WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY JULY 26, 2021) — On THE PLANET today, War.
There has never been … there can never be … a “just war.” The closest humanity can come to that mythic and proverbial creation is when a lesser evil must oppose a greater one, World War II, for example.
No one knew that better than Dwight Eisenhower. As writer Larry Tye observed in Demagogue, his new bio of Sen. Joe McCarthy, Ike knew that “hatred only had value if acted upon.” As the commander of the Allied Forces that brought down the Axis Powers, he knew that once a diplomatic matter breaks down and deteriorates into war, there’s only two responses: Do or Don’t. Fight or Stay.
Half-action must be avoided at all costs, which is why and partly how Ike “ended” the U.S. involvement in the Korean conflict (still technically ongoing, of course). It’s all-in or nothing, and except in extreme cases such as Hitler posed, the default policy should be one of nothing. Neutrality We learned that bitter lesson again in Vietnam. You would think we learned from that fiasco, a needless slaughter of young soldiers fro both sides and too, too many Asian civilians.
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How much things have changed, from rotary dial and the scientific wonder of a Xerox machine to today’s social media and FaceTime.
Vietnam was a war that brought down a presidency. JFK had begun the machinery to get us out of there, but then The Suits literally has his head blown off. LBJ, bowing to the hawks, escalated troop presence to more than half-a-million with no clear objective and no exit plan. It destroyed him. Richard Nixon initiated peace talks, but it took until 1975 for the last helicopter to leave Saigon.
Fast forward to Sept. 11, 2001., George W. Bush’s lucky day.
With his presidency heading into the porcelain commode, terrorists attacked New York City and Washington, D.C. Suddenly, Bush became a “war time president.” Unlike Vietnam, where a popular uprising brought an end to war, Bush and his cronies exaggerated the danger and launched a crusade targeting the islamic Middle East, particularly Afghanistan. Barack Obama campaigned on getting America out of Afghanistan, but guess what, folks. He was lying.
By then a weird type of patriotic fever had gripped America, and we witnessed a disturbing my-country-right-or-wrong outburst that stifled all reason and common sense.
It took Donald Trump to try to get us out of the sinkhole, a task that Joe Biden finally accomplished, to his enormous credit. Or should we say, “Mission Accomplished.” Is remains the greatest accomplishment of Syracuse Joe.
Predictably, Afghanistan further deteriorates as the U.S. pullout continues. It proves one thing: We had no business being there on a war footing in the first place. The last check found the country in shambles, countless innocent civilians killed, wounded, or displaced with the Taliban back in power and terrorism no worse for Bush-Obama wear.
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Will war happen again?
Well, it’s happening now. It’s been happening forever. Humanity has never been free of war.
It’s difficult to precisely estimate, but revisesociology.com estimates that as of March, there were 40 wars/conflicts measured by at least 100 deaths.
Einstein was asked about World War III. He replied he had no idea as to where and when. He did say, however, that he knew exactly the nature of World War IV: “It will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Next world war? THE PLANET‘s bet is the island of Taiwan off the coast of mainland China.
Geopolitically, the 21st century has seen the decline of America as the world superpower coinciding with the rise of China. By most objective measures, the U.S. probably still hold and edge, but it keeps shrinking by the day. Under Xi Jinping, the greatest politician on earth, China is now poised to take its claim as the world Superpower. It will take at most 10 years, likely far less.
It took Rome 800 years to fall. For the this country, 250.
As George Harrison sang, “All Things Must Pass.”
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Eighty million dead w w 2.
The generally accepted figure is 50 million.
Nod. One to many Dannul.
WAR is the U.S.A.’s biggest and most profitable business. The U.S.A.’s #1 non-farm export is military weapons. The U.S. Government fights in proxy wars. The Korean Conflict was/is the final conflict, which nominally ended after Stalin died, that was NOT a proxy war. The reason why the U.S. Government did not win in the Vietnam Conflict is because it was the U.S. Government’s first proxy war against the Soviet Union. After the Soviet Union collapsed in the early-1990s, the U.S. Government took most of the Russian government’s market sale in arm sales. Remember that the 1990s economy and stock market was hot for a long time. It was because the U.S. Government was selling a record amount of military arms to the world, while Russia was still recovering from their economic collapse prior to Putin taking over the Russian government since the Spring of 2000. When Bush and Cheney invaded Iraq in mid-March of 2003, the U.S. Government took over and still controls around 85% of Iraq’s second largest in the world oil fields. Saudi Arabia, which has the largest oil fields in the world, is a strong ally of the U.S. Government and they buy billions of dollars of our military arms every year. Afghanistan temporarily interfered with Bush and Cheney controlling Iraq’s vast oil fields, and now in 2021, President Joe Biden is pulling most of the U.S. Armed Forces out of there after nearly 20 years. Most women in Afghanistan will soon lose their human rights and be subjugated again by the Taliban. The U.S. Government doesn’t care about any of that as long as they get to sell billions of dollars in military arms exports and fight in proxy wars that cause humanitarian crises and countless deaths around the world. The MSM is focused on Donald Trump all of the time, while the world is always being militarized for defense contractors and Wall Street to profit. Millions upon millions of foreign Peoples have been killed by the U.S. Government’s war machine since the end of World War 2. In closing, the U.S. Government is only about “The Almighty Dollar” (GREED)!
Why did you join the Army?
Exactly!!
