TOP O’ THE MARNIN’ TO YEZ AS WE CELEBRATE ST. PADDY AND HIS DAY
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, ST. PATRICK’S DAY 2023) — THE PLANET be wearing’ the green in honor of the man who drove the wokesters out of Ireland. Oh, and the snakes … which are just about the same.
That is why, in case you didn’t know, you would never set up St. Patrick with Medusa on a blind date.
With that, Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everyone. It’s a day of fun, one that comes near the end of a long winter, in which we all can feel lucky. The fact that it occurs on a Friday will, we’re sure, guarantee that the drinking will be reasonable and moderate–especially on college campuses, where we shall be to lecture on that great Irish poet, Tom Eliot!
Okay. We know, but, on St. Patrick’s Day, everyone’s Irish, yeah?
So, in honor of green beer, boiled dinners, corned beef, the Boston Celtics, and the Green Mountain Boys, THE PLANET shall keep it brief and give the talking stick to YOU, our valued readers.
We now turn it over to you, all topics.
Have a blast as well as a great weekend, everybody.
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“The spendin’ of the green will never be snipped by Venmo” — Sir Donald Turpentine, Knight of the Bath.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT EIREANN.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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In the future, the oceans and the sky above are predicted to turn from the color blue to green. It will be in honor of Saint Patrick’s Day. Celtics fans bleed green. All wish for the luck of the Irish. Happy St. Patrick’s Day, 2023.
Dumb me I thought the pcb’s caused the color change
Thanks for the nice note Jon!
I got Duke.
So did Tennessee.
Oh Brodie thanks for the memories. Spent many a ST. PATRICK DAY ON THE Kellys irish Alps.. A few draft beers and good company. Who could ask for more. Life was simple in those days. I would do anything to relive those days again. To everyone a happy SP DAY. ITS TOUGH TO GET OLD. PEACE TO ALL. May your memories bring a smile to your face and a nice glow to your heart
Beautifully said.
I’d rather go to yuki’s bar. St P day is Another reason to get drunk.
I spent many a good 60’s 70’s Saint Patrick’s night at Brodie, and every one of them a good one.
What’s the difference between an Irish Wedding and an Irish wake? One less drunk.
Two Irishmen leave a funeral. One says to the other, “Twas a beautiful ceremony.” “Twas”‘ says the other. First says, “when I pass, would you pour a bottle of good Irish whiskey over my grave?” “Of course,” says the second, “but would you mind if I run it through my kidneys first?”
Q: Why did God invent whiskey?
A: So the Irish would never rule the world.
Q. Why wasn’t Jesus born in Ireland?
A: He couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.
“This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
The Hollow Men – T.S. Eliot
And what of Morris Fitzpatrick and Patrick Fitzmorris? Not to mention Pat Magroin.
Good post Chuck.
Shamrock after a visit to the Blarney Room was a challenge a couple times. Slush jump on St. Patty’s day was fun.
The Bubble Room and the adjacent Jungle Room (@ Imperial on Lyman Street) had some memorable bashes as well.
The Bubble Room had some interesting acoustics.
Froze my fanny off but believe me I would do it again. All your friends would cheer you on and tons of laughter. after you fell in the drink more laughter. those were the days. brandy would warm you up fast .miss all that a great deal.memories from the stone age.great blog over the weekend. cheers everyone
Have you seen Brodie lately? Pretty sad.
Don’t remind me bonner. It made me cry.
Right. I hope some investors buy and bring it back.
They will. It’s a good opportunity long term.
What’s amazing is I’ve skied at JP, Brodie and Bousquet starting at a young age and now a family member of mine bought Bousquet and brought it back to life.
On the live 95 Facebook page they are advertising “Berkshire Health Systems: Vital Careers in a Vibrant Community”….the same buzzwords over and over! Happy St. Patrick’s Day and I better not see any non-Irish appropriate my culture….lol
If you want to see incompetence at its worst see Feb 27 license board meeting.officer Hill totally unprepared.not the exception but the the rule for the PPD. WHAT A DISGRACE
Watch this to laugh your ass off
Fast forward to 13:00 mins to see what a sideshow these complaints are
https://pittsfieldtv.org/program/?id=47817
Which show, MOLL?
Punches; or a gun?
Or bottles
That’s it Molly. Everyone should see it. Oh this officer earns over 100k per year before overtime.
I watched that shit. I don’t doubt that the PPD cop is as incompetent as he is deceptive, like all PPD COPS. The licensing board is as useless as tits on a bull. For decades the licensing board was headed by a man rumored to a pederast. The only reason that creep isn’t still presiding over that theatre of the absurd is because he was finally dragged off.
But incompetence and ignorance remain intact among the licensing board. Among the highlights of the February 27th charade was when the chair feigned his disappointment with redacted police reports provided by deceptive and/or incompetent ignorant cops, and not for the first time either, in addition to the intentional failure of other PPD cops to present themselves before the licensing board for interrogation.
But then it went from bad to worse when political has-been hack Kathleen Amuso chose to prolong the misery of the business at issue for another month rather than accept testimony of the incident in question from representees of the business because Amuso wants to hear confirmation of the details from the same deceptive PPD cops responsible for providing deceptive redacted police reports to the licensing board and failing to insure that the cops who were at the scene of the incident in question to show up at the scheduled hearing before the licensing board.
Attorney is impeachable.
I am proud that my paternel grandmother was Irish and proud to be a VN vet. It makes me very sad to see the horrendus comments on this blogsite that demean the black brothers I fought beside in the war. The inuendos are there, just below the surface. I’d like to beleve that its just petty jealousy resulting from affirmative action programs, but from where I sit it seems to go deeper than that.
The problem is people are being judged by skin color not content of character
Character shit the bed when they ….. we’ve already seen that movie
Character
…use to be perfectly wonderful.
Ham Anex, that problem arises due to the desire to address a larger problem, namly, the existence of bias in our society against people of color. Do you feel that this problem need not be addressed?
Are you biased toward people of color?
Good question. I’d say I’m not, but who can tell for sure.
At least he admitted the possibility…
Low expectations and paternalistic posts expose left wing racism.
And why do that? Why admit a hypothetical hypothesis that has no real application. I hear all sorts of people say embarrassing things about other people based on their ancestry or culture. I think he does it as an act of piety.
Is wannabe someone I should be concerned about? Is he going to do something?
Sounds as though you’re one of those two wrongs makes a right kind of person
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but two Wrights make an airplane.
Good point
First sensible statement from any of us. I’m always relieved when you show up.
