THE DARK SIDE OF YESTERDAY: ARMAGEDDON or ARMISTICE? DISRUPTION or DESTINY? WHATCHY’ALL THINK?
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY OCT. 9, 2022) — Yesterday.
Okay. You voted.
Or maybe you were smarter than that and didn’t vote.
Either way, you once again got the results you deserve.
Or maybe you got the result you didn’t deserve.
The point is, the mid-terms are technically over, launching now an interminable, headlong rush toward the insanity of the 2024 presidential election. Of course, in tax-happy Massachusetts, national and state elections have become meaningless given the Bay State’s gulag status as a one-party monolith, an unvaried and solidified slab that makes Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 version look like a cabinet of curiosities. In Pittsfield, 2023 brings us the muni elections, which will occupy head space of sycophants and wannabees. Only the shysters need apply. The Kapanskis? Prepare for your “medicine” once again.
Allow THE PLANET to leave that local nonsense and return to yesterday.
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What did yesterday produce? Armageddon or Armistice? Disruption or Destiny, which are, anyway, one and the same?
Nationally, Democrats campaigned on abortion all summer. That’s as clueless as cornering the market on anvils aboard the sinking Titanic. After the fool’s gold of an initial spark, abortive pyrite that Dems took for the real thing, it was “Bye Bye Baby, (Baby Goodbye).” Abortion flopped and floundered as marginal. All Dems had left (pun intended) was transgenders and pronouns. Pelosi, Shiff, Warren, Kamala, and the Usual Gang of Idiots warned of the “end of Democracy,” capital “D.”
As if we had a Democracy.
Pretty phunny.
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Solutions to America’s problems lie beyond any political party to redeem, and it is doubtful that out of our demise enough ordinary people can find the time, the courage, and the resources to save themselves. Hard to be a civic Joan of Arc when you’re being taxed to death and trying to win the daily struggle to stay alive and maybe have a few discretionary dollars at your disposal.
These are the problems that bloated pig-politicals do not have. In fact, the Kapanskis’ troubles are what keeps the pigs in power. As long as today’s breed of national, state, and local politicians foment enough sin, ordinary, law-abiding voters will suffer. Turnout will not approach the levels needs for collective change.
Until then, we remain a city, a state, and a country of individuals, free agents refusing to go to the Dark Side of Yesterday, whose greatest act of self-preservation may be to isolate even further.
THE PLANET welcomes your analysis of Yesterday.
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“Election: n., a cancerous social event meant to appoint the worst possible human beings into the most powerful governmental positions” — Sir Donald Turpentine, Knight of the Bath.
LOVE TO ALL.
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Looks like IMS will get to drive. Question1 got in also.
Were on the highway to hell……..
Whaaaaaaa Poor baby Tad Mrapper ROTFL. Where’s your Red wave lololololololol. L O S E R ROTFL. Awful quiet it merry large O. BAAAAAAHAAAAAHHAAAA. GO beat your dog L O S E R BaaaaaHaaaaHaaaa. USA USA USA
You are already there.
Whoa, now that’s the comeback statement of the year BaaaaHaaaaHaaaa ROTFL Rube
Get your head out of your McDonough
maybe not. As the Greater Wheel of Fortune rotates you downwards, your inner Minor Wheel of Fortune upon which you ride may rise.
The best election comes next year in 2023! Pittsfield politics will hold its mayoral election. Since 1997, Pittsfield’s mayors have been the late-Barstool (aka The Doyle Debacle), Aberration (aka The Hathaway Hack), Rolodex (aka The Ruberto Renaissance), Montello’s part-time mayor (aka The Bianchi Bust), and the sitting Vibrant & Dynamic Gated Community mayor (aka The Tyer Taxer) featuring Matt “Kufflinks” Kerwood (aka the Creative Public Accountant). I wonder what the next mayor will be sarcastically called.
It scary who the rumors are that are going to run.
You mean it could get worse??? Is it someone in prison or someone that should Be in prison?
And will this individual be promising a forensic audit during his or her campaign? Or will this person be promising the good old boys that there will NEVER, EVER, EVER be a forensic audit during his or her terms?
Please tell me Ruberto is not coming back.
Barbalunga for Mayor. Just so he can report me to his buddy Galvin again, for voting multiple times, when I post here that I am voting against him (1 vote), for his opponent (2 votes total)
It probably will be better to be in prison than to be living through the next 2 years in lyin biden and the steal group in charge!! At least in prison you have rights, 3 hots and a cot. Out in the real world there will be shortages in oil, food and other essentials needing to live You will also have a police force and legal system that will look the other way during crimes so I suggest everyone buckle up, lock the doors and load the defense items in your house to stay safe
Any clue?
