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LOOMING DEFAULT: REFRAMING THE LANGUAGE OF DEBT THREATENS GLOBAL CATASTROPHE

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BY DAN VALENTI

PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY

(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION MAY 26-8, 2023) — This Memorial Day Weekend, we mourn the loss of sanity in government. THE PLANET will play three-dimensional chess with out grieving at both top (federal) and bottom (municipal).

At the top, politicians from both parties have allowed partisan knife-jabbing to jeopardize the savings accounts and Social Security of The Kapanskis, to say nothing of the strong chance of sinking the global economy. We speak, of course, of the looming possibly that Uncle Sam will default on its borrowing obligations.

Republicans and Democrats share equal blame. Both parties have for years spent recklessly by printing worthless money and issuing bonds, mostly to China. In short, America’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling will either have to be raised ($34 trillion) OR, having run out of money, we fail to meet our obligations.

Imagein. The USA, Bad Credit Risk.

If that happens, as Curt Gowdy used to say after Williams or Jensen hit one out, “Goodbye Dolly Grey.” A President unable to climb a set of stairs without stumbling and often not knowing where he is does not inspire confidence. He’s ruined a functioning economy, allowed inflation to gobble up the purchasing power of “average” Americans, and refusing to acknowledge reality by not agreeing to spending cuts.

At present, the country is running on fumes, using reserves to keep the lights on literally day-to-day. When does the tank go dry? As early as June 1 and as late as June 15. What are the consequences?

  • Stocks would plummet with massive sell-offs (a good buying opportunity for those with cash)
  • More seriously, America would not pay what it owes on bonds. Market analysts agree the result for the global economy would be “cataclysmic.” How do you think foreign note holders will react when America doesn’t send its legally obligated dividends. Think it will give them leverage?
  • Social Security payments would be drastically reduced or cut.
  • Medicare payments to hospitals and doctors would cease. Same with Medicaid.
  • Bank runs.
  • Soaring interest.
  • Mortgage capital would dry up.
  • Home values would fall off the cliff.

In short, the value of everything would drop.

World Depression.

THE PLANET predicts the two sides will reach a last-minute agreement. We still believe that. If anything is too big to fail, it has to be the credit rating of America. It may not be big enough, though, to stroke the egos of the negotiators, who think that reframing the nature of “debt” will somehow make the problem go away. Playing chicken is for maniacs.

A U.S. default would finish off Biden, for sure. Silver lining.

For that reason alone, Democrats CAN’T let a default happen. It’s shaky, though, to realize that stupid politics and not calm and reason are driving negotiations between the White House and Congress.

Whatever happens, the United States of Amnesia will emerge more compromised than ever, mocked at home by We The People and jeered globally by both friends and enemies.

We are the world. And we are thinking the unthinkable.

Have a great Memorial Day Weekend, everybody.

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The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide” — P. G. Wodehouse.

“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”

LOVE TO ALL.

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Dave
Dave
1 year ago

Go play and enjoy weekend

La Raydough
La Raydough
Reply to  Dave
1 year ago

One other thing Dan. 401k would go in the shitter.

Neva gonna get it
Neva gonna get it
Reply to  La Raydough
1 year ago

They have 401k by the balls.

Pat
Pat
Reply to  Neva gonna get it
1 year ago

People have already lost huge amounts of money from their 401Ks, courtesy of Joe Biden’s policies. Some people have been totally wiped out.

Last edited 1 year ago by Pat
Acute Angina
Acute Angina
Reply to  La Raydough
1 year ago

A 6K is as far as I can run

La Raydough
La Raydough
1 year ago

And guarantee it will be voted in

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
1 year ago

I read a news article:

Should the Proposition 2½ tax limit get the ax? (boston.com)

In Massachusetts, home values are decreasing, and commercial real estate is sinking. State revenues are now in the red during the Spring 2023. State and local revenue has to come from somewhere, as a predicted economic recession looms later this year 2023 and into next year 2024.

Mayor Linda Tyer’s proposed fiscal year 2024 municipal budget of over $205.6 million that starts in a little over one month from now on July 1st, 2023, flies in the face of all financial reality, but Pittsfield politics has long lived in the Twilight Zone.

The U.S. government’s debt limit federal law started over 100 years ago during WW1. There have been many negotiations on federal spending and borrowing on the debt ceiling votes over the years. 23 previous votes included negotiated compromises on raising the debt ceiling. The current impasse is not new, but the stakes have never been higher.

