somebody voters can get excited about.

Rich Hoffman

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What a Miracle to see RFK Jr. Confirmed: The hidden war against Americans through poisoned food

It was different this time, whenever I go to political fundraisers, there’s always hope lurking in the background that if only we could get this person elected, or that, that maybe, just maybe, we might save the world. But a kind of dismal smoke always makes everything political seem out of reach, even diabolical. Things never quite work out how you want them to, and the political efforts always come out feeling short on the results. However, the atmosphere was dramatically different this year at the Nancy Nix fundraiser for February of 2025. Trump had been back in the White House for a month, but things were already feeling dramatically different. Kash Patel had just been confirmed as the new Director of the FBI, which I never thought possible, and it is a topic of its own. Most of Trump’s presidential picks had received confirmation votes in the Senate. But the one I think is astonishing, and that I thought was even less of a possibility than Kash Patel, is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Senate confirmed RFK Jr. into his new role as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and I am very excited to see what he can do with our food supply. After reading his books on Anthony Fauci, I never thought he’d be in any government role. It just seemed like a fantasy that could never come true. But he did get confirmed, and that will be his new job, and I think great things will happen from that position. Not that I am suddenly about government regulations or supportive of Democrats. But in a tough time, when I was reading Bobby’s books about the origin and villains of COVID-19, I thought it took a lot of guts to say what he did and that all those things have stood up to time legally.

Let’s not play patty cake with this issue; COVID was the most diabolical menace created as a bioweapon that has so far been unleashed on the human race within the context of mass scale. It was created in a lab in Wuhan and released to the world during an election year when China was very upset about Trump’s trade tariffs, and there is only one way to view that kind of thing: as a terrorist weapon meant to drive a World Economic Forum Great Reset of the global economy into a communist-controlled menace. And that’s saying it all nicely. For those who think we can turn the page and forget what Covid was, who made it, and why, forget about it. Those involved in creating and distributing COVID-19 must be punished for what they did. The pharma companies that perpetuated the destruction must also be dealt with. We can’t let it go. Time and distance can’t make the guilty less guilty. They have to pay, and RFK Jr. laid out the case in his two books on the subject, The Real Anthoney Fauci and The Wuhan Cover-up. As the new HHS secretary, the author of those books gets to drive health policy in America, knowing what we do now about all the diabolical forces in the background who used health care as a global power grab to install a one-world government driven ultimately by the United Nations, through their sub-tier, The World Health Organization. These are all bad people from socialist and communist countries, and they have been trying to destroy our nation through policy regulation for years, and with COVID-19, they went too far. Trump knows it, and his new HHS secretary wrote the book on the matter.

Regarding poison, I have become very skeptical of our food supply and how our water is treated across America. Watching what many evil characters without refute did during COVID-19 has opened the door to everything, such as fluoride and corn syrup, as known catastrophic mechanisms of doom. Even if the government pinheads did everything on accident, just trying to meet the market needs of a capitalist public, allowing known killers to poison our food just can’t occur. As an example, a good friend of mine just traveled to England, where a week there lowered his blood sugar dramatically as he has diabetes, just through diet. I have had a similar experience and complained about it a lot. The food in Europe has all kinds of regulations and doesn’t taste nearly as good as it does in America. Usually, after I take a trip to Europe or Asia, I look forward to my layover flights in either Chicago, Detroit, or Charlette upon re-entering the United States because I pig out on double combo meals from the nearest Burger King just to get my usual food intake levels back to what they are used to in America. But maybe that shouldn’t be the case. Our food is making us unhealthy, and not that Europe or Asia is doing something better than us with tight market controls over the food supply, but perhaps in this case, their admission to the health crises is far more than just being a nanny state over their citizens. We’re at a point where you can’t have any discussions about healthcare policy without dealing with the poison that is in most foods, hidden behind our free market system with the same intentions as drug dealers seek to poison our citizens slowly. Who needs war to kill off your enemy when you can just encourage them to poison themselves with drugs and poorly constructed food?

