A TRILLION HERE, A TRILLION THERE … BIDEN, THE GREAT ‘UNITER,’ SNIPES AT GOP BUDGET PLAN … POT CALLS KETTLE COAL BLACK
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION APRIL 21-3, 2023) — THE PLANET has to laugh. President Joe Biden and House speaker Kevin McCarthy recently released their respective (but not respected) budget “visions.”
Reminds us of a brief back-and-forth in the comments section regarding the alleged “left” and “right” of the government in the United States of Amnesia. THE PLANET made the point that these two divisions are more like diversions, not polar opposites as the surface view wants you to believe but bipolar disorders stemming from, what else?, the desire for power.
Both parties have long gone rogue in service to the Big Money interests that control elections. The financiers hedge their political investments, of course, with only the idiot ideologues actually “believing” in what they are doing. The rest cover their bets by donating equally or in proportion to the odds of winning.
With recent presidential elections being 50-50, it’s become more expensive to own politicians, not that this has proven too great a hurdle for the deep pockets that lurk in the shadows. The only president of recent times who wasn’t owned and could therefor act freely was the independently wealthy Donald Trump. That situation still described Trump, which is why so many at so bent (and we mean bent) on silencing him.
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Of course, partisan politics being what they are, Biden sniped at McCarthy for releasing an alternative plan. How dare he?
Bottom line, Syracuse Joe’s budget would increase the federal debt from $31 trillion to just south of $35 trillion. “Body Snatcher” McCarthy’s version would “only” add a trifle more than a measly trillion.
A trillion here, a trillion there. Pretty soon they’ll be talking about real money … except that real money doesn’t exist. Our “dollars” are backed by NOTHING. They used to be pieces of paper. Now, they’re not even that, just photons in cyberspace.
Scary.
From wire reports:
“You and the American people should know about the competing economic visions of the country that are really at stake right now,” Biden said at a union training facility in Accokeek, Maryland. “Just two days ago, the speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, went to Wall Street to drive home the MAGA economic vision for America.”
“He proposed a huge cuts [to] programs that millions of hardworking and middle class Americans count on,” Biden said, calling McCarthy’s agenda “the same old trickle down dressed up in MAGA clothing.”
Biden has sharpened his criticism of McCarthy and House Republicans’ economic plans as tensions over the debt limit grow and the president eyes an expected re-election announcement. The White House has accused McCarthy of failing to make a counteroffer to the president’s budget, risking the country’s faith and credit in the process.
“America is not a deadbeat nation, we meet our obligations. … No one should do anything to jeopardize the full faith and credit of the United States of America,” Biden said Wednesday. “They say we’re going to default unless I agree to all these wacko notions of theirs.”
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Remember, folks. Biden is the guy who non-campaigned from his basement promising to unite a fractured America.
THE PLANET asks you: How’d that turn out?
Have a great weekend, everybody.
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“The so-called 1% are bad people — until its time to go begging them for money” — Sir Donald Turpentine, Knight of the Bath.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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Sarcasm: Joe Biden recently called me for public financial management advice. I told the 46th U.S. President that he should stop printing at least $7 trillion to possibly over $10 trillion out of thin air. He asked me why? I told him that the federal government can only run the printing presses for so long until there is hyperinflation. He said that every other country plays the same financial shell games, and that if he didn’t spend over $10 trillion per fiscal year, then it would put our economy and country at a disadvantage. I told him to please stop calling Putin insulting names and threating Xi with WW3, and instead please work with them to financially restructure the Central Banks around the world. He told me that Putin and Xi have teamed up together to bypass his presidential administration, and that the only way for him to counter them is to continue to print trillions of more federal dollars out of thin air to keep their foreign economies in debt. He asked me about the Republicans in the Swamp who want to limit federal spending to counter inflation. I told him that while his opposition are hypocrites on many levels, he should agree to an audit to show where all of his “Biden Buck$” went to. He told me that a would-be audit would show that the Swamp spends trillion of dollars to fund the military industrial complex, endless war(s), arms sales, Wall Street and K Street, and bureaucracy. I told him that the Swamp’s spending binge is contributing to the U.S.A. being the second largest polluter of global warming gas emissions second only to China, which burns a lot of coal – the U.S.A.’s burning of coal is 20 percent of our nation’s energy supply. He told me that China and the U.S.A. account for a little less than 50 percent of the world’s global warming gas emissions. If he didn’t spend a little less than $1 trillion per fiscal year on the Pentagon, which is the single largest polluter of global warming gas emissions in the world, then China’s huge military would soon become more powerful than our nation’s huge military. I told him that we are going around in circles like a dog chasing its own tail. He told me that he is 80 years old and that in about a decade from now, he won’t be around to deal with the costly outcomes of his over 50-year political career in the Swamp. I told him that we will be happy about that, but we will still be paying for it. Joe Biden said that he enjoys spending our money so we should just let him continue to spend our country into oblivion. I told him that may not be a winning campaign message. He said that he will still win in 2024 because he will blame Donald Trump for it all. I told him that my dog ate my homework. The 46th U.S. President patted me on the back.
Sarcasm should ultimately go, uhhh, Without saying. It takes away.
The dog ate the homework and crapped out Biden.
He called me on Xmas eve and wished me a happy Easter.
THE PLANET’s second-to-none literary skills are impressive but do not imply accuracy of content. Money drives politics, that is for sure, but making a simplistic moral equivalency assertion that right/left don’t exist ignores reality.
We need to vow that we’ll accept election results whether we agree with them or not. To not do so means supporting authoritarian autocracy vs. democracy.
The reason the radical right is only willing to accept election results if they win is because they know they are in the minority, and so the only way they can implement their minority positions on guns, abortion, affirmative action, regressive taxation, isolationism etc. is by autocratic fiat, because their views don’t enjoy broad popular support. That is the coward’s way out.