Joe Biden’s federal spending has been excessive with somewhere around $10 trillion dollars printed out of thin air since January 20th, 2021. Both political parties are deficit spenders. The federal government plays a lot of financial shell games that moves large amounts of money (mostly large numbers on computer screens) around and around without paying its bills in full.

To be clear, the national debt and other federal liabilities will never be paid off. Politicians have been and still are making financial promises that our children, grandchildren…. will be paying for long after we become memories.

Jonathan A. Melle

CRomeo Ed
CRomeo Ed
1 year ago

Beware of bicyclists and motorcycles other cars.

fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  CRomeo Ed
1 year ago

Absolutely! Not everyone is using the same set of road rules. Some are using those from Venzuela, Peru, or Pakistan. And many Americans just don’t give a shit about rules at all anymore.

Acute Angina
Acute Angina
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

Many brake for hallucinations

wannabe
wannabe
Reply to  CRomeo Ed
1 year ago

Especially motorcycles.

ShirleyKnutz
ShirleyKnutz
1 year ago

Funny how no one hears a peep from the Massachusett’s sitting Congressional delegation. They should be out front telling these negotiators to find a compromise or everyone should stay in Washington until an agreement has been made!! Nobody in government should be home for the holiday weekend, if they are I and a Kapanski sees one I hope they give them a Bronx cheer and tell them to get this thing settled. If you are able to have a lengthy conversation tell them to get their head out of their arse and start following a better economic agenda to get the economy back to where it was just 2 years ago!

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  ShirleyKnutz
1 year ago

Call the crooks, er Reps in mASS, up to support Rep. Greene’s articles of impeachment for Mr Biden and cohorts.

They have looted the US Treasury to launder the booty with his friend Zelensky in Ukraine.

That is BILLIONS!!! Some is going to pay pensions, in Ukraine. None for SS or Medicare in, what used to be, the good ole USA.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

Trapper, you are confabulating — that is, making things up that you don’t know to be true. Pat also does this a lot. The two of you should get together. Oh, the stories you could spin! And she could also help you with your spelling and grammar.

Sgt. Bazooka
Sgt. Bazooka
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

So post what you think is true

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Sgt. Bazooka
1 year ago

Ok, I think Biden did not use aid to Ukraine to loot the US Treasury with Zelensky.

Why make it up if I have no proof it’s true? That is Pat and Trap’s stock-in-trade.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

There has been no accountability, for any of the Billions or weapons, transfered to Urkraine, none.

Some money did make it back to the Democrats (laundered), that’s been proven. Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX were the intermediary.

When this came out, and there was a call for accountability, the leftists had a hissy fit. Traitor Joe kept/keeps dumping more dollars into that black hole in Eastern Europe. This is still an ongoing fleecing of America.

Some of the weapons provided Ukraine, have shown up on the black market all over the world.

Not sure who is the bigger crook? Biden or Zelensky.

fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

Your mesiah Donald Trump was impeached twice and accused of sexual misconduct two dozen times and election fraud a few times etc etc etc. You really should give him equal time because when either Biden or Zelensy stand next to him he looks like a sick little mouse.
By the way, speaking of Zelensky, did Donald Trump or any of his sons or extended family EVER serve in the military?

p.s. (insurrections to overthrow your own democratic government do not count)

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

Have you read the Durham report Fizze?

Both impeachments were based on a collusion hoax concocted by the H-Beast Clinton and the DNC 2016.

Biden, Soetero, THE FIB, and DOJ, were complicit with The Beast, in the sedition to tamper with elections and frame a sitting President.

They all belong in prison.

THE FIB needs to be purged of partisan upper adminisTRAITORS. Some of which also need to face charges.

The Biden crime syndicate is well documented in Hunter’s laptop from hell. Traitor Joe is hiding more documentation of this. Judical Watch has filed a FOIA to get records of:

“Records and/or communications from former Vice President Joseph R. Biden regarding:
Any communication with Robert Hunter Biden, James Brian Biden, Francis William “Frank” Biden or Sara Jones Biden between January 20, 2009, and January 20, 2017, regarding:

a) any international or domestic travel

b) any international or domestic financial activity, including but not limited to banking and  financial institutions, overseas bank accounts, credit card companies, bills, invoices, fees, agreements, financial arrangements, payments, wire transfers, contracts, QuickBooks, financial spreadsheets, business proposals, office or residential leases, rent payments, real estate transactions