Two wrongs don’t make a riot.
—Cormac McCarthy
Sometimes.
13 years of free education should do it.0
I don’t get your point.
Our society provides free education to all regardless of identity politics characteristics. Anyone can succeed if you take this education seriously. With skill and imagination if you’re good at your trade or cook a better meal people will support you. Time for the race hustlers to shut up.
That may be if their free education is equal in quality to yours.
There is no place to go for good education. Private schools and public all teach the same crap – no theory, no critical thought, no literature (just modern crap) just the minimum needed to make college acceptance boards happy.
All boats sank together.
Amen to that Dan
Are you saying the democrats that run the Pittsfield school system deliberately foist an inferior education on some…..?
I certainly hope not.
They haven’t done much to pull some of our schools out of level 5
Indeed you are correct. Level 5 means more state money. Why would we want to fix it, and if we wanted to how could we when the DOE and the State control the content? Back to Milo Minderbinder – the Administrators and the Union leaders are eating fine, the teachers and the students are told to eat cotton.
(Reference to Joseph Heller’s tale of Catch 22. fWho doesn’t know it probably ought to read it.)
I did graduate but somehow I have only a 9th grade edacamuchuun.
Cook like a good thing, but I can’t do maff.
They should admit they have hated one specific individual. They keep trying to make it systemic racism – one person was fucked over, one person was wrongfully jailed, one person was wrongfully charged with someone else’s crime, a scandal ensued, and they try to hide it year after year. 4 DA’s. A partridge, a pear tree, and a beer.
I told you I removed 3 attorneys and motioned to recused a judge after 4 years of incessant court appearances – I wasn’t the correct defendant. EQ is a fraud.
They created covid and die because of mandated repairations they couldn’t own. Can’t stand behind what they did.
This is all encompassing of all the stupid shit you read which isn’t true.
Breathalyzer scandal
Hit and Run scandal
Rape scandal
Elder Abuse scandal
Lead poisoning water scandal
Illegal eviction scandal
Development scandal
Cannabis scandal
Sidewalks and Crosswalks scandal
They want the redress all for themselves.
It’s gonna take a lot to keep me away from you. God bless the Rain down in Africa, ahfricaahh
Well, you have to prove that the existence of bias actually causes disadvantage.
During JimCrow, African Americans as a whole were family based communities and had land and wealth. Post Democratic rule since LBJ the family is dead and wealth vanished. You have a long road to plod to get to where you think you are heading with your assertion “existence of bias in our society against people of color” is the larger problem.
People do survive the adversity of their peers, but not so much the adversity of their government.
DEI and critical race theory are the latest tools of segregation, divide, and conquer.
“you have to prove that the existence of bias actually causes disadvantage”
That is not a tough sell.
During Jim Crow, African Americans were second-class citizens even more than today. I do not buy your seperate but equal argument, because it is not in fact equal.
Well, you have to prove that the existence of bias actually causes disadvantage that results in poverty.
During JimCrow, African Americans as a whole were family based communities and had land and wealth. Marraige rates in JmCrow (which we both agree was grievously unjust and terrible and lynchings were prevelant) for AA were comparable to white communities, and the acquisitition of wealth and land was trending more then than now.
Post Democratic rule with LBJ the family is dead and wealth vanished. You have a long road to plod to get to where you think you are heading with your assertion “existence of bias in our society against people of color” is the larger problem.
People do survive the adversity of their peers, but not so much the adversity of their government.
DEI and critical race theory are the latest tools of segregation, divide, and conquer.
Example how it plays out here: for thirty years Westside (largely AfroAmerican) asked for Community Center and practical and tangible help with giving youth an escape from the Streets. (Family concerns at heart.) Things to do, a place to go, a place for the community to teach. Give Ruffer $40 million in ARPA and what do they get? Pickleball ($500,000) in Springside Park and social programming (art therapy for 10 children) for WestSide to share with the rest of Pittsfield and wealthy neighboring communities. That’s the bias. They don’t want to actually solve the problem, they want to exploit the financial and political opportunities planted for them by the State.
Like Milo Minderbinder from Catch-22 says, “everyone has a share.” Milo and the generals ate well, but the soldiers sometimes had to eat cotton balls.
“you have to prove that the existence of bias actually causes disadvantage that results in poverty”
I ask you: which is more likely to be correct—bias has no effect OR bias causes societal disadvantage ?
No global effect when the rules are not manipulated to bias the outcome of competition. Jews always experienced bias in Germany, but the socialists changed the rules to change their outcomes.
Also, social disadvantage is everpresent for all. I have yet to be invited to a Bush or a Trump birthday party or golf match. Or to Tyer’s of the same for that matter. Some argue, wrongly, that there is a ruling class even here.
Maybe it’s easier to debate this topic using a larger example that is more remote.
So you are saying negative bias doesn’t cause societal disadvantage.
Well, you like to make ivory tower theoretical arguments that don’t wash, IMHO. I say negative bias against black people causes disadvantage to them and you say it only causes disadvantage if the govt tries to level the playing field to address it. That is the stance of you and Dan and the majority of posters to this site. I respectfully and vociferously disagree.
I never argued separate but equal. I argued that perserverance and determination permitted successes that today are not possible because the government discovered how to alienate people from their aspirations.
AA were indeed second class citizens. But, that didn’t stop them fro exercising their right to pursue wealth.
Your posts imply you support separate but equal when you spoke of AA benefits during Jim Crow. It’s like you’re saying ‘look how well they did under Jim Crow. So their second-class citizen status did not cause them to be disadvantaged.’
It’s just not so.
I do not even imply separate but equal is good, and I do not say there are ANY benefits to Jim Crow. You stuck that in yourself.
I said, during the period of Jim Crow, African Americans were able to persevere and get by, and in doing so they built vital communities and wealth. My point is that Jim Crow did not succeed in keeping them down.
Well you’re right there, but I think you have to admit that they would have done better without the horrors of Jim Crow.
That is not something that I have to admit because it is something that I would assume.
I’m very glad to hear that.
The “Hon.” Elijah Mohammed (anything but) argued for separation, period, either a separate chance of American land reserved exclusively for blacks or a black State in Africa. Malcolm X saw the light in March 1964 and argued for blacks to start respecting themselves, loving themselves, learning to do for themselves (though not BY themselves), and assimilate (though he didn’t call it that) into culture and society so that they could participate in both influence and affluence (the middle class, at any rate). Quick example: How he taught himself how to read and write and how he worked endlessly on his speech, getting from “black” dialect to articulation of intelligence. He loathed how anyone in his race would not learn proper English, and he HATED black on black violence, which he thought was a far greater problem than white privilege.
