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Trouble With Reservations: How the Biden administration created a national labor crises

This was a hectic Holiday season for me, with many more social engagements than usual.  It’s usually pretty busy, but something happened this year that I have never seen before, and that is I had much trouble booking reservations for dinner engagements, which was very strange.   Because I am usually busy with this kind of thing during November and December, I have a base to say that this year differs from other years.  And that the occurrences were higher than usual indicates that statistically, we’re not dealing with an accident here, but statistical certainty.  But out of the 20 dinners I was involved in over the Holiday season, I had trouble with reservations on 18 of them.  This means that, on the first attempt, the restaurant I was trying to book for a holiday party for social engagements would not accept the reservation due to competing holiday celebrations.  I would have to make a few calls, and in all the cases, I could get a hold of somebody to overcome the apprehension.  But with that process, I also received an explanation that ticked me off.  It’s a trend toward the negative that I have been pointing out to everyone over these last few years, coming out of all the dumb COVID protocols.  That globalist poison attacked our American workforce, and now, under four years of Joe Biden, the impact on the average American worker has destroyed them to such a degree that it was showing up in restaurants and how they staff and handle their employees regarding pressure.  In all 18 cases I mentioned, the general managers explained that they were having difficulty staffing their businesses, especially their kitchens, and were very concerned about overloading them because they were afraid they might quit. 

My idea of a great restaurant is Gordan Ramsey’s signature restaurant in Chelsea, England, just to the south of London along the river.  There are a few great places in the world that I also think about regarding top-tier food.  A steakhouse in Kobe, Japan that specializes in Kobe steak, which is fantastic on every bar you measure.  But that 3 Michelin Star Chef Ramsey place in London is, I think, about as good as it gets.  They know how to prepare food and treat a customer.  And it is hard to make a reservation there.  They purposely have a tiny dining room because they are concerned about the high food quality.  It is an excellent experience if you ever get a chance to go, and it’s costly but well worth the money.  When I was there, they toured me through the kitchen, and I could see how things work behind the scenes, and it was all top-notch.  The workforce was clean, engaged, organized, and efficient.  I can say that I’ve seen the best in the world and understand what it takes to be that way.  That was why I could call shenanigans to many of these local managers in the Cincinnati area when they tried to tell me that they were hesitant to book reservations for fear that their staff might be overworked and start delivering poor food quality.  That was the case in one particularly dumb explanation: a very nice restaurant on the Ohio River overlooking downtown Cincinnati was almost empty on the night that I wanted to entertain guests, yet they were concerned about booking my reservation for more than 20 because they had during that same hour a party of 15 and a party of 10.   

After further probing, I got to the heart of the matter: many people who work in restaurant kitchens doing fine food have become very sensitive to pressure under the Biden administration and the COVID protocols that never disappeared.  While high-quality restaurants were able to hire those kinds of people, their ability to handle stress is much lower than they were just a few years ago, and if pressured in an environment where the demands were intense, these employees were prone to walk off the job rather than fight through the pressure.  So managers of nice restaurants were doing their best to keep that pressure off their kitchens in a rock, paper, scissors game of at least keeping the food quality high, even if it meant a loss of sales at the door.  Cincinnati and areas around the city, especially up in West Chester and Liberty Township, have restaurants that are as good as anywhere in the world, so I understand wanting to keep those high food quality standards by taking the pressure off the kitchen staff.  But the kitchen staff shouldn’t be such crybabies, either.  This was a big problem in my eyes because it’s not just restaurants; this is a major domestic service problem that is the direct result of bad government management by introducing minimum wage increases that were not market-driven and creating workforce shortages with government talk of universal wages and work from home policies of virus management introduced by socialist health departments.  It had taken a few years to get there, but the Biden administration policies had shown up in the reservation systems of high-quality restaurants. The artificial constraint of employees had impacted their businesses to the point where they couldn’t plan to maximize their dining room seating to maximum effect because their staff had become soft and unable to manage high amounts of stress. 

Knowing all this and keeping the managers happy with their dilemma, my approach was to let everyone take two or three hours for dinner so that the kitchens didn’t get stressed out too much and to allow the food quality to be reduced.  My logic to the managers is that they’ll make more money letting their guests wait for the food and buying appetizers and drinks than in trying to pace everything to the artificial constraint of the kitchen staff that was trying to figure out if they’d work that night or call off to play Call of Duty.  If employees are getting paid anyway, why would they work harder?  That is what happens when you take away incentives from the American worker to do more and to do it faster.  Most of these restaurants in Cincinnati are built for speed and large crowds.  This is not like Chef Ramsey’s restaurant in England, which had a purposely small dining room.  The places I was going to were meant to fill every seat, and if they could fit in a reservation, they could book it and keep their dining rooms full.  They needed to push their kitchens to perform.  However, “push” became a bad name under the Biden administration.  Employees have become radicalized and are “pushing back” by saying that they need an emotional safety animal to manage stress so they don’t cry when the pressure becomes too great for them.  The way I think, this is a national security issue.  You don’t see this from workforces when I travel around Asia.  They work hard. In the West, workers don’t work hard anymore, a change from just a few years ago.  Like I said, I do this kind of thing every year.  This year was the first time that I had reservations turned down on nights when the dining rooms were mostly empty, but the managers were purposefully trying to keep the pressure off their kitchens because their employees had become emotionally soft after four years of the Biden administration, and globalism employment practices in general.  And it’s certainly something we need to address as a nation.

Rich Hoffman

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Elon Musk the Reporter: Free speech will destroy tryanny every time

I figured it out long ago, and Elon Musk can now do it at a much larger level.  Free speech and citizen journalism are tremendously powerful tools and are the key ingredients to a prosperous society.  If left alone, in most cases, people in collective masses become corrupt and dangerous.  So all this anger toward Elon Musk is understandable, for the way he expressed himself during the budget battle in Congress over the continuing resolution that started at over 1500 pages and ended up being just a few hundred by the time it was all said and done.  I explained to everyone that this was how D.O.G.E. would be effective.  They didn’t need to have an office somewhere where they stamped approval in some bureaucratic way, like everything else in government.  No, D.O.G.E. initiated by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would be more like reporters, doing the job the media should have been doing all along.  And because Musk bought Twitter and turned it from a three-lettered mind control device into a platform of free speech where he has over 200 million direct followers, a lot of this has caught the radical left and deep state establishment figures off guard.  No, they will not be able to control any of this.  They lost their power long ago and were only propped up by legacy media looking to do their dirty work.  But free speech was always the key to our personal Constitution in the United States, and it has been the killer of globalism for many decades now.  All people needed to do was figure out how powerful their opinions were.  This is why I put so much work into my own efforts; it has worked for many years and made things better where they otherwise would languish in obscurity. 