The answer lies in ethics and the truth. Anyone who tells you the truth doesn’t matter has a vested interest in avoiding the truth.
You make some excellent points here, WANNA. I agree, trying to explain the nuances and underpinnings of the left-right divide in a cuppla-three paragraphs of an 800-word column forces one to be simplistic. As for election results, they haven’t been above board since 2000, Bush-Gore, when the election was determined by cheating in Florida (“hanging chads”) and The Supremes. The only one that has not been in question is when Obama beat the hopeless, toothless McCain-Palin ticket.
It’s the illusion of choice.
Left, Right…..
CENTER
You do not sound at all well.
Thanks for your feedback.
“Unwell”
Thank you, but I prefer ‘not at all well.’
The left can’t handle the truth. If they could they would learn from the way their policies are NOT working in Europe. How the Europeans are now fighting against these extreme transgender policies and seeing them for how dangerous they are with young children being mutilated and told they are in the wrong body. Americans are charging ahead with Drag Queen Story Hour and trying to normalize taking the innocence away from children. The only ones avoiding the truth on so many issues from the border to drugs and climate hysteria is the left and some RINOS on the right.
Wanna that post is sarcasm, like JM’s post above correct?
“Radical right” doesn’t want…..Let’s talk about what the “radical right” doesn’t want.
(1) Gun Control. I’ll make a deal with you, when the government starts in the inner cities like Chicago, NYC, LA, and DC, by grabbing the guns from the young POC drug dealers and gang bangers first, then we’ll talk. Until then, unarm me and let the thugs keep their guns? That’s a big F#CK Y@U from me.
(2) Abortion is not a fundamental right; therefore, it’s a state issue. The 10th Amendment covers this. If you expect me (a taxpayer) to fund abortions for those who use it like birth control, see my above answer.
(3) Affirmative Action has been going strong since the 1990’s under Bill Clinton, especially for black people. So much so, that Asian students have been discriminated against in favor of black students repeatedly over the years.
Helen “Handgun” Moon, you should take a look at these two articles when you’re not getting locked up by white cops for being an Asain female.
UT affirmative action case divides Asian-Americans (chron.com) (2012)
Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Affirmative Action at Harvard and U.N.C. – The New York Times (nytimes.com) (2022)
But it’s white privilege, huh wanna?
(4) Regressive taxation, you mean like the one China Joe Xiden just did to those who take care of their financial obligations versus those who do not:
Joe Biden to hike payments for good-credit homebuyers to subsidize high-risk mortgages – Washington Times
I’ll await your response. Please try and post a NON-TRUMP reply. He’s been out of office over two years now.
Markus, I literally don’t know where to begin. I’ll simply say that I’m happy to accept the 2024 results whatever they are, and I hope you will too.
You have to be kidding. Do a little research on democrats who don’t accept election results. Start with Al Gore, Hillary and Stacy Abraham’s.
Last time I looked, all 3 accepted the results of the elections they lost in. They accepted, i.e., did not challenge, the results, and moved forward.
Where have all the adults gone?? Politicians need to say NO to higher tax and spend policies. Time for a balanced budget amendment, come on Brandon and TFB!! To get rid of our debt the US should take China to court for unleashing the COVID virus on the US and causing all this death and destruction since 2020. Let’s sue them for a even $100 trillion that should right our books a little, Now if only Chuckie and Pelosi had listened to the orange MAGA man and stopped all flights from China in Jan 2020, I wonder if things would have turned out differently.
People requesting funding for their ventures – is this commercial kitchen a residential tax code? And how and why. And egress and fire code. & ADA.
https://www.iberkshires.com/story/50142/Businesses-Sought-For-Historic-Tullar-s-Tavern-In-Egremont.html
There’s Lead in the water, soil, paint.
It’s listed as a Hospitality business with one bureau, it’s listed as a two family residence with the tax assessor.
https://theberkshireedge.com/where-we-are-part-3-craig-and-gail-elliott-former-longtime-owners-of-the-old-egremont-store-in-north-egremont/craig-and-gail-elliott/
https://theberkshireedge.com/cove-bowling-alley-sold-at-auction-for-nearly-1-million-fate-of-the-property-remains-unknown/
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/southern_berkshires/great-barrington-the-cove-bowling-alley-big-lebowski-fire-sprinklers-renovation-craig-barnum/article_2bd6b592-de24-11ed-a85c-c79e405b2f47.html
Maybe get money to remediate the Lead Contamination first.
And he is the brother to the co defendant in the heroin arrests I already posted. One of the two men is Barnums brother.
https://www.masslive.com/news/2016/03/sheffield_police_confiscate_17.html
Let’s everyone support this guys Cove Lanes venture, I’m convinced it’s a good investment.
Buyer Beware.
Ethan Klepetar from Birdland LLC office is Barnums attorney, they can not lose.
If Sandra Martin is kin you’re fuckin Innnnuhhh. No quesssssions.
Biden claimed to want to unite the country, but he hasn’t met with McCarthy in over 75 days regarding the budget. He has zero interest in negotiation. Donald Trump is independent minded not just because of all of his money, but that is his personality. He wasn’t going to agree with everything the Swamp (Cesspool) told him to do. That’s a big no no in today’s version of government where so many on the right and the left are forced to walk in lockstep toward fascism.
The Disgraced Trump was a 2Trillion tax cut to wealthy people and corporations and he led a band of thieves he had to pardon during his long 4 year disaster ending in a violent Coup on1/6/2021.He wanted to destroy NATO for the Putin invasion and never paid income taxes because he never filed.All connections to Russia were redacted by AG Bill Barr after Mueller filed the report to the Attorneys General who lacked independent from Trump.In Trumps last official act he brought down FOX news who lied for him about Dominion voting machines turning Trump votes into Biden votes and making complete fools of those supporting his celebrity Presidency of crime.
