Tag: corruption

The Epstein List: People want blood and they won’t rest until they get it

Here are a few of the names that are on the Epstein list, and I doubt most of them were involved in underage sex while traveling to the now-famous pedophilia island.  Jeffery Epstein was being well paid to facilitate relationships within the structure of some social order.  After what we learned about the Diddy trial, pornographic sexual fantasies are common among people, and especially among people who can afford to indulge in the most outrageous of those fantasies.  So I don’t think that Trump’s resistance to releasing the Epstein list is that he’s on it, but because he knows a lot of people who are, and understands that the context of them being on that list doesn’t mean they were engaging in underage sex.  But Trump’s reluctance to open this can of worms has exposed a chink in his armor that now all his enemies will exploit, and he has to understand that this isn’t a topic people are going to put up with in a minimized standard.   People want blood.  They want the heads of the corrupt enemy, the concept of elite social types, and they want them in jail.  People did not vote for the nice guy Trump, who threatened to put Hillary Clinton in jail, then at the last minute, tried to forgive her.  Trump is a very nice guy, much nicer than he lets on.  And this list challenges him on that front, because he likes a lot of people, even if they are wobbly in the bedroom.  Here are just a few of the names:

 • Alan Dershowitz • Leonardo DiCaprio • Al Gore • Richard Branson • Stephen Hawking • Ehud Barak • Marvin Minksy • Kevin Spacey • George Lucas • Jean Luc Brunel • Bill Clinton • Hilary Clinton • Madonna • Joe Biden • Cate Blanchett • Naomi Campbell • Heidi Klum • Sharon Churcher • Bruce Willis • Bianca Jagger • Bill Richardson • Cameron Diaz • Glenn Dubin • Eva Andersson • Noam Chomsky • Tom Pritzker • Chris Tucker • Sarah Ferguson • Robert F Kennedy Jr • James Michael Austrich • Juan and Maria Alessi • Janusz Banasiak • Bella Klein or Klen • Lesley Groff • Victoria Bean • Rebecca Boylan • Dana Burns • Bill Gates • Ron Eppinger • Daniel Estes • Louis Freeh • Frédéric Fekkai • Alexandra Fekkai • Jo Jo Fontanella • Doug Band • Prince Andrew • Eric Gany • Meg Garvin • Sheridan Gibson-Butte • Ross Gow • Fred Graff • Robert Giuffre • Philip Guderyon • Alexandra Hall • Joanna Harrison • Shannon Harrison • Victoria Hazel • Brittany Henderson • Brett Jaffe • Forest Jones • Sarah Kellen • Adriana Ross • Carol Kess • Dr Steven Olson • Stephen Kaufmann • Wendy Leigh • Peter Listerman • Tom Lyons • Nadia Marcinkova • Bob Meister • Jamie Melanson • Donald Morrell • David Mullen • David Norr • Joe Pagano • May Paluga • Stanley Pottinger • Detective Joe Recarey • Chief Michael Reiter • Rinaldo Rizzo • Kimblerley Roberts • Lynn Roberts • Haley Robson • Dave Rodgers • Alfredo Rodriquez • Scott Rothinson • Forest Sawyer • Dough Schoetlle • Cecilia Stein • Marianne Strong • Mark Tafoya • Emmy Taylor • Brent Tindall • KevinIts Thompson • Ed Tuttle • Les Wexner • Abigail Wexner • Cresenda Valdes • Emma Vaghan • Anthony Valladares • Maritza Vazquez • Vicky Ward • Jarred Weisfield • Sharon White • Courtney Wild • Daniel Wilson • Mark Zeff • Kelly Spamm • Alexandra Dixon • Alfredo Rodriguez • Ricardo Legorreta • Sky Roberts

It’s pretty simple, Trump ran on law and order, and they want a Trump DOJ to be ruthless in prosecuting bad guys, and so far, there hasn’t been anybody going to jail for what they did.  This discussion of investigating Jim Comey and John Brennan for their roles in heading up the CIA and FBI, using the power of government to inspire a coup against an elected president, is a good start, but not anywhere near the kind of ruthlessness that people expect.  It’s not enough to have a good life, with a good economy, and to put all this behind us, which is what burned Trump during his first term.  In that final year, the bad guys exploited Trump’s likability, and it’s what led to his removal from office.  Most people in the MAGA movement want revenge for all that, so turning the other cheek isn’t going to do it.  People are going to have to go to jail, and they need to be punished ruthlessly.  And knowing all that, this Epstein list is an easy one.  Trump shouldn’t hold back and expect people to back off; otherwise, he will lose the trust of the people who have backed him most, even if he knows the list by itself doesn’t tell the whole story.

Trump answered the question incorrectly on the Epstein list, which is unusual, as he is usually bullish on the contents; he came off sounding guilty.  It wasn’t the usual Trump bravado, and people picked up on it.  Yes, people are going to continue talking about the Epstein list until people go to jail over it.  If Kash Patel comes out and says there is no conspiracy to the Epstein suicide, it’s not going to help because if people doubt that, they will question the premise on everything else, such as election fraud, the roots of COVID, and even the Steele Dossier.  People know there are problems with the Epstein case and the way that society was organized in elite categories, likely using sex to manipulate the mass population through celebrity status, and they want to see that whole system destroyed, even if Trump wants to negotiate with it to minimize its effects.  Elon Musk hasn’t helped by saying that Trump is on the list, and that’s why the President won’t release it.  I think most celebrities are on the list, which for most of them equates to a free vacation with the who’s who of celebrity society.   And Trump, at that time in his life, certainly would have accepted a free vacation with other celebrities to a remote island full of women, just to be seen with other celebrities.  While that might be embarrassing, being tough on all other issues but this one is even worse, because it exposes a chink in the armor that people will not forgive with inaction.

Sexual impropriety is part of the corruption that runs in the background of our entire society, and people want reform of that system, not a cover-up of its perpetuation.  And until people associated with Jeffrey Epstein are prosecuted and exposed, people aren’t going to let off the gas.  They might like to see James Comey and John Brennan prosecuted for their abuse of power, but people need a lot more than those two to be held accountable.  I don’t think we are talking about French Revolution mob rule here, but we aren’t looking at a civilization that will forgive and forget.  If Trump believes that simply being a good president and providing people with a good life will be enough, he needs to rethink his strategy.  Running cover for the sex rings that have people he likes in them isn’t going to help the cause.  And the story won’t go away.  I think the list begins to tell the story.  But people want to know who’s on it and what they did to be included.  By the time we unpack everything, I think we’ll find that we have a CIA-backed hazing ritual of collecting embarrassing behavior of people in exchange for celebrity status.  Suppose you want to be a celebrity or continue being one. In that case, you have to give up something embarrassing about yourself to members of this group to maintain that status.  One person on that list, George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars and other notable entertainment projects, doesn’t surprise me.  A few years ago, I was working on a series of scripts for movies with a very well-known celebrity who is now one of the main people on Good Morning America.  And while we were working on those projects, she confided in me the sexual lifestyle of the movie mogul, and it made me so sick that I made a clean break from that business, for good.  People and their sexual lifestyles, when they aren’t aligned with the values of the kind of stories they tell, are often very disappointing.  And that is the kind of disappointment that people have with Trump in protecting the type of people who are on that list.  Because Trump likes them, and doesn’t want to see them harmed for some weakness that they have, or had at a particular time in their life.  But people want blood, and until they get it, they will be very skeptical and impossible to please. 