I used to participate in a lot of media, write for newspapers, and appear on television.  I did a lot of radio.  I was even in a few movies.  So, I understand the entertainment culture and news broadcasting that most people use to interact with information very well.  I am that guy who used to show up and give speeches at public gatherings, especially at school boards.  And there was just something wrong with speaking to people who gave you only 3 minutes to speak.  Newspapers would only give me 250 words to make my point.  Radio would only put you on for around a 15-minute segment.  Millions of people heard it, but the information was often lost to people before the next segment started.  I learned a long time ago because I saw how things were cooking in the kitchen, and letting the bad guys determine how long you speak in public and how much you could write regarding news and opinion was wrong.  And it kept people from speaking freely to other people.  So, I gradually started my own blog site and launched this news and opinion effort that has been very effective for over fifteen years.  I learned what worked and didn’t, and I gradually stopped appearing on other people’s radio and television shows and just started doing my own where I could write as much as I wanted and say as much as I desired about anything and everything under the sun.  If you didn’t care about making money that other people would pay you for the work, then freedom would become the primary currency, and people would get different perspectives from what they previously didn’t have. 

When Elon Musk bought Twitter and converted himself out of political necessity away from a left-of-center globalist to a MAGA Republican who has been accused of either being one of Trump’s kids because they have become so close after the election of 2024 or the president himself, Musk bought a free speech platform that had been used to shape public opinion and turned it into something that reflected what people actually thought.  And what tyranny cannot live up to is public scrutiny.  So, in many ways, Elon Musk became much more potent than any figure on planet Earth, including the President of the United States, because he could evoke what people thought about something instead of limiting what they could see and hear in a way to push them into a thought process that reflected the values of institutionalism.  It was never going to work.  The crazy authority figures of the world should have known better and learned their hard lessons from the Berlin Wall and the many control mechanisms they have in China.  Free expression is a powerful weapon, which is why it’s the first of the Bill of Rights in the American Constitution.  And if you are Elon Musk thinking about how to have governments functioning properly on faraway planets so human civilization can thrive, we must solve this problem once and for all here on Earth, here and now.   We can’t allow tyrants to rule through limited knowledge and control over opinion.  And that’s how these crazy, debt-ridden CRs have been passed by our government for years.  They are full of garbage that nobody knows about and sold to the public with a gun to the head, saying essentially, “Pass this bill to get funding for cancer research by ignoring the funding of bio labs in Ukraine and all kinds of other dangerous stuff that the lobbyists have stuffed in there with goodies and corruption galore.” 

The power Elon Musk used in December of 2024 was not the power of a president or a government insider.  It was the power of opinion, and he was using free speech in the way it was designed to educate the public and let them make decisions about things themselves.  And for all that, the Beltway culture withered in pain over the CR debate.  And people haven’t seen anything yet for all the pain it caused.  This is precisely how D.O.G.E. is going to work.  It won’t be from policymakers and long meetings with peer review that government reform will be done.  It will report what is happening and build public pressure to reform through free speech.  I can report on this matter from my personal experience.  There is nothing that any of the bad guys can do about it.  They won’t be able to stand up to it, and they won’t be able to stop it.  Short of turning to violence themselves, which I have had to deal with myself on many occasions.  Once they realize that violence won’t get them what they want, it will make it much worse for them, and they will become very frustrated with the results, much like the way many reacted to Elon Musk during the CR negotiations in 2024.  Musk doesn’t need to be president.  All he needs to do is allow people to have an opinion on something and give them things to think about through his X social media platform.  So what happens next will be bewildering to many people.  But there is nothing they can do to stop it.  Free speech is the check on power that it was designed to be.  Unfortunately, in years past, too much free speech was controlled through various corporate controls directly connected to the political structure.  And that allowed bad guys to do bad things.  Well, not any longer.  That is why 2025 will differ significantly from any other historical period.  The debate over the 2024 continued resolution for congressional spending hasn’t seen anything yet.  And it’s about time!

Rich Hoffman

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Jesus and the Essenes: Regression theropy, past lives, extra planets and the slaughter of rebels

Sometimes, when you read as many books as I do, you run across some real treasures, and that was certainly the case with this old book by Dolores Cannon called Jesus and the Essenes.   It was written way back in 1992 and is considered a classic in New Age explorations, but I wanted to know more about the group that wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls and lived in a community at Qumran on the coast of the Dead Sea and hid their work in the caves once the Romans caught on to them and invaded to kill them all off for being such a threat to society—Roman society.  It was a case of cancel culture that took place in 70 AD and ended on the mountaintop fortress of Masada just a few miles down the sea, where the Essenes fled from the attacking Romans and were forced to commit suicide there before being captured by the authorities.  The Romans were putting down a Jewish revolt, and the Essenes were a radical offshoot who rebelled against the orthodox Jewish communities of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.  They were like the Tea Party of the modern Republican Party, which evolved into MAGA.  All the institutions at the time wanted to kill them off because of the threat they were to the natural order.  I like the Essenes for obvious reasons, and I wanted to learn more, so I read Delores’ book and was rather shocked by the contents.  The book’s point was to show archaeology differently, one that I think is explained by quantum entanglement, a field of study that still has a long way to go.  But Delores presented compelling evidence that she was communicating with a guy who was a member of the Essene community who taught John the Baptist and Jesus Christ at the magnificent library they had there at Qumran, which is what I was after.  And the results were quite remarkable. 

If you strip away the noise of the modern world and all the assumptions that people try to instruct upon your conscious mind for their own political and psychological motivations, we would all find that the way that Biblical characters interacted with the spirit world wasn’t so uncommon.  And that is what my conclusion was about the contents of Dolores Cannon’s fantastic journey and who she spoke with who were in some cases, long, long dead.  What is death anyway? Is it a measure of time, from a living form to one no longer confined to a body of physical embodiment?  Dolores Cannon is a regression hypnotist who was very good at her method.  Not everyone is receptive to it, but in the case of this book, Dolores ran into a young woman in her early 20s named Katie.  And Katie was a good subject for regressive hypnosis.  She seemed to have a personality that was much older than her body, and once Dolores got into her head over multiple sessions that went on for over a year, Dolores found that at least 26 different lives were living in this young woman, so it explained a lot of things regarding Katie’s personality.  I view the human body like a car; our souls drive those cars.  But there are sometimes other souls that ride in our vehicles and can take over if we don’t pay attention to what we are doing, or we give those souls the keys to our cars, and they do drive them.  I think that is a lot of what happens during intoxication when people you know act like people you have no idea who they become while drunk.  Through quantum entanglement, there are always competing spirits looking for a chance to take over and drive your car and we should be very cautious of them.  When someone brags that they were so drunk that they don’t remember what they were doing, there is likely more to it than just memory loss.