Dan, use this post above from TSC and revisit your last question about opening up a business in Pittsfield.
Would you want your school age children going to Pittsfield Public SCOHOL’s and get a good, solid, edubacation like this?
Only if my future business was in the social services would I open one here.
I’d like to respond to this but I have no idea what the hell he said. Let this be a lesson to all – you shouldn’t mix pot with Bud Light even on 4/20.
Bud Light aka-Tranny Fluid
Windrush- is that Frederick Rutbergs colleagues? From Birdland LLC, Riordan? The projects in GB.
Happy to see RFK Jr. enter the fray against the O’Biden crowd….
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/robrt-f-kennedy-jr-announces-presidential-run-to-standing-room-only-crowd-vows-to-end-corrupt-merger-of-state-and-corporate-power-to-prioritize-clean-government-civil-liberties-and-peace-video/
In total agreement. At his announcement, he said some solid things. Drew 2,000, much larger than anticipated. THE PLANET supports his candidacy.
Think the Democrats, will assassinate Jr like his dad, uncle, Martin, and Abraham?
Except he is no friend of the First Amendment. Not that distinguishes himself from the Democrat Party. I guess that makes him a ‘good democrat.’
It makes the Democratic presidential race a lot more interesting!
At least we may hope that he is a less porous seive than his competition. That is something.
The fake news will go into attack mode to discredit him, CNN didn’t waste any time…
https://twitter.com/stkirsch/status/1643769887859552256?s=20&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
2020 and 2022 were , Selections, not elections.
Trump won 2020 and Ms Lake won Az 2022.
We live in a banana republic now.
Stockbridge residents will see only a modest increase in their tax bills, pending approval of the budget at the annual town meetingEagle headline
Dan, can you tell the people of Pittsfield what it feels like to have responsible people running your local government? And what is the secret to finding this sort of people?
FIZZ
I’d be glad to tell the good folks of Pittsfield. It feels great. Having leaders you can trust provides a sense of “community.” Problem is that for the poor, bedraggled Kapanskis (you know, hard working, pay their bills on time, keep their yards clean, parent their children) will think it’s fiction, since it’s been forever since they’ve experienced this. As for finding good people, first step is to keep the dregs out.
You mean to tell me the people of Stockbridge don’t agree with using taxpayer money to fund the Cultural Competency Coach’s family and friends African trip? That sounds kind of racist to me.
According to the Cultural Competency Coach, she has been discriminated against her entire life by YT.
We ‘owed’ her this trip, right Flat, Donna, Mr. Worldwide?
I’d be curious to see what that trip cost me and the Kapanski’s.
Some woman keeps buying all the Truly Lime. And that how I know Plaza has 2 Alcohol venues. Trottas and Plaza, are the same? Eat it Price Chopper and Shell.
You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they’re the chosen whites.
-Rage against the machine.
Again I say, how do I qualify for the BEC
On the night/evening “Miguel Estrellla” died I put in a call to 911 as well from #276
Different town.
It’s all BULLSHIT
911 was featured 2x recently
They tell on themselves
It has not been Republican versus Democrat, but rather Globalists vs. Nationalists. In other words – the UniParty vs. Trump.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/20/bush-obama-clinton-team-up-american-express-fly-migrants-into-american-communities/
Tony Blinken lied to the American public repeatedly about the Hunter Biden laptop.
Not a surprise about Blinken or any Biden phony.
Tony Blinken, who is also closely associated with George Soros, lied to the American public repeatedly and hid information from the public about the Hunter Biden laptop to help Biden on election day. Blinken was richly rewarded by Biden giving him a high position in government.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/sean-hannity-antony-blinken-organized-egregious-lying-campaign-american-history
Good thing I didn’t vote for Hunter Biden eh Cheesecloth
Baaaaaaaaaa
If MCLA can get 2.6 million greenbacks to give up dorm space to homeless folk how much could mayor Tyer and her friends get for Pittsfield High sochol? Could this be the incentive she has been waiting for to go to one high school? Maybe.
And how many buses of homeless folk from Boston will it take to fill all the dorm space in North Adams? How long will it take for the homeless with Boston accents to discover that they can do better pan handling in Pittsfield than North Adams?
This is the trajectory, hidden as it may be. Have you ever tried to converse with a homeless person from Boston who is missing his front teeth? It is like talking to a large snake. One big hissing sound with waving arms.
MCLA is being reckless and greedy. North Adams is a small city of 12,000. This homeless shelter is too large and will put too much strain on the cities resources. The State should have these facilities in cities of population over 100,000. If it passes so will MCLA , good bye money whores.
Heard that Roberta Dews, Tyer’s Asst., has taken a VP of Marketing job with Greylock Federal CU. That would explain why Greylock is “reaching out” to extend financing to the black, hispanic & immigrant crowd in their recent Eagle ad. Very racist and “woke,” isn’t it? Now that many banks are on shaky ground, they think this is a good policy to follow? How about extending financing to those who are financially stable instead of selecting customers based on skincolor or immigrant status? Geez!
I heard Andrea Harrington took a job in WhistlePig, TN at a place called Raisins.
Good luck Andrea
Shortly after George Floyed died from a lethal dose of fentanyl, Bissel put out a letter that basically suggested all whites are racists that need to wake up and pander to the blacks, and then his bank led the way. service has gone down the shitter with all their shitty employees.
Yo, use mean dis letter bro???
“In the past week we have all witnessed tragic events across our country. Even as communities work to recover from COVID-19, we are now confronted with the aftershocks from the brutal death of George Floyd, and from the countless murders of other Black Americans through the months, the years, and the centuries of our national struggle with racism.
The truth is that the daily brutality of racism is not confined to law enforcement or the criminal justice system. The insidious force of racism pervades every system in America and Berkshire County, from housing to education, to government and media, and to the business community and the financial system. So while we must confront and mourn the reality of Mr. Floyd’s horrific death, all of us in positions of influence must also commit every ounce of our energy to changing our own practices inside of our organizations and industries.
