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The Scam of Cyber Security: What’s the rush for all this technology–who benefits from it–not us

Each week I have a lot of people trying to waste my time regarding cyber security, and I’ll say here what I say to all of them.  I don’t trust computers, I think it’s ridiculous to put so much private information online, and I can live quite well without it.  Cyber security is a scam, like many things from institutions today.  The same people who will likely hack your computer and steal your information are the same people who are telling you that cyber security is the only way you can survive in the future.  This is the case with Microsoft from the 90s.  People realized that Windows-based systems were particularly vulnerable to viruses.  Then, of course, to operate Windows, you would have to subscribe to some anti-virus software to use the dumb program.  It’s still that way primarily, and it all comes down to a scam.  Ironically, this is precisely how Bill Gates has inserted himself into the world as the Health Minister, he helps unleash viruses so that you have to buy the vaccine he is behind to control all of society.  If a company is talking about cyber security, they are telling you that their software isn’t ready for prime time and that the only people who benefit from it are the bad guys in the world.  The most secure thing to do would be not to use their software if they find that they, as a company, can’t provide that level of security for their customers.  My policy is to keep as little online so that some propped-up villain can’t hack it.  If these systems aren’t more secure than they claim, why use them?  The only people benefiting from all these cybersecurity methods are those making the software. 

All the two-way authentication methods need to be faster.  If you have to slow down your life as much as these modern companies suggest, then all the tech gadgets are worthless.  It’s regressing our culture, not making it better.  With all this concern over A.I. hackers and hackers having easy access to our online activity, why are we making ourselves so vulnerable?  The only people benefiting are the one-world government types who want to funnel all information into a centralized source so they can control us.  Technology isn’t helping the rest of us improve our lives.  Increasingly, we are finding that we must wait for technology to catch up.  I hear from many IT departments worldwide who essentially think it is permissible to slow down their companies and their opportunities for production because they believe that cyber security is more of a priority.  I had a case recently where I was working late at night on multiple projects, at around 1 to 2 in the morning, and suddenly my computer went into a mandatory update.  I didn’t tell it to, it assumed that at the late hours, I would be sleeping, so it went into an update mode that took well over 15 minutes.  The computer figured I had all the time in the world to sit around waiting on it to do its stupid thing.  But I didn’t have the time.  I tossed the computer across the room and turned to the old-fashioned way of doing things, with sheets of paper and raw calculations written upon them.  If technology doesn’t speed my life up and make it better, then it’s an enemy.  It’s that simple. 

Technology is not in charge, as much as the World Economic Forum people want us all to believe.  They are the ones who are creating the marketplace for all the identity theft and other fraudulent activity online.  Because they want technology to take over the world essentially, they are pushing it out upon the world too fast because they want it. It certainly isn’t beneficial for us ordinary people.  It helps them get to their cashless society, digital fraud-based currencies, and centralized control of all means of production.  That’s what they are after with their double authentication codes, where every time you are away from your computer for a few minutes, you must sign back in with passwords that constantly change.  And to work your computer, you have to have a phone tracking you all over the place so that some mindless A.I. program can call you to ensure you are using the computer.  Online banking only helps these power-hungry globalists get control of our lives, making us wait on them to get their products to work right.  But if everything is so insecure, then why are we using it in the first place?  What’s the benefit?  Those are the questions we should be asking.  We should not be waiting on technology to “work.”  I would rather deal with a person directly than some computer interface.  Call it old-fashioned, but I don’t want to mess with all that ridiculous security.  It’s not worth it to me to use some computer that is essentially spying on everything I do so that it can go to the NSA to be analyzed by hostile forces in government.  That isn’t my idea of an intelligent approach to the future. 

If these computer interfaces are so insecure, the companies putting them out need to go back to the drawing board and figure out how to improve them before offering them to the marketplace.  There is no rush for most of us.  The push for computers and online transactions to become such a big part of our lives comes from the goals of the United Nations and their masters at the World Economic Forum.  They want us to be inconvenienced with their products to fulfill their dumb 2030 targets for international commerce, which takes power away from countries where they can manage them and puts it all in the hands of mindless European bureaucrats.  They are the ones who want digital currencies that they can manipulate with Modern Monetary Theory and can turn all of society into a cashless society.  So the burden for security falls on them.  Not the rest of us slowed down to a mind-numbing speed because of all their dumb technology and the cyber security needed to make it usable.  Cyber security, as it has always been, is a scam to make technology appear better than it is.  Forcing it into the marketplace has only created a new breed of criminal in the world, the hackers who otherwise would have a more challenging time stealing people’s money.  Technology makes it easier for them to prey on innocent people, which Bill Gates is pleased about.  But for the rest of us, we should be asking why we are rushing to get all this technology into the marketplace only to be restricted by its limits.  All the companies buying into this cyber security scam will find themselves less profitable and greatly limited by the slowness of technology rather than any real benefits.  If something is as insecure as computer technology over the internet, we shouldn’t use it for anything other than information.  But personal banking and business networks should be done the old-fashioned way until technology can get it together as it is now. It’s just a scam that only benefits the bad guys in the world.  And why would we want to do that?

Rich Hoffman

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The Morality of Speed: Bad guys are slow, good guys are fast

I talk about it every year, and it’s that time again for the Annie Oakley Festival in Darke County, Ohio, which is a yearly vacation for me. And I continue to get asked about it because it’s work for a lot of people but a paradise for me. I have participated in several annual events at the Annie Oakley Festival, some for over 20 years. And out of all the things I could do, I find this particular weekend, the last one of each July, as my refuge from the mundane effects of the Administrative State. I hate slow people in life. Even though most people are pretty slow, they frustrate me tremendously, and out of all the other days of the year when I have to deal with them, I always look forward to the Annie Oakley Festival because it is there where speed and accuracy are celebrated in the traditional American ways rather than this slow New World Order globalism garbage. I love speed and have always been obsessed with it because when it is experienced, there is a morality to it that is unique to American culture, and each year at that event, I get to experience it without restriction and be around other people who appreciate it with a kind of raw understanding of morality. The world under the misguidance of the Administrative State is designed for slow, stupid people, and I find it pathetic. My idea of a vacation is to be away from those kinds of people, even though I may be exhausted at the end of all the competitions, which last all weekend. It’s a good tired. Because it is refreshing to be away from slow people, lazy people, and people who hide behind the Administrative State to appear valuable when all they are, are mindless bureaucrats.