I would also say that some of the three lettered agencies, like the CIA, have figured out the political motives of some of these malicious characters, and they can inspire them to take over certain people and get the bodies of people to do whatever it is they want to be done.  However, in the case of this young Katie, who was given a name to hide her identity from her very religious parents, Dolores uncovered a lot of past lives living actively through the young lady.  Most of them were living boring, everyday lives without much going on.  Some of the personalities were men, some were women, and they lived at different times.  But one of the personalities turned out to be very fascinating.  His name was Suddi, and he was a teacher at the Essene community. Dolores talked directly to him during live time during many parts of his life through the host, Katie.  Sometimes, he was a young boy, an up-and-coming community member, and sometimes the teacher of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ.  And sometimes, he was already dead and speaking from beyond the grave.  I think Dolores presented her testimony in a way that showed a diligent scientific method.  This Suddi character could have just been some demonic spirit hanging around in quantum physics wanting to mess around with Dolores and Katie, playing games with them.  But I don’t think so because of the amount of work that was done. Instead, I think it’s another situation where science has to catch up to an observed reality.  And the information was interesting and valuable. 

For me, the biggest revelation was that Suddi described the library there at Qumran, which is a subject of significant fascination for me, and it turned out to be much more elaborate than archaeologists have so far been able to get their minds around.  It was a large two-story enterprise with a working model of the solar system, according to Suddi.  And it had ten planets in it, which Zacharia Sitchen has been saying for a long time.  This idea about extra planets in our solar system is a New Age consideration, just like the impact of astrology on the human mind and other out-of-the-box thinking about what’s expected.  But much of what Suddi described through his host, Katie, live time across thousands of years of perspective has been confirmed by archaeologists in a way that a 22-year-old girl would know nothing about.  So, I found it a fascinating testimony recorded in a remarkable book.  And I think there is a lot to learn from such a method of scientific inquiry and that it’s not such science fiction as many would like us to believe.  I think many powers on Earth have figured all this out and used it to attempt to control mass populations.  They can’t be trusted to use this emerging science destructively because only they have figured it out.  I think in her lifetime, Dolores Cannon broke some of this regression theory code and reported some interesting historical evidence that begins to open the door to quantum mechanics, especially the entanglement that can appear bizarre to our living eyes but make a lot of sense once you start looking at reality, differently.  But what a fascinating place Qumran was, and the role it seems to have played in the life of Jesus and the future of all human civilization through Christianity—no wonder the Romans wanted to kill them all off so severely.  But no matter how hard those forces work to do so, the spirit of rebellion always emerges to challenge the static order.  In modern times, it’s not the Essenes but the MAGA movement.  Only this time, I don’t think we will all be slaughtered on the mountaintop of Masada.  But the slaughter will be on the other foot, and it’s taken thousands of years to reach this point.  And continuously residing in the background are many rebels and rogues living in our cars (bodies) and influencing what happens on an eternal quest for freedom the way a soul wants it.  Not necessarily a living body.  Merry Christmas!

Rich Hoffman

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Democrats Tend to Be Bad With Money: The attempt to hide a lack of value behind chaos and emotion

One of the big takeaways when you meet people who have all kinds of psychological problems and tend to lean toward Democrat politics is that they are bad with money.  They don’t understand money, don’t like to talk about money, and tend to have a natural hatred toward people who do have money because of what money represents in the world.  Money is a measure of value; it’s what something means to someone else in an agreed-upon value of exchange.  Then naturally, those who don’t produce much value in the world or are insecure about that value and what people think of it resent money because it exposes them to all their insecurities.  That is why I say that the participants have problems in Democrat politics, which is why they are attracted to forms of collectivism to hide their lack of value from the world behind disguised altruism.  They are broken people who are otherwise detrimental to all existence.  And I don’t say all this to disparage people needlessly, but we have to understand why and how these people have moved into government employment and regulation.  As we move into talks about reducing government employment and the many millions on a government payroll who do too little and get paid way too much, at the heart of the problem is this problem of Democrat politics, the hatred of money, and the desperate effort to use collective services to hide their otherwise worthless, social traits.  Government expansion for the sake of social goalposts rather than the value of a job well done and work performed that people value and want.  The great fear many have about the efforts of D.O.G.E demanding, for instance, that people return to work after years of staying home and getting paid for it has at the heart of it this sense of entitlement that is expensive.  A person exists, and someone needs to pay them for that existence rather than earn their way through life for the value performed that people want.  This makes any government oversight a rejection of people who have decided to be worthless to the world because of their lack of productivity.

You see this kind of thing all the time in business these days, with woke politics and its attempts to embed itself into an American capitalist culture.  Hidden behind the complaints is a genuine desire to conceal their worthless nature.  Companies use money to measure value. In that case, it is that premise that liberalism has used through Democrat politics to hide useless behavior and attempt to disguise it as a value.  For the same reason that Joe Biden is working to sign protection for federal workers before he leaves office, allowing them to stay home under continued employment, by law, the same methodology has been applied to the world of business and attempting to attack profit and loss statements and replace those values with woke compliance.  Once that is the assumed value, all actions that relate to the measurement of money become irrelevant, and it’s not soon after that a company goes bankrupt.  Or at least performing poorly financially.  It has been stunning over these last few years because many of the money haters out there thought things were shifting in their direction to see how many open Marxists have emerged and how much they profess for more government regulation to impose their version of fairness upon the world, that ultimately means, to protect them from value judgments that are traditionally measured in money.  They want more government pay for less work done, and the gig only works if everything takes away the value of money to measure success and replaces those needs with woke politics. 

Karl Marx was always a money-hating despot who wrote his philosophy with an eye toward total social disruption.  And for people who question their value, Marxism gave them a home to hide in from the world in hopes that nobody would notice how lazy and stupid they were.  Karl Marx himself died a very broke person. The only reason his philosophy of communism and, overall, Marxism spread the way it did was that it was a weaponized idea that served the concept of centralized governments.  Over time, these ideas migrated into the human resource departments of most of our companies and their measurement policies of money.  As many scratched their heads about this activity, the attempt was to replace monetary value as a measurement of social compliance scores and to make dog-eat-dog capitalism subservient to fairness measurements imposed by the government for more government expansion.  And under that premise, of course, the government grew in uncomfortable ways and cost too much money to maintain because too many worthless participants were leeching off the system.  That has been my argument about public schools for years. Finally, more people are catching up to it, and we are now having honest conversations about it.  But it wasn’t always that way.  We were told to spend infinite amounts of money on public schools no matter the results because the measurement wasn’t in cash but in creating fairness in the world.  And from there, budgets ran out of control.  Most of the time, when you see a runaway budget, Democrat politics is looming in the background and is seeking to be subsidized by emotional measures to avoid monetary value.