I joined the U.S. Army in the Fall of 1999 to serve our great country with Honor, to received the regards of the U.S. President (George W. Bush) who ordered me a hearing at the VA Central Office near the White House in Washington D.C. during the Summer of 2004, and I am a 100% service connected disabled Veteran whose medical bill statements state that our country is grateful to serve you.
Also I wrote an email letter to blogger Dan Valenti explaining that it wasn’t until after Stalin died that Ike was able to negotiate the long standing truce in the Korean Conflict. Here is my email to Planet Valenti.
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
I am not allowed to post more than one blog posting per day on your awesome blog. You keep writing on your blog that Ike brokered the long standing truce in the Korean Conflict. Please take into account that Stalin did not die until after Harry Truman left the presidency and Dwight Eisenhower was the sitting U.S. President. Stalin did not take Harry Truman seriously during the years he (Truman) was in the White House. There was no way President Harry Truman could have brokered a truce in Korea while Stalin was still alive and running the Soviet Union. It was not until after Stalin died that President Eisenhower was able to broker the long standing truce in Korea. I would appreciate it if you would post this information on your blog today.
Thank you,
Jonathan A. Melle
Your posts are better than TSC and kltpzxym the Karen twins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqS1Ty79mOE
You are completely incorrect on every level.
You can not tell what the outcome and what the geopolitical landscape would look like if we didn’t engage in these wars.
You can not prove that, even in losing or coming to a draw, the wars we engaged in didn’t tip the balance of power in our favor.
You focus on Vietnam, nothing says that that fight and that engagement, funded as proxy wars by the Soviet Union and China, didn’t help destabilize relations enough to end the Soviet Union.
The biggest mistake we made in WW II was not getting involved sooner. My take, with the full military might of the US, maybe 6 million dead Jews would have been only 1 or 2 million, or none at all.
Maybe our ships wouldn’t have been sittin in Pearl Harbor, maybe the Pacific fleet would have been running cover missions.
Afghanistan, remember they were the home base for the Taliban, and still are.
What if we engaged them sooner? Maybe we’d still have the twin towers, and not lost over 4,000 people. What if when the Taliban tried blowing up the towers the first time we went to guns on them then?
So no neither you or I have the ability to tell what the outcomes would be either way but I know by sitting idly by, we allow evil to take deeper roots.
I also know Joe Biden completely failed our allies in Afghanistan. Instead of following the withdrawal plan he skulked away in the night and left thousands of people who helped us at the mercy of the Taliban.
What was the name of the guy that abandoned the Kurds who helped us in the fight against ISIS?
Barry Sotero
Asking THE PLANET to prove a negative? Even we can’t do that!
The Space Force is a thing too. That is the cold war situation. Lots of money secretly goes to the Space Force.
(there may be a lot of Covid millions that disappear in Pittsfield)
Just like Pittsfield and Spacely Sprockets
5 cars in the parking lot on a daily basis and one is the janitor, one is the receptionist, and one is a low paying intern.
Yes. Spacely Space Sprockets. BIC started out at $3 million in Kapanski Kash. Ended up at $13 million. For what?? Ever wonder where some of that extra Kash ended up. We have some evidence but not nearly sufficient for proof.
If they make sprockets they may be tied to the bike mafia. Maybe the mayor will reimagine that business to manufacture mountain bikes.
I’m hearing that Cogswell Cogs is in line for a taxpayer-subsidized $gift$ to locate at the BIC. Happy days are here again!
Dan, who paid off/got PEDA gratf from them?
Well I just read the hate rag and they are continuing their war on Republicans and Trump. When is the cancel culture going to shut them down. They don’t even tell the truth. The best comment however was fro Tyertown’s mayor, yes she was in town, saying people have to show their rage!! Well mayor let the people know when you are in office and we will peacefully show our rage outside your window. Put North St back to 2 lanes and get rid of all their lines, say no to the rape of Springside, cut the school budget and get rid of some administrators, close a school, fix the roads and bridges, spend the COVID cash or Wuhan winfall on the water/sewer project to save Kapanski’s some cash, fund the police so they can walk the beat and have them pull over cars going through red lights and last but not least open up city hall for full time, actually you should have the schedules at different times so city hall is open 7 to 7 to help people have the time to get to city hall, don’t worry about the vote, worry about connecting with your constituents!!
The ayor of Tyertown was in the city? Rejoice, rejoice.
I don’t know about Springside and the other things you mention, but I drove down North St. on Saturday and Sunday, and although all the lines and crosswalks etc. were somewhat busy and confusing, the rest looked pretty good to me. I have to admit that the greenery to me looked like pieces of the prairie transplanted into the city by design rather than being the result of neglect, and I thought the effect was positive.
To me what it looks like they’re trying to do is make the Pitt sort of a Mecca for the NYC etc. leisure class.
Lipstick on a pig.
YOU hate Pittsfield and most people generally like it here.
For an absolutely fascinating inside the mayors head explanation of what they are trying to do you really need to read the COMMENTARY PAGE A-7 BERKSHIRE EAGLE Wednesday July 21st.
It is absolutely mind twisting as to the convoluted logic of what they plan to do to North street. It will blow your mind.
My cat, won’t crap on The Berkshire Eagle,
it is that BAD
I don’t mind you summarizing the high points.
What a crock. Barry really needs to stop posting under other names.
hey, wait a minute…
JUNKIE
I can tell you with 100% certainly that Mr. K is not BARRY.
Now that you cleared that up they are both happy.
Show your rage, she has no idea. Kinda like entrapment.