Many of the old stunt performers, cowboys, gunslingers, and general roughnecks I hang around in some of these Western preservation groups all understand something that most people have forgotten, which will likely be returning shortly. In traditional American Westerns, which most of the world still enjoys, speed dominating evil is a consistent theme at the core of all values. When the good guy was faster to a dueler’s pistol, we cheered for the demise of the slower bad guy—the villain. (villains lost because they are slow) The value of speed was directly connected to the morality of capitalism, and society generally understood the metaphor. I spoke this year with many of these old fast-draw professionals who feel like they are a dying breed. I told them this year that I thought that young people might find themselves very attracted to the old fast-draw traits as globalism’s effects were failing worldwide, and people would be looking for a replacement. There are consistently good Westerns doing well on streaming services, like Hell on Wheels, and shows like Yellowstone. Some video games, like Red Dead Redemption, are very popular with young people, so it’s not like Westerns are dead or dying. It would only take a film studio like Angel Studios to start making traditional Westerns again, and people would flock to see them because they enjoy those kinds of stories. Hollywood may be a dying business model, but that doesn’t mean the Western will die with it. Hollywood used to be all about Westerns, and their demise started when they stopped committing themselves to Westerns. You can tell how people feel about Westerns at these shows I go to, especially the fast-draw events. There is always a crowd watching, and we are amazed that we shoot real guns that fast, competitively. Most of them have only witnessed that in movies and television shows.

Part of the suppression of Westerns, starting with those who finance movies, was the desire to build a global administrative state to mask production from performance expectations.  As globalism has proposed, the administrative state’s goal is to slow down the world to the communist intentions of centralized authority.  Those were the villains in the old Westerns, so it’s no wonder they don’t like Western values.  They want to slow the world down with bureaucracy so that centralized communism can rule.  But they are so slow and pathetic.  No wonder they want to legalize marijuana because they want people brain dead and too slow to think, to ask questions, and to meet reality head-on.  Most of my life is about dealing with slow-minded administrative state losers who seem only to want to slow things down.  So when I get to compete at Annie Oakley, speed becomes the priority, and it is just so refreshing.  I practice Fast Draw most every day in some form or another, so I’m always thinking fast about things.  But to express that speed in public, where people appreciate it, is very refreshing.  Usually, this Annie Oakley event charges me up for the rest of the year, just those few days.  I attend other fast draw events throughout the year, but what makes Annie Oakley stand out is that it’s done in a public forum with audience attendance.  Most competitions are held in private venues, so the general public cannot witness them.  At Annie Oakley, it feels like it would be like to have been in the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show.  And I love it!

Many Americans have been polite about the slow world of the administrative state and the ridiculous European concepts of the World Economic Forum.  They don’t have a culture in Europe or Asia where people can express themselves with guns, rapid draw in the classic Western way of dueling a bad guy as the Bible would define villainy, to establish individualized law and order.  Speed was the way to achieve justice, and the action was from a superior individual against the masses of slower bandits.  I’ve never learned to accept a lack of speed in life, no matter what it is, production, driving down the road, going to the grocery, everything.  I read fast.  I think fast.  I am happiest when things are fast.  I’m a guy who will drive a 51-foot RV rig at 85 miles per hour, happily zipping in and out of traffic, and I don’t care how much gas it burns.  Because I like to go fast.  But there isn’t much more satisfying in life than the fast draw events at Annie Oakley, whether with bullwhips or traditional six guns.  The participants and the audience appreciate speed; when you see it, you know all is right with the world.  And in the end, when the World Economic Forum types must face reality and deal with the speed of American culture outside of their Davos forums, where they talk to each other in a vacuum, they’re going to learn that they are the bad guy, and slowness is not going to be acceptable.  Americans like things fast, whether it’s a Chick-fil-A drive-thru, highway traffic, or a running back on a football team.  Americans want things quickly, and Cowboy Fast Draw represents American culture in so many satisfying ways that I am happiest when I compete with other fast gunslingers.  I’m more comfortable than anywhere on Earth under any condition.  And I never get tired of it.  Slow people are terrible.  But fast people, the world could use a lot more of those.

Rich Hoffman

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The Market Decides Success, Not Governments: Modern Monetary Theory’s attempt to inject Marxism into the world economy

The good news is that there is an obvious path to victory regarding all the scary intentions of the Deep State and their Administrative State terrorists.  It all comes down to the classic failures of Marxism and the incredible intelligence of capitalism, as expressed by Adam Smith and his fantastic book that every leader of every country should read, The Wealth of Nations.  Hidden behind this current corporate partnership with the government, which has become apparent during Covid, the long-established plans were set bare, and now we know what they were up to and for what reasons.  Governments want to avoid violating countries’ Constitutions by backdooring everything with corporate loopholes.  And those who lobby governments and put money in the pockets of politicians, who secretly want to control the world, use governments’ power to extort corporations into playing along for their own good. The fear of regulations by governments forces corporations to play in partnership with the government to give the government power that the Bill of Rights doesn’t allow.  And once these forces control the finance industry, you see the genuinely frightening tyranny we are presently in.  But, the entire concept, which is wrapped up in failed Marxism from the start, is the very foundation of the whole scheme, and yet the attackers do not understand the trajectory of failure, and that includes people like George Soros, Rupert Murdoch, and his family at Fox News, and all the major studio heads.  The plan was to fake the Marxist takeover of the world’s major corporations with this arraignment using phony made-up money using Modern Monetary Theory to buy off the depleted stock values, tricking CEOs into believing that the next excellent value system would be ESG, which is well underway now.  But in the end, the market is in charge, not the government or corporations, and once the smoke clears, all these characters will learn some hard lessons.  