Money has to be the measure to have a healthy relationship with the world.  And everyone should love money for the truth it reveals about people.  And we must have a government that honors and respects money as a measure of value. For instance, the Biden administration is purposely selling off portions of the border wall with Mexico out of spite because Trump is returning to the White House, and they want to make it hard for him to return to building the wall.  The wall itself is a statement of value that people crossing that border are moving from a Marxist government in Mexico to a capitalist government in America, and one is better than the other.  But Marxists want to hide that value measurement from the world with borderless sentiments so that people hopefully won’t notice.  That kind of policy ends up on P&L statements worldwide, slowly destroying everything in the background.  But at the heart of it is a hatred of money because it exposes bankrupt personalities from judgments cast upon them for their worthlessness.  Such people could be given millions of dollars, but they still waste it faster than they get it because they are bottomless pits of destructive personality traits that they attempt to hide from the world through government power and a change in how value is perceived.  In truth, there is only one way to measure value, and money is the agreement among the human race on how to express it across culture and social alliance.  Having a love of money because it measures shared value accurately is healthy and good.  And we must return to it for the good of a productive future.  And not fuel jealousy from those who don’t work hard to be good people and reside behind social policies that point to money as the villain when it’s the other way around.  

Rich Hoffman

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Kash Patel is the Only Way to Save the FBI: Power hungry, corrupt, and pretentious, government employees need checks on their authority

The FBI was a wasted effort for me a long time ago.  When it was announced that Kash Patel would be Trump’s nominee to direct it, I thought only he could do anything to save the institution from destruction.  After what they did to Trump and many of us over the last decade, there is no forgiving them for their government activism, and really, a terrible job done.  And it’s a problem that goes far beyond the FBI.  I know people who have been in the FBI, and their mentality is very similar to the kind of nonsense we saw with Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe when he was grilled in front of Congress recently over the terrible coverage of Trump during an assassination attempt.  To avoid criticism, he went on the attack and cited his coverage of 9/11 and tried to play the “Hammer Time” card, “can’t touch this” because I’m a patriot angle.  It was embarrassing, but it revealed the same kind of arrogance we saw from former FBI directors, such as James Comey.  When Trump fired Comey for many good reasons, I was part of a panel that CNN called to talk about it, and I remember the attitude of the time.  Here was Jim Comey, who had just let Hillary Clinton off criminal conviction for her abuse of a public office with her email scandal and destruction of evidence, who was spying on Trump’s campaign and going on a personal crusade to destroy General Flynn, because Trump’s people were new and didn’t know all the rules of conduct.  Comey inspired the FBI to go on a witch hunt against Trump that would go on for eight more years and personally attempt to destroy Trump in every way possible.  Comey led a coup against an American-picked president by a civilian government, and his attitude was just like Ronald Rowe’s.  I’m important.  I work for the government.  Don’t ever question me, or I will yell at you. 

Trump fired Comey for his actions against him and Flynn, and he put in a swamp creature to appease his critics, Christopher Wray, and the FBI only got worse.  Trump tried to play the game fairly, and the FBI, from top to bottom, had no intention of being fair back.  They had government power, and they were hell-bent to use it.  And if you questioned them, you might be next for harassment.  And that’s what the CNN producers told me after we shot a spot for Anderson Cooper in the parking lot after I said what I said on the air about Comey after the first year of Trump’s first term.  It was apparent to me what was going on.  This was an out-of-control FBI, and Trump had just fired Comey, and the question at the time was whether Trump could have, or should have done so, based on the evidence at that time.  I used my usual velvet hammer response to talk about essentially a problematic subject matter when they asked me on the air if Comey had lied about his activism against Trump.  I also said that Comey was more like the fiction writer Ian Flemming, the creator of James Bond.  There was more about Comey that was fiction than was factual.  And for that, the CNN people told me the FBI would target me for talking against them on national television.  Of course, I told them I didn’t care; there wasn’t much they could do to me that they hadn’t tried to do up to that point.  I didn’t arrive at my conclusions about Trump recently, but I had a lot of experience with the FBI leading up to that point, and I thought I was being very nice about it.  All things considered.

But since then, the FBI has led the efforts to destroy Trump and his members of the former White House, especially Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon, and Peter Navarro.  All of them were good men, and as I told everyone several years ago, Trump would put them back into his second term in the White House.  Fewer good people pursue justice than Rudy Giuliani, who was personally ruined by the Joe Biden White House.  Rudy had the now-famous laptop from Hell that had all the dirt on the Biden crime family, and the FBI tried to cover up that evidence with personal destruction against the guy who had the evidence.  I have watched the FBI many times over the years destroy evidence to drive a political narrative, and I have next to no trust in any of them at this point.  I always think of the Christmas shooting in San Bernadino by a radical Islamic couple as one of the worst examples in American history of an FBI coverup.  Right after the killings, and the couple who performed the acts of terrorism had just been killed, the FBI let the media into the couple’s apartment under cover of “full disclosure” and protecting the 1st Amendment.  But in reality, it was the purposeful destruction of a crime scene by letting the press ultimately contaminate the scene so nobody would learn anything about the terrorists.  I would say most of what the FBI does wrong is purposeful, such as not asking the following next layer questions when the terrorists of 9/11 wanted to learn how to fly planes from a Florida instructor, not to land them.  When you try to pin them down with criticism, they get all emotional and try to play a patriot card, just like that loser Ronald Rowe did.  They try to intimidate away criticism so nobody dares to question their lofty power in Washington, D.C. 

Kash Patel, who had the highest security clearance in government and was a great guy under Trump’s first administration, wrote the excellent book Government Gangsters and was all over the movie Police State.  I think the FBI, in its current form, is more dangerous than open terrorist organizations.  We would be better off without the CIA and FBI most of the time because they have become so corrupt and power-hungry.  Just reviewing the FISA warrant process that they abused against Trump shows the playbook they’d use against any of us to harass us over political disagreements.  Then, when they raided Mar-a-Lago in an attempt to knock off President Trump before he ever had a chance to return to the White House under a legitimate election, give me a break.  The FBI should be dismantled.   The only way to save it, and I mean the only way, is to put someone like Kash Patel in charge of it.  And the people who caused all this trouble don’t get a vote.  We aren’t going to be pushed around by losers like the Secret Service Director or James Comey, who was far more interested in wine tasting than rule of law ethics.  Comey showed himself to be a protector of Democrat Beltway politics at the expense of justice.  And those who came before and after him were no better.  So there isn’t anything to preserve.  Anybody who wants to try to make the FBI work properly would do well to get behind Kash Patel and support him without radicalism.  And be happy that he’s not as evil as most government employees are, self-centered, and corrupt beyond recognition.  I was always right about them, even when CNN pressed me in front of many people.  And I said it as politely as possible, but it doesn’t change the fact that we have never been able to trust the FBI with the kind of power they have had.  And it’s time for them to pay for the abuse of that power so the country can survive. 