I am grateful for the leadership of our volunteer Board of Directors and employees at Greylock Federal who have committed to long-term change across the domains of inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility. We have made progress in changing our hiring practices and policies, and we have expanded access in many meaningful ways. But we know that we have a long way to go to achieve true financial inclusion, and I deeply appreciate the counsel of Black leaders, advisers and mentors in helping us shape our approach.
At a rally this past weekend I heard a group of young protesters chanting, “No justice, no peace.” Achieving real, sustained social justice requires achieving economic justice. And economic justice relies upon an inclusive financial system, and upon inclusive business practices. This work starts with me, and people who look like me, who are in positions of leadership.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” So, people of Berkshire County, where is our voice? Where is our action? What are we willing to do to assist people of color and show our belief that we are all truly created equal?
We need to listen respectfully to our Black neighbors and colleagues, and we need to act, now and for generations to come. Precious lives depend on us making real and systemic changes.
This letter is offered with the full endorsement of Greylock Federal’s Board of Directors.”
John L. Bissell
President/CEO
Greylock Federal Credit Union
What a bunch of B.S. Glad I N-E-V-E-R did my banking there. Angelo was enough from the start. Bissell was the convincer.
There is woke and there is over the edge woke. Some business s are pushing buttons they may wish they had not pushed. Helping people is one thing. Kissing their asses in spectacular fashion does not gain respect.
I did until Angelo got caught with his hands on a couple of juvenile boys coin rolls. And not the monetary coin rolls either.
Tell ‘um Angelo sent you…..
Reminds me of one of “Karnac’s comebacks when one of his jokes bombed: “May a weird holy man juggle your figs.”
BS is in the eyes of the beholder.
The letter, in my view, does not suggest that all whites are racists.
Along those lines, have you noticed that in reference to skin color, Black has an initial capital but the “w” in white is lower case. It’s inconsistent, stylistically piss-poor, and racist. When we use the terms, both have lower case first letters. Why? Because they are not proper nouns.
Spot on Danno. It’s “Black”with a capitol B to the Wokeaholes, or is it Woke A Holes? it’s okay for the blacks to call each other “nigger, left and right, but us white folk have to say “the N word”, lest there be hurt feelings in the black community, even when reporting what someone else said, in news print. Main stream media darling blacks, for the most part, couldn’t care less about black lives, as evidenced by their silence concerning the extreme violence amongst black males, which Kamela, Booker, Sharpton, Jackson, Obama and their ilk ignore like Tyer ignores the bums of the corner, and this Black Crime Problem (BCP) is the root cause of Pittsfield’s violent crime problem which, as I recall, Tyler wasn’t going to tolerate!
That just follows the convention that you can’t use an ethnic slur unless you yourself are a member of that group. Being from the Pitt, in high school we used the slurs in mixed company. When I went to boot camp I found out real quick that members of ethnic minorities don’t appreciate the slurs unless you also belong to that group.
I agree that they should be consistent – all uppercase or all lowercase.
When your married to cigarbershop yaba daba Dews you better have a good job so Warren can pursue his Ralph Cramden dreams
RMD must be thinking Marchetti is going to lose and Krol wasn’t going to keep her on. Perhaps Krol has good reason to question her usefulness to the Mayor’s office.
If Krol is to complete, he will have to change his whole campaign. Running as a family man after what he did to his ex wife. Will never work. He also needs to pay the many people he owes, and keep a job for awhile. Pittsfield sees right through him. Being a smooth talker won’t work!
Now, who will screen all copy for the media before it goes to press? Nothing negative about city hall or Pittsfield is to EVER make it for public consumption. Bad things do happen in towns around Pittsfield but not IN Pittsfield. (and if it does it didn’t) Remember that.
“Kill that story about the muggings BOB and go with the one about fixin up historic Springside and highlight the grants.” “Roger that boss, and I am gonna stay away from the gunfire on Mohegan as well. Never happened”.
Pete White is predicted to be the next President of the City Council if/when Pete Marchetti moves up to the corner office. Pete White has endorsed Pete Marchetti for Mayor in 2023. He thinks that Pete Marchetti is the best qualified to lead Pittsfield politics. Pete White talks about the city’s so-called “Free Cash”. He said that ARPA money is going towards homelessness.
Pittsfield city council Vice President Pete White makes pitch for 5th term as at-large rep | WAMC
My thoughts about Pete White are that he doesn’t sound like he does all that much on the City Council, but he says that he listens to people’s concerns. He is on the side of Mayor Linda Tyer, Peter Marchetti and the big spenders of “Kapanski Ka$h”, while he talks about high taxes and the city’s homelessness crisis. There is no talk of economic development with living wage jobs for the working-class families in Pittsfield.
The mental health issues platform seems like a workaround of the generations of job loss in Pittsfield. If one is living on the streets without a roof over their heads, then one is going to experience mental health issues in one’s distressed life. Pittsfield has become a magnet for poor people and families with mental health issues who rely on social services agencies to survive. The problem with that is illustrated by North Street’s 15 empty storefronts.
The worst part about it all is that the career politicians only do DISSERVICES to the common people and distressed “Gateway” cities such as Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The career politicians are NOT doing anything to bring back living wage jobs to places like Pittsfield. Instead, the common people get SCAMMED with $50 scratch tickets, marijuana and alcohol, and taxpayer-funded social services to keep them with just enough money to buy more lottery tickets, pot and booze. In closing, Pete White sounds like another typical career politician in Pittsfield politics!
For whatever White does or doesn’t do, he’s thousands of times more successful than you. FJM
RB
It depends on how you defines success. That word, and failure, are individual visions.
On the scale of “success” JM is at the absolute bottom by all accounts and visions.