Any communication with Robert Hunter Bid en, James Brian Biden, Francis William “Frank” Biden or Sara Jones Biden between January 20, 2009, and January 20, 2017, regarding the following individuals or companies:

a) Devon Archer;

b) JiaQi Bao;

c) Tony Bobulinski;

d) Jeffrey Cooper;

e) Catherine Dodge;

f) Gongwen Dong;

g) James Gilliar;

h) Patrick Ho Chi-ping;

i) Vuk Jeremie;

j) Zang Jianjun;

k) Ye Jianming;

l) Jonathan Li;

m) Joan Mayer or Joan Peugh;

n) Francis Person;

o) Vadim Pozharskyi;

p) Eric Schwerin;

q) Robert Walker;

r) Mervyn Yan;

s) Nita Madhav;

t) Maiy Guttieri

u) Any Metabiota entity or company;

v) Any Rosemont Seneca entity or company;

w) Any Hudson West entity or company;

x) Any Owasco entity or company;

y) Any Bohai Harvest entity or company;

z) Skaneateles LLC;

aa) Eudora Global LLC;

bb) Coldharbour Capital LLC;

cc) Lion Hall Group LLC;

dd) Any CEFC entity or company; and

ee) Burisma.

Any communication, between January 20, 2009, and January 20, 2017, between or among former Vice President Joseph R. Biden and the individuals or entities set forth in Items 2(a)-(ee) above.All records and documents including paper or electronic calendars such as (Outlook or Gmail) regarding former Vice President Joseph R. Biden and the individuals or entities set forth in Items 2(a)-(ee) above.We explained to the court that in a March letter the National Archives acknowledged receiving the FOIA request, assigned it a case number and claimed it had identified “approximately 1,567 emails, 2,501 electronic files, and 445 pages of potentially responsive records that must be processed in order to respond to your request.”

Sorry to burst your leftist bubble.

Last edited 1 year ago by Mad Trapper
Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

All those listed names in a lawsuit does not constitute proof.

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Democrat zombie

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

Don’t confuse Fizzy. He gets his info from MSLSD and the View.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAJ_WwyoO-4

May 17, 2023
Judicial Watch President @TomFitton appeared on “Varney & Co” on @FoxBusiness to discuss Special Counsel Durham’s report on the Trump-Russia probe, the latest on Biden family corruption allegations, and more!

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

Democrats and rinos love their swamp. Try draining it and all sorts of lies are made up and backed by all sorts of deep state bureaucrats. Low information voters buy it hook line and sinker.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

“The CEO of FTX has admitted that his now-bankrupt cryptocurrency company was laundering money for the Ukraine government.As Slay News reported over the weekend, FTX was caught laundering tens of billions of dollars through Ukraine and funneling funds back to Democrats in the United States.
FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was reportedly the Democrats’ second largest donor during the midterm elections cycle this year, only coming behind George Soros.”

https://libertynewsnetwork.com/bombshell-ceo-admits-laundering-money-for-ukraine-government/

Acute Angina
Acute Angina
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

No accountability in Ukraine

Hunter got paid by Barisma for influencing dementia joe when he was VP…. Big guy Joe got 10%

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Acute Angina
1 year ago

So let me get this straight: there is no accountability for the funds given to Ukraine, therefore, Biden and Zalensky have stolen those funds.

Not a difficult argument to make!

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Sam Bankerman-Fried/FTX

Enough said.

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Problem is no one knows where the money goes

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Acute Angina
1 year ago

Let’s see … Hunter got paid as a consultant to Burisma, therefore, Joe Biden got 10% of that fee.

A very easy argument to make!

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

The Biden crime family has grown rich

Acute Angina
Acute Angina
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

And people in the US suffer

Logan
Logan
1 year ago

It shouldn’t need to be pointed out that the Dems never refused to raise the debt ceiling.

ShirleyKnutz
ShirleyKnutz
Reply to  Logan
1 year ago

Because they love to spend the Kapanski’s money!! and money they don’t have. They are like 9 year old at a county fair they want to keep spending and they are blinded by the lights, music and impulsive nature that is being pushed

The downtown umbrella guy
The downtown umbrella guy
1 year ago

Let it all fall apart, There’s no reason a ranch home should cost 300K anyway.

fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  The downtown umbrella guy
1 year ago

How long will it be before they are reevaluated and the taxes come down? Never.

Peers
Peers
1 year ago

I don’t care if there’s 5 readers and I am 3.

I lub this bloawg.

Keep it comin’

Over The Rainbow
Over The Rainbow
1 year ago

Really. 2003 called. They want their My Space back.