It was embarrassing to see all the top people in the industry miss the market trends in the latest movies hitting during the summer.  For instance, the box office disappointment of the latest Mission Impossible is a good representation.  The belief was that because Top Gun: Maverick by Tom Cruise made over a billion dollars, his next film would do just as well because it’s another action picture.   When Mission Impossible started off slow, the industry panicked because the assumptions were all wrong.  Mission Impossible is a different kind of film than Top Gun, so the trend was concerning. At the same time, The Sound of Freedom was a surprise smash hit and has been very profitable for Angel Studios.  Now this is where it gets tricky because BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard as money managers are now the top stockholders for all these capitalist endeavors, from movies to fast food restaurants, and they have bought that stock and control with largely phony money, with Larry Fink’s relationship to the fed, Janet Yellen and the gang.  Yes, the same Janet Yellen who loves communists and was seen bowing to the ruler of China, President Xi Jinping.  By printing fake money at the Federal Reserve and dumping it into Wall Street, to Fink and the gang, this partnership has caused even these movie companies to stop making movies for actual stock value, driven by box office results, and instead to appease that new market of partnership with the government because the government can then print unlimited amounts of money.  But people still vote with real value for what they consume in the marketplace.  See where this is headed?

And Rupert Murdoch, in all his foreign arrogance, thought that Fox News had a lot more power than it did.  This is the same kind of stupidity that you will hear at dinner parties among the very wealthy, where they can’t smell their own bad breath, and nobody will tell them so because they like rubbing shoulders with the rich and powerful.  They believe people are too stupid to think for themselves, so they will buy anything corporations put out because that’s what people do.  And I knew many people who believed that Ron DeSantis would be the guy because Fox News picked him to suppress Trump for the next presidential election.  I listened to people try and tell me last year that Trump had no chance because either Fox would sink him or the government would destroy him, so I needed to get over my support of Trump.  It was never going to happen again.  Then I would tell them, “Guys, the government is not in control.  Corporations are not in control.  The marketplace is in charge and will ultimately decide.”  People think Rupert Murdoch must know something special just because he is rich.  Sometimes people get lucky, and many rich people are in that condition.  Or, they are more ruthless than others and don’t have that valve of morality that tells them not to crush everyone around them needlessly.  Whatever it is, they aren’t that smart usually, and they have a false belief generally in the power their money can buy, fake or real.  Ultimately, as Adam Smith figured out in 1776, the invisible hand of markets is driven by desire.  Fulfillment of that desire is profitable.  Controlling that desire with market controls like disguised Marxism through Modern Monetary Theory still leaves people with resentment and anger, which is why things are these days as they are.

The attack of private investors into government, and government into corporations, to bring about economic philosophy that will change the world is just as stupid as the concept that Ron DeSantis would destroy Trump and ultimately put control of the populist movement into their hands.  The Deep State, which controls all these forces through various means, wants to think they can continue to put their people into the American government.  So far, they have been successful because they have stayed in secret. But now that pressure has forced them out in the open, it’s a different story.  They are learning that market value is real, whether it’s movies at the theater or presidential picks for the Executive Branch.  These people were never really in charge.  They only gained a political advantage through deceit.  But once that cover was blown, which it is, all their assumptions about how markets work, and any need, fell apart in front of their faces.  And that’s how all this will end as well.  The control of all the major corporations through stock buys built off Modern Monetary Theory by complete losers like Janet Yellen, Ben Bernanke, and Jerome Powell was always going to fail because it assumed that value could be controlled by printed money, not market need.  And now that they are all caught, and there are many tens of thousands of perpetrators, they should all be going to jail or punished in as severe a way as possible for messing with the money supply with an attempted Marxist takeover that essentially has wrecked the lives of millions of people.  And they have been caught, just as Rupert Murdoch has been seen, believing they had more power than they did and that people would serve the markets rather than the markets serving the people, as it would always be.

Rich Hoffman

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The Goal of the Deep State: Pedophilia on a mass scale

I didn’t arrive at this conclusion lightly.   It is the sum of a lot of work, study, and life experience.  And any suspicions I had on the matter that wanted to think otherwise evaporated with the latest school scandal at Lakota, in my neighborhood, where yet another administrative staff member had been found to have excessively sexual lifestyles, and kids were part of the role-playing fantasy.  Watching how all the various authority figures moved to cover up the actions was stunning, especially since I knew many of the personalities personally.  That experience was incredibly educational, but it wasn’t the first time.  Over the last few years, including some people that I knew very well and would never guess that they would have temptations toward pedophilia, and were actually hard-core pastor types of the local church, were caught trying to give nude backrubs to 11-year-old girls.  It was everywhere, and many members of the administrative state went out of their way to cover it up, but why.  And just how bad was it?  So when you ask what the root cause of the Deep State is, why a small group of people who consider themselves the wealthy elite, I call them the Desecrators of Davos, want so intensely to acquire so much wealth and power, it can only then start to make a bit of sense.  When you ask that question seriously and stacked with behavioral evidence, you find that it is sex addiction and the power it gives some over others that is the real problem, and eventually, almost all roads of that lifestyle lead to pedophilia.  And that the entire purpose of a Deep State rooted in globalism, hidden behind social causes as a mask to conceal the evil, is to have access to children to fulfill that vile objective. 

I started this effort by talking about personal experiences that showed me how bad this situation really is and how people you know well are investing themselves directly or indirectly in pedophilia.  But that is an answer in the micro that connects to massive evidence in the macro.  People understand that over 2 million children a year go missing if you have seen the recent Christian-based movie, The Sound of Freedom.  It was shown to President Trump, and he has declared that if he’s president again, he will go to war with the Deep State and their various criminal cartels, which are purposely allowed to break all rules and moral norms to terrorize the innocent.  We have to then look at the way the members of the Deep State spend their time, specifically the shocking case of Jimmy Savile, the very popular BBC celebrity, and the extensive pedophilia that he engaged in with a large number of people in the entertainment industry, who interacted with the Royal Family regularly and was considered a pimp to Jersey Island, the English territory just north of the French mainland that is a known haven for the rich and famous seeking sexual interaction with children, boys, and girls.  When you consider that Mr. Climate Change himself, King Charles knows about all this, a stunning revelation comes into sharp focus.  The point of the Deep State isn’t just to run the world.  But they want to run the world so that they can have a way to satisfy their immense sexual appetites.  If they run the world, they can live above the law, which is what we have seen with Jeffery Epstein in America and from what we know and are learning about in regard to Jimmy Savile, which involved every kind of sexual perversion that could be imagined.  And people propped him up as a celebrity anyway, knowing full well what he was up to, government members, law enforcement, and everyone at the BBC.  And once the story got out, the key member of the BBC who had been facilitating all the behavior had to leave for another job as the head of The New York Times. 