Pete, although not much better, is orders of magnitude more successful than JM.
Pete White should be one of the first councilors voted out of office. He is useless.
Of all the mayors puppets she appreciates his unquestioning servitude the most. (except for the other Pete who sawed off his balls for her)
Is it true that Mr White is being groomed for next city council president? Has his role as self appointed mayoral apologist already won him the big chair even before the election? Has his dexterity with his own puppet strings garnered him status as a revered rubber stamper? With a predictable 8-3 council is city council president really ever in doubt?
Answer: “Yes.” White expects to get the Prez chair. It’s “his turn.”
One more reason the Pittsfield quicksand will get thicker. You cannot overcome this good old boy power. Strongly consider moving those you love to a less hostile city or town. Yes, there are other bad places. No place is perfect but why raise your family in a city that eats its own? Pittsfield is like the female preying mantis. It screws you and then devours your exhausted body.
Get out and stop procrastinating about it. You owe it to your family.
Term limits, please!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/deagel-population-forecast-of-nearly-70-percent-fewer-americans-by-2025-is-starting-to-look-prophetic/
And this from Dr. Shiva…
https://www.facebook.com/100044404570448/posts/pfbid0CnaLgmce8RV3X9koPAkF4A7c95u6k1ayL4g9bthScETk7ib6mVubpFFeMv5meUh9l/
April 22, 2023
Re: Are you really surprised, Erin Leahy at Act on Mass?
Hello Erin Leahy at Act on Mass,
Thank you for your political email about the fictional Massachusetts State Representative Sellout Shakedown’s vote to giveaway tens of billions of dollars per fiscal year in state tax breaks to the top 1 percent, while the common people have to pound sand with the lottery SCAM’s $50 scratch ticket and other (voluntary) regressive taxation schemes.
Throughout my life in our otherwise cruel world, when I complain about human behavior and human nature’s dark side, people close to me often respond by saying to me, “Are you really surprised, Jon Melle?” I respond by saying that while I understand that people are selfish and use conflict for their own interests, it still hurts me. They respond by saying that I am too sensitive, and that I should be able to deal with and cope with it. It is probably one of the main reasons why I am a 100 percent service connected disabled Veteran.
I hope that people will contact their respective one of forty Massachusetts State Senators to request that they please vote down the State House of Representatives’ 150 – 3 vote on the fiscal year 2024 state budget that gives away so much state dollars in tax breaks to the wealthiest residents and businesses. But, once again, I will not really be surprised when the State Senators vote for the proposed state budget that the State House voted for.
Best wishes,
Jonathan A. Melle
Tom Fitton/Judicial Watch on TheTriaitor Joe crime family, and THE FIB covering for the Tranny murderer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNERU58gMAQ
Hello greedy lobbyist Dan Bosley,
I read your op-ed in the Dirty Bird (Berkshire Eagle) today, and it comes as NO surprise to me that you are against helping to house the homeless families in a building at the MCLA campus. Some of your concerns are legitimate, but your public record as a corrupt career politician turned greed-ball registered lobbyist on Beacon Hill is illegitimate.
Please allow me to remind you and everyone else out there of your public record in Boston.
Then North Adams State Representative Dan Bosley voted for Speakers of the State House of Representatives who later became Convicted Felons: Tom Finneran and Sal DiMasi.
Then North Adams State Representative Dan Bosley sponsored the failed “Bosley Amendment” that was a secretive rider to legislation that would have given big businesses in Massachusetts the single largest tax break worth billions of dollars in the history of state government.
Dan Bosley is a greedy lobbyist in Boston (and beyond) whereby he earns a 6-figure salary legally bribing the fictional Massachusetts State Representative Sellout Shakedown to give huge state tax breaks for his special interest clients.
Then North Adams State Representative Dan Bosley opposed then Governor Deval Patrick’s push for casino gambling in Massachusetts because he didn’t want it to cut into the state lottery’s profits.
Dan Bosley has two residences: One in North Adams and the other in Boston, which means he lives the high life.
Dan Bosley is NOT volunteering his time at the homeless shelters and/or animal shelters, yet he criticizes the state for its systemic failures in funding and providing social services for the homeless families.
Dan Bosley wrote several op-eds praising PAC Man Richie Neal, who is the Congressman from Springfield who is in the pocket of K Street lobbyist firms’ special interests, especially insurance companies.
Dan Bosley wrote an unfavorable op-ed about then Berkshire County District Attorney Andrea Harrington prior to the Fall 2022 election, but Hell would freeze over if he wrote similar op-eds about his own public record.
Dan Bosley says he comes from a very poor family, attended MCLA many decades ago, and fought for the college when he was a State Representative from North Adams until 2011, but the reality is that Dan Bosley favors big government and big business over the common people.
When my dad, Bob, was a Berkshire County Commissioner (1997 – mid-2000), he called Dan Bosley “reprehensible”, and Dan Bosley was not very nice to my dad back then. Dan Bosley said that I, Jon Melle, am a man with no character. What a (not) nice guy, Dan Bosley!
Dan Bosley unsuccessfully ran for Berkshire County Sheriff in 2010 to try to double his state pension.
Dan Bosley voted against Clean Elections that unsuccessfully tried to drive big money out of state politics. Dan Bosley made his way in life by being in the pocket of the special interests.
It has been written in blog posts that Dan Bosley is said to collect up to two Massachusetts state pensions plus public perks, which is on top of his greed-ball lobbyist salary. I have a blog post that sarcastically says that Massachusetts should pay their taxes to Dan Bosley instead of to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts because it would be more direct and cut out the middleman.
Why is it O.K. for Dan Bosley to receive so many financial benefits from the state taxpayers of Massachusetts, but he is against homeless families having a roof over their heads in a building on the MCLA campus? When I look up hypocrisy and a man who lives his life by double standards, I see a picture of Dan Bosley standing on the word “GREED”!