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
1 year ago

Let us not forget to take a moment to remember our fallen and those who served and are serving this Memorial Day weekend. God bless them all.

Last edited 1 year ago by Optimus Prime
Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Optimus Prime
1 year ago

^^^^

What he said.

wannabe
wannabe
Reply to  Optimus Prime
1 year ago

Hey thanks from this VN vet.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  wannabe
1 year ago

Thank You for your service, glad you made it home.

wannabe
wannabe
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

That I did. Thanks.

Peet
Peet
1 year ago

I consider myself a rational man by Black’s & I’m wondering

3rd dwi – felony.

Is this a district court matter? And is is up to someone to decide, or is there a due process.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Peet
1 year ago

Just tell them ” no hablo Ingles”. They will let you go with your TFB driver’s license

wannabe
wannabe
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

And … you are jealous they didn’t give it to you.

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

Don’t forget about the Obama phone too Dan.

We wouldn’t want any of our tax money going to waste…..

Pat
Pat
1 year ago

Target will stand by its woke policies of hiding transgender transitioning from parents of even the very young elementary school children and all the surgeries and drug taking that involves. Target will continue to sell clothing for hiding body parts that the young find offensive furthering this push toward making more and more young people confused about their gender. The number of transgender youth is exploding and the goal of the far left seems to be to create androgynous people who can be male and female. It’s an evil plan to push this agenda on totally unsuspecting young people who don’t realize how they are being manipulated. People should push back against Target and any business that is promoting this insanity. I love our local Target and the people who work there, but as usual, it’s the far leftist activists who have infiltrated the company at the top who are creating these problems.

Last edited 1 year ago by Pat
Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Pat
1 year ago

Get ‘em, Pat!

Sgt. Bazooka
Sgt. Bazooka
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Have a Bud Light in your loafers you poof.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Pat
1 year ago

I stopped going to Target years ago, when they didn’t know what a Mens and Womens restrooms were.

fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

Plus they require people to wear shoes and you probably don’t have any right?

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

Do you pee on the seat in the Womens room Fizze?

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

Scatman Trapper!

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Don’t worry, I’ll never touch your litter box.

Sgt. Bazooka
Sgt. Bazooka
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

Maybe he had a cutawangoffame

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Sgt. Bazooka
1 year ago

“It” squats to pee?

wannabe
wannabe
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

So will you when you hit your 70s.

fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  wannabe
1 year ago

Long way to go. Sounds like he is still in the fourth grade.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

Put your head back in the sand, you might hear the truth/facts and have a conniption fit.

Alibaba
Alibaba
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

boy, you’re just an exposed nerve ending

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Alibaba
1 year ago

You are an irritable colon.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

“boy, you’re just an exposed nerve ending”
“You are an irritable colon”

That’s a level conversation.

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  Pat
1 year ago

God made men and women to compliment each other, not to compete with each other.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

Congratulations, Dan, with this proclamation you single-handedly wreck the ego of thousands of children who identify with a gender they were not born with (by stating by fiat that they are clinically ill). Do you have, or have you met, such a child? I thought not. You are lucky your parents accepted you for who you are, and allowed you to be what you wanted to be.

CRomeo Ed
CRomeo Ed
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

God made Adam and Eve. Not Adam and Evan

Acute Angina
Acute Angina
Reply to  CRomeo Ed
1 year ago

Adam & Steve?

snark shark
snark shark
Reply to  CRomeo Ed
1 year ago

Hey, can you tell me why God made the human body so effing complicated?

The the foot really need 26 bones?

Could he not have streamlined the digestive process?

Why 32 teeth? Why not just 8 wider ones? And why do they only grow back once? Do it right and have them replace as needed through life.
I notice there is no warranty given on the body when you are born and I can see why.

Do better God. Update the design and make better quality parts please.

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  snark shark
1 year ago

Al Gore didn’t invent the internet till much later so god had a lot of time on his hands

The Son of George Wallace
The Son of George Wallace
Reply to  snark shark
1 year ago

There is no God, so He didn’t make the body and he can’t do any better.

George Wallace’s son
George Wallace’s son
Reply to  CRomeo Ed
1 year ago

God didn’t make shit.

