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Jack Smith is as Dumb as a Box of Rocks: Government has infinite resources to show just how stupid and corrupt they really are

With all the talk about Jack Smith and how he is the lead on using the power of government to attempt to destroy a presidential rival in President Trump, with the phony case in Florida regarding classified information, it reminds me a lot of the way the IRS was weaponized against Tea Party groups from 2010 to 2012. My long-time readers here will remember when I was caught up in the IRS scandal and was one of the targets of their investigation due to my relationship with Justin Binik-Thomas and the Liberty Township Tea Party. Justin was at the center of the controversy and was called to Washington to testify on several occasions, so the harassment was something I witnessed up close and personal. And in dealing with all the various attorneys at the time and people involved in the case from the government side, what we are seeing now is much of what we saw then, a government-run by Obama that had weaponized the IRS against political rivals, in the growing Tea Party movement, and they were clearly trying to use the power of government to scare people into submission. Jack Smith was working under Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS case at the time. People might remember that after testimony where she had to Plead the 5th on many harassment allegations, she drifted into the background, protected by the government for her role in using government to intimidate people into submission over 5013C tax status submissions. That case is precisely like the case with Trump, where he was actually a president and, through the Presidential Records Act, had the right to classify or declassify documents in his possession during his time in office. The foundation of the Jack Smith indictment against Trump is simply to ignore that he was ever president and ever had such a right, then make assumptions that would attempt to shift the burden of proof onto Trump to show he’s innocent. It’s the guilty first strategy that the government has been using for years, hoping to scare people into compliance. 

My impression of all the people I had to deal with in the IRS case was that they were all pretty stupid. They presented themselves as scary, but once I had them talking, it was obvious that they didn’t have a brain among them. They were extremely easy to beat, even their best lawyers with the high price tags. If you understood the Constitution well, it became apparent quickly that Lois Lerner and her minions, like Jack Smith, were building their entire 5013C case on the population’s ignorance. They assumed their political targets were as dumb as they were, which is why nobody went to jail for their tax status. All the gas in the case was in the media presentation of it. With the doors closed, the government was bluffing, they did not have enforcement powers, and had been caught harassing innocent people. Back then, I thought that Jack Smith was dumb as a box of rocks, and all the lawyers involved were no different. Their entire strategy was to assume that people don’t read, and once they realized that the people they were dealing with were quite smart, they fumbled all over themselves like fools, which is usually the case with these government types. Their only strategy, most of the time, is to use the power of infinite government resources to intimidate people into submission in the way that a ranch animal might be corralled into compliance with the sound of loud noises so that they could be directed into a slaughterhouse. But for that to happen, the animals must be pretty dumb.

And as soon as I read the indictment against President Trump by Jack Smith, that is precisely what my impression was, that here was a very dumb guy going up against very smart people that were working in the private sector. The only thing the government has working on its side in destroying political opponents is infinite resources. But an infinity of stupid doesn’t mean success; it just means that the government can apply infinite amounts of stupid at an objective because that is their nature. Remember when the government came after Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Mike Lindell for pointing out the incidents of government-sponsored election fraud? And how Dominion was going to sue them the way they did Fox News? They are still free people; those lawsuits went nowhere because there was no case. The people who end up working in government usually are pretty lazy and not very smart, which is why they are in government in the first place. They can’t make it in the real world and seek government security. And for them, it is always in attempting to show government strength instead of intelligence to win their objectives. The IRS case I was involved in was like beating melted butter. Not a single person I interacted with was very smart. They had fancy suits and drove nice cars, but they were dumb as rocks. Shallow people without much going on that could string together a conversation. And what we all learned back then was that the government wasn’t very scary after all. It was shocking to be singled out and harassed by the federal government. People were pretty upset. But I could see up close just how weak the government really was once they had to actually talk, and that observation is especially true now. I think people were smarter back then than they are now, making it even easier to beat the government at their crooked game. 

That is exactly the merit behind the Jack Smith case against President Trump. The entire issue will fall apart under legal scrutiny, and just like that IRS 5013C case, the entire premise is built on intimidation, the power of the government to do whatever it wants and harass people with the infinite resources that it has, the ability to rob taxpayers for its sustenance in order to submit society to its oppressive rule. But the secret they hope nobody ever figures out is that they are all pretty dumb. Once they actually present a case to a court, they cannot uphold Constitutional scrutiny. The government does not like the Constitution in general because it was written to limit its powers. And to protect the rights of individuals, which the government, by its nature, always seeks to rule over. By ignoring the Presidential Records Act in his indictment, Jack Smith’s case is as flimsy as the IRS case was that he was involved in a decade ago, which left the government desperate and embarrassed. And that is what will happen in this case as well. The government does not have smart people working for it. The whole case resides on the premise that people will be easily harassed and unable to articulate Constitutional preservation. That’s when the cases the government tends to propose fall apart in the face of reality. I had to laugh when I first heard that Jack Smith was involved in a super scary political hit job from the Biden Department of Justice against the leading contender for the White House. Then reading what Jack Smith put together is that IRS case all over again. Jack Smith is as dumb as a box of rocks, and there isn’t anything they can do to win with their aggression once normal people figure that out. Which is happening rapidly, much to their terror. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Darbi Boddy Playbook: Breaking free of the invisible fence that has always held back Republicans