If you’ve ever been in a fraternity or witnessed a hazing ritual, you will know that public debasement is part of the team-building process.  The same idea applies to corporate heads, political figures, and social influencers.  Members of rock bands understand this all too well as groupies, many of them extremely young, throw their young bodies at stinky, sweaty members of the band to be close to them.  The managers turn the other way because it gets the band members addicted to the sex and keeps them coming back for more.  They wouldn’t get that kind of attention in any other life, but in being a rock star.  And once down that road, there is no way back to normal.  Sex is a never-ending appetite and usually ends in some form of pedophilia.  This is true of the creepy next-door neighbor or the wealthy mover and shaker at the top of the political pyramid.  And the people who want to rule the world want to facilitate that weakness.  Why does anybody think that porn is essentially what the internet provides?  Everything else is a front for pornography, just as almost every type from the progressive leftism in the world, earth preservation, racism, and Modern Monetary Theory are all fronts for the pursuit of sex with the power acquired and the ability to exist above the law because everyone else is so compromised.  Back to my personal story in Lakota schools in Butler County, Ohio, the reluctance to punish the crime was that so many in the decision-making process were compromised themselves.  They had behaved poorly in public, people had a video of the acts, and they couldn’t afford to have a moral position.  And many people in authority found themselves in the same position at all levels.  They couldn’t punish the threat of pedophilia because they were either guilty themselves or were thinking of becoming guilty because they wanted to participate.  They weren’t outraged by the behavior because they wanted to be just as bad if given the chance and acquire the power to do so. 

Preying on the gullibility of the innocent is part of the charge behind the sexual intrusion.  So by taking that sentiment to its logical conclusion, the entire point of the Deep State is to acquire power, using infinite wealth to inflict that power, to have access to sexual manipulation and conquest over others.  And the younger, the better because it is a very powerful temptation to steal innocence from those not yet tarnished in the world and to be the first to leave your mark on them.  The Deep State is an ancient menace that is rooted in perversion for all the animal instincts that have destroyed mankind since the beginning of time.  And the quest for political power to indulge in those activities is enormous and not talked about enough.  It’s a topic people would like to avoid because they don’t want to know.  But it’s at the center of all political discourse.  And if you ever doubt it, just visit K-Street in Washington, D.C.  Everyone knows what’s going on, including the police and the politicians.  But nobody stops the prostitution there, just a few blocks from the White House.  The root cause of most of the political trouble in the world is sexual, and it’s impossible to have a proper society when such a priority is the reason for all activity.  Yet that is the truth of it when you pull back all the talk about socialism, charities, renewable energy, everything, you have a mask that is intent to take advantage of someone sexually, an intern, a prostitute, or a sex trafficked kid to satisfy some unquenchable desire, that brings great evil into the world through the ultimate theft.  And once a person crosses those lines, as most people do in some way, there is no going back or hope to restore a life without such terrible things happening in the world.

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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The World Economic Forum Has Declared War on America: Under all rules of engagement, they are guilty

A few years ago, I covered the day I was with my family at the Kings Island Amusement Park, and there was quite a lot of commotion upon learning that they would go completely cashless. Where did that decision come from? Suddenly, there was no other option to use at a popular tourist destination than a credit card. And that credit card company was fully involved in the efforts of globalism as defined by the World Economic Forum, a shady group of anti-American activists hell-bent on global domination through controls of finance and centralized banking. If a country attacked our power grid to raid the lives of Americans in some way, we would openly declare war on the aggressor. The same would happen if China amassed a military force in the Gulf of Mexico intending to invade New Orleans. Maybe they want to take control of the Cajun food market. The declaration of war would be evident and committed. We have gone to war for other reasons, supposedly to protect Iraq from the aggression of Saddam Hussain. We have gone to war in Vietnam to protect that country from the encroachments of communism—the same in Korea.   We went to war in Afghanistan to combat the recruitment and training of terrorists. We went to war in World War II to help our friends deal with a global menace in Europe, primarily because they kept attacking our ships and pushing our buttons to drag us into the war, finally with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. You could go down through history and look at the reasons America has been pushed into war with other countries and see a clear pattern, which all involve threats to our sovereignty which were clear and obvious.

And as ridiculous as it has become, the premise of the whole war in Ukraine is supposed to be over border violations between Russia which used to hold the territory, and Ukraine, which is an obvious United Nations asset strategically implemented to fulfill the goals of a New World Order. Both characters are pretty unsympathetic and up to their own maniacal schemes, yet we are supposed to care one way or the other as Americans about the outcome and to spend countless amounts of money on them in the process of war that has been declared. But when it’s evident that America has been attacked at its financial roots, such as what happened at Kings Island, and most prominent public venues, such as sporting events which suddenly wouldn’t handle cash, we were supposed to be fine with all these centralized bankers suddenly gaining control over our entire economy. A vote by the people of America didn’t decide the push to have a cashless society. It came from a collection of corporations at the World Economic Forum who suddenly revealed that they thought they were in control of the world’s economies and were announcing, without saying the obvious, that they were in control and people would do what they told them to. And a cashless society was their goal, and people would have to deal with it. Our politicians didn’t agree to it. And people certainly didn’t want it. I mentioned it then and predicted it would cause trouble, which it has. But something much more sinister than just inconvenience has emerged. The World Economic Forum has declared war against life in America and is disrespectfully imposing itself on our nation, which has threatened national security. 