Pat
Pat
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

We were all accepted for who we were in the 1970s even when, as young girls, we went through a tomboy phase and wanted nothing to do with wearing dresses. Fortunately nobody told us we needed to transition into being a male. That we needed surgery and medications. We were just accepted and everybody got on with it and eventually we rediscovered being female and life was beautiful. What is happening today is just too extreme. It’s not about acceptance. It’s about coercion. There are some people who are transgender, but not the numbers that the media and the far left wants us to believe. Real transgenders have always made up a very small percentage of the population until gender confusion was intentionally introduced into the school system and now more and more young people believe they are transgender.

Last edited 1 year ago by Pat
snark shark
snark shark
Reply to  Pat
1 year ago

It definitely does seem to have taken on a life of its own. I consider myself a person who believes in the live and let live theory. But I am having trouble processing what is going on today. I don’t think I have read anything that helps me understand it.
Perhaps in time but not right now.

wannabe
wannabe
Reply to  snark shark
1 year ago

I think if you met one or two families with children who feel unmistakably that they are members of the opposite sex that you would experience a flash of insight.

ShirleyKnutz
ShirleyKnutz
Reply to  wannabe
1 year ago

Talk to that member 5-10 years later and they will tell you they regret the decision, I do know from several experiences

Son of George Wallace
Son of George Wallace
Reply to  ShirleyKnutz
1 year ago

They may well tell you summat different.

Last edited 1 year ago by Son of George Wallace
Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Pat
1 year ago

If you are transgender, you know it. A tomboy knows she is not transgender, just as you knew you were not.

Pat
Pat
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

No, I didn’t know what I was. I wasn’t even familiar with the word tomboy when I was being a tomboy. I certainly looked like I could be a boy or a girl in several pictures I have of myself during those years, but that’s part of the maturing process. Today, that would be enough to have people telling me I was trapped in the wrong body. This is the danger because you are young and can be easily led to believe you are something you’re not and have irreversible changes made to your body. Many young people who have gone through the surgeries and hormones are regretting it now.

Last edited 1 year ago by Pat
Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Pat
1 year ago

You did fine.

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

I didn’t know you could get a psychology degree from the Dollar Store!

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Gobsig
1 year ago

It is true.

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  Pat
1 year ago
Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

You are a pedophile groomer. That qualifies you to teach grade school in leftist states.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

Yikes.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

And look at all the thumbs-ups – 5 total

Do you believe it? That provides a profile, unfortunately, of the users of this site.

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Peer pressure isn’t enough K?

A boy or a man wearing a dress, is still a boy or a man wearing a dress. It’s called cross-dressing. Nothing more, nothing less.

How about kids learning how to read and write, instead of playing make believe?

Report finds in 23 public schools in Baltimore NONE of the children understand basic math | Daily Mail Online

wannabe
wannabe
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
1 year ago

I’d say it should be up to the families of the children involved. I’m happy to say the children I know who feel this way have loving and understanding parents.

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

I can’t decide who’s the bigger set of fools.

Those dressing up and playing make believe and trying to make me think I’m wrong for defying EVERYTHING I was ever taught and that l’m simply not buying into the bull spit they’re selling.

Or those who actually believe it and try to make me feel I’m wrong for not playing make believe along side of them.

Hate to disappoint you ‘guys,’ but I grew up a long time ago.

Last edited 1 year ago by Markus Aurelius
Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
1 year ago

It’s called keeping your mind open, Markus.

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

Identifying as is the same as pretending to bee

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

Go Dan go.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
1 year ago

Leave the kids alone. Just listen to them.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
1 year ago

Yep they gotta do their STEM.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Kindergarten,

In times like this, we need to go back to humor. Primary truths.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlo7YZW8vPA

Last edited 1 year ago by Charles Kronick
Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Maybe you’re right.

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago
Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Gobsig
1 year ago

Mr. Rogers was the best.

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Don’t mutilate a child with surgery or pump them full of hormones. The left likes to tell us that the brain doesn’t fully develop until age 26. When people reach that age they can make their own choice. It’s bull shit to encourage a child that they were born in the wrong body. Science tells us women have XX chromosomes and men XY chromosomes. No amount of surgery can change XX or XY to the other.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Gobsig
1 year ago

The XX and XY determine the propensity for certain characteristics to manifest. But manifestation of those characteristics varies greatly.

Herb Pease
Herb Pease
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

Identify as is the same as pretending to be

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Herb Pease
1 year ago

No, there’s no pretense about it.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Herb Pease
1 year ago

And what do you identify as, Herb?

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

If I identify as a black woman, but I like women, does that make me a black lesbian?