And I respect their views. But I believe society also has a role, and part of that role is to not ignore the problem and pretend it doesn’t exist.
Separation for the sake of preservation makes sense so long as it is not driven by hate of others but love of self. Amish and hasidic jews are very insular and assimilation for them means extinction of a way of life, one that is essential for the health of this nation. (We need the Amish for their capacity and knowledge where experience supplants technology.)
As for a separate state – that sounds a like theft – someone has to give up what is his to someone who has not earned it fair. In time, the Democrat Party may win its confederacy and we will all live in separate states. Rural state, city state, CaliState, TexasState. State of Northern california, Western NY, North West Massachusetts, Independent State of Southern VT. The states that have a memory of national identity, if they exist, would be first to go and to the rest will go to the Confederacy.
The Union is dying.
Well, now I can see why you have chosen the name you did.
We are in peril, it is true. And it may be because of our expensive, bloated bureaucracy. But I personally think it is because of the rift in our society between the two culture war factions that we all know so well. One faction looks at our country and sees enormous wealth disparity and thinks that is by-and-large ok, because those that have it deserve it because they earned it.
The other faction looks at our country and sees enormous wealth disparity and thinks that it is not ok because the system works to the great advantage of those who possess great wealth and works to amass even greater wealth for those that are already wealthy.
The two groups cleave along other issues, as we all know, like global/isolationist, pro- choice/life, assault weapons, $$ for education, tolerance of white supremacy, and so forth.
I am however, more optimistic than you because I believe our system has built-in safeguards that allow differences in our views to synthesize and build strength moving forward.
I just know this isn’t going to go over well. Brown v. Board of Education outlawed segregation in 1954, 68 years ago. One would expect that the negro would be able to speak the king’s English by now. The elementary school that I attended for six years was an all-white school with the exception of two coloured children for maybe two years, and it may not have been a whole two years. They were very nice children. And then I went to Crosby, and the negroes I encountered there were uncivilized savages. There were exceptions, and those exceptions are to this day still the exceptions. On occasion I run into the exceptions, and they’re nice decent people. But most of the ones I first encountered at Crosby were nasty ill-bred savages, and they’re still nasty ill-bred savages. I didn’t like them from day one, and I still don’t like them. Something else was also going on at that time, white girls were openly, what I’ll refer to as dating, negroes. Several of those white girls who made that mistake ended up in the ghetto and are still in the ghetto today. I sometimes see some of them in the markets with a tribe of nappy headed great grandchildren. My point is, white doesn’t rub off on black, but black rubs off on white, and not for the better. Black people are their own worst enemy, and they’re hell-bent on propagating their ill-bred inbred disease to other species. I also argue for separation and segregation, now, tomorrow and forever!
I think that is there whole plan is to break up the white race. Years in its planning and continues everyday.
Amazing. TT2, I think you actually believe that.
You are right; that did not go over well. But, I am sorry to say, it is what I would expect on this blogsite.
WANNA
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Right. Your base constituency is MAGA.
Right, but MAGA is not my constituency. MAGA is part of my constituency, and probably the most outspoken part (because there is NOWHERE ELSE for conservatives to air their views locally). Most of my readers, actually, are from the “silent majority” that includes a surprisingly high number of progressives and a large number of political unenrolled, i.e., independent. We know this because of the analysis our IT guys did of the backstage data. We have invested in sophisticated security and data harvesting to present the best possible product and open forum.
Good work.
Why do you think that hate above is MAGA? It’s the ghost of Wallace! Sounds like Biden unadulterated by liquor.
Be serious.
Some are not as desperate as you apparently are in need of the approval and/or adoration of others to make you feel good about yourself. As for myself, when I say ‘as desperate’ I mean not desperate at all in need of the approval of others. There’s nothing hateful about what I posted. Actually, it’s not only unnatural to relate to everyone, but it’s also not in human nature to relate to everyone. I’d even go so far as to say it’s more natural in human nature, normal if you will, to reject, based on any number of undesirable traits, or for no reason at all. And there’s nothing I like or approve of about Biden. And not just because he stole the election from my president.
I believe a coerced Kumbaya is not only unnatural, but also dangerous.
I know you believe those things, and I think it’s too bad that you do, because you could be working to move our civilization forward instead of backward.
This isn’t an argument, it isn’t even a question, but why was/is it acceptable for the (anything but) “Hon.” Elijah Mohammed to argue for separation but not the “Hon.” George Wallace to argue for the same thing. I think an argument can be made that American land was reserved exclusively for blacks, and not surprisingly, blacks didn’t use it to their advantage. Cabrini-Green strongly suggests that a convincing argument could be made that it’s not in the black man’s nature to respect themselves and love themselves. However, blacks prove over and over again that it is in their nature to perpetrate black on black violence. How long to do think it would take, if the government built a community exclusively for black people in the bucolic neighborhood of Pheasant Way, for those entitled black people to turn it into a violent drug infested Cabrini-Green slum.
Markus Aurelius brings up the questionable subject concerning Shirley Edgerton’s taxpayer funded family trip to Africa to explore HER roots, and how her shady family trip benefitted HER black community as a whole. It’s an honest question which deserves an honest answer. I believe an honest argument could be made that BLACK Shirley Edgerton is exploiting BLACKS for her own benefit. And you can bet that entitled Shirley Sharpton Edgerton and her family would be the first BLACKS to move on up to her government funded mansion in the bucolic neighborhood of Pheasant Way. Thus ensuring its fate of fast becoming a Cabrini-Green slum.
Actually, The “Hon.” Elijah Mohammed instructed Malcolm and Jeremiah Shabazz to meet in secret with the KKK to discuss a joint venture that would establish a black separate state. That meeting took place in 1961. It was a turning point for Malcom, who couldn’t shake the notion that The “Hon.” EM was seeking an “unholy alliance.” That, and The “Honorable”‘s six secret children by six of his young “secretaries” forced Malcolm to make an incredibly difficult and courageous decision to splits with the Black Muslims and begin his own effort. It cost him his life. The other sad fact is that the slave trade, like and other market, could not have happened if there were not suppliers. Those suppliers were largely leaders of African tribes who would capture and sell members of rival tribes to American slave traders. Of course, England did it with white Irish (sell them into slavery) before tribal Africans did so. The details of Malcom X’s secret meeting with the KKK are presented in Les Payne’s seminal bio of Malcom, “The Dead are Arising” (E.W. Norton, 2020). The book should be MUST reading to anyone who wants to penetrate the labyrinth of race relations in America.