Rich Hoffman

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Lipstick on a Pig: Is it fair to refer to the Lakota school board as swine?

Since I wrote about the ridiculous levy request from Lakota schools to build a bunch of new schools while tearing down the old ones, to the cost of 500 million dollars, people have been suggesting to me that maybe I was being too hard on the perpetrators, the Lakota school board by referring to them as pigs, that they were no better than swine.  However, I think that is the polite word for them, and the proper way to say it.  People who tend to have moral bankruptcy, as a group, tend to think that cosmetic improvements will hide the horrendous decisions they make in their lives, which often end up costing a lot of money.  This is precisely why Democrats, when elected, tend to run their communities into the ground.  And yes, all these people on the Lakota school board are Democrats.  It will be a lot better for people in the future when school board people have to run through the filter of a political party, so people know who they are voting for.  However, they currently hide behind a façade of neutrality.  Four out of five of the Lakota school board members are very liberal, and they spend money the way that liberals always do.  But that’s not the worst of it.  Now, the fifth school board member, Isaac Adi, I haven’t been too crazy about him, even though he’s considered a Republican.  What he did to Darbi Boddy was unforgivable.   But he and I talked for a long time in Senator Lang’s office, and we can at least work together.  So I’m not surprised that he voted no on this latest Lakota boondoggle.  However, referring to what they want to do as putting lipstick on a pig, because the pig will still be a pig, is the correct way to describe this situation. 

And I wish them luck; I hope they can find voters for their tax increase as effectively as they find their clothes after a night of hard drinking at education conferences.  Everyone knows the stories; there is nothing secret about it.  These aren’t very high-quality people, and that showed itself during the last school superintendent drama, where he got caught offering his wife on Craigslist while they were traveling out of town to music concerts, for group sex parties.  That superintendent had to resign because the community was upset about it, and this school board could only look at those of us who were upset about it and declare that we should have kept it all a secret, so people never found out, for the good of the children, of course.  We went through a lot of drama over that issue because, essentially, the superintendent and his wife talked about sexual fantasies with students who went to Lakota, where he was supposed to be in charge, and that is a major no-no.  And I wouldn’t say that we were getting all this information second-hand through rumors, but from the ex-wife herself.  It was never a question as to whether her husband, the Lakota superintendent, had an overly sexualized lifestyle.  He did.  It was whether or not he was allowed to have such a private life as a public figure.  Like a lot of really radically liberal people, he thought he could be one thing in public and be something completely different in private, but that’s not how things cook in the kitchen.  People in leadership roles are judged based on the entirety of their lives, and even if you are talking about little kids as sexual objects in just “pillow talk,” it still shows intent. 

I did talk to prosecutors about the Lakota case and why there was reluctance to go after him for child endangerment, because the ex-wife was reliable testimony, and there was a police report where he admitted it.  So it was pretty clear-cut.  And the answer I got would melt your face with anger.  Because the truth is, we have a very pornographic society, and this Lakota administrator isn’t the only one doing this kind of stuff.  It’s a common behavior, the overly sexual lives of people who have too much personal income, so that they can indulge in porn addictions.  And Lakota schools, as do most schools with high population densities, have a lot of bored employees who think too much about sex.  And it’s just a dangerous combination to put coming-of-age kids in passive roles with adults thinking way too much about sex.  As it turned out, nobody cared about the former Lakota school superintendent because most people didn’t see that he was doing anything wrong.  Because they were either doing it too, or they were thinking about it. I have never been a big fan of public schools, but after the Lakota school superintendent case and the behavior of this same school board, which tried to cover it all up as best they could, I’m a hard no on anything they propose.  We can’t trust anything they say.  At best, building new schools for these types of people is just putting lipstick on a pig, and in many cases, that pig is already at the slaughterhouse with a severed head, because of the school choice expansion that came out of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.  These same people want to invest this much money in an education system that will have to undergo significant changes in the coming years.

But people will say that all the buildings they want to tear down are old and outdated.  For Lakota to recruit the right kind of future employees, they need better buildings that can accommodate comfortable class sizes.  If Lakota wants to have the best employees, we must provide better buildings for them to work in.  Well, that is the lipstick on the pig talking.  They have no idea what makes education work with kids.  They are teaching kids all the wrong things for a society with changing priorities, and they are way behind the curve, out of touch at best.  On a good day, they are teaching progressive social values, such as transgender bathrooms, and the 1619 Project, which is all over their website.  That isn’t the kind of thing a community that voted for President Trump by overwhelming margins wants its children learning.  The world is changing in ways they don’t like, and now they want to spend half a billion dollars to counteract it.  They are out of their minds.  And at the core of it, knowing many of the school board members personally, I wouldn’t trust a word they said if they were giving me directions to a highway while standing on the on-ramp.  How can we believe them when they say that we need to spend all this money on new schools when they have spent years screwing up the old schools?  I think it is very polite to refer to them as swine, so the lipstick on a pig metaphor is the right one for people of such low quality.  They think that some fresh paint and new plaster will present them in a more favorable light to the public.  But to accomplish that, a billion dollars wouldn’t be enough.  Because a pig is still a pig, no matter how much lipstick you put on it.

Rich Hoffman

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Its a Command, not a Request: Smart TVs that aren’t so smart

I don’t think I’m becoming an anti-technology, cruddy old man because the world is leaving me behind as it goes faster and faster and is designed for much younger people.  I expect things to work, and as I have been wrapped up in some severe trouble lately, dealing with bone-crushing topics, at the end of the day, I hope the television at least works.  However, the TV in our bedroom is supposed to be a high-tech, smart TV that is very sophisticated. However, it makes me mad all the time because it is completely wireless, and when my wife walks into the room, she always scrambles the signal.  It’s a long story, but my wife has unusual electromagnetic imprints on the world.  It’s always been a problem, but back in the old days, these televisions were hard-wired into the wall.  But not anymore. These days, everything is wireless, and I’ve found that none of it works as well as the old stuff, which is getting on my nerves.  The other day, I was enjoying a show when my wife came into the room. The TV lost its signal and showed a spinning death icon, saying, “Please wait.”  Then, after a few minutes, it simply stopped and informed me that “it couldn’t process the request at this time.”  I was so mad that I just about threw the whole thing through the nearby window and out into the front yard.  I didn’t “request” anything.  I commanded the television to show me a channel, and it was failing to perform its basic task.  And who did that stupid television think it was?  But what was worse was the message code that framed the operation of the television as a “request,” as if the TV had an option to choose to do what I asked of it.  And that’s part of a much larger problem that I am seeing across all of society, and it’s a significant one.