I was with a large group of affiliates at the P.F. Chang’s in West Chester where we were talking about this very issue, and we were all sharing some lettuce wraps and talking about all the harmful ingredients that were in American Chinese food that you wouldn’t find in the country of origin. And my attitude was, “Who cares?” because this food had to be good for you because I wouldn’t be eating a leaf if not for all the good stuff that you poor over it to make it taste good. So, indeed, the leaf had health value. But, when you think of the vast amounts of food we eat where those kinds of concessions are constantly being made, our bodies can’t keep up with all the lousy processing, destroying our population. So we needed to have a serious discussion on food, and we need to set some standards that are going to be rough on companies taking advantage of the freedom they have had because we can’t poison our population and hide laziness and a lack of innovation behind a mask of capitalism, and to call it good. Because so many companies have gotten away with literal murder, the pharma companies thought they were going to get away with COVID-19 and the vaccines that caused so much trouble with ridiculous immunity deals from any prosecution. The solution to all in RFK was to be in some position to help. And to have a Trump administration that would have the guts to turn him loose. And now he is, Robert F. Kenndy Jr. is getting the chance of a lifetime, and he won’t waste it. Which, of course, we will all benefit from. Our food might taste different, but we’ll get used to it. Because ultimately, we all want to be healthier and not let our enemies laugh at us while we poison ourselves recklessly and without regard for a prosperous future.

Rich Hoffman

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The Illusion of Joe Biden: Who really runs the world

Sorry to break it to everyone. People continue to be surprised that Joe Biden is not in charge of our government, and he never was. I told you guys that he was a puppet president put in place. He was not elected. The Administrative State selected him to serve the Deep State of globalists hiding in the World Economic Forum in the mountains of Davos. And the Joe Biden presidency is them flexing the muscle of their power and control over the rest of us. Now that time has passed, and the election fraud of 2020 is so apparent, with objective evidence beyond a doubt, the realization is becoming more mainstream. People have assumed that when they elect a president, they bring in an executive to run the country. But that is not what the hostile agents of doom worldwide want. They want an idiot like Joe, who is so compromised as a person that he is easy to control. They are still so mad that we elected Trump back in 2016 that they no longer care if we see how they control our lives. The illusion of freedom has now been ripped away, and during that debate with Trump at the end of June 2024, people had that moment where they realized that all the comments about Biden were not some conspiracy theory created by some Alex Jones personality. This was real. To many people, that realization was terrifying and something that people were beginning to observe. If Joe Biden wasn’t running the country, then who was? The answer is the Administrative State. The Biden presidency is a creation of bureaucrats to preserve Washington D.C.’s culture of easy money and sinful mayhem. And they didn’t want a real executive like President Trump traditionally running things. Instead, they gave us President Biden to flex their muscle and preserve their globalist plans. And now they aren’t even trying to hide it with that mess of a debate they gave us with tongues deeply in their cheeks.

But how could they do such a thing? Well, it’s simple, and we see this audaciousness in almost every industry. Yes, it is raw communism, but it is disguised to us as procedural fulfillment. Those who write the rules and create the procedures are the absolute rulers of the world. And that is how they have been running Joe Biden. He is not concerned about deciding on the health of the nuclear football because these same administrator types control the whole world and know whether there will be a war or not between two parties. They have complete control over everything, including when wars happen and where, such as in the Russia/Ukraine war presently. Or the fight between the Palestinians and Israel. Or whether China will invade Taiwan. It’s all carefully scripted, with procedural mandates flowing down through the United Nations. How it works in this Biden White House and since the first George Bush was in office was that administrators following the handbook of global politics set the agenda and policy for the American president, and he is supposed to follow that without deviation. The president’s job, such as Obama’s job exclusively, was to sell the illusion to the public. Not to make executive decisions. We don’t have a system that allows for a president to act as a traditional executive. They aren’t making decisions decisively in the situation room anymore. They are given PR memos and told what to say and where to do it. It’s all written down for them, but who does all the writing? Well, it’s the same pinheaded young college kids who learn in school how to be friendly, little compliant members of the administrative state. They also learn to get their information from the United Nations, where all procedures and rules for global conduct are put in place.