It’s a sad day for the world when the leader of a brutal Communist dictatorship like China is the greatest politician in the world. The intentional weakening of America will guarantee that the next Hitler type ruler of the world, whether it’s one person or a group of totalitarian countries who want to control the world, will not be stopped by America this time and isn’t that the whole point of taking down our country? I hear far left supporters on this site saying that “no, we don’t want America to not have power, just not to be the world leader”. So, they obviously know what that decision means for the future of freedom in the world? The far left seems just fine with people losing their freedom to all powerful and all knowing government in this country so why would they reject that same system worldwide? This is the result of schools not teaching the true history of the world and what happens in brutal dictatorships. These activists, taking their orders from China it seems, are teaching just that in our schools.
The left is not weakening the US, intentionally or not.
Ha,ha,ha no funding and backing the riots caused by Antifa and BLM weren’t started to weaken the US. I would really think you need to get professional help because you are either delusional or brainwashed, either way you need help. If this whole world doesn’t remind you of 1984 then you definitely need to find help. Another issue is about people all worried about citizens using the rights not to get vaccinated, with people who caught COVID or Wuhan Flu and survived and people who have been vaccinated we are at herd immunity. If I am not wrong wasn’t that the goal? Didn’t they say once there we would be alright and back to normal? What’s changed
CPAC is handing out cards with how Trump is going to overturn our democracy to reinstate the Authoritarian Tramp to take over a democracy your fathers and many of you fought for.Most of the damage being done is with words and those words are to use fake conspiracies by Republican faction Qanon telling the gullible that the Democrats like me are involved in satanic murders and rituals so far fetched you at 1st glance pay not attention to these moronic statements that make one realize the mental illness the Republican party is dealing with.This illness if it succeeds will have our children growing up watching the dismantling of America allowing for a opposition party to so fail that Republicans are setting up the democrats to be completely unchecked for generations.The responsibility now is on that party to fix itself……Turn of the misinformation propaganda to take down America
False information.
Just more TDS
TDS is a Fox trigger word.You cant help it.Your powerless over Trumps voice.
I think you are powerless over Trump being in your head. Stop watching the lies of CNN and MSNBC. Actually cut the cord and save your retirement money so you can pay the Democrats of Pittsfield their tax money so you can stay in your house….you don’t want to be houseless in Springside do you:)
Reported on Fox
Have another brewski
If we can trust our election results, what country would elect a president in the early stages of Dementia? How can this clearly struggling leader be expected to compete against the powerful Chinese leader? He can’t and that’s why China wanted him elected so they released a powerful virus from a lab to achieve their goal. China knew they could easily manipulate American voters. We are heading down the road of totalitarian government, here and in the rest of the world, and this time America will not be able to save the world because we will be part of the problem.
I wonder if Putin excels at creating paranoia in America.
Pat is Exhibit A for, yes he does.
YUP
That would be Democrat party ,in whole. Their failed coups, 2015-2021 will go down in history
and you would be Exhibit B
Exibit B? Democrats? Yup when this song was written about D-RATS:
There’s something happening here
But what it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it’s time we stop
Children, what’s that sound?
Everybody look – what’s going down?
There’s battle lines being drawn
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
Young people speaking’ their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
It’s time we stop
Hey, what’s that sound?
Everybody look – what’s going down?
What a field day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly saying, “hooray for our side”
It’s time we stop
Hey, what’s that sound?
Everybody look – what’s going down?
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you’re always afraid
Step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop
Hey, what’s that sound?
Everybody look – what’s going down?
We better stop
Hey, what’s that sound?
Everybody look – what’s going down?
We better stop
Now, what’s that sound?
Everybody look – what’s going down?
We better stop
Children, what’s that sound?
Everybody look – what’s going down?
I agree.
Are you that stupid or are you a democrat stooge?
Pat,it is you the conservative right wing Q conspiracy party that tear down America’s democracy and its an illness.
TSC
In fairness to PAT, while you can say that about her, you can’t know that about her. The claim is baseless, because you are not her, have not had her experiences, and her ideology differs from you. That’s not a reason to assign her to any formal political group anymore than THE PLANET or PAT could claim you were an Antifa official activist.
Dear Dan,
Right on!!!! TSC just labels then spews BS.
What we CAN say about Pat is that she is stuck in cold war rhetoric and is incorrect and paranoid about the actions and intents of the liberal left, regardless of her experience.
And what we CAN say about Trapper is that it is highly unlikely that he holds advanced degrees in anything because of his poor spelling and grammar, and because his boorish responses relying on insults instead of logic are unlikely to have been made by anyone with a post-secondary education.
Thus spake Jethro.
HOOBOY
No. You can’t reasonably say PAT is “Paranoid.” You bail yourself out re: TRAPPER with the qualifier “unlikely.” We disagree with that assessment, BTW. Wandering thought, HOOBOY — Are you related to HEYBOY on “Bonanza?”
Sorry, Dan, but paranoid is as paranoid does. She may not be paranoid to you, but that is because you agree with her pronouncements. Her paranoia is evident in saying that the liberal left in this country are Marxists, and that their goal is to destabilize and harm our country (among other similar statements). So you are free to disagree, but that doesn’t make you right and it doesn’t make her non-paranoid.
And so I can, reasonably, state that Pat is paranoid.
There was no HEYBOY on Bonanza. I think you are thinking of Have Gun Will Travel.
Thanks, Dan.
Hoobie’s “qualifier” was spot on. I DOUBT (qualifier) it (gender correct) took enough HS courses or had academics, to attend any college.