People were taken advantage of by technology as tech bros tried to capture market share with control mechanisms that suited their needs. The quest to make things easier has only given us things that are too intrusive into our lives, as they are constantly collecting information on us, which can be irritating.  However, the technology never really works, and the by-product of the effort probably should never have been utilized to begin with.  However, we are people who like to put our generational stamp on things, and technology is a means of making a new generation feel better about themselves by gaining market dominance over the previous one.  But at a certain point, coffee is coffee, a phone is a phone, and an elevator does one primary thing.  You might add some fancy buttons that display different colors, but you don’t change their function.  However, in the world of business, we have transitioned from note-taking to computer processing. When systems fail, instead of completing tasks the old-fashioned way, as we have in the past, we have become a culture that accepts failure and waits patiently for resolution.  When you are talking to other businesses out there and trying to process a PO, or manage inventory, or send supporting paperwork with a shipment, most of the time there is a system failure in the chain and the people involved are waiting for IT to resolve it so that the world can resume its business.  This arrangement has simply not been working.  We tried to make it all easier, but it’s ended up being much less effective. 

There are some large companies that I am aware of, which are attempting to move away from their computerized management systems and return to taking notes on paper.  The paper notes don’t give you failure messages like my TV, which assumes that the technology has an option to perform or not.  If we are going to have technology in our lives, we need to let it know who’s boss.  And that when we tell it to do something, it does it, and does it quickly.  All this week, I had heard countless examples of ERP systems that were down, and people were waiting for them to come back up so that parts could be shipped. The kind of geeks who work in IT are about as out of touch as human beings on earth could be.  They would take things more seriously if they were playing the game Fortnite.  However, real-life things are much less interesting to them.  They are the kind of people who sit at a table of 12 but prefer to interact with a computer screen rather than with real people.  And those same personality types are what programming these cause codes in these TVs think are appropriate answers.  I used language a few times this week to them while on the phone with them that I did with that stupid television, and you would have thought I ran over their dog.  They are such pasty people, way too sheltered from reality, and they are in charge of how this technology forms in our society, even down to our TVs.  To me, if the technology doesn’t perform, get rid of it and get something else.  And you could tell that the young people were using technology to hide in the world and to conceal their poor performance behind it.  And it ticked me off.

I’m not against technology.  If something is invented that’s better, great.  However, if it’s not improving our lives, or we’re trying to accommodate technology when we should reject it, as in the case of smart TVs that aren’t so smart, we should discard them.  Because what I see happening is that technology has been used to hide the bad performance of lazy losers who are trying to hide in the background.  And it’s lowering the performance standards of our society as a whole.  I attended a substantial event the other day that included valet parking.  I didn’t feel like dealing with people, but the young fellows doing the valet parking were sharp and ambitious.  And after seeing numerous technological failures throughout the week, it was refreshing to see the competence of ambitious young people trying to earn a few bucks.  And after a hard day, you want to hear Yes, sir, and No, sir, and Here are your keys.  You don’t want to hear from technology that it has lost your keys, requiring you to wait for it to process your request.  Or anything that takes away the performance standard.  It was raining outside, and those kids were working in it, not bumping cars into each other or making guests wait.  They were running to get the cars so people wouldn’t have to wait.  And it was good to see.  Not the kind of service that computers are giving us these days.  And perhaps we should reconsider many aspects of it.  I gave the young men a twenty as a tip just because I appreciated the level of competency, and they were a little shocked.  But they had no idea what kind of week I had just survived and how much technology had made it much more difficult, rather than easier.  I was just happy to deal with hungry human beings who wanted to do a good job.  When you need something done, it’s not a request; it’s a command, and we need to put an end to technology that isn’t respectful enough of our time, especially during our leisure time.

Rich Hoffman

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What Does Jumping the General Lee Say About Americans: Self government is more important than safety

It was exciting to watch the General Lee, the famous car from the television show, The Dukes of Hazzard, jump over and through the fountain in the middle of town in Somerset, Kentucky.  What makes people want to jump a perfectly good car in such an ostentatious way, essentially destroying it in the process?  I enjoyed the event at the end of June, 2025 quite a lot, but as I watched everything unfold, I had to ask, why?  Why any of it?  Why jump in a classic car that is essentially an antique in the middle of town, and why did everyone come out to watch it?  And how did the stuntman Raymond Kohn even manage to organize the event during the Somernites Cruise, where the car would be jumped and land on roads that everyone uses, scratching up the pavement?  There were so many unsafe elements to the jump.  Usually, they do these kinds of things at a racetrack or at fairgrounds.  But this was in the middle of a busy town.  And it’s not lost on us that only a few short years ago, Nikki Haley, as governor of South Carolina, was removing all traces of the Confederate Flag from government property.  General Lee, as a car, has a Confederate Flag painted on it, and many of the vehicles at the car show openly display Confederate Flag license plates and decals. Here was an event that the world was covering.  This was international news.  It was all very haphazard and reckless, but people loved it.  But why?  What is in human nature that makes us love such things, and this extends beyond political sentiment?  Reverence for the Confederate Flag means rebellion for many people.  I appreciate the Union Army’s efforts during the Civil War and have always been an anti-slavery person.   However, I understand the rebellion the Confederate Flag represents, and it serves as a warning to self-governed people not to overreach with too many rules and regulations.  If I had to sum up the effort, that’s what this car jump was all about.

It was pretty interesting leading up to the jump, as the car was parked on the ramp in town, allowing people to walk up and touch it.  They could feel the ramps.  Anybody could have sabotaged the event, but everything was pretty loose, even right up to the jump, where people lined the sides of the street.  A lot of things could have gone wrong, and at the end of the jump, the wrecked General Lee almost hit a cameraman.  However, nobody got too emotional about anything, and the whole town showed up to see the jump, with everyone having a really good time.  The stunt team performing in the show was the Northeast Ohio Dukes, and they put on these shows quite frequently.  However, this was different because it occurred in the middle of a functioning town, which could result in real damage and injury.  However, people felt they needed to do this stunt, disregarding caution, to perform it. Afterwards, the Northeast Ohio Dukes sold off pieces of the wreck to people who wanted a piece of history.  So what would make someone want a piece of the General Lee hanging in the garage?  Well, a lot of people did.  The entire event also had significant sponsorship from notable companies, including Coca-Cola, G&L Refrigeration, Citizens National Bank, and Don Franklin Dealerships.  Thirty-five thousand people showed up to pay $10 a ticket to watch history being made.  What was noticeable to me was that nobody seemed to care about woke politics.

When The Dukes of Hazzard television show aired every Friday night, people loved it.  In every episode, the Duke boys, who were always running away from the law, would jump the General Lee during one of the many car chases that occurred throughout the series.  I loved it; I had the high-flying General Lee on my school notebooks, on t-shirts. I had lots of toy cars that I would jump with myself.  I performed many stunts and would jump my bike over numerous dangerous obstacles.  It was all very exciting, and obviously, I am not the only one.  After all that we’ve been through as a culture, where the administrative state has tried to make us a more safe society, here we were in 2025, during the first year of the Trump presidency in his second term and a General Lee complete with an ostentatious Confederate Flag was jumping through a town fountain just like on the television show.  Hollywood has tried to recapture that magic in other kinds of shows, but people still love a 40-year-old show because of its lack of political correctness.  People do not want to live safe lives under the thumb of too much government regulation, and jumping a perfectly good car, and an expensive one such as the General Lee, destroying them each time they do it, is the sign of a very affluent society that can afford to do such things as an expression of personal sentiment. For many of the same reasons, we celebrate the 4th of July with fireworks.  At the core of our society is a need for rebellion and to throw caution to the wind, and the General Lee car from the television show has become a symbol of that in our culture. 