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

If that’s you and you so define it, yes.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

No, no more than if I defined myself to be a teakettle that I could take on someone else’s identity. To be cute, you could say, “Ah, but some have said, “I am not a man, but a cathedral.” If that person is not insane, he must be saying that his body functions as a cathedral of the lord but is not a functioning cathedral replete with pews.

So we can rule out that argument by saying the concept of cathedrals as it applies to a body applies in a very strict sense. You are expanding the definition of cathedrals. It does not then allow one to broadly redefine identities.

By the way, there was a young woman,
Rachel Dolezal, who was a president within the NAACP. She was a Eurocaucasian WASP, but she fancied herself a direct descendent of Africans, inspite of her having two parents who had no African lineage and her not being adopted. No six degrees of separation for her. To fix that mistake, she died her skin, her hair, and adopted a African American persona and proceeded to misrepresent herself. In the end, the NAACP realized the fraud and dismissed her. In short, the logic just isn’t universal, and if it isn’t universal it is not logic.

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Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Dolezal is a glaring exception. She was disingenuous.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

“She was disingenuous.

Really, though. Disingenuous means insincere. Dolezal was completely sincere. The problem was not her ‘intention’ but her logic. She made an impossible claim.

The example of Dolezal is glaring, but the exception is strictly that she became a public name.

Last edited 1 year ago by Charles Kronick
Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

No, she did not believe she was African-American and readily admitted it.

Last edited 1 year ago by Kindergarden
Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Well, maybe it was disingenuous then.

Chelsea Grammer
Chelsea Grammer
Reply to  Optimus Prime
1 year ago

Yes, I compliment women by saying “nice shot”, and they complement me by filling in what I am lacking.

Quick Take
Quick Take
Reply to  Pat
1 year ago

Gender dysphoria is a term that describes a sense of unease that a person may have because of a mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity.

Gender dysphoria is a form of mental illness. It is something that needs to be addressed not celebrated. It’s something that requires treatment, in most cases it can be rationalized away with counseling. In the rarest of cases it can’t be fixed and gender reassignment is required to mitigate a mental health crisis.

The problem facing today’s children is that there are too many mentally ill teachers and school administrators that want to add to their numbers. They don’t care about the children, they care about seeming normal by creating more like them. They are predators who prey on the weakest and offer them “solutions” that will only do them harm.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

Well stated, but unfortunately, not correct.

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

I believe part of being gifted the $750,000 ARPA gift like K (and “company”) got, includes spouting off liberal talking points without stating or posting facts to back it up.

I went down the rabbit hole w/K about “white supremacy in the suburbs,” and just got more of his run around without a fact.

Best of luck Dan

Pat
Pat
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
1 year ago

They can’t give facts because they don’t have any to support their viewpoint. As you say, they just spout what they are told to say, but it’s all a lot of nothing.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Pat
1 year ago

Open your eyes, Pat and Markus. Fact trumps tribe.

Pat
Pat
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Not hearing any facts.

fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  Pat
1 year ago

Kind of like Fox news and Breibart watchers huh?

ShirleyKnutz
ShirleyKnutz
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

More like Rachel “I’m entertainment not real news” Maddow and the MSNBC/CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS lot. Try watching the news and question what is being said and what questions are/aren’t asked and you will see a slanted to the left presentation. Anyone who does not see this has to be to far brainwashed left to recognize what is going on. That is why I read and then try to research on the topic at hand. I only watch local news to see what is happening, has anyone noticed all the shootings in Albany and Troy?

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
1 year ago

That’s pretty good sleight of hand Markus, but unfortunately your memory is poor. Your revisionist version altered the facts.

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

I’ll play along, what facts were altered?

While we’re at it, try to explain to me why there are so many mass shootings in the black communities, EVERY weekend? Chicago for example.

Certainly not a trend in my community thank god.

I’m interested in getting a BBEC monetary gift to help “Vibe up North Street.” What are my chances K?

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Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
1 year ago

As I recall, Markus, you didn’t want to continue the discussion, because I had provided answers to all your questions. Remember?

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

No, I said I’d agree to disagree with you.

You were just tossing random cities out of your a$$ and “white supremacy in the suburbs.”

I’m not your fact gatherer. Post the links to prove your BS.

I was in the military and have friends in a few of those places you mentioned. Much like me, the only time we hear about garbage like this is from race baiters like you K.

If I’m wrong: links to “white supremacy in the suburbs.”

And not some article the Cultural Competency Coach “consulted” for either.

4th and long K. Are you going go for it? Or punt?

I’m sure I won’t see any links (facts) provided by you.

PUNT!!!