It works that way in business, too. Many of the world’s best companies are not run by strong personalities as we expect them to be. Instead, most CEOs are focused on compliance with the standards created by the Administrative State. The values have shifted dramatically in recent years, not to a company’s performance but more to its compliance with rules and standardization, which is meant to bring sameness to the world’s industries and usher in global communism using China as the model. That is what the United Nations has been doing in the background. And for proof, look at your local zoning and township maintenance. Most of what they have to deal with comes straight out of the pages of Agenda 21 and 2030, including the smart meters on all our houses. I live in an area heavily targeted by Agenda 21’s “sustainable development” and warned everyone 20 years ago what it was and how it would be done. As a result, we have roundabouts and bicycle trails everywhere for these beta males who like to ride bicycles looking like girls in their tight spandex pants and gay little helmets. But the shell game works like this: Deep Staters flow down the rules and regulations through the Administrative State, who pick it up and flow it into every company in the world through standardization. And it ends up in local government school boards and with the trustees as enforceable mandates. And if the local leadership doesn’t follow the rules, they get sued. When people are upset over some new zoning change, all trustees can do is follow the zoning recommendations, which are entirely shaped by those same kids right out of college who were trained to be compliant members of the Administrative State bureaucracy. And if the trustees don’t follow the rules and prove themselves non-compliant, they are harassed legally.

This has been the phantom impact of global communism as advocated by the United Nations. This is how they plan to rule the world, as they have been doing. Essentially, all rules and regulations that we endure today, no matter what industry it is, go to the doorstep of the mindless bureaucrats banging wine glasses together in the mountains of Davos hiding behind the World Economic Forum on behalf of the United Nations. And Joe Biden, for them, was revenge against the rest of us because Trump threatened to dismantle that entire mess. So Joe Biden, the complete idiot, was to stick it in our eye that they are in control and have been for years. But we are fighting back, with Trump running for another term. The Supreme Court just ruled on the Chevron case, which dramatically takes away the power of the Administrative State to grab power for itself and then continue to change rules, solidifying that power to an even greater extent. As bad as it has been, people are catching on, and if that debate was meant to discourage people from challenging the power of the Administrative State, it turned people in the other direction. I would say that the power and arrogance of the Deep State and their frustrations at a public that insists on more than an illusion of freedom forced them into a rather large error. They should not have put Biden on that stage to show the world he was never in charge. Because it only confirmed the suspicions that the public had been having. They may have wanted a replacement on the Democrat ticket while there is still time to build up someone else. But this is the kind of mess you always get when dealing with the Administrative State. They make a lot of mistakes because competent rulers don’t rule them. But pinheaded bureaucrats who have been trying to replace real executive leadership for years. And it’s all been a trick that most people have fallen for, at least until now.

Rich Hoffman

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World War III, Armageddon, and the Fight Against Israel: It’s just the attempt of Marxists to control lazy people through their own stupidity

I would say to everyone to relax. The fears about this being another World War or that we are living through Armageddon are hardly the case. Hamas’s latest attack in Israel is just the latest failure of globalism, just as is the case of Ukraine being invaded by Russia, and the threats of China invading Taiwan. To understand the problem, you must admit to what point globalism is the villain and always has been. The people at the World Economic Forum, the old Socialist International people. The climate terrorists. The secret societies. International finance. All doors of trouble have the pathways of discontent leading to their door from all these troubled regions, and these veiled activists leave behind the fingerprints of evil. But it all points to one essential thing: the right to be lazy by the Marxists behind all these movements, and that is certainly the case behind the Palestinians who are dedicated to wiping away Israel from the face of the earth. And that is always the position of the indigenous people’s argument. Islam was not even created until 610 AD in an attempt to make the polytheism of the Arab world more reflective of the Christian and Jewish world. The Jewish people had been in Israel for over 1000 years before the Muslims attacked Israel in 638 AD, just twenty years after the start of their religion. Before that, Israel had been invaded many times, first by the Mesopotamians, and then the Egyptians. Then, by the Romans. The Israelites had been displaced many times leading up to any discussion of the modern tensions, mostly propped up by the winds of war and who blows on them to ignite their energy. If you take away the outside antagonisms, there would be no threat of war because the characters advocating for war are actually after something else, and it isn’t the end of the world as we know it.