Best, MT
The anti Pat bunch need to learn about Herbert Marcuse and cultural Marxism. You all sound very ignorant. Stop watching fake news CNN and PMSNBC.
Hoobie Doobie,
Yes taught at colleges, for more years than yourself “schooled” total since a child. Those colleges, that would not accept your applications.
I express myself as I do, because I’m a simple direct man and always have been. You CAN say ,what you will ,just like the left and MSM always do. Truth be dammed.
Trapper, I may not have the degrees you claim to have, but my 9-year-old spells better than you with his eyes closed. An advanced degree holder would not have made the following spelling errors made by you in this blog:
gratf > graft
the later two > the latter two
Exibit > Exhibit
dammed > damned
You sure don’t have no advanced degrees.
I never took typing, and am dyslexic. Typos here at The Planet, yup many…
Typing was not a requirement for any of my degrees, just the final product was sound.
I did publish, in peer reviewed journals.
You, Jethro? “publications” besides The Planet online?
Colleges I’ve taught at, again would not accept your ilk.
What grand institutions have you been schooled at ? Besides PITTSfield HS?
Sure you have. What was the topic of your dissertation? What “peer reviewed journals” did you publish in?
What did YOU do in school, Jethro?
Make it past 6th? How many
times to get there?
Your asshat could not understand the topic.
“Your asshat”? You’re lying about your educational background. It’s obvious. And pathetic.
And yet you continue to spew lies about coups, Obama, Biden, and display rank ignorance about politics, history, and economics.
Have you and Gaetani ever been in the same place together?
Gaetani is the biggest anti Trump person around.
How do you know?
He trashed Trump on every PCTV show he did.
Did he now? And you wasted hours of your life listening to him? Why? Are you a masochist?
Trapper, everyone who reads your posts knows that the education and teaching experience you brag about are totally made up.
How can we tell? By the nature of your responses. Anyone with the degrees and college teaching experience you claim to have would not engage in the name calling and braggadocio that characterize your posts.
The only one you are fooling is yourself.
I call you as a BS lying liberal!!!! ROFL!!!
“I call you as a BS lying liberal!”
What is your native language, Trapper? It sure isn’t English.
Good one Karen
kltpzym is how you spell Karen when you drop acid.
Yes, that would be how YOU spell it.
Thanks.
You have engaged “in the name calling and braggadocio that characterize your posts.”
Enough said,
He’s the grammar police…. Captain Karen.
Trump “University” is not a college, Trapper.
You’ve never been inside a college/universirty
How was remedial Math, the third time through? In HS
Now are You, TSC or it’s spawn?
Trapper needs to learn proper English writing conventions. He needs to learn proper capitalization and comma usage, and he needs to learn that the possessive ‘its’ does not use an apostrophe.
Trapper is lying about his alleged “education.”
Okay Karen
“It’s spawn”? You claim to have taught college level courses, but do not know the difference between “its” and “it’s”?
Don’t go forging any letters from Colin Powell, ok Trapper?
A simple man indeed. You said it not me, but for once i agree with ya
And of course you of all people are surprised that I call out the lie of Trump madness
Your goofy posts are no surprise.
TSC posts are fresh airs of sanity in a sea of nonsense posted by certain conspiratorial thinking fools who post here in what appears to be a daily basis.
Here are some facts: Covid isn’t a hoax. Biden did not steal the election. Trump will not be reinstated as President. Bill Gates is not injecting microchips into your bodies using Covid vaccines.
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And you and TSC are first class buffoons
All Trump supporters are buffoons. What kind of moron donates money to a “billionaire”?
I never saw a person posting here, besides you and TSC state Gates is injecting microchips in your body nor other messages you state. What I do see stated is people have the god given right to choose what they put inside their body. It is a personal choice that was forced upon us by scientists in China. I don’t think anyone should be name calling over it. Be thankful that our government was able to get vaccines created for people to take but again it is a choice. People should not run through red lights or speed or take drugs but they do. Choices are ours to make not the governments
Anyone who refuses the COVID vaccine absent a legitimate medical reason to do so is a moron. Stop relying on Dr. Google to make your medical decisions.
The information about that guy is a matter of public record. You never should’ve gone to bat for him, Dan.
I’m guessing TSC is a member in good standing of the Mickey Mouse Club.or NARML.
True Dan. They are just name calling and it neatly avoids having to discuss the real issues that I mentioned. They can’t admit that Biden is having serious cognitive issues and that China will soon dominate the world while the far left wants to defund police, believes that white babies are racist, and is spending so much money that it will eventually destroy our country.
Pat,you call all non Fox viewers Marxist and that is absurd and disgusting.Republicans attacked Americas House to overturn a cerified honest election.Your stuck with this as the reality of the Trump political party ideology.You could come out against it but this board lacks judgement concerning Tramp
Very fake information.
I believe opinions are made to tell people who you support.Democrats do not support Marxist.America does support socialist spending.I ghink we all agree the term socialism is now identified by no profit spending for the good of society.Fire department.Trump is the Republican party and conspired to overthrow the certification of the democratic votes of 50 different states.That is irrefutable.If you believe in the conspiracy of the cheat you believe in the Q ideology behind it.The republican party led by Trump is not an ideology I recognize.Please tell me what it is.
I agree that Democrats on the whole do not support Marxism, but I would add that “Marxism” is probably as ambiguous a term as “God” in terms of the personal understands of those who use the word and those who hear it. Might be fodder for a future column here: What exactly is Marxism v. “Marxism.”