Rich Hoffman

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Trading Government Jobs into Real Jobs: It will be stunning, but it should have happened a long time ago

First of all, most of the government jobs that have been created over a long period were not real jobs.  They were placeholders for administrations that wanted to look like they were creating jobs in the economy, such as the jobs reports we’ve seen over the last several years with the Biden administration.  But they weren’t real jobs driven by absolute value, so they were always dangerous.  Most of the jobs in the federal government never should have been created and were always useless.  So the talk that is going on now with the new Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy effort with the Department of Government Efficiency, otherwise known as D.O.G.E., where entire departments will lose their jobs, is a task we should have been utilizing for a long time.  Aside from saving a lot of taxpayer money, one primary reason for doing it is creating actual value jobs rather than placeholders.  For instance, 1.3 million federal workers are currently approved for telework, according to the Office of Personnel Management.  Only six percent of federal workers are working full-time in their offices.  Thirty percent are fully remote.  Suppose you are a government employee working from home in any capacity. In that case, you aren’t working hard enough for a value-driven job, and your position needs to be eliminated for lack of effectiveness.  There is no such thing in my mind as “work from home.”  I call that a vacation.  If you are not out there talking to people and driving work toward some objective, you aren’t working.  You are just talking.  In the United States, there is about to be a massive economic boom, and we need all the workers we can get to fill actual roles.  I also don’t define a work week as 40 hours or 5 days a week.  The government does not have the correct demands on their employees to fulfill the needs of the top economy in the world, and it shows.  And that has to come to an end. 

One of the reasons we have stagnation in our economy is that we have too many people working too few hours in jobs that mean next to nothing.  And when you study the amount of money that flows through Washington D.C. to prop up fake jobs that do nothing but give people a paycheck because there are no actual demands for the services those jobs provide, it’s no wonder why things in life take as long as they do.  The government is inefficient and has no desire to be otherwise or to justify their jobs through competition, and in the wake of all that, it has become a real weight on the American economy. Too few people are chasing real meaningful employment options and, instead, are pushing for a universal wage mentality where people are paid just to exist, which has really ballooned with the post-Covid stay-at-home culture.  It was always a dumb idea and would need to be reformed at some point in time.  The system was so abused that not cleaning and fixing the house would result in massive layoffs by the millions.  And what are those people going to do?  The job reports for a while will be very negative because all this time, they have been propped up by phony statistics justifying phony needs.  But as a good measure, if you work less than 6 hours per day, you aren’t working a real job that can be replaced and should be replaced by a real job that works much more.  Generally, it would be best to work a job where people scream for you to work more than 40 hours per week.  If you aren’t, whether in the public sector or private, you should be looking for a job that needs you more.  Not one that pays you to be a slot on a spreadsheet to show justification for a government office. 

I would say I have vast experience with this topic.  Recently, while I was a grand jury foreman, I spent much of the summer of 2024 at the courthouse every day, and I was stunned at how many good people were seriously under-employed.  No wonder many people want a government job; those jobs pay too much for insufficient work.  And they aren’t driven by any efficiency measure.  While I was in court all those days, the courthouse of Hamilton, Ohio, was very active from 9 AM until lunchtime.  Then, the place started clearing out, and the parking garage emptied.  For everyone, this was a typical day of work.  For me, it was a lunch break.  I typically work at least 10 hours per day on something.  Often, I put in 20-hour days that last all around the clock.  I sleep when I can, but the work comes first.  So, this court culture of government workers was stunning because I usually avoid those kinds of people.  I wouldn’t say that they were lazy.  But their expectations of employment were way off.  It is not even close to what reality demands of an employed position. There were very few people working from 9 to 4 PM.  And indeed, nobody was working more than that, which should have been considered normal.  The actual crime is that these government positions drag down the expectations for private sector work where the real need for one employee to do one position should exceed a 12-hour workday.  The labor movement in America, driven by a global communist movement, has impacted productivity in detrimental ways, and the most apparent jobs are government workers who aren’t realistically in the ballpark. 

There are around 168 million workers in America as of September of 2024 to maintain a 19 trillion dollar GDP.  To pay off the 35 trillion dollars in debt we have now, we need an economic expansion of at least double that, perhaps to triple that.  And we can do it with a combination of things, starting with the energy sector, to export energy to the world by stopping the war against fossil fuels.  That is the quickest way to ignite cash back into our economic system, which has been artificially suppressed.  Then there is the upcoming space economy that is worth trillions on its own, and all these jobs will need employees to manage them.  So we need more workers than that 168 million people to expand the economy, and we don’t need a bunch of slugs wasting their lives on a government job, working from their living rooms, feeding their cats.  Government employment must become private sector-driven toward real economic growth, not fake government statistics.  Much of that gap will come from robotics and artificial intelligence, which will help expand the amount of work we can do.  But humans in jobs aren’t going away anytime soon.  Likely, not in this century.  So we need to switch government jobs into real performing jobs in the private sector quickly and stunningly over the next two years of Trump’s next term.  And it will be shocking to many.  But remember that many of those jobs should have never been created by the government.  Many lazy people will lose jobs that weren’t that important, selling their expensive homes in the suburbs of Washington D.C. for a while before they learn to be productive with a real job.  But that whole mess should have never been propped up, and the actual value suppressed under phony jobs reports that were only lines on a spreadsheet to make people feel good about essentially nothing.  And in the new economy of tomorrow, we need to turn nothing into something quickly. 

Rich Hoffman

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Some of the Worst People are the Nicest: When murderers, scum bags, and thieves use kindness to hide their crimes

Many people are being very nice to Trump now that the election is over.  Trump gets it and so do people who enjoy my book and my statements on one of its most essential parts.  It’s the gunslinger in the bar metaphor that I tell the story of dozens of times a week to countless people.  It’s how people of real value must navigate the treachery of day-to-day life.  When you have something other people want, no matter what it is, you will find that they are very friendly to you.  But when you have nothing they can take, they are mean to you.  Generally speaking, when people are mean to others, the targeted personality doesn’t seem to have anything that the other person deems valuable.  But when you’ve been through all that Trump has, and so many people have openly come out against you, and suddenly you have power, well, that’s when the bootlickers come out and clean all the dust off your shoes.  If you managed to watch Saturday Night Live right after the election, for instance, where for years they have worked to destroy Trump in every way that a media enterprise can, you’ll see a good example.  However, after all their efforts, Trump was elected president again, showing the SNL crowd that they were no longer the popular kids.  And they want to be, so they are trying to appease Trump so as not to feel his wrath, which they fear, because they are guilty of trying to destroy him and hope that he’ll forget about it.  And that’s the case with just about everyone who has worked against Trump over the last 8 years.  Suddenly, they are being very nice to him.  Why do you think that is, other than my metaphor on the gunslinger at the bar with his back-to-the-room example?  They don’t try to kill you when they hope they can get something out of it.  In many ways, when that assassin’s bullet almost hit Trump in the side of the head on July 13th, 2024, it wasn’t just Trump who was saved; for America, it was the best thing to ever happen to us.