Every time we talk about classified documents being a threat to national security, or the military declares something as classified, such as a UFO because it could be a threat to national security, but we watch the World Economic Forum openly plot the end of America right in front of our faces by controlling the American economy, and nobody gets upset about it, the same people who want to go to war with every country which threatens us in some way, then you know something is very wrong. What the World Economic Forum has done to America openly has been to plot war against American sovereignty, and every politician that has helped them do it, and every company who has worked with them for that cause, are guilty of treason and sedition. Under all the classic definitions, any action threatening the health and happiness of the American people would constitute war and the destruction of the threat. And the World Economic Forum has done more than threaten us. They have taken aggressive action to control our way of life by controlling the money we use for economic opportunity. It’s not different than attacking our oil supply, invading some port, sinking a ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, or killing American tourists in some faraway land.   Attacking America’s money is an attack on our country and its people. The World Economic Forum has declared war on America, and we have yet to meet the challenge for a number of reasons. One of which is that many of our own people have been seduced by the prospect of easy money from those who control the mechanisms of finance. So we have quite a tangled web of deceit and mayhem here to deal with.

A large part of the problem is who do you declare war against? The World Economic Forum doesn’t really exist anywhere, it’s just a collection of people, just like a country is, but it lacks physical assets to attack. This isn’t a war over bridges, railroads, and highways. But it is over banking, the internet, and how money flows from one place to another. It requires us to redefine where threats come from because the World Economic Forum is currently hiding its aggression by not having a physical country to rally against. The big secret of globalism is that they exist without borders and are openly attacking all concepts of nationalism in an obvious effort to topple them. The most obvious example which affects everyone is the cashless impositions. Most people assume that the decision was made by people smarter than them in the nefarious world of finance, and they don’t care much until they realize that their credit cards can be turned off to control social behavior once most people have been pushed into the system through these aggressive actions. And the World Economic Forum has clearly indicated in public these strategies.

And to make matters worse, as has been extremely obvious with everything associated with their Great Reset, Covid was a military tactic by them that harmed many millions of people and has only been hidden because the aggression came from a corporate collection of hostile agents using our governments as their agents of destruction. We’ve never dealt with this type of menace in human history, so the lack of definitions clearly creates chaos and confusion among the voting population. Nobody is voting for these things, yet they are happening against our consent. And nobody is stopping any of it from happening, even though under all definitions of aggression, America should have gone to war with the World Economic Forum a long time ago. They are hostile to American interests and think they are protected from retaliation because they lack a country to call their own, and countries can only declare war against other countries. I’d say no. War can be declared against hostile individuals too. And when it comes to the World Economic Forum, there are a lot of hostile individuals working against the American way of life, which calls to order retaliation over severe examples of duplicity and terror that have been quite purposeful.

Rich Hoffman

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The Way to Beat Secret Societies: Hidden power gained through hidden rules to create the illusion of knowledge

Usually, when people talk about secret societies, there is a level of dread that is associated. Secret societies seem ominous because, as human beings, we think of the things we don’t know about as being powerful and godly, which is part of the appeal that drives people into secret society membership. And this is a problem when you are trying to run a transparent society where you understand the characters and their motives. In an honest world, there shouldn’t be any desire for secret societies. There shouldn’t be any secrets. But as we have learned over the last several years, many secret societies work in the background and are attached to many of the messes that are part of our modern problems. The quest for secret knowledge to leverage power over others is a strong aphrodisiac to the kind of personalities who want to rule over others. That has made secret society membership a menace to society because it keeps people from dealing squarely with one another. If so many secret societies ask for supernatural, occult aid, how should a straightforward, election-based culture operate? And that is where we currently find ourselves, especially in Europe and America–those who want to be like Europe. I know of many secret societies, and I know the kind of people who are members, and they aren’t very secret, especially in a society that has as much information access as we do these days. Secret societies aren’t so secret anymore because everyone knows where everyone else is and what they’re doing. Which leaves the question pending, why join one in the first place? What could they possibly do for anybody? 

Well, I have a very different take on secret societies that I have formed over a long period of time. And what helps that perspective is that I have never wanted to be in one. I tend to like to be in charge. I was like that as a little kid, so working my way up in a secret society, like the Masons, or some other group, was never for me. I never liked being told what to do, and I always required full autonomy for my independence. So, it was easy for me to say no to those kinds of membership offers. I once had quite a fight with an entire fraternity because I went there to see a friend of mine with my wife, which apparently there were all kinds of rules against. And on our way up to the fraternity house, she walked across the seal on the sidewalk for their membership. There were house rules on how to serve that seal best, and not knowing anything about those rules as a visitor, she didn’t know she wasn’t supposed to walk over it. The entire house rallied to assault us, but I have an unyielding personality, so a stalemate ensued because they really didn’t want to fight. They were obligated by the fraternity charter to conduct themselves in such a way, but they were all wimps who really didn’t want to fight that they were forced to stew; as I visited my friend, he toured me around the house, and we left uneventfully. My friend was removed from the fraternity after we left, which is a common passive-aggressive action that low-conflict threshold people perform when faced with a challenge to their invisible authority. 

This is what the weakness of all secret societies have, whether it’s just a college fraternity or the Skull and Bones Society that the Bush and Kerry families were members of. The training for this way of thinking often starts early for people so that by the time they are fully functioning adults, they are largely governed by secret social rules that aren’t openly expressed, which then makes managing a stable society a challenge because you have people worshipping lots of rules that are not part of the ethics of a social construct. And I have found all such people to be weak and easy to beat in whatever the engagement is, whether it’s physical, legal, or purely social. People drawn to secret societies want secret rules and power to protect them from their insecurities, which is why they are attracted to such powers in the first place. The power is an illusion because other people can’t know what those powers are. And this little shift in social engagement gives the illusion of power. In some ancient cultures, a high priest might acquire such power by understanding when an eclipse would occur and might point at the sky and declare power over the heavens. And because the information about how eclipses occur was secret to the society, who did not have access to that information because of some tyrannical regime, the high priest appears to have a secret power over the heavens. But the whole gag is about a lack of knowledge, not in full disclosure. And this is what draws people into secret societies, invisible rules to create the illusion of secret power. 