On a different note, your race grifting has taught you how to spin word salad to make it appear you’re stating facts, but without proof, you ain’t showed me $hit.

Is that “vibe enough” for that loan? You never answered me K.

Last edited 1 year ago by Markus Aurelius
Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
1 year ago

The cities were documented, not random. You just don’t like getting beat.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

The part that is incorrect is to say that gender dysphoria is a form of mental illness that can be rationalized away with counseling. The same used to be believed about homosexuality. It is also incorrect to say that there are many mentally ill teachers and school administrators that want to add to their numbers.

wannabe
wannabe
Reply to  Quick Take
1 year ago

Calling it a form of mental illness is giving short shrift to the people who feel that way, and is an outmoded concept, like homosexuality. The APA now recognizes neither as mental illness.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
1 year ago

Default would not finish off Biden for sure, it would ensure his re-election.

CRomeo Ed
CRomeo Ed
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

No default…The winner would be McCarthy.. Easily.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  CRomeo Ed
1 year ago

Not gonna happen.

Sgt. Bazooka
Sgt. Bazooka
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Stop the steal

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Selection

Charles Trzcinka
Charles Trzcinka
1 year ago

If we do not meet our obligations to those who lent us money, the cost of borrowing will skyrocket. This will mean either higher taxes, less spending or, most likely, more borrowing. Even if we do management to raise the debt limit, we are facing, ah, higher taxes, less spending and most likely more borrowing. Neither party wants to get spending in line with revenue although the Democrats are far worse than the Republicans in creating deficits. The key question is for how long can this continue? Nobody knows. We are not the ugliest partner at the world-wide dance for money and we might keeping dancing (i.e. borrowing) for some time. Then we might not. By not having any plan to cut the difference between spending and tax revenue, we could easily have the outcomes that the Planet lists. Furthermore, if it doesn’t happen soon we have saddled our children and grandchildren with a burden that will be difficult to bear.

Logan
Logan
Reply to  Charles Trzcinka
1 year ago

You are right that we need to cut the difference between spending and tax revenue. But raising the debt ceiling must be done. And, to repeat, the Democrats have not refused to raise the debt ceiling.

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

Most of the government’s money and debt are only numbers on a computer screen. The government is playing financial shell games. Over the past 50 years, most of the income gains went to the top 1 percent of wealthy people and entities, while the middle-class has been systematically decimated by the financial, corporate and ruling elites. The real economic growth is in our nation’s huge underclass’ misery. Unless one is part of the elites, especially the top 1 percent, it won’t make any difference if the government continues to deficit spend for many more years to come.

To illustrate: Joe Biden says that he is proud of his son Hunter’s “bad boy behaviors”, Kamala Harris called Joe Biden a racist on national TV, but she serves as his loyal Vice President, Ed Markey blows a lot of “HOT AIR”, Elizabeth Warren does not live on or near Main Street, U.S.A., Richard Neal lives on K Street, Paul Mark is a big rubber stamp State Senator, Tricia Farley-Bouvier fights for illegal immigrants to have state driver’s licenses and for Happy Endings massage parlors, Smitty Pignatelli writes op-eds pointing out the losses in population and living wage jobs in Berkshire County while state and local taxes always increase, John Barrett III called the proposed homeless shelter in North Adams a threat to the community, Linda Tyer lives in a mansion in a Gated Community, the Pittsfield City Council is a forum of retribution, the Pittsfield School Committee symbolizes Level 5 public schools, and North Street has 15 empty storefronts.

What is my point? It is that there is NOBODY in government representing the common people who roll their eyes in disgust at their corrupt career politicians’ DISSERVICES.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
1 year ago

“NOBODY in government representing the common people who roll their eyes in disgust at their corrupt career politicians’ DISSERVICES.”

Term limits. Rotate every term.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Sir Chaz for city council.

CRomeo Ed
CRomeo Ed
Reply to  Charles Trzcinka
1 year ago

Sell Rhode Island

fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  Charles Trzcinka
1 year ago

Does Pittsfield have the same debt problem? Are our and our children saddled with ginormous debt if they stay in Pittsfield? And, if so, would an ethical money manager advise against living in Pittsfield? Uh, yah they would.
This is the time of year when many young men and woman graduate from high sochol and face challenges as to their future. Some will be able to somehow afford college. Some will seek employment. Some may join the military. And too many will begin their lifelong journey of living off the system.
So this is an important turning point in ones life. My own personal sage advise is that whatever you choose to do, and wherever you choose to do it, don’t do it in Pittsfield, Ma. Don’t start your future with two strikes against you.