If you’ve ever been involved in murder cases where you investigate or interview the suspects of a murder, you see this kind of kindness all the time.  Usually, when people kill someone, they have regret and wish they could go back and do things differently.  They aren’t usually like Aaron the Moor from Shakespeare’s play Titus at the end of the story just prior to being hanged for the many crimes he committed during his life.  Most criminals have regrets and become very friendly, hoping that someone will give them a second chance, not because they are good people but because it’s their only option.  I saw that kindness at a jail I toured recently where all the inmates were very nice, as they were looking for a chance to change their circumstances and used kindness as a bridge to opportunity.  Many of those people were killers and rapists, and worse in many cases, but they were very nice while speaking about their current condition.  The situation would have been much different if they were on the other side of a gun in the comfort of their own initiative.  I had the opportunity to interview people involved in a horrible murder where they cut up their friend to kill them and put them in a garbage can so that they could hide the body.  They didn’t even go into trouble to take the body very far.  They put the trash in the back of the house and left it to decay for weeks before anybody noticed.  The cause of the murder was a dispute over drugs, which they were all on as they occupied a drug house together. 

When you talk to people like that who have essentially ruined their lives with horrible life choices, they have regrets, and they suddenly become very nice because it’s all they have left.  But don’t let that deceive you.  And Trump gets it.  His idea to help the Democrats pay for their massive debt after the election isn’t kindness; it’s leverage.  He says to them, “We beat you, and we still have money left.  You lost, wasted over a billion dollars, and you are still millions in the hole.  So here’s a little money, don’t say we weren’t nice to you.”  I’ve been saying it for a while since that assassin attempted killing in Pennsylvania. Trump won a lot more than his life that day.  He won the cooperation of all the horrible people who have been planning his death or, thinking about it, who are now on the wrong side of history.  Trump would do far better if he used that to his advantage and turned to what he does best: sell positive ideas to people to see vision for the optimism that it is.  Since he did that, Trump has been unstoppable.  That is how going into his next term will be for him and America.  Trump proved everything he had to prove; many people have eggs on their faces.  And to Trump’s benefit, his enemies have no choice but to be nice to him. 

The trick with this understanding is that many people want to be liked, which gives terrible people leverage over the outcome.  Because of the human need to be enjoyed and loved, criminals have learned over time that the best way to appeal to others when it’s their last resort is to turn to kindness for relief from conviction.  Appeal to the judge, appeal to the jury, appeal to everyone you interact with so that they might doubt that you did all the horrible things you did to get in trouble.  Mass society is going through that with Trump after an unquestionable election in which Trump was the most influential politician in the world.  That’s what we meant when we said all along that support for him needed to be too big to rig.  And that happened: Trump will win the popular vote by an astonishing millions of voters, pushing his final count into the upper 70 million.  A ceiling that Democrats really couldn’t hit with anybody on their team if they wanted to, under any conditions.  That leaves all of them who have plotted and schemed against Trump and the MAGA movement in general with no choice but to be nice to the victors and hope that compassion will give them some second chances.  But make no mistake about it: they hope for a second chance that they don’t deserve, just like those murderers I referenced.  All of them participated in cutting up their friend and putting them into a trash can but regretted it.  But the deed was done; there was no coming back from that horrible evening under the influence of a drug-induced frenzy. Flawed life choices last.  And the only path to a second chance is kindness.  So, in that regard, some of the worst people in the world are the nicest people.  This is a lesson many people would be wise to observe and preserve their senses from an assault of villainy hiding behind a smiling face.  Never, ever, trust it.

Rich Hoffman

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Steve Bannon is Out of Jail: What happens next is the fault of those who put him there, they can only blame themselves

I’m just going to say it bluntly, I will never forgive the people who put Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro in jail during the year of 2024.  The congress that threw them in jail with a corrupt Biden DOJ were obviously crooked, but what was done, purely for political reasons was the loss of freedom for people of a respectable Trump White House.  When Bannon and Navarro were thrown in jail after spending many tens of thousands of dollars defending themselves from a prosecution that was completely politically motivated, only to end up in the disgraceful loss of personal freedom that they had to endure for more than four months in jail.  Nobody had ever gone that far before and had always respected Executive immunity when it comes to administration business.  What Eric Holder and Lois Lerner had done previously, even Barack Obama, was far worse than what Steve Bannon did, or Peter Navarro.  But the Democrats went there, and so did many Republicans who showed to the world that they might not agree with it, but did little to nothing to stop it.  These members of Trump’s Executive White House team were good people and they were thrown in jail like dogs to have to lose personal privacy completely.  Going to jail is no small matter, going to the bathroom in front of people all the time without a door to close would be terrible, and to have to do it day after day after day.  There was no reason for it and the people who did it to them can never be forgiven.  And I personally never will.  I personally like Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, and I think the only way to make things right in the world is to prosecute their prosecutors because they started it and abused the government for their own political purposes, and they have to be paid back.

I know the Trump campaign doesn’t need nor want to get pulled into a lot of controversy, they have an election to win.  But logic says that Trump is going to be back in the White House and when he is, a lot of bad people have to be punished for what they did.  If people didn’t want a revenge tour, they never should have started it.  As I keep saying to everyone who is asking me, if they want someone to blame for what is going to happen to them, they only need to look in the mirror.  Steve Bannan as of today is now out of jail, October 29th 2024, and I’m very glad to see it.  Nobody has suffered really more than the people at the Warroom, people like Grace Chong, Mareen Bannon, and Natalie Winters who have done what they good to keep the popular podcast going while Steve, the primary host, was doing time in jail.  They have put on a brave front, but it hurt them what happened to their friends, just because they happened to run the most popular political podcast in the United States.  Looking back over the last four years, what happened to people like Sidney Powell, General Flynn, Roger Stone and Rudy Giuliani has been disgraceful, and it was all done for purely political reasons, to use the power of government to destroy people who didn’t agree with the party in power.  Never forget the mug shots of the people in Georgia for which Trump was one, who were being prosecuted for questioning the results of the election there.  And nothing more.  Remember Jenna Ellis crying like a baby in front of a judge and turning on Trump to appease those powers that were in office when we talk about revenge in the coming months and years.   It’s not just that they started it and now we have to finish it, but if we want to have a great country we must have justice and people must be punished for the bad things they did.  They don’t get to point at Trump and declare that he’s going to put his critics in jail and prosecute his political enemies when it was they who started it.  They have to be punched in the face, at the very least.