Yes, Malcome X was murdered by a Nation of Islam self-loving self-respecting YT hating black man. And the “Honorable” EM was an undisciplined Nation of Islam man with no respect for women. And if black males have learned nothing else from the “Honorable” EM, his lessons of six, or more, illegitimate children begotten by six, or more young baby mamas, none of which were his wives, in the legitimate sense, has certainly not been lost on the black male. And on the subject of the tribal African Slave Suppliers, aka ASSs, who sold out their kind, I wonder how many ASSs Shirley Sharpton Edgerton found in her own family while exploring her family ROOTS on her taxpayer funded trip to Africa. Or is that one of those things black people just talk about.
The Autobiography of Malcom X is also worth reading, describing his transition from one faction to the other from his point of view.
I used to teach from the “Autobiography” in my Comp II course.
“…why was/is it acceptable for the (anything but) “Hon.” Elijah Mohammed to argue for separation but not the “Hon.” George Wallace to argue for the same thing.“
Answer: it is not acceptable for Elijah Mohammed to argue that.
So you see, Dan, that this is the reality we are dealing with.
No doubt. That reality is there. The question is: How do we, each of us as individuals, deal with it.
Well, getting them riled up so you can take their money is not the answer.
I think it is safe to say that this person would never think of hiring, let alone hire, a black job candidate.
I remember Pittsfield first black cop, and I’m absolutely certain that the only excuse for hiring him was because he was black. Because even though cop recruits are usually scaped from the bottom of the barrel, even that excuse for a cop was inexcusable. And then Pittsfield bent over backwards again. This time they hired another one. This one had a record which should have disqualified him, in addition to him being ineligible to legally possess a firearms license. But Pittsfield made exceptions. I can only assume exceptions were made to accommodate his skin colour, that, and the fact that his character was definitely that of a cop. But Pittsfield wasn’t through with its practice of hiring based on skin colour. Pittsfield hired its first black female cop. No, not the one Pittsfield has deceptively attempted to pass off as Pittsfield’s first black female cop. I’m referring to Pittsfield’s real first black female cop, the one who walked out of a department store with two televisions she neglected to pay for. That FIRST Pittsfield female black cop! Pittsfield also hired Michael Wynn’s cousin, most likely just because he’s black. But between the two of them, Wynn’s cousin was the better of the two. But he’s gone too. And in between all of that Pittsfield hired Dale Eason. And in all these years, I’ve paid my taxes, so in a round-a-bout way I’ve been forced to hire and pay for unqualified minorities, just because they’re minorities.
And the experiment continues. Over the objections of the Pittsfield Fire Department, Pittsfield hired a convicted felon, because he’s black!
California, and a couple of the western states use imprisoned men and women to fight their wildfires, and they’re pretty good at it, but after being released are ineligible to make a living as a firefighter.
Make that make sense.
Pittsfield, leader in no second chances, and yet everybody wants to bitch about beggars and homeless
Would love to know how many of our homeless don’t have a place to live due to collateral consequences.
Ffs, PFD had the good sense to realize, in this country of ours where there is truly no such thing as an ex-con because as soon as you use that term, regardless of how many months, years, or decades since a person completed their sentence, we still punish them.
That can’t be constitutional– cruel and unusual etc etc.
So even though we all know it was probably initially to avoid the lawsuit, PFD did do the right thing by taking a look at all the moves made by that man post incarceration in order to position himself as a good hire.
I lived in the deep South for several years during the 1990s and it could have been the 1920s or 1950s in terms of the systemic racism but I’ll tell you what: I never heard the n-word in all the years I lived there as much as I hear it in one week in here in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
For me the fact that not only did PFD offer the man the chance to become a firefighter, that he ACCEPTED the offer, says to me that his pursuing a job in the fire department was not racial grandstanding but rather that one man took on the boneheaded system of collateral consequences that are nothing but barriers to access to jobs, housing, driving!!!!, employment.
No person in their right mind would become a probie at the PFD if this was just about grandstanding and/ or playing the race card; the risk to that person is just too damn high but what do I know? I’ve never read To Kill A Mockingbird and I don’t intend to now.
Did read Gideon’s Trumpet, though. (but not his Bible)
I wish to note in passing that of the HUNDREDS of readers of this blog, only TWO thumbs-down disapprovals of Ghost Wallace’s post were recorded.
I reserve thumbs down for melle.
Ok
I’m prejudiced.Very picky about giving those out. They need to be earned.
Perhaps you can find some contentment in agreeing to disagree with subjects which offend your conscience. Everything I post is true. So, I can’t imagine what offends so much about that comment, unless it’s that truth is offensive to you.
Psychology Today
Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Science indicates that we should be pessimistic about achieving unity.
“Hundreds of studies have indicated that our modern partisanship is built upon an early emerging urge to divide our social world into “ingroups” and “outgroups.” Regardless of whether these groups are meaningful or arbitrary, we favor people in our ingroups along most conceivable dimensions. Being tribal is deeply ingrained in human nature.
Once we are entrenched within a particular group, our minds become so fundamentally shaped by our partisanship that it can become truly impossible to understand how people in other groups can think and feel as they do.”
The problem is that while your observations are yours and your interpretation of your observations are yours, not everything you post is true.
– many, if not most, blacks speak English just fine
– most blacks are not uncivilized savages
– many white women who paired off with black men have had successful marital relationships, unlike the negative portrayals that you describe.
– your claim that white doesn’t rub off on black, but black rubs off on white, is incorrect. It is at least bi-directional.
– your statement that black people are hell-bent on propagating negative behaviors is not true
In addition, your use of language such as: negroes, savages, coloured, ill-bred, and disease when referring to black people is insulting and unacceptable in contemporary discourse. You would never allow those comments of yours to be publicly associated with you.
– many, if not most, blacks speak English just fine – eh not so much
– most blacks are not uncivilized savages – see lack of governmental control in Africa
– many white women who paired off with black men have had successful marital relationships, unlike the negative portrayals that you describe. – not so much
– your claim that white doesn’t rub off on black, but black rubs off on white, is incorrect. It is at least bi-directional. – it actually is quite correct
– your statement that black people are hell-bent on propagating negative behaviors is not true – see inner cities
In addition, your use of language such as: negroes, savages, coloured, ill-bred, and disease when referring to black people is insulting and unacceptable in contemporary discourse. You would never allow those comments of yours to be publicly associated with you.- doesnt mean they arent right to a wokester
I don’t think anyone was advocating seperate but equal. Stop thinking with mindless clichés. I think the point is LBJs great society was well intentioned but a massive flick up
The cliché isn’t guiding the thought. I used the cliché because PFH implied that black families and groups prospered during Jim Crow by themselves, and that they weren’t too disadvantaged under those conditions.