There is also a strong desire for weak people to hide in the herd to not be independent. They fear being singled out in society, so they seek membership in groups to hide in the safety of the masses. Group membership tells the world that people value them enough to be associated with a secret handshake and an exchange of some fundamental shared values. One of the most insecure things for people is to grow up and away from their parents; most people never develop that ability. So to fill that void, they seek a brotherhood and create a new family out of secret society membership, such as the Masons. Companionship is one of human beings’ most primal needs, so group consensus associated with limited access is a very persuasive motivator. And that is all innocent enough until those mentalities are brought into elected politics, where you expect representatives to perform on a job based on a platform they were elected to. Not following some rules of the secret handshake in the Skull and Bones Society which dominates Beltway politics within the intelligence agencies and operates to social practices that the rest of society that pays for their government through taxes has no idea about, like my story about the fraternity seal. To the outside world, the seal meant nothing. But to the fraternity brothers, it was everything; it represented their secret fears glazed over by symbols and rules only they knew about, which gave them the illusion of security in a scary world. And that is the key to beating such groups. If they were secure people, they wouldn’t seek group membership. But they do because they aren’t powerful people. They depend on numbers to hide their timidity as individuals. Once that is known and exploited, they fall apart quickly. Just as the scam of the high priest predicting an eclipse. If other members of the society understand how to read star alignments and know the cause of eclipses, the phony power of the high priest will lose all its influence. Because the power is based on ignorance and group association to maintain that illusion, but once that curtain falls, the power of the secret society is gone, which is where we find ourselves in the modern world. Many high priests are making their livings off secret society membership to rules only they know about. But the public isn’t as ignorant as they once were, because of the vast amounts of available shared information. And because of that and the need for independence in people who are not timid, the powers that have ruled the world in secrecy are desperately vulnerable and not nearly as scary as they once were.

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Vote Yes for Issue 1 in Ohio: Something that has finally brought people together in politics

If you are not a dope-smoking, baby-killing, overly sexed loser Democrat, you need to go out on August 8th and vote in Ohio in favor of Issue 1. Say yes to making it more difficult to amend the very great Ohio Constitution. Currently, it only takes a 50% vote from the legislature to amend the Constitution, and radical Democrats are targeting that threshold to impose many liberal amendments to erode away the value of our state in the years to come. Issue 1 makes it harder to amend the Constitution; it will take that threshold from 50% as it is now to 60%, which would quell tempers and prevent radicalism by essentially forcing a supermajority to change anything, which would then be much more reflective of the state, politically. So why now? Why August? Well, it’s been revealed that radical progressives, especially the Soros types of money activism, are headed for Ohio for the November election, and they are looking for some easy victories because Ohio has such a low threshold and that it’s a hard red state now entirely in Trump’s corner, and they want to chip away at that. Ohio is a very conservative state; the radical left needs headlines and is coming for upcoming elections. So that made Issue 1 much more of a priority than it might have been in other years. And it is undoubtedly needed going forward. Some hard years are coming, and the Ohio Constitution needs protecting. There have been amendments in past years, but they flew under the radar because Democrats weren’t thinking too much about that kind of activism, so until recently, there wasn’t as much of a concern. But the buzz is out, and radical progressive Democrats are frustrated and turning their attention to Ohio. And they must be stopped.

But why now, you might ask. Since the Trump time in the White House and the strengthening of the Supreme Court, the radical left has seen a number of reversals at the high court that they assumed would be off limits forever, such as Roe v. Wade. And most of the cases, not just the abortion cases, but marijuana laws and other progressive intrusions meant to either kill members of society or destroy their minds so they’ll be dumb enough to vote for Democrats, have been sent back to the states from the federal courts, the way they always should have been. That is, after all, what the 10th Amendment of the Bill of Rights asserts. Democrats, for most of their existence, have assumed that federal powers were ultimate powers, and if they could erode away the Federal Constitution with judicial activism, then they wouldn’t have to worry about state’s rights because federalism would overrule the states. As if the Executive Branch was a king who could rule by mandate. I don’t know that they didn’t understand the way the rules are in America, but it’s obvious they thought they could change them by threatening to kill or harm Supreme Court members in their homes so that they’d rule in their favor and create case law that would give the federal government more power than it really had. But years of this activism have stacked up, and now we have a Supreme Court, because of Trump, that is willing to give that power back to the states where it always belonged. That’s how we have found ourselves in this present situation in Ohio and why Issue 1 is suddenly needed. This level of judicial activism was always in the background, but nobody really wanted to admit to it, and Democrats wanted to focus their efforts on one state instead of attacking 50 states to create progressive policy. 

Now that the Supreme Court has established a clear precedent toward state’s rights, there is no turning back. And the Biden White House has overplayed its hand several times with Executive Orders trying to bypass the legislature only to be overturned in the courts, the desperation of progressives everywhere, and their money men are attacking states, and Ohio is a big target. If they could strike in Ohio, they could hurt the GOP on a national level, so suddenly, we are getting a lot of attention on the progressive battle map. They certainly want to put abortion in the Ohio Constitution, and they have legislation ready to go on legalizing marijuana. But it only gets worse from there, and if they can desecrate Ohio, a clear Trump state before he gets back in office, they will have achieved a victory that they haven’t been able to get at the federal level, and they are hoping that they’ll catch everyone asleep to pull it off. The best measure to protect ourselves from this kind of activism is to increase the minimum threshold for amendment changes to 60%. Democrats might get their numbers in surge elections, but maintaining that over 50% will be very hard, especially in Ohio. What Issue 1 will do will protect Ohio from short-term activism and protect the long-term interests of true voter representation.