The Israelites have always been a dynamic people and have had a prosperous society; they have managed to stay alive long enough to be the most extended community of people on the face of the earth, and obviously the most persecuted. But their existence came about due to the rules of a prosperous country. What makes a nation great are the philosophies of value that it beholds, and the laws that came from the line of Abraham, then down into Moses, and many since then have shown the world what the success of Western Civilization can bring everywhere. Many tricky characters have been involved in the interpretation of history on all sides, and they have purposefully released versions of history to control exclusively mass populations. For instance, in the Near East which the Greeks interpreted, there isn’t much mention about where Jesus was leading up to his teachings in the Holy Land. Or what many think happened after he was hung on the cross, with nobody to witness. Studying the old Silk Road brings about a lot of much-needed perspective on the spread of Buddhism into the Holy Land through Jesus. But before that, Soloman’s empire extended all the way to Japan, as I have pointed out before with the Tombs of Kufan all over the Osaka region, along that same Silk Road. Before Solomon and his father King David, we have the son of King Saul, Gad, who founded the city of Kandahar in Afghanistan. So many of the events we read about in the Bible were purposely edited to confine these movements from our understanding of global politics that has been thriving for many thousands of years, well before the tempers of the modern era are attempting to cry foul for the purposes of global domination.

Laziness is behind much of the trouble, an attempt to spread the Marxist messages of economic terrorism behind the façade of religious definitions to disguise the attempt. But the object of their real menace is laziness and protecting their right to it. Marxists do not want productive people in the world, and since the Jewish people have embraced productivity as a value system of their culture, they have always been the subject of attack before European Masons, descending from the Knight’s Templars, invented Marxism to control the world through international finance. Attacking people over their desire to work is much more complicated, and even international finance people appreciate a culture that works hard. So, they passively aggressively attack value in the world behind a religious façade, hoping that other lazy people will never do the work of investigation to see what a sham it all is. Rather than attack nations of people, because they work hard, the attack is over history interpreted by the same forces that want to rule the world through their version of the story. And that is certainly the case with Islam. If you read the Quran, it becomes clear what it was quickly: a political book, not a religious one, meant to gain power over what was left of the Romans who had ruled the region for a long time and destroy the forces of progress at that time which had reached into the Arab world, the descendants of the polytheism of ancient Mesopotamia and the gods of Baal, Moloch, and Ishtar, along with many others who would end up showing themselves as the gods of Greek society, renamed. And the Romans tried to unite their empire through Christianity. All along these historical efforts, and with the tampering of eastern thought always looming in the background along the Silk Road where supposedly Jesus was a king in Kashmir after his supporters broke him free from his tomb to be healed in the Himalayas where his grave resides to this day, have kept the world stirred up in controlled ways that are obvious in conflicts like the one in modern-day Israel.