“and that they weren’t too disadvantaged under those conditions”
You did not understand my argument.
Oh, I’m pretty sure I got it. Your point was that Jim Crow did not succeed in keeping them down.
Yes!
He didn’t say that. You just want what he said to mean that
Thank you Gobsig – that is generous. I don’t believe that LBJ was very well intentioned but determined to undo the successes the African Americans achieved in spite of his Party’s oppression. The metaphorical stick wasn’t getting the job done and his party was beginning to take on a bad odor.
Whew, I certainly do not agree.
He either was a blithering idiot or a practical bigot. Either way, he was anything but a philantropist.
You’d better read up on lbj.
In reality you’re right. He thought he could buy black folks off. He said we’ll nave those n’s voting democrat for the next hundred years
And that is essentially saying that those people shall forfeit self-governance (self being literally self). Anyone trapped in the ‘safety net’ knows what I’m talking about.
I tend to agree.
Happy St. Patrick’s day and happy Friday.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/friday-funnies-esg-in-action?r=1cssgp&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
I wanted to start this weekend by posting about the Berkshire Black Economic Council (BBEC) getting MORE grant money to help ‘Vibe North Street.’
According to the article, the BBEC got another $7,000 to $25,000 to help them ‘Vibe North Street.’ We will never find out what that “grant money” will truly bring the taxpayers of Pittsfield, but I can bet it won’t be vibrant, dynamic, or vibe anything up.
The BBEC race grifters truly hit the lottery again. Over $750,000 has already been given to them to in ARPA money. They did host a black dance troupe in south county over the summer. Shirl was teaching her ROPES class and other like-minded race baiters and grifters, the “Hundy Dollar Hustle.”
I have an idea to ‘Vibe North Street’ up. How about a barber shop where the customers can purchase and enjoy a good cigar? I’ll call it Warren’s Place. You could even blare rap music too. You certainly won’t bother your neighbors, there aren’t any on North Street.
The BBEC did get their “company” moniker correct though: A Hand Out-always looking for more taxpayer money.
Berkshire Black Economic Council, Downtown Pittsfield Inc. launch ‘Vibe North Street’ to fill vacant storefronts | Bizbrief | berkshireeagle.com
Instead of giving them a hand up, telling them they can achieve success by working hard, they are being given handouts with the message they aren’t good enough or smart enough to succeed on
their own.
It sounds like that would be your message to them, that’s for sure.
Jibe-talkin, vibes.
Berkshire Black Economic Council ·
The Berkshire Black Economic Council (BBEC) is proud to lead the “Vibe North Street” storefront recruitment grant program in collaboration with Downtown Pittsfield, Inc. (DPI). The grant, which is funded by Mass Development’s Transformative Development Initiative (TDI), will offer businesses the opportunity to receive TDI Local funds in amounts between $7,500 and $25,000 to help cover the costs of relocating to currently vacant storefronts in the North Street district.
For more information or to apply, visit BBEC’s grant page: https://berkshirebec.org/opportunities/bbec-grants/
#berkshirebec #pittsfieldma #westernmass
Another race-based scam.
They act like they couldn’t just walk into any open job they meet the qualifications for in MA and get the job over me. A normal appearing YT male, based on their skin color. Much easier to grift than it is to work I guess? I have no clue.
DIE is the perfect example. An unneeded duplication of HR personnel. If not, then explain to the Planet why every company that answers to stakeholders is dumping DIE programs? Easy to hold on to when there’s no one to answer to.
I was never taught by my parents to have a victim mentality and blame others for my mistakes. Quite the opposite actually.
When I was growing up, I was in the habit of whining, this isn’t fair, whenever I was ordered to perform some menial tasks, I consider beneath me. My whining would usually elicit the same response, which was, who told you, LIFE was fair. By the time I was 8 I had given up the whining and adopted an anarchist strategy against parental authority. I can’t tell you how many times my mother threatened to turn this car around and go home. Or my very favorite, keep it up, and I’ll drive this car right off a cliff. To which I would respond, go ahead!
Maybe she did drive it off a cliff, and look – you are here talking to me.
Very little that emanates from the democrats is not a scam. I remember the days when democrats actually cared about everyone not just wokesters.
Today’s democrats have zero faith in anyone that didn’t get to their position without their help.
They never cared about the people, just wanted to sound sincere. Liberals were the ones who cared.
Was there a grant program that they didn’t lead?
Nobody’s offended by the logo of the seed in the hand. What if it’s cotton.
Grants are public information it’s also redundant that they think they tha only ones who can search for grants.
SAM.GOV, right?
Race-based yes, but racist, no.
Race based = RACIST
You and most contributors to this blog believe that, but I do not.
Then enjoy your unicorns
Berkshire Black Economic Council, doesn’t sound inclusive or diverse. Seems like they’re out for themselves, instead helping all regardless of race. Sorry, can’t really get behind this group, and wish our City would stop giving them my money.
Can you imagine the typhoon is someone started Berkshire White Economic Council. Someone, tell me: What’s the difference. Why is the BWEC racist but the BBEC isn’t? Who wants to answer that question … with reason and logic, not emotion and prejudice.
I’ll answer the question, Dan. BBEC supports the minority—a minority that suffers in the face of negative bias. Both take race into account, but one does it to rectify a problem, while the other does it to maintain the status quo. Just because both take race into account doesn’t mean both are racist. The racist one is the one that wants to keep the unequal status quo.
Your reasoning is overly simplistic. If you can’t see the difference then your inability to see it is conveniently short-sighted.
WANNA
If over simplistic reasoning is on display here, it flows from your photons, not THE PLANET. You haven’t answered the question. You’ve only perpetuated the rationale. How does the BBEC “rectify a problem?” We notice you say “a” problem, so which one is that? And how does “the other” “maintain the status quo?” You make these puerile assertions but there is no mature reasoning to support them. That, as you recall, was the condition of anyone’s attempt to answer my initial question. Nice try, but the best we can give you is a trophy for participating.
It is puerile to pretend you don’t know the answers to the questions you pose. You know damn well what the answers are, and conveniently claim my answers are immature, when you know better. Using scare quotes rather than straightforward rhetoric is you avoiding the fact that I have indeed provided answers to your questions.