I was proud to learn that many Republicans from my area of Butler County have shown support for Issue 1, and they gathered at the Butler County Board of Elections to make their opinions known. It takes guts for Don Dixon, TC Rogers, Nancy Nix, Mike McNamara, Dan Crank, Mary Swain, Rodney Creech, Sara Carruthers, Thomas Hall, Jennifer Gross, George Lang, Gary Cates, Debbie Lang, Mark Welch, Steve Schramm, Todd Minniear, Tom Farrell, Lisa Mannix, and Greg Wilkins to get behind Issue 1. Even Sheriff Jones and Bruce Jones showed up, which is pretty amazing. It’s hard to get that many people to agree on anything, so for them to put their names next to this issue says a lot about its importance. If you don’t protect the Constitution, then you don’t have any way to protect the values of society, and those are certainly under attack by the radical left. So, it shouldn’t be a hard decision. But that’s how important this topic is. August elections are low voter turnout results every time they are done. So, if you want to protect Ohio from George Soros money, make sure not to stay home that night, August 8th. I might say we should do as Democrats do: vote early and vote often, but Republicans tend to play fair. So that is always a disadvantage. That means every vote will matter, and there isn’t room to sit this one out. Take a friend, vote YES on Issue 1, and raise that threshold for amendment changes to Ohio’s Constitution. Because if there isn’t an increase in the threshold, then every progressive group in the world is going to target Ohio for progressive legislation that people won’t like. And the time to stop it would have long passed. But we aren’t there yet; a simple election can stop their plans. However, it will require people to go vote when there are lots of other “summer things” to do. But if you are a progressive diabolical menace to society who wants to kill babies, smoke pot all day, and live off the government like some pathetic leech, stay home on August 8th and watch something dumb on Netflix. The world will be a lot better off without you.

Rich Hoffman

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The Real Tim Ballard: Is it all just a CIA case of misdirection

It is lazy to just mindlessly trust anything, especially authority figures, and I was wondering while watching the new very good movie, The Sound of Freedom, how the real-life Tim Ballard did it, blending in with the cartels to act like one of them so that trust could be earned to break open the pedophile rings of modern slavery that are so much a modern problem.  You’re hanging around drug dealers and the scum of the earth, and you are trying to win them over.  There would be no way to pull it off being straight as an arrow; otherwise, they would never trust you.  You’d have to show an interest in kids and pretend to be attracted to them, which Tim Ballard had to do at the beginning of the film when he was trying to get into the mind of a significant pedophile consumer.  The movie lightly touched on that kind of life and focused excessively on the Christian side of reality.  It purposely made Tim Ballard into a hero and glorified his efforts almost to the point of a John Wayne movie.  I personally enjoyed the results.  I wanted to see a hero.  I wanted to see someone who was so firm in their convictions that it could make the tough subject matter of the movie go down easier.  But I’ll have to admit; I had doubts that Tim Ballard’s life was so heroic.  He’s likely had to see and do many things that are very embarrassing to gain the trust of the world’s scum bags.  And I’m sure those things didn’t feel very heroic to him.  But would we ever catch any of these people if he didn’t do those things? 

I gave Sound of Freedom a great review; I think it was a top-notch movie, and it’s worth seeing, for the subject matter was very serious.  But I’m also proud of many people who have let me know that there is a serious possibility that this entire movie has been a CIA operation to attempt to restore their tarnished brand with the targeted religious right.  And it would be a common trick by those types of intelligence agencies to hide much more serious crimes behind misdirection efforts.  After all, the criminals in Sound of Freedom are nobody, dime-a-dozen scum bags from Columbia and Mexico.  Nobody will miss them if they are arrested and thrown in jail forever or killed in a gun fight upon arrest.  The sex trafficking of children would continue, and life would continue as we know it.  And that was the entire point of the Tim Ballard true story, to show how deep undercover and into the danger zone he was willing to go to save a couple of kids from that terrible life.  But people have been quick to point out that the money trail does trace back to Clinton supporters and that when the CIA asked Tim Ballard to become part of Homeland Security to take on this human trafficking role because he was a person of faith and they felt that would give him a lifeline out, and back to reality without falling apart, its entirely possible this is the kind of chess game they had in mind all along.  That the story Sound of Freedom would give the religious right some red meat and hope it appeases them and makes them go back to sleep.  Because the actual crimes were in the Beltway among the rich and famous.  The Hollywood culture that likes to consume adrenochrome for its pursuits of immortal life, their own Epic of Gilgamesh in Beverly Hills.

In that regard, The Sound of Freedom played it very safe.  The bad guys were terrible, and everyone could agree on who they were.  And the entire movie was about chasing down a few of those types of people to the ends of the earth.  But it didn’t deal with John Podesta’s Pizzagate controversy and the high-end user debacles of Epstein Island that are undoubtedly major problems in the news, and to what role the CIA plays in feeding this criminal network, just as they have been caught doing with the illegal drug network.  The cartels have risen to fill a market need.  So why is there a market need?  Sound of Freedom points out the problem in a way that essentially says, “hey, look over there, at those bad people deep in the rebel-held territory of Columbia.  But don’t look at the safe house in Washington D.C. that is feeding these kids to consumers in Chevy Chase, Maryland, while dad sneaks away from the home, telling the family he’s working late.  But what he’s really trying to do is have sex with kids hoping to psychologically turn back the clock before he has made a bunch of unforgivable mistakes in life.”  And then how do intelligence agencies and corporations use such compromised people to gain power in the world through extortion?  Some huge questions in Sound of Freedom are deliberately pushed off to the side for narrative convenience.  If the movie did tackle those topics, it would likely be very depressing, and it would be hard to justify the price of a ticket. 

I personally think the CIA uses people like Tim for just these kinds of purposes.  And the role that Angel Studios plays in the distribution of this movie I think is sincere.  I love The Chosen and think the family who set up that studio are good people trying to do good things for all the right reasons.  But are they all being used to contain the message of child trafficking to acceptable limits determined by the CIA?  Well, probably.  This is a story that props up government efforts against sex trafficking and makes you want to cheer on the good guys punishing the bad guys.  But it’s pretty safe in the stereotypes.  The CIA has no problem throwing a few lowlifes under the bus for their own preservation.  And I’m glad people are talking about the Sound of Freedom in such an “awake” way.  It’s good to be skeptical.  And it’s good to question Tim Ballard’s and his wife’s integrity.  I want to believe there are people like him in the world and that we aren’t all being played for suckers.  But experience says that such people don’t exist.  Either way, The Sound of Freedom is a movie worth telling to an audience that needs to hear it.  But trust in government and government workers in Homeland Security and the CIA is a bridge too far.  There is a lot more evil going on in the world besides the terrible circumstances of this movie.  And when the CIA starts standing for good in the hard cases and busting the rich and famous on moral grounds of right and wrong, we can have a different conversation.  But as of now, we must scrutinize everyone because institutionalism tends to corrupt everything it touches, even the good people who work within it with an “ends justify the means” mentality.  Playing nice with the bad guys usually means doing bad things too.  And that’s not something to celebrate.  It’s something to punish. 