The jump itself was 150 feet high at a speed of 50 MPH, and with people lined up all along the street, a lot of things could have gone wrong.  However, having the event itself, with all the loose caution, was more important than safety, and that was what was important here.  And since that show was on television, there hasn’t been anything like it.  People still crave that kind of entertainment because there is an extreme need for danger in people’s lives.  They don’t want the safety of the administrative state.  They want to jump cars through fountains in the middle of town, crashing them on the other side, then buying pieces of the car as a trophy for their garage.  You wouldn’t see something like this, General Lee jumping in different places in the world, because it’s uniquely American. This is interesting, considering we are only five years out from when the World Health Organization tried to make a power move with COVID and shut down the entire world.  People played along for a little while, but slowly, a rebellious nature emerged, one that led to not wearing masks or getting vaccinated, undoing all the over-the-top regulations.  And here was a car with a Confederate Flag launching through the middle of town in ways that pushed safety to its limit, and people were pleased about it. What does that say about us?  We are a defiant people who intend to have self-government, and the Dukes of Hazzard television show is all about defying progressive attempts to turn America into something much less desirable.  And after all these years, with all the technological advancements we’ve experienced, the act of jumping a classic car through the middle of town with a dangerous stunt is still something most people enjoy.  And because they do, they won’t sign up for more centralized regulations coming from the United Nations any time soon.  People like danger and a car culture of excess.  So much so that they not only want to own cars like the General Lee, but they want to wreck them in an act of defiance whenever possible.  Because it’s in our nature to do so. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Only Way A New Indiana Jones Movie Would Be Successful: Consultants and corporate looters can’t copy success, it never works

There is a way to do it, to make more Indiana Jones movies.  There have been at least seven different people who have played Indiana Jones at some point in time, everyone from George Hall, to Corey Carrier, to Sean Patrick Flanery—even River Phoenix.  Then, of course, there are all the video games and commercial appearances where an Indiana Jones-like character is seen doing something, from amusement park rides and Coke commercials to cameos in other movies.  Unlike other franchise characters, however, Indiana Jones is different in that Harrison Ford created a particular kind of character with a timeline expectation that society will hold Disney to.  There is a nice period in the character’s timeline, from age 25 to 35, where a new actor who resembles Harrison Ford could tell all-new stories that the public would love.  Most of the best Indiana Jones movies take place within a specific 3-4 year timeline that centers on Harrison Ford playing Indiana Jones in the iconic movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, a film that revolutionized the way stories are told and movies are presented.  I personally think it was the best movie ever made and that changed the value of the character created for the public forever.  The chances of doing something like that again with the same character but a different actor is impossible. I think it’s possible to make more movies after seeing how Disney and Bethesda, the video game maker, produced the latest Indiana Jones video game, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.  It was a great game and a lot of fun, and it didn’t try to “reboot” Indiana Jones; it respected the timeline that people had come to know and trust.  And many actors contributed to that effort, and those are the rules of engagement.  There is a lot of talk now, halfway through 2025, that Disney wants to reboot the Indiana Jones movies.  They own the property and want to make money from it.  However, there are rules they must follow; otherwise, they will cause all kinds of social problems, just as they did with the Star Wars movies.  If they want Indiana Jones to remain valuable to the public, they’ll listen and stay respectful.

But if they think they are going to retell Raiders of the Lost Ark with a woke actor like Pedro Pascal, or even a woman, then they are out of their minds, and another Indiana Jones movie would be a disaster.  Indiana Jones is not something that can be ruined in the way that studios often do with Batman movies or James Bond stories.  There has been over 40 years of story telling from books, television, comics, video games that for that entire time held to a stringent canon timeline, and that trust has been built across many generations of fans, from kids today to their grandparents who saw the movies in the theater when they were kids.  I love the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular in Orlando, Florida, the stunt show that has been performed for years at Hollywood Studios. It has featured several different actors portraying Indiana Jones in that stage play.  However, the difference was that all content creators were very respectful of the original idea.  During the period I mentioned, numerous exciting stories could be told about a younger Indiana Jones as he establishes his excellent and famous reputation, which people would love to see depicted in movies.  However, those movies would require directors, producers, and musical talent as passionate about making the movies as were Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and John Williams, originally.  Disney thought they would get away with a reboot of Star Wars by ignoring the story canon and essentially retelling A New Hope with The Force Awakens, and people have never forgiven them for it.  They might have made some short-term cash, but they destroyed the brand, and that has cost Disney a lot.  

This is important because the character of Indiana Jones has likely been the single most valuable narrative device that has advanced the arts and sciences in the world today.  There are many people who have become scientists because of Indiana Jones and the inspiration they received from him as children, which has been very beneficial.  The value of the Indiana Jones property lies in this social motivation.  And unless Disney respects that sentiment, it will harm them in very detrimental ways, and erode the character it currently holds socially.  Indiana Jones is more than just Harrison Ford, and unless a new production is presented with the same level of commitment as those original films were, it will be rejected at the box office, just as the Star Wars movies have been.  There is an arrogance that comes from the consultant class in society, who often con their way into the motion picture studios, never figuring these things out.  And those are the voices at Disney who think they could make a movie as good as the originals were, without understanding the social consequences of destroying the public’s love of the property.   The Indiana Jones timeline is unique in that it spans from his infancy in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles to his portrayal by a 93-94-year-old man with an eye patch.  Within that timeline, there is room to make movies just as exciting as Temple of Doom and Raiders of the Lost Ark, if the stories deal with the post-college years.  However, suppose they recast and retell the stories for modern audiences with music by different composers, cinematography that fails to capture the spirit, and scripts that don’t adhere to the formula. In that case, the project will be a disaster.

I think Disney should leave it all alone and let it be what it is.  They’ll make more money off Indiana Jones if they allow it to stay valuable in people’s consciousness.  However, Disney is not filled with creative people; it is essentially run by consultants who choose to live by copying what they think is successful and trying to pass it off as their own.  And it never works well, and it certainly won’t work with Indiana Jones.  So, with all the talk about Disney developing another actor to play Indiana Jones in a new movie, I would advise them to proceed with great caution.  I’d see the film if they were respectful to the established timeline.  But if they want to put a minority character in the role instead of a white guy, and change elements of Indiana Jones for a more modern audience, then it will be a disaster.  And I’m only writing this now in the hope of keeping them from making that big mistake.  But I don’t have much faith that they’ll listen, and will destroy this as they have so many other things in life, and the impact of that in the world is very significant. It matters more than people think it does; we’re talking about the way that humans create reality for themselves through story and narrative devices, and Indiana Jones emerged as a necessity for human consciousness that was more than entertaining.  Disney has been warned, so we’ll see what they do.  I’d like to see it work.  I think there is an actor out there who could carry the torch of Indiana Jones during an exciting period that audiences would accept.  However, short of that, it would be best to leave it alone, as the social impact of changing the value with new content would be devastating in ways that most people cannot measure.  What I have said is the only way that it could be done because all other methods would be very destructive and unnecessary. People are pretty forgiving as long as they know they can trust a story not to change on them. And that’s true with everything in life. People can come and go, but people want to know that the story stays the same.