I had quite a few friends who attended the RNC Convention this year in Wisconsin and they wanted to know who I wanted them to get pictures with, and my only real response was that I thought Peter Navarro getting out of jail and going straight to speak at the RNC was one of the most important themes of this election cycle.  There are a lot of things that need to be fixed, but this weaponization of government is the key to so many horrible things that we must rectify.  When we talk about the basic Bill of Rights, they were written because humans have a tendency to do these kinds of things to each other when they gain power, and at the core of all arguments about leadership and the role government plays in society is mitigating the failure of human beings who fall off the rocker.  We cannot have a big government with too much power that can use that power against us for their own profit.  And that is what happened at the very least to Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro.  They were being forced to acknowledge a criminal government or be thrown in jail.  And to show that power over them and the general Warroom audience, they lost their freedom and were insulted with a lack of privacy.  It’s as bad as it gets aside from actually killing people.  And because the bad guys had to respect the law to some extent, they only managed to put Bannan and Navarro in jail for four months.  In other countries, they could have easily been killed.  This is exactly why we have a Second Amendment and free speech at the heart of all our law and order.  Because without those checks on government power, the government would be killing off their political rivals without fear of ever having the tables turn on them. 

It is too much to expect government to be honest.  And when people popularly elect an administration as they did with Trump and his team in the White House as Bannan and Navarro were and will be again, a government that attacks that pick of the people broke and  the law in the most fundamental way, they sought to override a government by the people for the people, and to change it into something else.  Something ominous and oppressive.  And I don’t want to hear the crying for all the paybacks that have to occur.  All those bad guys out there should thank God that so many people have been willing to turn to an election for their redemption and not grab guns and take to violence against their political enemies.  Of course, that threat is always looming in the background and it’s the only thing that keeps bad people honest.  People cannot be trusted to act on their own to do what’s right.  They must have the fear of personal destruction to keep them in check.  And in the case of what was done to the Trump team over the last four years, since the bad guys did go too far, is the tables have to be turned, otherwise there is no hope at justice for the years to come.  We cannot have a good country unless those who truly did wrong are punished.  And now that Steve Bannon is out, and the election is happening, what happens next must happen.  The bad guys are bad people for a reason.  And they cannot molest our society without consequences, and the fault for that is entirely on their shoulders.  They did it to themselves. 

Rich Hoffman

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The ‘Soylent Green’ Effect: Stepping away from the cannibal medical industry of socialized medicine

Cannibals are common in our past, and present.

My daughter and I were sitting in the backyard of her Liberty Township home and looking at the homes that were all around her property. Most were valued at a million dollars each, and we wondered how all those people could afford those homes.  What jobs could they possibly be doing?  And sadly, the answer is that they mostly all work in the medical industry to some degree.  Many of them are in the sales business, whether selling syringes that cost .35 cents to make to a hospital for $200 or X-ray machines and other medical equipment with massively inflated costs.  The markup in the entire medical profession is extraordinarily high, and nobody cares or does anything about it because the cost of all that waste is covered by health insurance.  So, the two industries feed off each other horrendously inefficiently, making everything cost a fortune.  Most of the Liberty Township, Ohio population currently living in those big homes have incomes that can even think about living in those expensive homes because they work in the medical industry or in insurance, making all that funding possible.  There is no way that kids just getting out of college can afford one of those homes, so what is going to happen next to a country that is already struggling with debt, held down by it in grotesque ways?  Well, that’s when I talked about the miracle of the recent SpaceX flight and the upcoming election win of Trump back into the White House, where many of these medical problems will be the subject of his next administration.  And the Kamala Harris people have been trying to use the health insurance issue as a way to scare people away from Trump because, as they say, the President doesn’t have a plan.  Well, the fix to the medical industry is more capitalism, not this socialized medical model we have today that only exists so that people can profit from the prolonged death of people.  I call it the Soylent Green model if people remember that famous movie with Charlton Heston. 

Soylent Green was a dystopian thriller from 1973 where old people were essentially put in a room upon their death and shown all kinds of heavenly images while they died off to give them comfort.  But the moment they died, their bodies were carted off to be chopped up into pieces and processed into food for society to eat.  That is essentially what our current medical industry is; it’s just an extension of the kind of human sacrifice that is common in all leftist cultures, particularly in the Near East with the ancient Canaanites.  The Aztecs, the Cahokians, and the Maya were killing people everywhere worldwide as part of their cultural belief system.  The consumption of human life is to sustain the up-and-coming lives, whether it be in the belief that gods would make it rain for that society or that the old need to be killed off for the young to eat.  The belief system is as old as time, and we have options as a human race with science as a tool only now.  Lots of options.  Using those same biblical references where God wanted the Israelites to kill off the people of the land of Canaan, it was because they were so wicked that Yahweh was disgusted with them.  And we are faced with the same moral dilemma today.  And many of those biblical characters lived for over 100 years.  In some cases, they lived for nearly a thousand. 

Notice how we haven’t talked about STEM cells in a while.  During the 90s, after Jurassic Park came out, people were always talking about cloning and rebuilding human tissue with stem cells.  The sad truth is that we are dealing with a medical industry that has turned to socialized science to produce a Soylent Green effect, and they don’t want to heal people, they want to feed off them.  They want to prolong their deaths so they can profit off their demise as just a modern form of human sacrifice.  Nobody needs to get sick and die the way we currently do.  But even down to the mortuaries, if we apply the same kind of science to the health of our society, a lot of the people who make fortunes off the death of the elderly will suddenly be out of a job.  We have an economy of death that is built on the notion of human sacrifice, and we don’t have to.  Suppose we applied the exact science that allowed SpaceX to land that excellent Super Heavy Booster on October 13th, 2024. In that case, we can also stop aging and heal people back to their prime selves using technology that allows cells to repair a person instead of gradually depleting them.  And the good news is that with a Trump victory, that is the answer to the health insurance problem.  Why would we continue to throw money at a health insurance industry that charges $200 for a little plastic syringe?  When Kamala Harris says she has a plan to help people pay for their medical costs with socialized Obamacare or Medicaid expansion, what is needed is a medical industry with a lot more capitalism in it and the goal of curing cancer and all aging diseases.  Not to sustain them long enough to live a ten-year life of gradually more medical bills paid for by insurance so that younger people can live in million-dollar homes for a while before they go through the same process.  What our current medical industry is cannibalism and just as stupid as every ancient culture that practiced it, which is the foundation of all liberal thought. 