I will give long, specific answers to your questions if you in truth don’t understand how I have already answered them.
Well, it is a forum that you control, so I can’t really expect you not to use that source of leverage.
I DO understand where you’re coming from and agree with some of the foundational claims of your position. We are closer in viewpoint than you realize.
Thanks.
My pleasure, W. It’s exciting to have this type of dialog, where we parse to find the underlying principles that unite rather than divide. What we have done serves well as an example of a communication method sorely in need in today’s America.
I have a business plan. Everybody in Pittsfield may give Jon Melle $1 or more per day and I will call it the Jon Melle Economic Council. I pitched my plan to Mayor Linda Tyer and “Kufflinks” during our lunch meeting last week. They told me that it would be even better if I ran a bank like SVB or an overseas Cryptocurrency Firm and gave myself multimillion-dollar bonuses every couple of months before my financial business failed. I told them during the 2008 financial crisis, Wall Street banks received trillions of dollars in federal bailout funds, while foreign banks in Europe and Asia received hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign bailout funds. All of the bank executives in the U.S.A., Europe and Asia gave themselves huge bonuses with the federal bailout funds. Even Linda Tyer and Matt Kerwood could not top that big SCAM!
Put your lucky charms pajamas back on and quit running around in your birthday suit before you hurt yourself like last weekend and stub your little 🙂
I’ll pay you anything you want but it’ll be with Pittsfield Kleptocurrency
shaddup.
How about Wet -White Entertainment TV
This is a joke you do nothing and, nothing gets done, the drugs and your friends(gang members) continue to ruin this community. How many places do you actual go you see African Americans working few and far between but drive expensive cars, buy the clothes, sneakers talk a good game and try to portray something there not, but live on the west side or the dump of the morning side area. Get all this money to explore there roots in Africa my aching A**, Prepaid Vacation for a choosen group why because there black. Some one needs to be held accountable and go to jail for this fraud on the tax payers. Maybe we should get trips to Ireland, Italy, England to explore some of our roots. God forbid your getting called what now me and everyone else is a racist. Hear is a secret start acting right as a race and just maybe maybe racism will go away. No one owes anyone nothing. Another secret we all get the same chance in life, we are born, go to school to learn, some go on to college, some go to the trades, some are good enough and skilled enough to go to pro sports. Stop the bitching flow this path. Stop thugging out, selling drugs, guns and stop playing the race card. Live and Learn
“ Hear is a secret start acting right as a race and just maybe maybe racism will go away. No one owes anyone nothing. Another secret we all get the same chance in life… ”
Would that that were true.
We all admire those folks who succeed in the face of negative odds, and know that there will be such success stories, but there are unfortunately way too few. Black folks have faced 200 years of extreme negative bias, and not had the same chance to build equity as you and me. My parents were poor and I am not, but I did not need to swim upstream against the tide of negative bias because I am white.
WANNA
These are fair and valid points. The answer, however, is not the approach advanced by BLM and the “ist” branders. What is the answer the self-reliance and self-respect advanced by King and especially Malcolm X (the post-Elijah Mohammed Malcolm X).
Yes, the stands taken by Malcolm and King are correct and admirable, but IMHO do need to be tweaked to level the playing field a bit.
Social programs since the 60s have had some negative results, it is true. But it seems to me that the successes outnumber the failures.
I am fully aware of the failures of Affirmative Action as they are obvious and legion (as the author and most contributors to this site will readily attest). But I have seen countless examples of successes— fair successes due to level playing field — in my lifetime.
It is difficult to get the leveling of the playing field exactly right.
We agree on all of these points.
White women are the greatest beneficiaries of the quota system
They have done well.
Malcolm and King were correct but their positions need to be tweaked by a society that shows it is actively engaged to help solve the problem.
See Wannabe: the above words are highly biased and prejudiced (TT2). They imply a criminality to a broad group that also exists in others. Yet, the truth, as you know, is that Afro Americans do work hard and pursue opportunity such as better neighborhoods, better schools (look at the enrollment at BART), and TT2’s expressed prejudice doesn’t change a thing. If you want to raise all boats, allow people to pursue opportunity. Hard to pursue opportunity when the government devalues the currency so it doesn’t purchase crap and diverts credit and resource to the military and to fund and bailout woke banks.
I must say that your point of view strikes me as quaintly naive.
PFH, how can you say that TT2’s expressed prejudice doesn’t change a thing?
TT2’s expressed prejudice is the absolute ground zero of the problem. If that problem didn’t exist, there would be no need for the social engineering programs like affirmative action.
Wow, checkmate.
Like me, you also have a unhealthy hankering for metaphor. there is no such thing as a ‘ground zero’ and change, as seen as a process that comes as a result of such metaphors are not actual events.
TT2 has no power (over anything beyond what he may do in a day), and his opinion has no influence beyond whom he touches in a day. Further, the most he and others could do perhaps deny employment to an Afro-American or discriminate in offering a loan. But, that same denied person can nonetheless survive and prosper. Yes, the discimination is ‘bad’ and it hurts. It’s also not unique. Jews have a similar experience: impossible back in the day to buy into wealthy neighborhoods. Poles in some parts of some towns have same experience. Blacks and Jews alike both found opportunity until the socialists decide they got too much.
The trouble starts when powerful people- legistlators , presidents others leverage the prejudice of those speaking like TT2 to 1) further deepen the hate 2) hasten opportunities for themselves.
1960 through to today, we may now say the LBJ project is the Little Big Horn for the African Americans, with AA being the Cheyenne. Natives today say, “The Cheyenne won the battle but they lost…everything!” to present: african Americans have lost everything, such that the hard and dark days of Jim Crow, a time of bad laws and some bad people, but a strong community, may now offer some appeal.
For the sensitive: *may now offer some appeal in spite of the murder, hate, and oppression. The appeal would be in the integrity of family based communities where property ownership was prevalent; this does not mitigate or excuse Jim Crow but it does challenge the moral superiority of the woke who have little interest in restoring what has been destroyed.
PFH, allow me to repeat myself with no metaphor to be absolutely clear: if it were not for the prejudice as expressed above and others like it, there would be no need for social engineering programs like affirmative action.
So now you have a direct statement.
Let’s consider “there would be no need for social engineering programs like affirmative action.”
You are saying that because of the presence of prejudice, we need a policy to guarantee that works independently of a self-selected applicant pool.
I find that a stretch. Applicant pools are manipulated in many ways, and I would argue that skin color is a minority of cases. (pun!)