Rich Hoffman

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What Was The Point of the P Diddy Trial: Hiding a pornographic society in plain sight

The purpose of the P Diddy trial was not to pursue justice; it was to frustrate future prosecutors into case law that would make it so more sex trafficking cases cannot be brought to trial.  The graphic testimony shown all over the world in such bizarre ways was meant to normalize the conduct, not to put Sean Diddy Combs in jail as one of the most popular music moguls in Hollywood.  His lifestyle, as overly sexualized as it was, was complete with excessively pornographic freak-off parties of multiple sex partner actions that were as bad as it could get.  As this trial came to an end with P Diddy being found guilty on the utilization of prostitution charges, and not the more serious charges of sex trafficking under RICO statutes, a lot of people are upset that the Trump administration has not released and thrown in jail the participants of Epstein Island and the client list that we were all told there was, only for Kash Patel to come out and say that there was nothing there.  People are getting tired of not getting justice for these bizarre sex practices that have behind them elements of mass collectivism that leads to political activity centering on socialism and communism, the desecration of individuals and the sacrifice of the human temple to the malevolent joy of a spirit world that wants to deface the human race for its strategic ambitions.  The problem is, these sex freak-offs are not unusual to P Diddy, but most people want to participate in them in some way.  It’s just that Diddy had the means to do it, financially.  And ultimately, the way that Jim Comey’s daughter prosecuted the case kept many of the other people who attended Diddy’s parties a secret.  As the trial unfolded, we were warmed to the idea that Diddy is just one of many, and his lifestyle is just the tip of the iceberg. 

There is no way that the prosecution didn’t know that Cassie Ventura wasn’t a willing participant in the P Diddy freak-offs as his long-time girlfriend.  As a pregnant woman, she might have regretted some of what she did while in her relationship with Diddy, but as the testimony came forward, we are dealing with people with severe sex addictions and pornographic obsessions that are the type of people you see on the red carpet at celebrity events.  There was a voyeurism to the trial that Emily Johnson, Maurene Comey and Christy Slavik, the U.S. Attorneys from the Southern District of New York wanted the public to see not for the reasons of prosecution, but to signal that it is pointless to prosecute cases like this because all the participants were willing, and in this highly pornographic world, the standard of ethical behavior has entirely fallen over the edge.  And we are left with a world that cannot make any moral judgements on the behavior, because they either want to be doing the same thing in their private lives, or they are doing it. I know quite a few prosecutors so I have a pretty good understanding of how they form a case, and from that point of view, these federal prosecutors were not trying to throw Diddy in jail for his destructive pornographic lifestyle, but were trying to show what a waste of money it all was and how pointless.  It’s not that the utilization of sex workers to satisfy pornographic fantasies isn’t against the law, but what does it cost to throw those people in jail, and does any prosecutor out there want a loss on their record?  Because prosecutors prefer not to take cases to court where they might lose.  They want to build their careers with wins, not losses.  And many might say that people like P Diddy should be in jail for what he did and be punished with the death penalty.  In truth, most of the people judging the circumstances want to do the same things in their lives, so prosecutors aren’t going to sign up for a loss that nobody cares about. 

All through the trial, I kept thinking of the Lakota school superintendent a few years ago who got caught trafficking his wife on Craigslist while they were out of town attending music concerts.  I got to know her and her new husband, and she expressed a lot of regret for allowing herself to be in that kind of life.  In the context of a healthy relationship, only then do they see it in the rearview mirror, as with Cassy, who, as a young woman in Hollywood, tried to please her man by doing anything to get the work and attention she craved.  But then you end up with a husband, or serious boyfriend who has a serious porn addiction and wants to live out those events in real life and things fly off the rails quickly, because he had an important job in a large school district that is supposed to be teaching kids how to live good lives.  People were appalled to discover the kind of private life he led as a public figure.  The problem with that case was that too many people were doing the same thing, or they were thinking about doing the same thing, so they lost their moral judgment, and that has always been the intention to make pornography so readily available on the government-provided internet.  There is a whole mass of ritualistic components to it that could fill volumes of books.  However, for this topic, we must study its impact on the human race and how it emerges in mass society, as seen in the Sean Diddy Combs trial.

In the wake of the Diddy trial, for which he was found guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, but acquitted on three more serious charges of racketeering and conspiracy, trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion.  There is a greater evil at work here, including the DEI hires as prosecutors, knowing that the Racketeer Influenced and corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) would fall apart once it was realized that many of the participants did so on their own, they volunteered, and that the case would fall apart as it was presented.  If the prosecutors didn’t know that would happen, then the Federal government purposely put female prosecutors in place to fail, allowing for the continued social standards. The entire trial seemed to be hiding something much worse. People have been saying, ‘What about Jay-Z and Tom Hanks’ as there are lots of rumors that surround people doing far worse than what P. Diddy was doing?  And that the federal prosecutors raided him to make an example out of his life, to draw cover fire from much worse cases.  Sometimes, the way to hide something is to put it on full display, so people overload on the information and, in the end, shrug their shoulders and talk about what a waste of money it all was.  Because most of the people watching the trial are thinking about doing the same things that Diddy did, to live out their porn fantasies allowing for the spread and continuation of those lifestyles, instead of the eradication of them.  And ultimately, that appears to be the purpose of the entire case: to deter future prosecutors from making such judgments, so that the spread of evil can continue to erode the human race in ways more destructive than many other crimes.  And to confront that, people have to face themselves in ways they aren’t quite ready. 

Rich Hoffman

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Elon Musk’s America Party: Democrats will never recover, Republicans will thrive

You can imagine how it was for Elon Musk. Many believe that he was befriending President Trump to ensure the future of electric cars. However, once Tesla suffered a significant loss in market share because Musk was associated with MAGA, the shareholders became very concerned.  Then, when the Big Beautiful Bill came out, it seemed as though Musk had not influenced Trump at all.  Musk has been a Democrat for years and has even called himself a socialist.  So all this MAGA stuff was new to him, and he was losing employees at his companies because of his political affiliation.  So I understand Musk’s need to distance himself from Trump because it was hurting his companies, and the fun wore off.  I do think he was sincerely a MAGA supporter, but the DOGE effort was much more difficult, and the government spending was much worse than he understood it to be. The criticism that there wasn’t a trillion dollars in savings found in those first couple of months was something he couldn’t deal with.  Tesla dealerships were being bombed by radical Democrats, people who had formerly supported Musk. Not that he felt Trump had abandoned him on the EV mandate.   From his point of view, it was all for nothing, and he lost billions of dollars in the process, with the added consequence of losing market share in his brand.  However, the EV car mandate was never going to be implemented during the Trump administration, and the critics of Musk were never going to let him live it down.  I understand his anger; it costs a lot of money to have values in the world, and that is a price that Musk just isn’t willing to pay.  He was a converted personality who moved from Democrat to MAGA.  So, none of this fighting is in his soul.  And when things got rough, he wavered. 