In closing, I do NOT understand why the Dirty Bird (Berkshire Eagle) publishes Dan Bosley’s op-eds and letters hypocritically criticizing other politicians who do not line his own pockets with money without the aforementioned facts about Dan Bosley’s public record in Boston.
Happy Earth Day (It would be nice if you, Dan Bosley, lived in the real world),
Jonathan A. Melle
Dan Bosley is correct in arguing against housing homeless and illegal immigrants on the campus of MCLA. Forcing migrants into the already economically suffering North Adams area would be a huge strain on their local social service agencies. Bosley is correct in arguing that the migrants should be accommodated in cities with a population of over 100,000 where their local economy would have more opportunities for assimilation.
I would encourage all Western MA citizens to read Dan Bosley’s article in today’s Berkshire Eagle. It is very well written and I completely agree with Bosley’s points.
Your dad, Rob Melle rakes in $50,570 a year in a Massachusetts pension. Dan Bosley collects $32,293 per year.
April 22, 2023
Hello Dan Bosley,
There are two responses to my blog post open letter to you today on Planet Valenti.
I was surprised that the aforementioned two blog posts are in your favor. I guess that your public record in Boston of being all about the Almighty Dollar by serving the special interests didn’t factor into your opposition to providing housing to homeless families in North Adams, Massachusetts.
I have long believed that there should be no such thing as homelessness in the U.S.A. (and beyond). Rather, I believe that the government should invest in the people it serves. Instead, the government only does DISSERVICES to the common people, and in return, the career politicians enrich themselves and their wealthy campaign donors at the public trough.
I, Jon Melle, must stand alone in my belief that the government has a moral obligation to end homelessness and invest in people so that the underclass has a chance for social mobility into the middle class in their distressed lives. You, Dan Bosley, unfortunately stand among the people in your belief that families may be at risk of being homeless, and that greedy lobbyists like yourself come before the people who need social services the most.
Jonathan A. Melle
This from the guy who quit his job and then sued for unemployment benefits.
Stop yer whining!
Did that really happen Fritz? Not doubting you, but that is crazy stuff if true.
True. Do your research.
More D-voter fraud, 2020 was just the start……well H-Beast tried 2016 failed, 2022 THE FIB involved here too.
Traitor Joe and the Chi-Coms on this one…….
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/breaking-controversial-konnech-company-dismisses-all-charges-against-catherine-engelbrecht-and-gregg-phillips-links-to-china-exposed-true-the-vote-evaluates-options-to-hold-company-accountable/
-1? truth hurts leftists/liberals …….WHAAAA!
True the Vote
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/breaking-controversial-konnech-company-dismisses-all-charges-against-catherine-engelbrecht-and-gregg-phillips-links-to-china-exposed-true-the-vote-evaluates-options-to-hold-company-accountable/
Controversial Konnech Company Dismisses ALL CHARGES Against Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips Links to China Exposed – True the Vote Evaluates Options to Hold Company Accountable
Traitor Joe
Yep, they are nice Men/Women
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/man-who-identifies-as-transgender-exposes-penis-to-four-freshman-girls-in-wisconsin-high-school-locker-room/
A Wisconsin school district is under fire for allegedly doing nothing after an adult man exposed his penis to four freshman girls in a high school locker room.
It’s all part of taking innocence away from children. Why would the school district complain? It’s part of their plan to expose children to drag queens, men exposing themselves, and making pedophilia normal.
Here is your Donald with his young daughter grooving on his lap.
Not sure what this picture has to do with drag queens and pedophilia. The picture looks like it’s been tampered with and everybody is wearing clothing not doing lap dancing. Look how far away Donald Trump’s hands are from his daughter like she’s not in front of him at all. Try again.
OriginIn September 2016, a photograph purportedly showing a 15-year-old Ivanka Trump “grinding” on the lap of her famous father, Donald Trump, during a Beach Boys concert in 1996 at the family’s estate in Florida
So YOU support drag queen shows for pre-teens?
Tell us you Tranny, sick SOB
Queers at White House support queer agendas.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/white-house-condemns-bud-light-boycott-says-dangerous-rhetoric-and-vitriolic-language-and-violence-needs-to-stop-video/
Bend over America…..
This just in. GB police have concluded the investigation into racial slurs and swastikas being carved into the sand at lake Mansfield.
After reviewing cameras from Bard College at Simons Rock, three African American students have been identified as the culprits.
They were seen on video walking in that direction and seen coming back to campus with what looked like a child’s plastic toy shovel.
The shovel has been recovered and it matches the toy set left at the beach for children to play with.
Thanks, QUICK. Wonder what the consequences will be, if any? Now if they were white, expelled from school and charged with a hate crime.
Won’t happen.
If white slicker than shit they’d be charged with hate crime.
Lets see what new Berk DA has as a litmus test.
I’d still like to know why DA Wrong Way never charged the black female, who staged the racially motivated kidnapping hoax.
I know why she was never charged. It’s the same reason why people with no discernible work ethic or job skills are given horshesh!t created positions like, Cultural Competency Coach.
Then are allowed to spend taxpayer money on fruitless “North Carolina black teacher recruiting” trips and then taking your family and friends on an all expense (taxpayer) paid African junket.
Nothing to see here, move along.
You answered your own question. The answer is that the malicious racist criminal is a BLACK FEMALE N*%#ER. It wouldn’t surprise me if this dangerous malicious negress and ROPES grifter Shirley Sharpton Edgerton aren’t on a short list of recipients for MORE taxpayer $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to fund a YT HATING grifter’s Zebra Murders pogrom for the extermination of all things YT. I’m sure there’s no shortage of YT HATING Mau-maus out to ignite race wars.
Racist Zoom Attack at MT.