Time to research the Frankfurt school Dan.
Dan,you must know these a trigger words from Fox.You also know why they put them in a news loop.Repeat repeat and eventually you wash many brains.
Since you brought it up, seeing how Pittsfield is shrinking should we defund the fire department
Biden is doing just fine, thank you.
Some folk were predicting Biden would destroy the stock market. They have been pretty quiet about that..
How is Hunter?
Recent release of , “I’m proud of him” by D-ementia Joe, said so.
From favorites Son’s laptop (that MSM buried 2020) , smoking crack talking to his brother’s wife.
Watch it kltpzyxm/TSC? Proud of “Joe’s” son, like Joe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd-ZPO89ulw
That’s the brother’s wife, Hunter was screwing at the same time he knocked up a stripper, who has Hunter’s kid. SMOKING CRACK!! Nice video!!!
Hunter and Ole Joe won’t pay child support, USA citizens are, instead!!!
I forgot, I’m paying for Hunter’s kid/Joe’s grandkid, they won’t!
I guess all thumbs down are fellow crack heads and/or D-emocrats
TSC and kltpzyxm I’m sure
How could it be otherwise, right?
Gimme crack whores and I don’t care, Gimme crack whores and I don’t care,Gimme crack whores and I don’t care…….cause China’s paying me…..
I rest my case, MT.
Good call resting the case.He cooked his own goose.
Where you get your rock in the Pitt? kltpzyxm
tell us?
Sorry Trapper, I don’t understand your question due to its poor grammar and word usage.
Karen strikes again.
All totally irrelevant.
As are ALL your posts
Inflation, rising gas/fuel costs, rising food costs, surge at the border, and companies can’t find workers, yeah, he’s doing great Floggy Moll….I mean Barry, or whatever name you use now.
it might help if the people who are afraid of needles would man up and get their goddamn shots..my god…grow a pair will ya?
Well, he’s doing a lot better than his predecessor, that’s for sure. He includes his cabinet in decisions and he doesn’t shoot from the hip without thinking of the consequences, unlike his predecessor. And, he’s not afraid to tell the truth. His predecessor doesn’t even know what the truth really is. He defines truth as whatever benefits HIM at any given moment. Not knowing what the truth is is the hallmark of a pathological psychology.
OMG, very delusional
Waat?! The whole Biden family are crooks!!
They all belong in prison!!
YES
You’re delusional
You tell em Karen
Our electorate chose the best man. He is no more demented than the guy he beat.
He cheated, and VP is a whore
Trapper says: “VP is a whore.”
Shame on you, Trapper. And you wonder why you have no credibility.
At least Pat knows how to spell and write. I may disagree with her politically, but she is to be commended because she does keep the discourse out of the gutter, and she is smart enough to know that vaccinations do not cause COVID, but rather cause the rate of the disease to go down.
Hold on, Mr. K. Willie Brown, former mayor of SF, in 1995 admitted to “a lengthy affair” with Harris. He also said, “Yes, I may have influenced her career when I was assembly speaker.” The word “whore” is admittedly strong, but it describes the actions of someone who offers personal services in exchange for favors. The would would appear to be proper usage when it comes to the sitting VP.
And women who use federally-funded birth control are prostitutes, right Dan?
You believe that the sitting VP is properly called a whore. Your mysogyny is showing.
Dan,
This is misogynistic garbage. Brown dated Harris for a short time after he had been separated from his wife for 10 years.
There is no evidence Harris slept with Brown to “get ahead.”
Come on. You’re better than this.
BLEAK
Thanks, but it was Mr. Brown who admitted that he helped Harris “get ahead,” with all that it implies. Another way of saying this is that she used him to advance her career. I’m just stating a neutral byte based on what Mr. Brown said in characterizing their relationship. In other words, if he doesn’t help her when he occupied the powerful post of assembly speaker, she most likely is forgotten to history. Of course, as VP, she will probably be anyway — except that she’s a woman “of color.” Brown actually opposed her nomination as VP.
By appointing her to two commissions? Harris doesn’t owe Brown for her political career.
And, Brown did not oppose her nomination as VP. In fact, he said Harris had the potential to be President, but by become VP, she may limit her chances by being Biden’s second fiddle.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/willie-brown-fear-kamala-harris-second-banana
Yes. Brown and Harris have both acknowledged this. You have to understand Brown’s position as an autocrat, the kind of powerful position long given the the speaker in our legislature. Oppose him and be gone. Follow him without question and be rewarded. When Brown placed Harris on the commissions, he was giving her his official blessings. After that, things happened mighty quickly for her.
Mentors help mentees get ahead. Things went quickly for Harris because she is uncommonly talented. Your not willing to recognize her talent for what she has achieved tells us more about you than about her. The fact that you are all too willing to accept the tawdry stories and the label ‘prostitute’ reveals a lot about you. I am shocked and disappointed to hear you speak this way. As Bleak House says, I thought you were better than that. Harris will not be forgotten to history because of her talent and because she is destined to be our next president.
Hopefully Harris, who is an idiot, will never become president.
She can’t, and hasn’t handled the assignment she was given – to oversee the border crisis! She’s a fraud!
There is a reason the pair is called illegitimate Joe and the San Francisco Ho
Yes, because idiots spread those lies.