The rumor I’ve heard is it’s a white male. This YT loves chasing job promotions and opportunities, almost as much as he likes chasing tail.
Sound like anyone you know who used to be in Pittsfield politics OB?
Is he a fast talker with high level special interest connections and someone who would be willing to sell what is left of Pittsfield down the road? Is he someone who would be willing to make sure that if Tyer somehow leaves any of the Covid money behind he will make sure it gets steered into the proper pockets? Is he a yes man? Puppet material?? Not afraid to sell his soul? Does his name rhyme with soul?
I’m not running!
I believe that was your voting list for all the past years…you sure know how to pick those winners!!
Let’s hope the Legislature doesn’t screw with the law that says the state has to return surplus money to the citizens who paid the taxes. Now that they just instituted a new tax the state is sure to be rolling in the dough! In Pittsfield hopefully the school board is starting to look at redistricting and closing a couple of schools
BTW some voting shenanigans up in Nashua, NH. Close associates telling me the poll takers were not allowing people to vote same day even though they had their license with them. The person I know had to show the poll taker the law that was posted in line stating all you needed was your license with your ID. The poll takers were sending people away stating they needed a bill at their address, they wouldn’t take the car registration. Wonder what else was going on yesterday across the nation.
In Massachusetts, people should consider leaving if they can’t stand these far left policies. This state will now go totally far left. Join the rest of the young people and live off of big government, if you stay, because that will be the only way to survive and the far left knows it. Get used to the odor of skunk pot in the air because, it too, will become more prevalent. Unless you work for the school system which gave themselves a huge money grab last night with the Question 1. It was women and the school voters who turned everything in this state very far left.
All true, Pat
Please name a far left policy that you feel will make YOU move away….
I’m betting there isn’t one.
How about being taxed to death for fewer services of poorer quality. It’s done a job on Pittsfield fer shur.
How about being limited by big government and taxed out of your own city. Rents skyrocketing, skyrocketing heating prices and gasoline, no turkeys for Thanksgiving this year (except for school personnel who will manage to find one for their family). No the list is endless. Save yourselves and leave if you can.
Leave if you can. Seriously. Every local money manager except one is advising people to get the hell out and the sooner the better. Pittsfield is no place to raise children or try to accumulate a nest egg for retirement. It is almost impossible without high level connections.
Go west and take your chances because your chances here are negligible and your kids deserve so much better. In fact it is borderline child abuse to raise a kid in Pittsfield. It is a last resort for those who just cannot leave or for those who immigrated from an even worse situation. And by the looks of the names on the real estate pages buying houses in Pittsfield, many are coming from Central America. So good for them, but hopefully Pittsfield will be a stepping stone for them on their way to a more promising future.
My reasons:
1) Tax on estates and others in the umbrella spread of financial shrapnel issued from Fair Tax (they’re coming for our dollars not the ‘dirty dozen’ on the fair share propaganda sheets)
2) Dental insurance disruption – already unaffordable now to be completely irrelevant. Insurance competition drives lower costs. Arbitrary regulation prevents new competition and drives cost up
3) Auto insurers fleeing the Commonwealth returning us to the bad days on 1 option carriers(only now have to cover fraudsters.) Goodbye, Geico, Allstates. Hello, Commerce – one choice shopping.
Future of the State: Social Service hubs in all communities beyond the capitol. All your taxes will paint bike lanes and fund services for the indigent. Brings you back to #1.
The crappy politicians getting 6th terms and the Irish Mob in governor office is Bus. as usual. No reason to leave, no reason to stay.
I said yesterday – it’s crime that is grinding us to a halt. I mean top down. Crime is primarily theft (life or property.) People flee crime.
You can’t vote out the government, that was never voted in.
You will enjoy Florida
Elections have consequences. When will the voters in MA figure that out? This election proves once agine that the voters deserve what they get.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
American Spectator:
“We are still in the time in which weak men make tough times. We have not gotten to the point where tough times make tough men.
But get ready because those tough times will do their work. Perhaps for quite a long while.”
We have to endure more of the abject awful leaders who got us to where we are today. A hardened heart is always in the advance.
35 people are worth 13 trillion dollars and you as a true Corp republican think it’s not a problem as all the red states are fn in huge poverty because they vote for criminals to lead them.
It is a problem. The middle class is gone, and the profoundly rich, here in our own towns will get even richer. Not much in the red states where the refugees from Chicago slums are fleeing to. The rich living on East/West coasts are the ones smiling.
You and I are probably are more alike than different.