I think ‘guarantee’ is too strong, but thanks for your response. I think it is not a stretch at all.
The best person should get the job and not just on skin color or useless affirmative action.
You should talk to immigrants from Africa to get a true picture of the Americans who the government catagorizes as black
Or Grenada.
So you are trying to talk for the people who the government classify as black even though you are not one of them? How racist of you!
Happy St. Patty’s Day!!!!
Why?
I agree. Who in the hell do these people think they are that they deserve a special day? Sounds like entitlement to me. Get a life Irish people!
You don’t get it. Everybody is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day so it’s a day for everyone to celebrate not just people who are Irish. We need all the days of celebration we can get with so many people depressed in the country, so let’s go for celebration on St. Patrick’s Day.
Well then maybe you would support an Irish entitlement program in Pittsfield so they could get grants to open business s on North street? Assuming they were ever sober enough to show up to work. My whole family is Irish on both sides going back to Cork County and none of us have ever done anything remarkable so I feel like I have room to speak here.
I’m Irish, but have never liked alcohol of any kind. That’s a stereotype that all Irish people are alcoholics. I’m not saying that some aren’t, but you will find just as many alcoholics among the French, English, and any other nationality.
Maybe you’re not a very good Irish, or a poor example of an Irishman.
Or access to safe drinking water.
Perhaps if you had ever been bitten by a Leprechaun you would feel diffferently about the Irish. It is no fun getting all the required shots I assure you.
You should try Bailey’s Irish Cream.
With Vodka. Or better still, just skip the Bailey’s my Irish comrades!
There’s a lovely drinkin’ song
Called “A Jug of Punch”
Punch is made here in American apparently
With Rum or something like that
But in Ireland it’s naturally enough made with Irish Whiskey
We have a glass and a spoon, and some hot water
Squeeze of lemon, some sugar, some cloves
Naw, you don’t need the cloves, you don’t need ’em
Don’t really need the hot water either
Well, it’s a lovely drink anyway….
The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
In the last week billionaires were bailed out from Silicon Valley Bank. Everybody else with less than $250,000 dollars in the bank were already protected. 95% of businesses have less than $250,000 in the banks so Biden is bailing out his billionaire friends, but using a limited amount of money to do it which means less money will be available if, God forbid, other banks were to fail.
Marchetti was just appointed overseer of the housatonic river bank
better yank yer money out…might not be there tomorrow…he might put it into free cash and then hire consultants with it
Marchetti is too big to fail.
He’s been following the linda diet
He may be the exception to the rule. Ask the fools who voted for him and then got back stabbed by his collusion with the gosibs.
That’s a better way to frame my argument above (in limbo) to wannabe about how the gov is using DEI to assert power by funneling wealth away from the modest man and small business and devalue the currency to keep the citizen poor. We are becoming a serf state and the plantation has returned.
My language is rather figurative, a bad habit, and it gives a sense of hyperbole but look at what’s happening. In the 1940’s, a poor man could buy a house, albeit bad one, and gain rental income. Today, the same building in Morningside allowed to rot inside and out is absolutely out of reach both in price and taxes. You need profound wealth – $50,000+ cash – to get a mortgage assuming the qualified buyer TODAY doesn’t pay upfront. That’s a systemic situtation and I suspect it is by design.
The key is when you assert ‘by design.’ What you describe is indeed systemic, but to believe or even suspect that it is by design is extremely cynical. The benevolent ‘keepers of the flame’ believe in The Social Contract, generally believing in the greatest good for the greatest number. The others are less interested in ‘he’s my brother’, and prefer instead to float just some of the boats and have them individually succeed rather than the whole fleet.
As I say, you are quaintly naive, even more so because you call my cynical. Monarchs and despots do not care much for social contract.
Maybe so, maybe so.
Pfh a dump on John St will cost 100 000 and need another 100k to bring up to par. The day s of buying dumps for under 100k are long gone. Then you better lock the doors to prevent the criminal element from stealing the little money you have left. Face it this is where we live.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Missing Brodie too. To the director of the Berkshire Atheneum. How about you do your job and run a Library. It is not supposed to be a social service hub. Let the social services do their jobs at there locations throughout the City. Maybe you should step down and apply for work at the Brien Center.
Rotten seaweed headed to east coast.
Probably find someone in Pittsfield to smoke ie
I’ve spent Saint Patrick’s at the James Joyce Irish Bar in Brussels a couple of times. But one of the best Saint Patrick’s Day was spent in a little Irish hole in the wall Pub, somewhere in Belgium.
Our best? An Irish bar in Killwangen called “Awtcat,” in Switzerland. Later, I learned the meaning of the odd name: It was an acronym for “A Wet Thing Called a Tear.” It’s taken from a lyric of the Irish punk band The Pogues.
When it’s summer in Siam
And the moon is full of rainbows
When it’s summer in Siam
Though we go through many changes
When it’s summer in Siam
Then all I really know is that I truly am
In the summer in Siam
In the summer in Siam
In the summer in Siam…
The Pogues
While I’m not a punk band fan, I do enjoy some of their music. But I’m more inclined to listen to the music of The Dubliners, the Clancy Brothers and Hozier, the Parting Glass.
Listen to The Dubliners and The Pogues combine on “The Irish Rover.” Awesome!
Siam I am green eggs and ham
Pendants upon cheeks
Main Street Hospitality, still owned by the Fitzpatrick Family, owns or manages nine hotels.
https://www.masslive.com/news/2019/06/red-lion-inn-to-manage-massasoit-house-hotel-as-part-of-paramount-theater-renovation-in-downtown-springfield.html
Sedgwick/ Fitzpatrick/ Rutberg / Owns The Farm
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/opinion/columnists/carole-owens-a-sheffield-predecessor-to-declaration-of-independence/article_e155e85a-87ae-558b-b548-00b604932292.html
The Biggest Lie Ever Told.
Berkshire County
Klepto
Be careful at college campuses Dan seems they are trying hard to redefine gender. Sort gives a new twist to the old college mixer. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/15/us/wellesley-college-transgender-nonbinary-admissions-vote-reaj/index.html
As I well know, RK. Just learned tonight there’s a new textbook out that essentially portrays Shakespeare as irrelevant because he was Western and white. In the Q-&-A, I was just waiting for a student in the packed hall to argue that Eliot is to be dismissed on the same grounds. I was prepared to “Edge-ja-mah-cate” any young jokester to tried to advocate this position the way a comic prepares for hecklers. Didn’t happen, though. This crowd was too intelligent. Or scared!