Eye roll
Cuban-Americans are calling for more than a weak response from the Biden/Harris administration and are demanding that the country that used to represent freedom, will continue in that mission. The silence from Biden was heard around the world in the early days of the cries for help from the Cuban people. What can we and the world expect from a leader that will not even challenge China on the origins of the virus? Or does our country already know? Biden did come out finally and say that communism is bad, but it was said with very little emotion.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/protests-break-out-in-front-of-wh-urging-biden-to-take-firmer-stance
Thirty thousand veteran suicides since 911.
Countless others in Veterans homes or living on the streets. The walking dead are everywhere. The body count in the morgue tells a fraction of the horror of war.
The facts were 30000. Fizzy.
Who did you say did the counting?
Don’t know but the Planet will correct if necessary.
Blame Biden and Barry, POTUS Trump did what he could. Given RINOs and a Rats
Trump cleaned up VNA, nobody did in 40 years.
Ask a Vet!!!
Xiden is going back because he hates Americans.
Look at appointments in military/state department
yah, we need your lunatic buddy General Mike Flynn back right? He’s talking about assassinating people…now that is dementia front and center
And add gas hikes to Bidens numerous debocles
I am a Vet. Trump made no substantial improvements in the VA.
Biden does not hate Americans, and only an ignorant fool would make such a claim.
I’ll bet you were a cook.
And the problem with that is…
Now that we are leaving Afghanistan Pat wants to send our young boys to Cuba. Let them rest up a bit first okay Pat?
He’s sending them to Iraq
Cuba is now being looped on Fox news.Trying to create a new trigger.
The problem is the lobbyist , politicians, and generals are heavily invested in defense industry.
Leading to politicians like bush Cheney to manufacture a reason for conflict, weapons of mass destruction- bin laden is in Afghanistan. Etc
Bush incited radical Muslims by framing the clerics in Albany, Using the FBI
From buzzfeed October 8 2018
The Owner Of The Limo Company Involved In The Deadly New York Crash Was An FBI Informant
Shahed Hussain was accused of being involved in a scam to sell fraudulent IDs but did not serve time because he gave federal investigators “substantial assistance.”
Who after his limousine company killed 21 in Nee York , fled to rejoin osama bin laden in Abbatabad Pakistan.
Fabricating
Bogus
Investigations
to create conflict is the deep states proven tactic.
The newest white supremist hoax is no different.
Yeah he made them fly into the towers, he made them try and blow up the towers in 1993
dear dunbazz
Yup daddy Bush used it to provide excuse for first gulf war.
Stoked by anti Israel radical Islamist 6 of them.
Liberation of Kuwait took 2 days, a bunch of about to go stale munitions and no loss of American lives.
General Norman Schwarzkopf the George Patten of his day.
In case you forgot- or are ignorant of the facts of first trade center bombing- it was subsidized by port authorities which resulted in 5.6 million $ settlement.
Plans for bombs came from fort Bragg as did supplies discovered in 1991 murder investigation of 2 of the illegal alien terrorists – who were never deported- due to fake driver’s licenses from Nee York DMV
From limo company owner fBI used in framing of two Muslim clerics.
Small world isn’t it?
Remember the names, they never change.
FACTS MATTER!
FBI framed some on 1-6 and in the plot to kidnap Witmer .
LBJ gave us the welfare state and sewer in Vietnam
Tom,
Don’t have any more cops to threaten?
I can see this opening up an ugly smelly can of worms.
I’ll just say last President who cared about America/Americans was IKE.
There has been the good, the bad, and the ugly since. WE now have the later two, without any of the former
Let the feces fly! I’ll just sit back for entertainment ; )
We agree about Ike. Best President since WWII. And before.
Yes and now Tramps are against infastructure that Ike built
IKE got the U.S. Interstate going, brokered a truce in Korea, oversaw an unparalleled manufacturing and development surge, and — most importantly — gave us the warning about the “military-industrial complex (MIC).” He saw that even by 1960, MIC had jumped the rails. It was the final time America had a chance to restore the constitutional republic it was meant to be. JFK made the attempt, and we know what happened. America died on. Nov. 22, 1963.
D-Crooks in BASTUN, stole all the 1-90 turnpike money, and the promise of a free trunpike.
Pittsfield rolling in cash and yet the roads are third world. But the first time some well heeled bicyclist goes head over heels after hitting one of tyers potholes things will begin to change quickly.
FU, liberal
trying to guess if you are in your second childhood or third
You can’t make stupid to a Moron
You just did
I’m up on YOU!!!
R U that stupid?
Thanks Dan for being right on .
Democrat infrastructure is bike lanes on North Street.
Fair comment, since every city official is officially a Democrat or, for the few, a “Republican” who is actually a Dem. The so-called “Independents?” Almost all of them aren’t.
Waiting for the horse and buggy lane next
I like IKE 🙂
Not sure he’s last president that cared ,Reagan did a good job, in spite of saddling himself with Bush1.
We all know how that turned out.
Clinton for all his distractions, did well also.
Slick Willie sold his and Wifey’s souls to the Chi-Coms
He liked to go to Epstein’ s pedo island
I’m not sure why you call Xi Jinping the greatest politician on earth. I guess it depends on how you define politician, and what it means to be a great politician.
In my view a great politician is one who gains support of the greatest number of factions or followers, by talking out of all the different sides of his mouth at once.
Using what appears to be your definition, Putin would at least give Xi a run for his money.
Yes. It is close, Vlad v. Xi. A politician is someone who builds a bridge even if there is no river. Nod to Nikita K-chev.
Dan, You forgot the great divider in the USA, Barry.
This license board should all go out to pasture.