Why does anybody think the modern wars of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and China are filled with political volatility? And especially in the Middle East? I would propose that the contemporary governments of globalism stir up those wars to keep the past from people’s minds so they can maintain the power over weak, lazy people with the interpretation of history they have formed to enrich themselves. And if people were actually to connect all these dots, which isn’t hard, then they would see who is actually pulling the strings in the world for the exploitation of labor, and the spread of Marxism to the enticed lazy people of all cultures for the ultimate, centralized control over all of them. Yet to know these things would be to take away the manipulators’ power, which is very easy to do. But World War III? Armageddon? No, just the attempt by global manipulators to take advantage of lazy people they want to rule over and tap into their superstitious beliefs about the end of the world which has been looming in the background of most religions for tens of thousands of years. When globalism and its economic attempts at Marxism came along, it showed how controlling people through selected history and filtered through religious interpretation that this new ability to rule through secrecy became such a desired trait of shadow governments. And once you realize that, you will see clearly that the fight between the Palestinians and their Hamas terrorists is just a disguised attempt to impose Marxism on regions that still show positive attributes of independence and national productivity. Ultimately, the motivation for such antagonisms is the greatest threat to the world that anybody has known: the exploitation of lazy people for the right to rule over them through ignorance. But the truth is always just a few layers deep and easy to expose where the real villains have been hiding all along.

Rich Hoffman

Homophobia, Transphobia, and Kings Island: I’m tired of being hit on sexually wherever I go

How bad is it out there? Well, it’s pretty ugly. We have a pornography culture that some of these kids have never otherwise known, and now they have been taught in their public schools that all kinds of alternative sex practices are perfectly healthy and encouraged. They are taught that self-expression sexually is a good thing, so of course, we now see a society reflect those traits. And it was never more evident to me than in a recent trip to Kings Island, the big amusement park near my home in Northern Cincinnati. I was there with my family to see the re-opening of the Adventure Express, a ride that has been around for a while, but they have updated the theming in that part of the park and given everything a fresh paint job. I’ve always loved the ride, and as I often do at the end of a hard week of work in the summer, I like to meet my family there to ride a few roller coasters and have some dinner around the Eiffel Tower. I have been to Paris with my family and honestly prefer the Eiffel Tower at Kings Island to the one in Paris any day. So that is where I like to blow off the stress of a hard week at Kings Island. So I’m there at the park with my two daughters, their kids, my wife, and one of my sons-in-law, and we wanted to check out all the cool new things at the Adventure Express. It was a very nice day, the park had low attendance, so most of the rides were walk-ons. What could go wrong?

Well, all my grandkids wanted to take turns riding with me. They had already been there all day, and when they think of adventure, they think of me, so they all wanted time to ride together with me, but each wanted a turn to ride with me on this epic ride that reminded them so much of Indiana Jones. That is after all the ride’s history back when Paramount Studios owned the park. That Adventure Express was designed to be an Indiana Jones ride reflective of the mine car chase from the movie Temple of Doom. And in the ride queue, they used to play music from the Indiana Jones movie The Last Crusade. So the kids wanted to ride it multiple times, and we ended up riding it 12 times. But it started off very uncomfortably.

I had been wearing an expensive business suit that day, and when I got to the park, I took off the jacket and my tie. I unbuttoned my shirt because it was hot out; I figured people were walking around half-undressed from the water park anyway, so why not. As we were going through the line at Adventure Express to get to the usher who tells people which car to get into, a very small young man was having a hard time speaking to us. I told the kid that we had six at our party, my three grandchildren, myself, one of my daughters, and my wife. He was openly gushing in a sexual way and staring at my chest with my shirt unbuttoned, and fanning himself flamboyantly. He said, “Oh my gosh, oh my, that is just too much, oh my, your shirt. It’s so breathtaking,. I repeated that we had six people. I was trying to contain the incident because it was strange for the little ones. They just wanted to ride this ride with their grandpa; they weren’t prepared for some kid trying to pick him up in a sexual way. He couldn’t have been much older than 16, so there were all kinds of things wrong with this exchange.