But with all this fear of a third party being created and that it’s going to rot out the Republican Party, that’s not how it is.  Elon Musk’s America Party is likely to turn out to be another DOGE, an ambitious project that has a lot more political reality to it than will ultimately work in his favor.  The Republican Party has already gone through a renovation period, and it is now the MAGA Party, and that’s how it’s going to emerge over these next four years.  It’s the Democrats that have the problems, and they are now going through what the Republican Party went through during the last thirty years.  I remember it well because I was part of that change in the Republican Party and I can say with confidence that Musk’s America Party will split the Democrat Party in two, and even then, many will not join because their lives will be so good under President Trump, that it will stay a fringe effort that never really gets much traction.  When George H.W. Bush was in the White House, right after Reagan, he wasn’t very effective, and the Reform Party started as a response under Ross Perot.  And I was one of the very first members, and I had a front row seat to how it formed.  And over the next decade, people like Pat Buchanan and Donald Trump joined the party to try to run as kind of independent candidates alongside mainstream Republicans.  As a result, Democrats had a period where they won majorities because Republicans were splitting their votes. 

The Reform Party evolved into the Tea Party, and again, mainstream Republicans attempted to co-opt them and pull them back into the mainstream.  However, it didn’t work, and that effort evolved into the MAGA party with Trump’s announcement that he would run for president in 2015.  And we know how hard that has been.  Up until a few months ago, it was a death blow socially to admit that anybody supported President Trump.  It wasn’t easy, and then some.  So these political parties are not for the faint of heart.  I remember in just the last election, the RINO label hung heavy on mainstream politicians, and most of them have been pushed out of office, people like Thom Tillis and Mitch McConnell, people who used to be political heavyweights, but were washed away by the tide.   Instead, you can see the kind of misfits who are talking about joining Musk in the America Party, people like Mark Cuban and Anthony Scaramucci, all former Trump rejects.  The next thing we’ll hear is that Omarosa is going to join, too, and perhaps even Stormy Daniels.  Putin might be next, and maybe the former country of Iran.  What the America Party is going to look like is the island of misfit toys who have fallen out of Trump’s orbit and are upset about it.  It will turn out to be the crybaby party and will run out of steam relatively quickly as everyone involved realizes how hard it is to accomplish these things.  I used to spend time with the Perot family during the early days of the Reform Party, and let me say, even brilliant people underestimate how difficult it is to beat the two-party system.  Because two parties emerge for a reason, by mathematical necessity, not sentiment, you could have in America many parties, as they do in Europe and elsewhere, but the problem is, nobody ever wins a majority, and those experiments usually fall apart quickly.

But when Musk’s America Party splits the Democrats in two and harms them much more than it will the Republicans, people in the MAGA movement will see the distinct benefit.  As I have been saying, if Trump can get election reform to prevent cheating, Democrats may have a hard time winning everywhere, because they have been counting on election fraud just to stay close for decades.  So I say let Musk have his America Party and bleed away Democrats.  Because the Democrats are destroyed right now as they are turning hard left toward open communism and socialism, they were always Marxist oriented, and now many of them are without a Party, and they aren’t happy about it.  And Musk is one of them.  It was fun to be “Dark MAGA” until he realized the cost of that, and for many people, it’s just too great a burden day to day.  It might be fun during elections, but politics is a rough life, and Musk will find that it takes more than an engineer’s mind to solve the problems, because they are primarily psychological.  I think the America Party, with MAGA, will only get stronger, and there will be greater majorities in Congress during the midterms.  So I think it would be a healthy exercise for the former Democrats to explore, let them fight it out between socialism and communism, and show the world what they have always been.  It won’t be MAGA Republicans who peel away, and the RINOs will stay where the tax burdens are least.  They won’t be joining Musk.  It will only be those who are already considered Democrats, as Musk has been.  His self-interest drove his conversion to the Republican Party, and it didn’t work out the way he had hoped.  So he was always at best a fair-weather fan.  And the creation of another political party only hurts Democrats.  I don’t care what the polling says, because they don’t know how to ask the right questions yet.  This is a new political climate, and the old models are not adequate measures.  With the creation of the America Party, it will destroy the Democrat Party and will leave many little disjointed parties grabbing for power for decades.  By then, Elon Musk will be living on Mars, and history will be blaming him for destroying what was left of the Democrats, because they will never recover. 


Rich Hoffman

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President Trump is the Greatest of all Time: There will never be anyone like him again

Of course, it’s time to talk about Trump as the greatest president in the history of the world.  Just in the first six months of his second term, he could be said to be much better than George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, and he still has a long way to go.  We can have a reverence for the past all we want, but let’s face it, we are living history here.  The way Trump handled the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill was jaw-droppingly excellent. There are so many good things in it that would have never made it through the legislative process except by his mass attack and all-night long whipping of votes.  For instance, if taken on its own, just the School Choice provision would have brought Washington, D.C., to its knees with a stalemate, as the teacher unions would have shut the city down with protests.  The Bill, as guided by Trump, includes a federal tax credit scholarship program known as the Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA), which incentivizes donations to scholarship-granting organizations to cover expenses such as private school tuition, tutoring, and educational materials for K-12 students.  This breaks loose the control that starts the process of connecting money to the child, not the school, and it’s going to ruffle some feathers.  But that is quite a healthy thing.  And after all the work it took to pass the Big Beautiful Bill and to sign it on the Fourth of July under a military fly over, Trump said to the audience with the seriousness only he could pull off that while visiting Steve Scalise in the hospital as a Democrat assassin had shot him at a baseball game, that he could tell that his wife loved him.  Because a lot of times, women wouldn’t be so sad that they were about to lose their husbands.  What a very true statement, and said in such a lofty moment, it was something uniquely American, and that only Trump could have pulled off. 

There are plenty of reasons to point to Trump and make the case for why he is now the greatest President America has ever had, and he still has three more years to do a lot more.  It will come down to how he pulled off the Big Beautiful Bill passage, even the approach with mass to overwhelm any opposition to it.  It was essentially the opposite of Obamacare, establishing a clear cut in revenue that the government has in the form of taxation.  The most effective way to compel the government to reduce its spending is to eliminate the revenue sources it uses to abuse its power.  Trump is currently discussing the removal of federal taxation on private property, which is sparking a similar discussion in the states.  I know that in Ohio, it is getting elevated attention.  So, with tax cuts, and that is what the Big Beautiful Bill does best, it made the Trump tax cuts permanent. It has No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, and loads of other tax-cutting incentives that are quite remarkable on their own.  But to be in one big piece of legislation and to see it pass the House, the Senate, then come back to the House for final passage just a day before the target of the Fourth of July, to be signed on that day was astonishing.  Of course, the Senate did a wrap-around from K-Street lobbyists that tossed in some extra garbage, knowing that time was of the essence, but Trump didn’t let that stop the momentum.  He addressed the concerns of House members regarding the Bill as presented by the Senate and made deals with them to secure their support.  And he worked the phones all night.