That reminds me. Tyers new book is coming out. “My Bridge to Nowhere.”
“A Tizzy in Tyertown.”
Biden Fauci will now control big farm sales with all of these variants. Big money Planites.
More Putin paranoia
They’ll be as many unvaccinated numbers as non voters from the last election
Hey LICENnCE BOARD people are sick of these loud BaRS!!!!!!
Is there a list of the Homes that The At Home give away, now that i is underway.Who monitors it,who comes first,what is the criteria and what are the rules? Someone said you can have a pretty hefty income and get repairs.
Some of the vaccinated are not going to be around to vote next time around..they are rolling the dice…so be it
There’s always the mail. Dead voters rule.
There were more Biden voters, than registered voters!
Putin, through Trump, is playing your ass like a fiddle. How gullible can one man be?
Hunter got a big pay day from the wife of the mayor of Moscow. 10% to the big guy.
But Joe and Hunter aren’t beholden to Putin, I am very surprised the FBI didn’t start a hoax witch hunt over something factual. That’s before we move to the China money. I am starting to wonder what country didn’t pay off our first family
Vladimir is a class car. Like the Planet here in Retread Tyertown.
Putin is so broke he can’t afford toilet paper, he will make some money off his new pipeline and weaken the Ukraine in the process.
What? Putin is the richest man in the world.
The NON Mayor. Nothing on North.
Oooohhh. Love the variation: “Nothing on North.” So shall it be. The new proper designation is “Nothing on North in Tyertown.”
New poster? sign?
NOTHING ON NORTH, DANGER, ENTER AT OWN RISK!!!
Maybe Haz/Mat format
Good one, TRAP.
Or Tuesday’s with Barry.
‘Noise pollution’ of senior citizens playing pickleball has suburb outraged
“The pop-pop-pop sound is unending. It’s noise pollution,” said Judy Mac, who lives steps away from the town’s court. “Absolutely, the court should be shut down.”
Also the splash pad at clapp park is broken again. No water pressure and the water smells like sewage.
The bathrooms are closed and the pt in ports potty’s
Go early to pick up the needles
The pop you here is TSC opening beer.
Not sure if he has the cognitive ability to figure out how to do that, maybe the Nurse will help him, or guard
“RICHMOND — The deadbeats who don’t pay their taxes are expensive for the rest of us.” So says Ruth Bass, well Ruth pay your fair share.
She has chapter land in recreation. She gets a HUGE tax break. She won’t let others use her property and has no trespassing signs posted everywhere. She’s cut off access to Lenox mountain.
Screw you Ruth Bass
Does she use her platform to write about the tax deadbeats in Pittsfield? Like the ones who had their taxes “forgiven?” Or the ones getting tax breaks that the working class has to make up for? Or is she just another tool in the good old boy toolbox working for another tool in the good old boy toolbox?
Will Ruth Bass call out her deadbeat neighbor DA Harrington for not paying her taxes? No, she won’t.
I think she just did
BASSHOLE
She’s a cuckoo old lady. Rutberg must love the old bat.
Her and her hubby use to speed down barker road all the time, don’t think they ever got a speeding ticket. Then they would pollute the world on their fancy trips so they could write about it. Now they consider themselves environmentalists gotta love it 1984
Democrat lawmaker spending lavishly on her own security while at the same time trying to defund the police for the rest of the country. She isn’t the only one in politics who is doing this. We need to reimagine our politicians so that they live much simpler lifestyles.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9826269/Trey-Gowdy-slams-Cori-Bush-spending-70K-private-security-calling-defund-police.html
Buy guns and ammo while you can.
Snowflakes live in fear of Social Security,Medicare,Obamacare,Highways,Public Schools ,Police and Fire departments and most of all the fear women and minority voting…..I know why Trump is appealing to Qanon republicans but they play dumb or they are desperate to keep Tramps wealth backed scheme alive….Russia Russia,Russia and Fox and slippery Steve Bannon….
is this for your next insurrection?
safety idiot
Oh. Who is after you now?
Ask Ashli…..never mind the government killed her.
Actually her own unbridled stupidity killed her. that is the sad truth.
Victim blaming. nice.
Is that a sentence? What is your first language? English is clearly your second language.
Mucus Garcia
call your doctor
It’s a good magazine.
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/northern_berkshires/in-williamstown-harrington-details-brady-list-process-and-its-place-in-protecting-the-rights-of/article_c4f9ecc4-ee77-11eb-a05c-d7d20f6e4a38.html
“She (Nipples Harrington) said that police chiefs around the county report a questionable situation with an officer to the DA’s office. A three-person panel, made up of Harrington and two deputy DAs, screen the evidence and any reports presented, and then make a determination on whether the officer in question should be on the list.“
This is an absolutely terrifying thought! This woman can’t even pay her taxes or speeding tickets. She shouldn’t be in charge of anything.
It is a very disturbing concept. The fact that someone has done something “wrong” in their lives, whether in the line of duty or not, it would be rare that this would be relevant to evidence in a case. Andrea Harrington in charge of making these decisions about police? She just tried to ruin an officer out of pure vindictiveness. Harrington’s lack of professionalism is stunning, “Someone on the list is one of my favorite police officers,” she said. Facepalm.
The Brady Rule is specific to exculpatory evidence, so it is directly related to evidence.
Too bad there isn’t a DA Brady list. She’d make the top of the list.
Taxes, tickets, credit card, drivers license, ethics, public records, and legal misconduct.
Impeachment has the same outcome.