Speaking of the rich getting richer…..has the mayor blown through the whole 40 million plus yet?
And what hath God wrought over on Alfred Ave?? Looked like a clown show from the beginning. Guarantee you you won’t be getting the whole story if you ask what is going on and what is the time line for finishing the road. Whatever you do not ask Councilor Conant or the DPW cuz they ain’t talkin.
She is getting another 2.5 million, from the Opioid Settlements.
just doing the democrat shuffle
Do you mean how the city paved Alfred drive knowing they would soon be digging it back up to replace the water main?? How it’s taken a month and is still not done? How people were not notified that their water would be shut off or their driveways blocked so they could not get out? Whatever do you mean?
and all the manhole covers and storm drain covers are still lying on peoples lawns two months later even though the road has one layer of asphalt. (except where they then retrenched it for the water main) Are they even planning on putting them back? Has the contractor ever done this kind of work before? Will the job be easier once the snow comes and I am hearing possibly as early as next week? Is the guy in charge the same guy that was in charge of the bike lanes or homeless situation???
Can someone please make a call to Colorado and try to get some answers because the people on the street sure as hell don’t know anything.
This is called capitalism and motivation to be better, learn better and work harder. Even people who are poor can work and strive to become wealthy and have a good life. Time to swat the leeches from society. Limit government and increase opportunities for individuals. Use personal responsibilities which will foster a stronger country. Law and order should be restored, I find it funny that you constantly call for a forensic audit. This is funny because democrats, who you support consistently (actually all the time) are known for lying, hiding, breaking the laws and be outright slime bags who would never be able to run a real company,
I know you may be upset with some of the ballot questions but Question 3 not passing is a good thing. Listen, when every liquor store in town (owned by the same family) has “yes on 3” yard signs, buttons on employees, and social media videos that look like a hostage situation where a minimum wage employee reads a script about how good question 3 will be. It’s obvious that these folks just want more liquor licenses for increased profit.
I like the hostage image.
Yes, #3 got it’s deserved fate. At least the electorate has its priorities in order. Really – a people who know what they are about.
Massachusetts is a lost cause…nationally the same shenanigans that took place in 2020 repeated in 2022. If the military has all of the evidence it’s time for them to act or watch us turn into Brazil.
Military is never your friend at home. Founding Fathers knew that.
The threat to the republic is the loss of national identity. The People always chooses their government be it one form of tyranny or free state.
Is this Fetterman?
Why?
That democrat with a quarter brain?
It’s the latest democrat trend to have candidates with half a brain
AI.
Now it’s the DOJ and FBI that are not friends of the normal law abiding god fearing citizens
Sadly, they have been thoroughly politicized, as has the Supreme Court.
DOJ and FBI….you sound like Trump and FOx….Crime pays for Trump and FOX
Mass is and always will be unfortunately a socialist and tax out state. The last great Republican was Silvio. Fifty years ago.
Now you remember what an old school republican liberal was.
My family Knew Silvio and Billy Kitterman well,two great local republicans. I went to Silvio’s retirement party at the old Itam as a kid and my dad was a staunch supporter of him and Bill as well. Kitterman was underrated as a politician who could have gone further than he did.
What crap that Biden is pushing would Conte support?
Nothing
Good luck in your senior year
I still can not believe people are so stupid to keep voting people like AOC and clowns like her into office looking to kill America and our values. Mathra is going to be governor look out Massachusetts more race baiting, lgbtq+++++, stuffed down our throats, our poor kids being taught this crap, and colleges continue to teach the woke programs. God Help Us
Hmmm. Maybe the governor-elect has just earned her PLANET nickname: Mothra Healey. All hail, MOTHRA!
Danny, your nickname game is getting as bad as tRumpy’s….
Hold it Healey
Are mail in ballots hand counted or run through the ballot machines?
Kitterman was a democrat excuse me.
Both for liberal ones, then the sum is used, and multiplied by the machines.
A local accountant runs them through his shredder
they are corrected first to make sure the powers to be stay in power
Where are the official election tallies by city/county for MA?
They are usually published day after. This year I can’t find them anywhere.
And numbers for elections across the country?
AP declared Fetterman the winner minutes after polls closed in PA! Again, how about actual numbers?
Yes. The results have been notoriously slow in being made public. It could mean a bunch of things.
Fraud like 2020.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/go-suspicious-ballots-arrive-way-legal-deadline-detroit/
If Kevin McCarthy is the new Speaker of the House, he should seriously look into this potential vote fraud.
McCarty is a no good RINO. Mitchell needs to go too.