Rich Hoffman

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It’s Not the Fault of Indiana Jones: Disney listened to BlackRock and they’ll never recover

Indiana Jones is a great movie, but Disney mismanaged it by listening to the wrong people

One of the reasons I do these articles on this blog is because people are hungry for real information. Not the kind that the media has grown to give us, usually laced as propaganda to fulfill some NWO vision of centralized control using the China model of communism to determine reality. And there is something really menacing looming behind the various box office results that I say all the time are the ways that people vote for value in our culture. The Sound of Freedom movie is a category by itself, and as far as I’m concerned, there’s room for all these great movies that are suddenly coming out. But the way that the communist left has gained control of the marketplace is by placing the number 1 weekly horse race to movies, all in an effort to make or break their box office results. It’s a baked-in trick by the World Economic Forum types and their media apparatus to pick winners and losers in the marketplace of ideas with the illusion of industry reporting. And I say that as a guy who has read The Hollywood Reporter for three decades. I used to get the magazine version of that publication as an industry guide of great value. So I am quite aware of the switch to this new way of manipulating numbers to tell the kind of story that the financial controllers of communist activism want to tell. And a target early on was the new Indiana Jones movie, The Dial of Destiny. The WEF types wanted to see Disney kill off one of the great American heroes from the 1980s. Early screenings showed that the public didn’t like that. So Disney had to scramble to give the public the ending they wanted, which went against the desires of the BlackRocks of the world. And as a result, Bob Iger and the gang at Disney found themselves between a rock and a hard place with snakes and spikes in between to kill them with a thousand cuts.

See the problem. Even with inflation, this cost structure is ridiculous and not sustainable.

When I look at the box office numbers for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, I see a pretty good movie that performs well day to day, even on weekdays. It’s consistently good with the other movies that were done in the 1980s, back in a time when those movies stayed at the movie theater for most of a year. But these days, with movies barely staying in a movie theater for more than 60 days, a film has to have a lot of pop on the front, most of this due to failures of liberalism. The movies are controlled by labor unions who want inflated budgets with unlimited money spent. And if a studio complies, they are rewarded with good press that will take them close to a good box office score. Disney got caught trying to appease everyone, including BlackRock, and they made everyone mad with a movie that had its budget out of control. If George Lucas was producing this Indiana Jones film, he would have kept the budget under 100 million, or he wouldn’t have made the picture. Kathy Kennedy let the budget spike up to around 300 million before advertising. So the standard is the problem, and the controllers expect to rule the marketplace. And Disney has damaged their own brand, so anti-Disney people started campaigning against this Indiana Jones movie several years ago. Then there was the political agenda from BlackRock and Vanguard about replacing Indiana Jones with a woman and killing off the Western hero for global communism. Disney picked the fans for its own survival, and the industry pounced, writing many negative articles against Indiana Jones, hoping to sink the film and punish the studio for not complying with the globalism mandate. 

Ultimately, this Indiana Jones film will be well respected and could have been financially successful if Disney had managed the budget. But it got out of control, and they thought they could spin it into a billion-dollar grosser. But without the support of the industry analysts, who are communist in most of their approaches to everything, the World Economic Forum activists worked overtime to ensure that it would never get there. They would have talked the movie up if Disney had killed off Indiana Jones. But they resorted to punishing the movie because it was a good hero story with a classic character living to see a happy ending. That was a good move for Disney in the long run because Indiana Jones will be around longer than the World Economic Forum. I’m not sure that Disney will make it. I’m telling people to go to the parks now while they are still there because I don’t think Disney will survive what they’ve done to themselves, which they are now the Bud Light of entertainment. When people think of Disney, they no longer think of Mickey Mouse but woke monsters who want to groom children. And once you lose that brand, it’s gone forever in this climate. They played the game wrong, and now it’s going to cost them.   They fixed the Indiana Jones movie in time to save it. But they should have done the same to themselves several years ago instead of committing to the World Economic Forum’s woke agenda of gender desecration, which started to become evident with the killing of Han Solo and that terrible Buzz Lightyear movie. 

It’s not an Indiana Jones problem; over the coming year, most people will watch the movie and like it, whether at the theater or at home on a streaming service. It’s a good family movie, but it’s too late for a course correction by Disney to save it at the box office. Because Disney is having problems everywhere. People are rejecting them as a company. That doesn’t mean that they’ll never have another billion-dollar film again. But they have lost permanent market share because of their woke commitment. And now their woke bosses at BlackRock are punishing them in the trades if they don’t stay committed to the continued desecration of American heroes. So the news isn’t good for Indiana Jones, but it’s not because the movie is bad. But there are undoubtedly many bad characters who are politically motivated on both sides, and Disney mismanaged the whole thing to their detriment. The lesson for everyone is not to pick against the audience, not to feed the everlasting hunger of the trade unions with inflated budgets, and to never align yourself with global activism against good stories and heroes who stand against evil. This is why I said it was a bad idea for Bob Iger to come back. I don’t know what he was thinking about taking a job that was bound to be a loser. There was no way to fix this Disney problem. And instead of being viewed as a pretty good CEO over his years, he’ll be remembered as the guy who let it all fall apart. But the truth is, this started a long time ago when the board started listening to global activists for communism and bending their films toward the China market. All that was a mistake that is showing itself at the box office. And it has nothing to do with Indiana Jones as a movie. If anything, people are supporting the movie more than they otherwise would. The problem is Disney, and I’m afraid that it’s a condition that will never correct itself.  

Rich Hoffman

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