After several uncomfortable moments, the train was looking for passengers, so he pointed us where to go while still fanning himself, holding that stick they use to measure kids’ height before riding. My daughter noticed all this and laughed about it as we sat because it was entirely too obvious. But this wasn’t the only time this had happened recently. On a family trip to the Mellow Mushroom in West Chester, which is a fancy pizza place, they have really good Hawaiian Pizza; our waiter was a drag queen and was significantly over the top gay, and made his intentions toward me very obvious. He kept talking about how he loved my hat and how strong and sexy I looked, and my family was sitting right there. It was bizarre and uncomfortable. I downplayed it, we had our pizza, and we left as soon as possible. The waiter acted like he wanted to be sexually pleasured right there at our table; he had no reservations about openly expressing himself. I felt bad for the management, as I did for the Kings Island crew too. If they tried to correct the behavior, they would be called discriminatory toward alternative sexual deviants. So they were being forced to pick their poison, which was just another reminder of how bad this modern social system was.

I hate to say I’m used to that kind of thing, but I handled it all so my kids and grandkids would not be damaged for life. I will do something regardless of who is in the way if I want to do something. And if I want to have fun with my family, I will, even if some perverted people try to wreck the experience. But it’s becoming much more common. I remember when you had to be 18 to experience any kind of sexual material, and now, it’s out in the open with an almost gleeful disregard for family values. Desecration is on their minds, and they have been trained to be activists for that cause. The kid at Kings Island, at any other time, would have either been fired for sexually harassing the guests, or he would have contained his attraction to older males, obvious father figure issues that many young people have these days due to the failures in the social network, not enough good dads in the homes and kids lost as to how to behave as pending adults properly. I felt a little sorry for the kid, to be honest. And since we rode the ride another 11 times, I had to see him a lot. And I tried to keep things light and lofty and overlook the obvious sexual tension. But he was visibly shaken by the presence of masculinity for many reasons. And it would have otherwise ruined our visit to the park. Yet we see this kind of thing everywhere these days, and much more often because our culture has encouraged it much to the desecration of civility. It would have been wrong even if the kid was a girl. Nobody in that age group should be hitting on men over 50. They really shouldn’t be thinking about sex of any kind. They should be learning something, doing something, and working hard to earn money to build a good life. But the failure of our times is our public education system, media culture, and politics that have encouraged kids like that to behave that way. And the cost of it all is yet to come.

Rich Hoffman

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What Happened to Feminism: Now its transexual issues that show the real goals were the destruction of the American family

Wait, what happened to feminism, you know, all that crap about “bringing home the bacon, frying it up in a pan, and never forgetting about the romance of your man” that suckered millions and millions of gullible women into following some political disorder to their dooms? Because those same people who pushed feminism are the same losers who are now telling us that we can’t even designate what a woman is, that a man can compete in women’s sports, that we are bigots if we don’t want to date some dude dressed up in a skirt and lipstick, and that we have to change laws to accommodate such insanity such as the difference between a boys and girls bathroom. Did you see what they did there? And I have been warning about it for more than three decades. The feminist movement, as it was introduced at the end of the Gilded Age, ahead of the 1900s, was always a sucker ploy to destroy the concept of the American family; it was never about “women’s rights.” It was a wholesale attack on the creation of the family, taking moms out of the house, putting them in the workplace to serve corporate needs for labor, and ultimately destroying the family’s role in political society. It was a scam, and most people fell for it; now we see the aftermath. The insanity that is going on now, especially regarding the transexual movement, that was introduced to millions more misguided youth with the Rocky Horror Picture Show that was ritualistically shown on most college campuses where liberal professors were reprogramming the youth toward liberalism and introducing them to bizarre acts of sex at an impressionable young age, aimed at destroying their minds before they ever created a family. Come on, admit it, the whole topic of feminism was a sucker job, and most everyone you know fell for it, and now they are trying to pick up the pieces of their lives, wondering what to do.