I didn’t sleep at all that night as the House ran through a procedural vote to see if they had the votes.  I had C-SPAN on in the living room, talk radio on in the garage, and all my computers were streaming commentary from various news reporting methods that were covering the story in real-time.  It was a remarkably positive experience, more so than we typically think of in government of any kind.  Trump didn’t just sit back and take a passive role; he worked harder than anybody I’ve ever seen in legislative endeavors to get his key campaign promises passed in an epic push to meet the July deadline.  Most everyone else would have done their part, then resided in the background, only to see their deadline slip and linger into July. They would have likely seen the legislation die by a thousand cuts, and it would have never passed.  That’s why big things like this seldom ever happen.  All the typical momentum killers were paralyzed from advancing doubt, and history will never forget how Trump handled the process of passing his Big Beautiful Bill.  More than anything, I think Trump set the stage for Republicans to win massively in the midterms.  Usually, that’s the period in every presidency that the other political side gets a chance by the public to see if they can do any better, because nothing ever really happens.  However, with Trump, he has already accomplished some significant things, and those tax cuts are poised to jump-start the economy in ways that most people have yet to understand fully.  And that momentum will not be stopped.

However, the most remarkable thing about Trump is that he did not make it all about himself; he built a team of people around him.  At the signing ceremony at the White House, he had most of the key members of the House and Senate in attendance to be part of that historic process.  Trump did more than pass a bill; he gave Republicans a win that they had never achieved before in their long history.  It was more than just passing legislation; it was about making Republicans part of the winning team that Americans of all political backgrounds will appreciate and want more of.  Democrats, with all their radical efforts, could not stop anything Trump was trying to do, making this BBB legislation one of the most unique in all of human history, going back to the societies of Greek and Roman cultures.  There has never been a President or world leader like Trump who didn’t collapse under their weight, yet has improved significantly with age and pressure. What we have now is mind-bending historically, and the ramifications will be long-lasting and far into the future.  For many hundreds of years, people will continue to talk about how great Trump was and how he was the best president of all time.  And we may never see another like him.  But you know what’s best, he isn’t even close to being done.  There is a lot more that he plans to do, and with the tremendous economic expansion that America will experience under his guidance, people will vote for anyone like him that they can get, which has changed politics forever.  And I couldn’t be happier about all of it.  I’ve known for a long time what his return to the White House would mean.  However, seeing it happen in real-time is an extraordinary piece of history.  The world will greatly benefit. 

Rich Hoffman

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What Zohran Mamdani Means in New York: Democrats were always open socialists, communists, and Marxists

The victimization role that Zohran Mamdani is trying to utilize against President Trump isn’t going to work.  I know many people are worried about Mamdani and that he is a sign of things to come, and he is.  But not in the way that people fear.  Zohran Kwame Mamdani is an American politician born on October 18, 1991, in Kampala, Uganda. He is a member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 36th district in Queens since 2021. He is a Democratic Socialist and a member of the Democratic Party. Mamdani won the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City in the 2025 primary, defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo. If elected, he would be the city’s first Muslim and Indian American mayor.  Trump is right to discuss arresting and deporting communists.  America has gone to war to fight communism, and when political people try to infuse communism into our political structure, they deserve the ridicule that they get.  Trump has no obligation to play nice with socialism and communism.  Mamdani is a Democrat who does not shy away from the socialist label, as most do, because he is making a move that Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez have paved the way for.  I’ve been talking about it for a long time. The communists, Marxists, and socialists in America reside behind the disguise of the Democrat Party, and it is built into their policy-making.  So knowing that, we have no obligation to play nice with them.  Democrats are not equal at the table in a capitalist country if socialism is what they are really about, which it is and always has been.  We cannot discuss with Democrats if that is what they are.  Those ideologies are just too far apart, and Trump is right to indicate playing rough with them.

I’m not surprised that Mamdani won a primary election.  I’m not sure he wins in the general election.  There are a lot of people in New York City who have considered themselves capitalists, but have adopted Democrat ideas to prove to their leftist friends that they are not mean people.  That argument is so “pre-Trump,” and it’s not going to work now for Mamdani.  The politics of meanness is over; it took our country to a place we didn’t want to go, and that fever broke during the summer of 2024 with that assassination attempt against Trump, and he stood up and pumped his fist in the air, declaring we should all fight.  Before that, there were many people, perhaps most people, who loved capitalism, but they adopted elements of socialism to prove to left-leaning political types that they were not what they were being called.  Name-calling was a political tactic employed by the Democrat Party as it evolved into power.  And as long as it worked, they were going to keep doing it.  Mamdoni thinks that he is going to run a victimization campaign and that people will respond to him because they feel sorry for him.  And that’s not how all this is going to emerge.  Socialism is not going to make an open takeover of our political system.  Now that people are forced to see the Democrat Party for what it is, they will reject those political candidates.  And they won’t be able to win just because they are people of color, or that they are Muslim, or that they are nice-looking kids who can make TikTok videos.  Victimization politics have given us many miserable politicians, and we have learned a hard lesson that the Trump administration is giving us relief from.  And now that people know what they are picking, Democrats are going to get much different results than they have had in the past.

It’s not that people accepted Marxists, socialists, and communists.  But people did not like President Obama and his socialist behavior, sold to us by his skin color.  The kind of world that we have did not make people feel good.  That wasn’t a platform for success for Bernie Sanders, Cortez, and Mamdani to utilize in the future.  Instead, the same kind of Marxists are always there, but the Democrats lost their cover story.  So it’s much harder for them now.  Regionally, in places like New York, where high-density populations typically vote for Democrat ideas, these socialist candidates can perform well.  However, in general populations across the rest of the country, they won’t do well at all because people are no longer voting out of guilt.  Trump has shown people that they can vote for their self-interest and get much better results than voting for someone because they are Muslim.  Or a person of color.  Those are trends that are going out with the tide, not coming in.  And everything that Mamdani is saying assumes that the victimization politics is the wave of the future.  And that’s just not the case.  It is not advisable to base your political platform on the ability to win a vote simply because people feel sorry for you.  You want people to vote for you because you make them feel good about themselves.  And that is what Trump has unlocked in politics: the ability to vote for candidates because they want to achieve a better standard of living and solve real problems.  Not because they feel guilty about slavery or economic inequality.  And in the end, in New York, it’s a capitalist town that has had an identity crisis, finding more confidence in itself with Trump in the White House. 

Keep in mind that we have been teaching kids socialism in public schools for more than three decades now, so people have wide-ranging feelings on the topic.  What a teacher’s union-controlled socialist sentiment has taught them does not represent their instincts toward self-interest.  I am often stunned by how uninformed people can be, not because they are unintelligent. Still, when you talk to them, you get to hear such contrasts in their behavior that the totality of their utterances evolves into substandard assumptions. They don’t know what they think about anything, nor do they have the confidence to articulate their thoughts publicly, because they have been taught in school to suppress their opinions.  Not to express them, but to advance socialist enterprises in America.  But for anybody who wants a house, or a car, or a family, socialism is the enemy to those things, and people have a natural revulsion to anything that might prevent happiness along those lines.  So, even if they are taught socialism, their instincts often run counter to it. In America, where people have a perpetual choice, they will not choose the limits of Marxism and its umbrella political ideas, such as socialism and communism.  They have picked Trump once the peer pressure was cast away, and they were alone in the voting booth.  And that is how it will be in New York as well as the rest of the country.  The trend is not moving toward socialism, but rather away from it, as we consider that the schools have failed us.  And we aren’t happy about it.  And Zohran Mamdani might be good at TikTok videos that all but the most naive suckers enjoy. Still, when it comes to economic policy, people have learned many hard lessons from the mistakes of the Obama administration. They don’t want them in the future of politics, so while some might be shocked that a socialist beat a mainstreamer in a primary election, they shouldn’t be, because socialism is where the Democrat Party is.  But it’s not where the rest of the country is.  Republicans are poised to win by even larger margins because people are finally feeling free to express themselves more openly, and that doesn’t do well for politicians like Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani. 