Ex prez Don Tramps war on democracy ending officially on 1/6/2021 is going to be investigated by the Peoples House to investigate the danger that Republican cult poses t o the security of the United States of America.Unnofficially this disgusting human failure still promotes a lie to his vulnerable supporters who have a limited capacity to understand reality…….1/6/2021 investigation by the people will stay focused on who organized it and the plan to overthrow America…..It will start with Tramps violent attackers doing the unthinkable.Now America will take names….
U R a professional buffoon.
Ther are 9 cars again today at our huge expensive 15 million biolab facility and Milltown capital is 3 of them……its more of a clubhouse.Build a casino/ Hotel and that will bring 2,000 jobs……Republucans have a COVID problem as they tell each othef not to get the vaccine.just to make America fail.
BIC started at $3 million, then jumped to $6mm, then $9mm, then $13mm before coming to rest somewhere between $13 and $15mm. Ah, but what are a few loose millions among friends? Follow the money.
The money is untraceable.
Not necessarily … and usually not so.
As usual you lump everyone into a group .There are many people from all sides questioning if they want to get the vaccine or have not gotten it at this time.
Contradiction
1. Berkshire District Attorney Andrea Harrington said that the procedure is apolitical and does not play favorites.
….
“Someone on the list is one of my favorite police officers,” she said.
2. Prosecutors have an obligation to protect the constitutional rights of defendants to exculpatory evidence to ensure a fair trial, Harrington noted.
….
“We are not appropriate gatekeepers of exculpatory evidence,” she said.
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/northern_berkshires/in-williamstown-harrington-details-brady-list-process-and-its-place-in-protecting-the-rights-of/article_c4f9ecc4-ee77-11eb-a05c-d7d20f6e4a38.html
I’m not convinced that MCAD handles complaints about Police Misconduct… and besides that, MCAD is bought & paid for.
Tell me if I’m wrong
“Most Brady violations come from prosecutors, and this office in particular has a really difficult history with Brady violations that have resulted in extreme miscarriages of justice. So I felt like that was weighing somewhat like a cloud over the office,” Harrington said.
She’s not smart enough to get the irony of her own statement.
“So … I wanted to communicate to our law enforcement partners that the prosecutors in my office are being held to a high standard of professionalism and ethics.”
Cloudy w/ a chance of Nipples Harrington.
She is a beautiful woman.She is also smart.She will also have to run again if you dont like her.Trump is a loser who got tossed because he is a low life.
Yes, the ever ethical DA Harrington will be clearing the so called cloud.
Your criticisms are undermined by the juvenile “Nipples Harrington.” If Harrington were “Andrew Harrington” you’d not call him “Nipples.”
War is not healthy for children and other living things.
“Put down your books and pick up a gun
We’re gonna have a whole lot of fun
And it’s one, two, three, what are fighting for?
Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn,”………
You know that peace can only be won
When we’ve blown them all to kingdom come
And it’s five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates
Ain’t no time to wonder why, whoopee we’re all gonna die”
WAR IS HELL!
But anyway, where have all the flower gone………
And in Schittsfield, MA, Tyertown’s city wide WAR ZONE, known for its dynamic vibrancy, and in the interest of violent inclusivity, all god’s coloured gots their guns. Jesus, AKA Luger Lugo, gots his gun, along with the armed and dangerous 14 and 15-year-old drug dealing gangbangers from Schittsfield’s vibrant ghettos, they gots their guns. Even PPD Barber’s minor daughter, she gots her father loaded large capacity service weapon. And this is definitely good news in that the armed and dangerous drug dealing 14 and 15-year-old are still young enough so that their records will be sealed. T
Nipples Harrington is at it again, if you are a white male victim, don’t expect justice in Berkshire County. If you’re a senior citizen, don’t expect justice in Berkshire County.
The first plea was 6 months CWOF.
what a disgrace
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/crime/north-adams-caregiver-admits-causing-fathers-death-in-2016/article_a978fd62-eee7-11eb-b830-e7996a9d716a.html
This man suffered for months! He had open wounds, broken bones, lost 40lbs under her “care”. What’s the DA seeking 6 months probation.
She is due to be sentenced in the fall, and Giarolo said the office of District Attorney Andrea Harrington will not seek a sentence above six months in jail.
Three years after the horrible and graphic neglect and abuse of a father results in his death and the DA will not ask for more than 6 months. This is a DA who has touted herself as making domestic abuse so seriously? Six mohts for someone’s life. This is a travesty of justice and a stark reminder to the voters that their vote was based on lies. If you are not sickened I guess you don’t have parents or grandparents.
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/crime/north-adams-caregiver-admits-causing-fathers-death-in-2016/article_a978fd62-eee7-11eb-b830-e7996a9d716a.html
Biden nominated crazy far left Rachel Rollins as US Attorney for Massachusetts?!? So unbelievable, but typical of far left Biden. Rollins is very similar to Andrea Harrington and both were put in office by far leftist George Soros. How will these people and their insane agenda ever be stopped? She also wants to get rid of the police.
TSC,
You forgot to lump this guy in with all your lumping you do. There are plenty of “Do as I say “ types out there from all sides with the masks and vaccines and yet, ……
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2021/07/27/exclusive-email-shows-newsom-knew-his-sons-basketball-camp-was-a-mask-optional-affair-n417259
Why hasn’t he been recalled yet, it seems like it’s being dragged out until the next election, the signatures have been certified and none were mailed in or put in drop boxes, so when will he get booted?