Greylock HS targets College employees’ child. Incident reignites broader concerns over RACISM in Williamstown – williamsrecord.com / January 31, 2021
“This latest attack is yet another reminder that Williamstown, Williams College and other institutions in town aren’t immune to the ills of RACISM and HATRED vexing the nation,”
“No matter the ‘who’ or the ‘where’ of this incident, the incident has served as a stark reminder that HATE, FEAR, INTIMIDATION, and LANGUAGE that disrespects not only an individual but an entire people … are REAL,” McCandless wrote.
EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT THE NEGRO HATERS ARE IN FACT, NEGROS!
“I’m lying if I say I’m not anxious and I’m not nervous … [I’m] really questioning what it means to be safe here in Williamstown,”
What, with ALL these NEGRO LIES about NEGRO HATING YTS out to get the NEGRO!
“Unfortunately, Williams is not a safe place for me as a Black Trans Man,”
Where to begin on What’s not to like about a BLACK TRANS MAN!
In October 2020, a Black staff member, ALLEGEDLY, received at their home a violent and threatening hate letter, ALLEGEDLY, targeting them on the basis of their RACE, GENDER IDENTITY, and SEXUAL ORIENTATION. ALLEGEDLY!
And now NEWS of more HATE CRIMES, or NOT!
Great Barrington police investigating swastikas, racist slurs carved into the sand at Lake Mansfield.
Investigation Suggests RACIST INCIDENT at Simon’s Rock Staged
Racist graffiti and racial attack faked by BLACK STUDENT!
The MALICIOUS BLACK FEMALE ACCUSER WASN’T ATTACKED! The MALICIOUS NEGRESS WASN’T ASSAULTATED! The MALICIOUS NEGRESS WASN’T RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS! And the MALICIOUS NEGRESS WASN’T DREGGED APPROXIMATELY 75 YARDS INTO THE WOODS! THE clothing the MALCIOUIS NEGRESS was wearing was CUT, BUT NOT BY HER FABRICATED ASSAILANTS, that didn’t then, and still don’t exist, today. However, the REAL MALICOUS DANGER IS STILL OUT THERE. Because the YT HATING MALICIOUS NEGRESS WASN’T EVER PROSECUTED FOR MANUFACTUING FAKE CRIMES AGANST YT!
I sent a normal email to Gwendolyn, same day. The body was nothing hateful. It’s a lie. It’s a cover-up. Nobody hates Jewish or Black’s.
They hate people who seek redress for fabricated lab evidence.
If Rutberg has 0 to do with Simon’s Rock than I’ll be wrong, but I’m not.
If Rutberg has 0 to do with Williamstown/ Williams College than I’ll be wrong, but I’m not.
Wonder how St. Louis is enjoyng Wrong Way. How come there was never any coverage here of how she slunk silently away?
Hate crime, do your job Shegrue.
Worse than hate. Using “hate” for more hate.
There is blacks and there is niggers.
I have many blacks/negroes, no slurs intended, CALL ME A HONKIE, my friends. GOOD PEOPLE.
Well, there is good and bad in all races. Most out of bad parents.
There would need to be damages. Throw a bucket of water on it and move on, that is NOT a HATE crime!
So “hate” is a one way street?
Good for the gander, good for the goose.
That isn’t what I said. I said, a swastika etched in beach sand is not a crime. It’s just a couple of cross hatch Z’s.
Found the idiot-you
“ Why have hate crime laws?
Hate crimes have a broader effect than most other kinds of crime. Hate crime victims include not only the crime’s immediate target but also others like them. Hate crimes affect families, communities, and at times, the entire nation.”
I can own the building and paint the N word on it and it’s a hate crime.
It’s not that I am too stupid to comprehend what hate crime means, I’m saying – SAND. And symbols. Get real.
Good point! That’s the first persuasive argument for the hate crime designation.
In laws and social policies, for every benefit promised, there is an equal detriment imposed elsewhere. EG: higher wages (at the point of diminishing margins) benefit the employeed, reduce hours for others. In the case of Hate Crime legislation, the status permits an aggressive approach, but also elevates the acts making them more popular, especially where the perpetrators know that they will not be charged whether it’s a hoax or not.
There are damages, though not to a specific individual. The hoax is designed to elicit suspicion and retribution (via the police) against white folk who presumably would make those marks. It is also designed to inflame jews who are expected to be reactive to nazi-hoaxes.
So, it’s a ‘hate crime’ if you will, or maybe we should go back to the better days when crimes were treated as just crimes, without bonus points for the targets.
The U.S. national debt crossed the $31.7 trillion line today (Saturday, April 22nd, 2023).
U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time (usdebtclock.org)
Thank you to the Deficit Spenders in the Swamp!
Pedophiles are attracted to kids<14, hebephiles are attracted to teenagers.
But the woodchipper don’t care.
and you know this because you were curious and looked it up?
You are worried.
about you yes.
You, are America 2023:vile, foul, disgusting, and lacking any morals and scruples.
I’m a civil American , circa 1960s
But not a ’60’s kid, hopefully.
I’ve got a wood chipper.
Want to jump in? If you don’t fit your fat ass in, we got saws, to finish the work.
RFK Jr
Blacked out by MSM/FAKE NEWS, why is that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLrVWmt_33g
Because the game is fixed from start to finish.
No debates?? Dem nominee already selected? So all nominees will be “hiding in their basements?”
RFK Jr. brings a new twist to the Dem presidential race!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/after-disastrous-debates-in-2020-democrats-have-decided-to-not-hold-presidential-debates-in-2024/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/fox-news-host-asks-rfk-jr-if-hes-afraid-of-physical-threats/
Abraham Martin and John
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5hFMy4pTrs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXl3XG5aGtM
She has a soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFIYVDrFphg
Budweasels
https://dunning-kruger-times.com/
““It’s only the controversial brands we’ve asked not to come. Budweiser and Bud Light. They don’t really represent Bavarian brewing, anyway, regardless of what the name suggests.”