Certainly not the red wave the GOP was anticipating! They campaign hard against Democrats on the issue of inflation, when they have literally no plan themselves for it, which is typical of that party. They don’t have the balls to stand up to the corporations that are price gouging taxpayers, you know the same corporations that are lining their pockets…
I agree, TB. Neither party has not only the answers but “an” answer.
The plan is to stop spending money we don’t have. Government printing presses cause inflation. It’s not rocket surgery.
Liberal media mindless parrot
Really?
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Wow!. That is a red wave.
Notice:
Blue = $$$$$. Just a thin strip of Cali coast speaks for the entire state.
Red is rural/non-metro.
As power aggregates money, we hear how their think tanks propose ideas such as abolishing the Electoral College and placing elections under the admin of the Federal Government.
The struggle between Jefferson and Hamilton is still being fought.
Nobody lives in the Red
And now for today’s “believe it or not” story out of the bowels of New Hampshire…..
gotta check out the pic of this “winner.”
The world’s gone mad!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/huge-trans-man-wins-new-hampshire-beauty-contest-weighs-twice-much-closest-competitor/
PA voted in a dead Democrat…..corrupt, corrupt, corrupt!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/11/09/pennsylvania-voters-reelect-dead-democrat-state-representative/
Oh my God! With some of the politicians we have now, a dead candidate might almost be preferable.
The dead voters wanted one of their own elected, got to be “inclusive”.
Logical. Who else would they vote for?
What the school personnel and many women in this area are doing is being in bed with the far left politicians. One hand washes the other. The politicians buy their vote by financially taking care of them in exchange for the school personnel indoctrinating the kids in the schools and voting Democrat. High taxes for them are offset by the goodies this Question 1 will give them. These people don’t care about humanity. They are totally mercenary and looking out for themselves.
I wonder which one is the worst debacle in Pittsfield politics? Is it the PEDA debacle that is still very polluted and has millions of dollars in always growing debts and other liabilities as the years pass us all by? Is it Jimmy Ruberto’s Rolodex that legend says is at the rock bottom of Silver Lake? Is it Jimmy Ruberto’s failed downtown Renaissance that he made the fictional Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski pay for? Is it Nuciforo’s carte blanche to stink up residential neighborhoods with his pot growing odors? Is it Pittsfield’s Level 5 public school district that over 650 students opt out of each and every academic year? Is it Mayor Linda Tyer’s over $200 million Pickleball budget that takes no account of the predicted upcoming economic recession in 2023? Is it Matt Kerwood’s secretive multimillion-dollar Slush Funds that should belong in local taxpayers’ pockets. Is it Pittsfield politics always increasing municipal spending by 5 percent each and every fiscal year going back the last 40 years, which was the beginning of the flawed Proposition 2.5 state law? Is it Pittsfield always being in the top 10 cities in Massachusetts for violent crime, according to the FBI’s annual reports going back decades? Is it dangerous downtown Pittsfield’s daily shootings, the over 1,000 gang members living in inner-city Pittsfield neighborhoods, and the dozens of empty storefronts on North Street? Is it upscale art galleries and museums in London, U.K., NYC and L.A. hosting visual art exhibits of postindustrial Pittsfield which they entitle: “Pittsfield: A City in Decay”?
JM look in the mirror, the worse debacle in Pittsfield is all the idiots keep voting democrat. Einstein said it best if you keep doing the same thing over expecting a different result…..
Einstein?? You do know that he had the theory of relative humidity wrong don’t you? Don’t listen to that guy.
Don’t worry our mayors handling it. Worry about your apartments toilet.
Wait what??? They are washing each others hands while in bed??? What kind of kinky shit are they doing that they can’t wait till they get to a sink?
Never mind I don’t even want to know.
https://www.teamherschel.com/
I think it was Ben Franklin after signing the Declaration of Independence was asked if we had a democracy or a republic, and responded a republic if we know how to keep it. Yesterday, Biden was giving his post-election briefing ” THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Well, we had an election yesterday. (Laughter.) And it was a good day, I think, for democracy. And I think it was a good day for America. (Clears throat.) Excuse me, I’m a little hoarse. ”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/11/09/remarks-by-president-biden-in-press-conference-8/
Putin does not want America to be a democracy OR a republic. And it appears he is having a lot to say about what will eventually happen.
just saying
It was a good day. Party of the FBI and Big Tech (fascists?) lost the House.
Thus shall end Build Back Nothing, Inflation Nothing Act, Federal Elections Unconstitutional Act to name the triad.
Senate could flip, but its in fascist control as it is.