Me sayeth that something be wrong in the state of Denmark but be that as it may
Time to get a set of the collected works of Shirley Spear me friend.
All men were once trapped in a woman’s body. Then they were born.
Except for Macbeth.
Macbeth:
Thou losest labour:
As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air
With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed:
Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests;
I bear a charmed life, which must not yield,
To one of woman born.
Macduff
Despair thy charm;
And let the angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb
Untimely ripped.
St. Patrick, a heroic man of virtue…..
https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/17/the-real-reason-to-celebrate-st-patrick-has-nothing-to-do-with-beer-or-parades/
Developer Owned Air B&B’s are surrounding us. All in pseudo. They don’t give two fuchs about rules or regulations.
They aren’t going to stop short term rentals.
They’re going to get grants for more projects to fix the shortage they created.
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/central_berkshires/a-lenox-man-says-the-town-is-allowing-too-many-short-term-rentals-the-select/article_5bd75058-ae31-11ed-b928-b3b3a78be94a.html
The Developer is an acreage collector. It’s a sickness. Needs rehab. Addict.
Supposedly Donald Trump will be arrested this Tuesday by a far left George Soros appointed District Attorney from New York. The same George Soros who has spread this far left DA’s across the country including the one who recently had to get rid of here in Berkshire County because they have an agenda and are unqualified to do the job. This will make this country even further divided and may hand the presidency to Donald Trump in 2024.
In Florida? Wonder if people will come out to protest Stalinist Alvin Braggs attempt to make Trump a political prisoner?
New York loves their far left George Soros appointed District Attorney. While many places have wised up to what these far left district attorneys are attempting to do, New York is using Braggs as their bulldog to go after Trump. This is political persecution, no doubt about it, and Biden is behind it as well because he wants to remove his political rivals. This is Russian style going after your political rivals. Putin must be impressed. There needs to be consequences for the far left for this at the ballot box and Kevin McCarthy is seeing if federal money is being used for this arrest and prosecution, but he needs to do far more.
Too many Dems have no plan, no vision, no ideas beyond blaming Donald for everything. That’s not gonna work in 2024 when the vote comes around.
Or the vision they do have is terrible.
Fun fact. Alvin Bragg got his JD from Walmart.
With a scholarship from Soros.
I don’t know man. He has one hell of a legal team and always has. He will be just fine.
He said Big Brother
On opposite day that is, what… big sister.
Big Sis.
And by that He meant, The System
And by unbias..
Prejudice
Who is the whitest person we know? There is only One.
I vote for Pete White
Thank you 1420 am for carrying the High School basketball state championship games. Taconic and Wahconah fans appreciate it. Good luck to both teams.
Congratulations to Taconic Basketball. Won d-5 State Championship., Yet PHS plays in D-3 Division. Taconic is the largest high school in Berkshire county. MIAA wake up
https://youtu.be/9jK-NcRmVcw
March 18, 2023
Hello, Erin Leahy at Act on Mass,
Thank you for your political email about Beacon Hill lawmakers doing nothing (but DISSERVICES) during Sunshine Week, which ends today [Saturday, March 18th]. The other 51 weeks should be called “Cook the Books” weeks.
Why do you think most people dislike career politicians? It is because they (do nothing but) screw us over time and time again, while they take care of themselves. The only way to change the political system is to vote out all of the corrupt career politicians, call out all of the greedy lobbyists, and call out all of the financial and corporate elites who legally bribe our elected officials. I hope that your public advocacy organization, Act on Mass, will organize a statewide grassroots campaign to recruit new political candidates to run against all of the corrupt career politicians on Beacon Hill in 2024 and beyond.
Lastly, the Green New Deal is a lie. The U.S.A. is the number two polluter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world second only to China, which burns a lot of coal. Combined, China and the U.S.A. account for a little less than 50 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions in the world. I liken the Green New Deal propaganda to a heavy smoker going to public schools telling children not to smoke. I don’t understand why people blame big banks and insurance companies for bankrolling fossil fuel companies when the U.S. Government is the single biggest polluter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world. The only thing that the Green New Deal really stands for is more HOT AIR!
Best wishes,
Jonathan Melle
If I go to the DIE office with my epidermis on, will I be turned away? I’m not joking when I ask, who is going to tell me what my color is?
Thank you for the thumbs down.
I said, what is the criteria for qualifying for the got datum Black equity programs.
What is it. A fucking DNA ? I meant, who are they serving at DIE.
It’s a REAL QUESTION FFS !!!!!!
Themselves.
Old and ancient Pelosi spewing more hatred toward Donald Trump. She accuses Trump of trying to stir his supporters to violence. We will hold him accountable for all of his crimes, she crows. People are sick of hearing from Pelosi. Her crimes of insider trading have never been punished, but she has no problem accusing others of crimes. This is election interference Mrs. Pelosi and trying to bring down a political rival of Biden. They worry they aren’t bringing in enough illegals to sway the 2024 election and they know Joe’s policies are horrible. Those are crimes you and the far left are committing, Mrs. Pelosi.
Pelosi hates Trump almost as much as Tucker Carlson does.
Tucker Carlson doesn’t hate Trump. Hate is a strong word and a strong emotion. Pelosi has it in spades for Trump as do so many of the elites on the far left. These are sick people and they won’t stop because it’s all about their globalist agenda being threatened by a 2024 Trump presidency and revenge for Hillary. They don’t care what they put the country through. It’s all about them.
Carlson is a performer. He “hates” low ratings, and, to his credit as an entertainer and his wallet, knows how to get them.
Unfortunately, he is also a Russian operative and gets very high ratings from Mr Putin. Probably a nice check under the table as well.
LOL
Yeah. Tucker, employee of Murdoch, is secretly controlled by the FSB. I’d sooner buy he is controlled by FBI agents employed by FSB.
Anyone who can prove he’s wrong please post your evidence
You used the term first, and it applies to both Pelosi and Carlson. Maybe you didn’t know that because you only watch Fox.
Please enlighten us as to who is the most credible cable news host
Who do YOU think is the most credible, Gobsig?
I watch them all, and make up my mind based on the whole picture. The most credible, in my view, is Judy Woodruff, who just retired. I also liked Brian Stelter, who was fired by MSNBC for being too honest about what he observed inside MSNBC.
god help us
CNN and MSNBC as well as the broadcast networks are composed of democrat operatives with press passes and RINOs. Skip all that and just watch the WIEW…. You’ll get all your left wing garbage in an hour.
“Come Out, Ye Black and Tans! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v+NwjiGDobJqs