Here’s the other math problem, and Elon Musk knows this all too well.  At this point, for the big picture, we need as many human beings to live as long of lives as we can get them to, and that is not part of the current health insurance discussion.  There is a belief in that same cannibal liberalism that we need to save the earth from those pesky humans, which is part of a mass killing plan that comes up with Big Pharma and the beliefs of The World Economic Forum.  People need to go away so the earth can live; that’s what people like Bill Gates believe these days.  But what we need is the opposite.  We need more people to live longer to colonize space and survive as a species.  The exact needs were present when the Bible was written by people who needed to survive long enough to carry intelligence to the future.  We are in the same situation now.  We are all there are for now because of low birth rates and the fact that it would take a century to produce the number of people needed for this space fairing enterprise.  And we all need to survive for a lot longer lifespans.  So when Trump is asked what his plan is for health care and he says he will plan to bring more competition to the industry, which a lot of short-term thinkers are terrified of because it will destroy the $200 syringe business, the truth is that we have to entirely scrap the old system and embrace a medical approach that heals people and keeps them working longer, having children longer and living as long as they can to transfer their lifetime achievements to future generations more effectively, directly.  The economy will have to change toward invention and preservation instead of decaying human flesh and profiting off the demise.  But first, we have to have courage, elect Trump, and change our entire society away from the Soylent Green model and toward proper restoration and preservation for thousands of years into the future. 

Rich Hoffman

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What We Learned From the ILA Strike: We need more automation and robots to do the work that lazy people won’t do

Most things that are wrong in our modern economy is the fault of communism; it’s the process of thinking that comes from the ridiculously stupid philosophy of Karl Marx.  And that’s precisely what the International Longshoremen’s Association was during a recent strike, raw communism.  When it comes to these unions, notice they always start with “international.”  These are not American efforts rooted in capitalism.  They are globalist enterprises.  A few weeks ago, the dockworkers at ports of entry for shipping all along the east coast down into the Gulf along Texas walked off the job, which essentially crippled American infrastructure and it was all over pay.  This forced the shipping companies to throw a lot of money at those losers to prevent a complete halt of our economy, which amounted to an average of 4 dollars per hour for each six-year contract with an opportunity to raise wages by 62% over the life of the contract, which previously had an upward pay scale of $39 per hour or 81K per year.  And that is on straight time.  In truth, many of these people are making 300K per year once they had the overtime before this strike, so these dock workers are getting rich off an extortion racket that is essential to the American infrastructure and economy.  Their malicious timing was to perform this strike while a weak president, Joe Biden, was sleeping on the beach before Trump’s next term. They took advantage of the situation while they could and put everyone at risk with a hostile attack on our supply chain. It was reprehensible on a good day and detrimental in their intent and malice.  Fortunately, people learned pretty quickly what the leaders of the strike were up to; they were living in mansions and were not hurting for money for a job that wasn’t that skilled.  In the vacuum of a communist bubble, they had thought themselves something better than what they were, and they took advantage of America for their benefit, and it’s disgusting. 

I don’t like union workers of any kind on a good day.  I think they are worthless slugs rooted in Marxist ideology and have no place in American society.  I know these days, many union workers are breaking away from their leadership and voting for Trump for president, which makes us all friendly under a big tent of politics these days.  But it doesn’t change what they are.  Trump has successfully dealt with unions as a builder, and if you have a good personality, you can deal with reasonable people. Most of the time, union workers think they are doing right.  They don’t think of themselves as communists or detriments to society.  However, as a mob of insurgents who threatened to take away the need for labor if they didn’t collectively get what they wanted, everything they were was born on the pages of Karl Marx.  I think it should be illegal and punishable with years in jail to walk off a job that is critical to American economic infrastructure.  If I didn’t know the teaching profession was so worthless, I’d associate that field with the same sentiment.  But teacher unions have made themselves worthless with their brand of Democrat politics baked into everything they do, which is useless to a conservative family with children attending a school.  From top to bottom, there is no place for communism in our labor force, and the ILA didn’t care.  They wanted to take advantage of desperate people to extract even more money from the process while political disorder was a raging fire.  And what they did will cost us a lot more money in terms of shipping costs.

I don’t respect these ILA workers or most union jobs.  I have seen firsthand how unions destroy a company, and I have been in many fist fights in parking lots myself for breaking strikes in what they call a SCAB.  I, for the fun of it, made a living breaking strikes, one at a company in Cincinnati called Cincinnati Milacron, which is no longer there because of radicalized unions, and a company that built conveyor belts in the 90s for Amazon, well before anybody knew what Amazon was.  I was never one to join with group behavior, and when I disagreed with the behavior, the union stewards wanted to fight, which they regretted.  Many people from my past are ashamed of what they did and what I did to them, just to put it nicely.  I could tell stories about some of these antics that sometimes got bloody for quite a long time.  So, my hatred for these labor unions runs very deep.  To say I hate them isn’t a strong enough word.  But I do have much experience as a blue-collar worker, and I’ve watched the crane operations at the shipping docks who just went on strike, and I can say that it’s an easy job.  Certainly not worth 300K per year.  I’ve done lots of comparable work with cranes and jigs with very expensive hardware, and while it takes some skill to operate, it’s not worth the kind of money these unions extract for it.  They are only paid so much because companies fear through radicalism that all the workers will collectively leave their jobs and cause a work stoppage.  Even though Trump has successfully dealt with unions, everyone who has dealt with them can’t hide the fact that collective bargaining agreements harm enterprises by making them too expensive or taking too much time to do the task.  And very little good comes from a unionized workforce. 

One of those stories I could tell involved three union stewards who thought they were tough guys and wanted to fight me in an empty parking lot near our plant at 3 PM when the first shift ended.  I guess they didn’t think I’d show up, and let me say politely, they didn’t win.  The whole plant showed up to watch the fight, which was very embarrassing for the union stewards.  And that particular plant, once management figured out that the union couldn’t be dealt with, shut down within six months.  I knew it then, and I know it especially now: unions had no place in America, and they were dying.  And that is certainly true today.  Already, robots could do a much better job than many of the crane operators working these docks, and they never call off work or get sick.  Labor in an economy is always needed, but that labor doesn’t need to be a human.  It needs to be intelligent, and with A.I. these days, they are far more intelligent than these dock worker slugs.  I’ve known them from personal experience, and believe me, if you pay them more than $10 an hour, you are paying them too much.  Unions have made themselves worthless, which is the case with the ILA strike.  It only lasted a few days, but it shouldn’t have happened at all.  I would encourage all those companies involved in shipping to invest in robots for their future work.  And don’t waste your time on these slugs that affect our economy.  There is no reason these days to overpay for labor and to throw money at these people.  The ILA strike broke once people realized how much money these employees made.  America was not sympathetic.  They just wanted their stuff shipped to them to arrive.  Globalism has given these international unions leverage through a monopoly status.  And it’s time we change that, for good, with automation and robotics. 

Rich Hoffman

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