According to the Berkshire Eagle, the Millionaires Tax (Question 1) was passed with gusto in Berkshire County. Not so much in the rest of the state who knows that the money goes to people already getting more than their “fair share”. I never have heard of such an unfair question. The money should go to ALL of the people of the state if they insist on doing it, which I don’t even agree with, but to just a select group? They just threw the road infrastructure in there to make people think it’s something for everybody, but there will undoubtedly be little oversight of where the money goes.
Question 4 passed in this state which is not shocking. Illegal immigrants are already voting here and question 4 was just to make it legal since state politicians passed it on their own a long time ago. Maura Healey coasted in to a win on school employees and illegal immigrant votes. Will local employers now give every worker more sick time and vacation time or is Maura Healey’s win only going to benefit the select few?
Does this mean that the Commonwealth becomes the mecca for illegals? If you’re on the bottom rungs looking for housing – move over!
The poor always pays twice for the cost of social justice.
Dina Guiel should be suspended from all boards and commissions as it is perfectly clear that she does not have the ability to understand the issues in front of her. Where’s votes on issues of extreme importance are basically null and void.
All of her votes reflect the administrations positions, being a rubber stamp is not what we need on the city Council either. Guiel should be recalled, we have enough bootlickers on the city council, she gets the booby prize hands-down. Does anyone know the procedure for getting rid of this councilor for incompetence? It’s akin to passing gas and making a case it’s perfume.
…I yield,the floor.
Get a good candidate with a brain and work to get him/her elected in ward 6…..reject Dina da dunce.
Now that Question 4 passed, are the hard working taxpayers going to now purchase a vehicle for them and also pay for their auto insurance? Massachusetts has gone beyond being Taxachusetts, it has sunk to FreeForSomechusetts! Those that have spent their lives working and paying high taxes to build a better life received absolutely NOTHING in return especially in Pittsfield.
True. Especially when only certain groups received the freebies and everyone else works their tails off to pay for them. The only thing that seems to strike fear into the money grabbers is when anyone mentions people leaving the state. They know that even if they pile in the illegal immigrants, it won’t equal the money they will lose if high earners leave the state. Without the tax income their money grabbing scheme is cooked.
Yeah,that’s what fours about,getting the payoff from question one,which also passed. Schools and poverty kids need more Joe.
The only thing that seems to scare the money grabbers is if you urge people to leave Massachusetts. They know if enough high earners leave, their money grabbing scheme is in jeopardy.
Florida, which was once one of the most disorganized states in the country when it came to voting, is now able to efficiently have all elections results on the night of the election. Florida used to be made fun of and now they are a model for the rest of the country of how to do voting tallies quickly. Many states may take much more than a few days. This is outrageous.
Time is to ballots as distance is to depth charges.
Both decrease accuracy. I suspect that the drive for early and mail in balloting is not direct fraud but to promote inefficiency which is a challenge to accuracy.
The thing is I think Florida also does early voting and mail-in ballots, but they manage to do it efficiently.
Florida is fast because everyone they wanted to win won and nobody dares question madman DiSantis. If any democrats won they would be doing recounts and going through the court system and you know it.
But a lot of peeps is saying that DiSantis is planning on kicking your guy Trump to the curb very soon. Should be interesting to see where Trumps fan base goes on that.
Trump supporters would easily back DiSantis if he is the Republican candidate in 2024.
I don’t know it. By your theory states are slow in counting if they have something to gain by going slow and dragging out the process. Does that also apply to all of the far left states that are still counting ballots?
Drop and roll, just like 2020.
Half brain Fetterman for president.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/10/candidate-quality-doesnt-matter-when-youve-got-a-d-next-to-your-name/
That discounts the fraud
It appears to be impossible to find the town by town vote totals anywhere. Are they trying to hide something?
Boston Globe website?
City has already spended money on the water plant. No questions asked. It’s a runaway train at the sewer plant. Your rates are going to sky rocket without any due diligence.They’re to worried about chicken coop permits.
Maybe, but only subscribers can access it.
Counsilor Warren….arpa funds has a criteria. Certain individuals cannot accept funds. It’s against the law. Why as a Counselor are you sitting on this fence?
So far we’ve seen only a couple councilors who have called out the administrative policies that directly affect the taxpayer here locally. I would like to tell the rest of them. You represent the taxpayers in your ward and city wide. NOT the ADMINISTRATION
Maybe he didn’t read the disclosure. The others can’t comprehend it,evidently.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/11/10/actress-patricia-heaton-to-christians-after-disappointing-election-our-security-does-not-rest-in-men-or-governments-but-in-god-alone/
Eight O clockBaseball film. By Ken Burns on channel 306.DAN.