If you learned language skills inside G-Pod, you might be prone to say #&@@*^ and #&:% more than you intend to. And if you were raised watching Dukes of Hazzard the flag might not mean hate to you.
A hate crime is when a person or a group suffers injury.
Get it into perspective.
“A hate crime is when a person or a group suffers injury.”
Kind of like the six murdered in Nashville? By a mentally sick POS.
“A hate crime is when a person or a group suffers injury.”
Kind of like the six murdered in Nashville? By a mentally sick POS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXl3XG5aGtM
And You seem to lost a faih in God
Faith in God is intact. You’re not so good at empathy.
Oh peet you are dumber than you look.
“The Act defines hate crimes as “actions that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, gender or gender identity, religion, disability, sexual orientation”
That’s what the actual crime is.
There doesn’t have to be a direct victim. The community at large is the victims.
Victimized by a symbol written in sand. It’s ridiculous. It literally washes away with just water. Get a grip on what can or can not manifest in the sand. Why did Jesus write in sand?
It’s not smart to think this caused harm. It DID NOT.
Thank you. I have a brain injury and I often wonder if I too, look dumb.
So what kind of queer are YOU?
Do YOU just hump/be humped by same sex/or don’t care?
Or do YOU do children too?
Seen a million faces. Rocked them all. Fah Q !
It was about prohibition not slavery or anti this or that.
Prohibition.
Home grown.
I do cider, but Neal tells it well. America, farm aid , Ronnie was President. 1986,
America has fallen since, a woke joke, the world knows it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eetrxNlR-M
Women are going crazy. This wealthy Virginia socialite mom was planning to sex traffic a little girl. Her husband is now demanding full custody of their daughters since the mother of these children is now into pedophilia. Trying to make pedophilia normal is spreading across our country from the schools to the media.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/virginia-mother-child-porn-sex-trafficking?utm_source=theblaze-https://www.theblaze.com/news/virginia-mother-child-porn-sex-trafficking?utm_source=theblaze-7DayTrendingTest&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Blaze%20PM%20Trending%202023-04-22&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%207%20Day%20Engagement
Demorcrats
The QUEERS, the DYKES, the DRAG QUEENS, the PEDERESTS, and all the other FREAKS of an aberrant nature shouldn’t be allowed to parade their obscene degenerate perversions in public. Cities, including this SHITHOLE, Pittsfield, shouldn’t be promoting depravity in public places. These deviant mistakes, are MISTAKES of an abnormal, SOMETHING DEFINATELY WENT VERY WRONG, nature! NO MORE DRAG QUEEN STORY HOURS! NO MORE QUEERS, NO MORE DYKES, NO MORE DRAG QUEENS IN THE COMMON! NO MORE DRAG QUEENS, QUEERS and DYKES ON PARADES! NO MORE!
NO MORE SIMPLETON PINHEAD PEE PEE GIMPY WHITE!
NO MORE KROLCHETTI!
Writing in sand is definitely not a criminal act. It doesn’t matter what is etched in. It’s not a crime no matter what.
Was it wet cement?
”Hate crime”, any criminal act coupled with overt actions motivated by bigotry and bias including, but not limited to, a threatened, attempted or completed overt act motivated at least in part by racial, religious, ethnic, handicap, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation prejudice, or which otherwise deprives another person of his constitutional rights by threats, intimidation or coercion, or which seek to interfere with or disrupt a person’s exercise of constitutional rights through harassment or intimidation.
April 23, 2023
Re: If Sara Bengualid Goldstein only knew about greed-ball Dan Bosley’s inequitable politics
Sara Bengualid Goldstein wrote an op-ed in the MetroWest Daily News publicly advocating for the Massachusetts State Legislature to make funding for free school meals for all students a permanent public policy. But if Sara Bengualid Goldstein only knew about greed-ball Dan Bosley’s inequitable politics then she would understand why it is still a temporary policy.
I have studied greed-ball Dan Bosley for decades of my adult life. He is a retired North Adams State Representative who ran for Berkshire County Sheriff to try to double his state pension, but he lost the 2010 election to Tom Bowler. While Dan Bosley retired from Beacon Hill, like most state lawmakers in Boston, Dan Bosley never left Beacon Hill. Dan Bosley, who has residences in both North Adams and Boston, collects his public state pension plus public perks, and on top of that, Dan Bosley earns a 6-figure salary as a registered lobbyist on Beacon Hill.
Dan Bosley supports (voluntary) regressive taxation schemes such as the multibillion-dollar Massachusetts State Lottery and the like because he makes money when the low- to moderate-income common people pay more and more of their limited financial resources in state taxes so that he is able to lobby for millions of dollars in additional tax breaks for the wealthy top 1 percent. When Dan Bosley was a State Rep. many years ago now, he sponsored a secretive rider to state legislation to give big businesses in and around Boston billions of dollars in state tax breaks. While “The Bosley Amendment” failed, it still is the single largest state tax break proposal in the history of state government in Massachusetts.
Dan Bosley is being praised during this rainy “April Showers” Spring weekend for opposing a proposed homeless shelter for around 50 homeless families in Massachusetts that would be in a building on the MCLA campus in North Adams. I seem to stand alone in criticizing Dan Bosley’s op-ed in the Dirty Bird (Berkshire Eagle) rag (newspaper). I believe that the government, including Beacon Hill, should use their limited public funds to Invest in People, while Dan Bosley sees my belief in ending homelessness and hunger as an obstacle to his greedy pursuit of the Almighty Dollar.
Jonathan A. Melle
I’m sure the msm won’t cover this, here is the full text of RFK jr.’s speech announcing his candidacy…p.s. Dr Shiva has also announced that he is running as an independent.
https://yournews.com/2023/04/21/2557368/full-transcript-rfk-jr-presidential-announcement-speech/