I’ve always watched dogs confined behind an invisible fence and thought of them as Republicans. Why don’t the dogs just run through the zapper when they get near the parameter of the fence? There is no physical barrier to hold them back, just an emotional one set off by a little physical pain that they learn occurs by a wire buried under the ground that gives off a bit of pain when they get near it. When you first set up an invisible fence, you put little flags in the ground so the dogs know where the limits are. Then once they learn the limits, the flags can be removed, the dogs will stay behind their “invisible fence,” and the yard can look like an open space when really there are barriers only the dog knows about. In a liberal society, that is what Democrats call bipartisan relationships. That’s how it looks to the outside world. But really, the deal is that only Democrats get to run free across an open yard. Republicans get zapped if they get too close to the edge and dare cross a line. My advice to Republicans for over three decades is to ignore the silly zappers liberals have set up to contain Republicans. Put up with a bit of pain, ignore the signal of woke limits they have politically imposed on everyone, and just go beyond those barriers because they have nothing else in the playbook. Either the dog stops with the invisible fence, or they have nothing else. And when we say stop, we mean the little fears of pain and social castigation that Democrats apply with name-calling to keep Republicans behind their own version of an invisible fence. And after three decades of watching this ridiculous behavior, I am very proud to say that the first conservative politician I have ever seen prove this point is Darbi Boddy, the first-year school board member at Lakota schools. She has broken through their barrier and is loose, and all the liberals are lost as to what to do. 

Ultimately, that forced Matt Miller’s resignation, the very controversial superintendent of Lakota schools. Liberals expect to live a life of no accountability for their social life, and conservatives hope for accountability for everything. Those relationships just don’t go together. For many years, conservatives have been stuck behind an invisible fence of social parameters that Democrats controlled, and the relationship of free expression was clearly one-sided. It remained that way in national politics until President Trump came along and showed politicians that they could just step through that stupid invisible fence and there wasn’t anything that Democrats could do to convince everyone to stay within the barriers they created through social rules they controlled, the kinds of things you can say, the topics you could cover, the way things were communicated to the public. But with Trump, it was experience from show business that he brought with him into politics. With Darbi Boddy, a local school board member for Lakota schools, she has brought that same kind of effort to ground up politics, and the results are obvious. On Monday, the 23rd of January, 2023, I saw one of the best school board meetings I’ve ever seen; there were plenty of community members and supporters of Darbi Boddy who voiced their opinions and did some really good, articulate work that showed the liberals of that progressive government school that the dogs had broken free of the liberal invisible fence, and were now just as free to roam around in society as Democrats always have been. Pay particular attention to the public comments around the 55-minute mark included on this article.

For those who want to know, or need to know, this is where the future of education is going. Darbi represents that effort at Lakota. But this is a national movement that is not going away. It was caused by years of abuse by teacher unions, and taxpayers have had it. Public schools cost too much, they teach all the wrong things, and they bring liberal politics to our homes and we don’t want them around.

I would call what happened at Lakota schools the Darbi Boddy playbook. At the start of her term as a school board member, essentially the moment she was sworn in by my good friend, Senator George Lang, the radical progressives of Lakota schools, the kind of people who are always causing all the trouble, and making everything too expensive, tried to get rid of her.   In just four months on the job, the alignment of the school board, Matt Miller’s radicalism, and their media partners, the Michael Clarks and the Karin Johnsons, turned up the heat on that invisible fence to keep Darbi contained from investigating CRT in Lakota. And they pushed her hard to force a resignation. But Darbi kept plowing forward; she did not resign, she did not play by the liberal woke rules, and she stayed tough in the pocket under a lot of pressure. More pressure than most people could ever hope to handle. And the result has been a complete collapse of that liberal invisible fence network. And now that one Republican has survived it, others are seeing how to do it themselves, which led to a parade of protestors speaking in support of Darbi at the school board in front of a very messy crowd that isn’t used to people beating them with their liberal playbook. There were radicals there with t-shirts trying to inspire people to sign a petition online to remove Darbi from the board, and they were pretty vicious at the meeting away from the microphones. But essentially, they were like those owners of the dogs who yelled and screamed at the escaped animals hoping to terrify them into submission. Meanwhile, the freed dogs are just jumping around and playing like nothing in the world matters because now that they know they can escape the invisible fence, nothing in the world does. They are just as free to communicate as the radical Democrats who run all government schools. 

If this were indeed a debate over what’s good for kids or not, we might call all this effort “childish.” For instance, many who spoke against Darbi Boddy at that school board meeting want to convince themselves that the people who support Darbi are only 30% of the community. They want to believe that they are the ones in control and that there are more of them than Republicans who care about these matters. They keep saying to the escaped dogs, “let’s just get back to teaching the kids. Let’s get back to meetings where nobody shows up, and we just give out awards and happy stuff that makes education fun.” They really intend to get the dogs back behind the invisible fence with a treat or a dog toy; then they plan to turn up the zapper to keep anything like this from ever happening again, where they lose control. But the truth of the matter, and I’ve told this to Lynda O’Conner, the school board president at Lakota, many times, most people in the community support Darbi. They don’t like liberalism and are upset that Democrats have been running the public schools for years and are looking for something to rally their minds to the problem. And for them, Darbi is that person, that rally point they can believe in. They have watched her escape from the clutches of the invisible fence that Democrats have always controlled, and they now have someone to cheer on. And now more people are joining Darbi, which was on full display at the Lakota school board meeting. The best one I have seen yet after all these years. And now that Republicans can see from the Darbi Boddy playbook how to fight back against those invisible fences they are always confined to, maybe they can do some good work in the world as well.  And remember the most important thing, it’s not that we just say we are teaching kids that matters.  But it’s what we teach them.  If what we intend to teach is liberal behavior, then that’s a no go on all fronts. 

Rich Hoffman

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