And it wasn’t that long ago either, just a few years, even lasting until the end of the first Trump presidency. Women’s issues were what drove politics. Did they get equal pay to the men, and were they equally represented in government bodies? Remember Hillary and her “glass ceiling,” and as a liberal, I believe she believed it. And like some buffalo being pushed over a cliff in a stampede by hard-driving Indians looking for an easy slaughter of the herd, women followed the buffalo in front of them right over a cliff to their destruction, believing that the values given to them politically, through corporate culture, were the right ones, and not some malicious cult-driven attack on the very foundations of human life instigated by sheer demons from Hell itself. It was never about glass ceilings and fairness. It was about destruction and using the mask of fairness to separate family support from each other and to get at the children while the parents were too busy divorcing and having affairs. The promise that the public schools would take care of their children while the adults pinballed through life aimlessly pursuing corporate objectives and political destruction, all so that Aunt May wouldn’t call women names at Christmas dinner for not freeing themselves from the clutches of those evil men whom they shared a bed with. And now, to watch those same mindless activists for feminism defend transsexual issues is comedic if it wasn’t so serious and insane. Yet there it is, and within a few short years of Trump leaving office, the dial of social change has been turned up by those who always have their hands on such things, the billionaires who are members of the World Economic Forum who are always tampering with the human race through cultural collections, such as politics, entertainment, and the legal world flowing out of the Bar Association, once the criteria for insanity was set, people followed because they blindly trusted such “experts” without validating where those ideas came from. They just followed to their own destruction.

For over three decades, my wife and I have heard every kind of ridicule a person could listen to on this feminist issue. I’ve always thought it was stupid, and I told people that. I married young on purpose to a woman who wanted a traditional marriage and lifestyle. And we’ve been married for over 30 years and could write many books on how to have a happy marriage. But the short story on the matter is not to listen to political liberals, especially feminists. The whole game was meant to destroy the family, and my wife and I could tell stories about this topic for years without pausing the dialogue. We experienced the worst that humans can do to each other just over our decision to marry, stay married, and to have traditional roles in our marriage. She takes care of the domestic front; I take care of the stuff beyond the driveway. I don’t cook, ever, anything. I don’t even microwave my own popcorn. She does, and she brings it to my reading chair to me politely and is dedicated to preserving her husband in a very Biblical manner. And I take care of the world and all its vast evils, and I hand her all the various fruits of those efforts direction to distribute toward the family needs. The purpose of our marriage, which people still marvel at coming from the 80s as we did, was to fight this corrosive political order of liberalism meant to destroy the family. We had a front-row seat to that destruction, and family members were trying to push us into that life, which we both wanted no part of. So we got married, started our own thing, and have fought through it ever since. And we’re glad we did, and we love where we are now because of it. Liberalism was a lie; feminism was a scam. After years of arguing that fact with people, we are enjoying seeing everyone react to this transexual movement out of desperation now because the absurdities that were always there are now raw and out in the open and a lot of people have egg on their face.

I think it was because of Trump that all this is happening so fast now. I went with friends to a Rocky Horror Picture Show at Miami University to see what all the fuss was about in the 80s, the midnight show where everyone threw their garbage all over the theater. I knew then that I was seeing an occult evil that had manifested in a political movement by a few strange progressives who influenced politics and entertainment through the mechanisms of finance. There was a plan back then, more than three decades ago. That plan was meant to take a century or so to implement, to change the behavior of the human race into something else, something certainly pagan, anti-God, anti-family, and ultimately to fulfill the goals of climate change activists today, to depopulate the earth to save it from those pesky humans. And if men and women were too busy earning money for the corporate culture they controlled through policy and regulations, and the children were vulnerable to the babysitting service of public education, they might just be able to stop the progress of human beings and save the earth from its growth. But when we elected Trump, we scared them, so they have accelerated their plans which has revealed their absurdities now at a pace much faster than people are willing to put up with, and we see the train wreck that is our modern society. It was never about equality for women; it was to remove them as the strong family center so that families could be eradicated. That was all feminism ever was politically. And the proof is in how quickly they abandoned it in favor of transsexual issues and moved quickly to cram it down our throats as they did feminism, for all the same destructive reasons.

Rich Hoffman

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