Rich Hoffman

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Lakota Wants A Half A Billion Dollar Tax Increase: All the schools they want to destroy, and rebuild with wasted money–VOTE HELL NO!

This is what you get when you have liberals on a school board. Lakota Schools has decided to put two levies on the ballot in November, totaling half a billion dollars, which will cost most taxpayers at least $465.5 in property taxes.  They are stating that the combined $4.99 million bond issue will have a $0.95 million permanent improvement tax added to it, which will cost around $93.10 per $100,000 of home evaluation, providing $ 506.40 million to be repaid over 37 years.  And all that sounds wonderful until you realize that we’ve heard this all before, such as when the Liberty Junior building was proposed and built back in 1980, and is scheduled as one of the ten schools they want to demolish with this tax increase.  New school buildings can’t hide the fact that the people teaching in them and running them have no idea what they are doing, and that radical teacher union values are what are being taught to these generations of kids.  And, as with these school levies, which have been a while since we’ve had one at Lakota, I will be voting not just ‘no,’ but a resounding ‘hell no’ on this ridiculous proposal.  What it essentially comes down to is a bunch of liberal women on a school board who believe that new shoes worn to a social occasion can make lipstick on a swine look better.  Hey, nobody is looking at your shoes, if you’ve let yourself go, and all these school board members are just that type, new clothes can’t hide what disasters they are to social considerations.  And I say four ladies because Doug Horton acts like one of them, and given the way these big progressive organizations hire people like him, I would not be surprised to learn that he puts she/her as his listed pronouns.  This Lakota school board is a very progressive group, and they all believe that cosmetics can hide the fundamental flaws of the education system in general.

These are the schools Lakota is planning to tear down

They believe that this is the time to do this; they have wanted to for a long time, and we have held it off in our community by having at least a reasonable stopgap on the school board.  For the last couple of years, we (conservatives) had a three-to-two majority.  But the way that everyone behaved, the radical leftists in the background, there was no way to keep conservative members on the board.  When Darbi Boddy was no longer there, any hope of reform on spending vanished.  The idea that the Republican Party could at least appease the radicals with some playing nice was a fantasy.  Before they ran Darbi off, they ran off other conservatives with just as much viciousness.  I determined several years ago that the Lakota school board was beyond hope, and the best course of action was to let them reveal themselves to the community as they are, which is precisely what they are doing.  Talk about bad judgment, the people suggesting that new school buildings will solve their education problems of teaching students are the same people who are well known to strip on table tops at education conventions and end up passed out without their clothes in the bathroom.  So, when I say that for these very pretentious people, who look like people who have let themselves go, and believe that a new outfit worn to a social occasion will keep people from seeing what they are, that is the logic behind this ridiculous half a billion dollar monstrosity.  If it weren’t so outrageously absurd, we might laugh at it, but they are serious. 

Republicans played nice with these radical people as long as they could, and that has largely kept a tax increase off the ballot since 2012.  Declining enrollment has kept the budget afloat, and the wages reflect it, with a majority of the administrators and many of the Lakota teachers earning well into the six figures these days.  Their operating budget is approximately a quarter of a billion dollars, so these failing schools are a real drain on our community.  They are centers of government progressive imposition that are trending out of our society.  These four school board members have been advocates for same sex bathrooms and Critical Race Theory.  They ran off Darbi, who was doing a good job of pointing out those big problems, and a lot of people didn’t like that she wouldn’t play nice to keep Lakota’s board from going completely liberal, as it is now.  However, in the process, they were dragging our community into the gutter, and we needed to take a stand at some point. This levy is it.  I think it’s a 58% to 42% issue, with the majority aligning with the conservative nature of Butler County.  They believe that enough liberal-minded people have moved in from other areas to shift the vote total to something more even, with 50% for them and 49.9% against tax increases.  I don’t think so; I think they live in a social bubble and believe that Lakota residents are all at Cooper’s Hawk at Liberty Center, sipping wine with their pinkies out.  I think the real voters are actually watching the latest Trump speech and are waiting for Vivek Ramaswamy to be governor and to bring School Choice to Ohio on a mass level.  And to create a merit-based teaching system.  Never forget that School Choice was in the Big Beautiful Bill, as I had told everyone it would be.  Lakota is way behind the times, and it shows with this ridiculous levy initiative. 

I remember when Liberty Junior was proposed as the latest technology-driven school back in 1980, when it was built.  It was one of the first schools in the area to have air conditioning.  While that was 45 years ago, it’s still a nice school and could easily be used in a competitive school environment where Lakota will have to compete with other districts for students to attend, as the dollars will not be allocated to the school, but to the child.  By the time these people build the new schools after tearing down the old ones, education in America is likely to change dramatically under Trump’s administration, and with Vivek Ramaswamy as governor of Ohio.  And regarding Liberty Junior, many people attended that school, but nobody exceptional emerged from all that social investment.  It produced average people who grew up to be average, and I think Butler County wants more than that for the next generation.  That’s why they supported Trump.  And that’s why a lot more people these days are saying what I have been saying about education for decades, that government schools don’t do a very good job.  And we don’t like them leeching off our property taxes to instill social values in our kids that we don’t like.  And the people making these decisions aren’t very good.  They live their personal lives as disasters who try to hide that from the public, like an ugly person wearing new shoes to a party.  You can have a whole closet full of new shoes, and those people will never look as good in them as a runway model.  New schools won’t make the ugliness of a failed union model go away, and the bad people who support that structure, as their social conduct well testifies, can’t hide it from the world with more money wasted.  And yes, the cost to the average homeowner in Liberty Township will be $ 465.50 because most homes are valued at $ 500,000.  A little detail that Michael Clark at the Journal News, Julie Shaffer’s lapdog for many years, ignores when he says that the value of a house is still at the 100K range.  You can’t have a doghouse in Liberty Township or West Chester these days for $100,000.  This is an expensive levy for a failing school system, created by failed people who are trying to hide their horrible lives behind innocent children with new and shiny schools, hoping to tear down the mistakes of the past with bricks and mortar that is a lot easier than replacing the garbage that they are. You can’t put lipstick on a swine and expect it not to be a pig, which is precisely what Lakota schools hopes to do with this massive tax increase, unleashed by their tone-deaf grasp on reality.

And just for an update on what former Lakota School Board member Darbi Boddy is doing these days.  Well, I would say she is doing better work for the future than wasting it on that ridiculous school board that is run by the teachers’ union of Lakota, and all their outrageous costs and social desires.  Darbi has been at Mar-a-Lago spending time, doing important things, that will be revealed in this change state for education.  She is also associating with a very good person, Sam Sarbo in promoting educational freedom and school choice.  I would say that Darbi will play a very important role in the future education of Ohio, in a much more potent role than what she ever could have done on the Lakota school board. And very soon, the Lakota board will wish they hadn’t ran off their cover story and exposed themselves in the way they will experience with this school levy.  We tried to warn them.

Rich Hoffman

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