And good luck in your new surroundings. You will not miss the dark shadows of Pittsfield. I promise.

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  Charles Trzcinka
1 year ago

So when there’s only enough tax money to cover the interest on the debt and mandatory spending and all unnecessary spending ends why exactly is that the worst thing to ever
occur in history?

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Optimus Prime
1 year ago

Prof. Trzcinka means that it is bad because it lowers our credit rating making it more difficult and expensive to borrow $$.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Logical question, K. I have an open ended angle on it. Do ‘normal’ financial policy work in sociopathic hands?

Question is, does ‘default’ really make it more expensive to borrow? Wouldn’t the actual cost be the same over extended time?

Case 1: Raise the debt ceiling. Low interest results in expanded purchasing. Our promise to pay secures high bond rating. High debt, low cost per dollar. Pass the debt forward as it is too high to manage. Defaults would be waived by transferring property to international creditors. Foreclosure, in other words.

Case 2: Do not raise the Debt Ceiling. High interest results in reduced purchasing. Low debt at high cost per dollar. Reduced expansion of debt means it can be managed. No defaults, wealth remains American.

The impact of losing bond rating is that borrowing will fall in short term, but maybe not over the long term. We would experience recession, lose opportunity to trade. But, we would not lose our actual wealth in resources. In other words, we remain a rich nation. Maybe we choose between a recession today which managed properly by not bailing out banks and cities (political bailouts), or a huge collapse later which would yield foreign ownership over sovereign interests? Now would be a good time to review the history of Carthage. Some guy, I can’t find his essay, reminds us that the Carthaginians ruled the seas until a small upstart, Italians today, copied their ships and took over. Carthage vanished, but they still are good source of table salt. Sound familiar? America will always have resources to exploit, just won’t necessarily be ours. Ask the Carthaginians.

A strong credit rating, as sought by the original generation of American leaders was to gain the ability to exploit the wealth in our nation, industrialize, and and attract capital. They had a nation to build, and it began by copying British ships and banks.

I think that objective changed. The proper use of a high credit rating is to secure low interest loans for high performing necessary investments. We do not do that. How can we when Washington is so big now that half of the population State of Virginia are Federal Employees? That is a ton of spending on overhead just to manage overhead.

Easy to see under the microscope. The City of Pittsfield uses a arguably inflated bond rating to borrow irresponsibly. We borrow for schools we do not need, vehicles we don’t need or replace due to mistreatment, and we casually talk about doing so for baseball park extravaganzas that we do not need and police stations that will not actually reduce crime.

“None of this will transpire, of course. Our society is run by a technocratic-managerial class that never pays a price for failure. Democracy is a glossy finish over an unelected administrative state that isn’t really accountable to anyone and measures success or failure in terms of budgets, p.r. and power, not results.
” –Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a professor of law at the University of Tennessee

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Ask prof Trcz.

The Ghost of George Wallace
The Ghost of George Wallace
1 year ago

Pittsfield Residents Can Be Rude During Public Comment, Laws Say – iberkshires / Friday May 26, 2023

“Members of the public are allowed to be rude during open microphone and even use hate speech,” “According to the SJC, a person can comment on anything they want regardless of the content.” Hate speech is free speech. You just know that sooner than later open mic is going to be deep sixed by the mayor and her sycophant city council.

Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever.

“I was out-niggered by John Patterson. And I’ll tell you here and now, I will never be out-niggered again.” “I tried to talk about good roads and good schools and all these things that have been part of my career, and nobody listened. And then I began talking about niggers, and they stomped the floors.” Attributed to George Wallace

“You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”

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Acute Angina
Acute Angina
Reply to  The Ghost of George Wallace
1 year ago

Hate speech is any that’s spoken or written that a democrat doesn’t like.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Acute Angina
1 year ago

Of course, you would define hate speech differently.

Acute Angina
Acute Angina
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

It’s accurate

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Acute Angina
1 year ago

Though I don’t know exactly how to define hate speech, I do know it is not just ‘whatever a democrat doesn’t like’. That would be dumb.

Acute Angina
Acute Angina
Reply to  The Ghost of George Wallace
1 year ago

Unless you’re a democrat. Then you can say it.

snark shark
snark shark
Reply to  Acute Angina
1 year ago

People who allow words to hurt them will probably have a host of other problems in life. Consider the source, thank them for their warning about how they feel and move the hell on, a bit wiser about life and that person.

People are people. They have bias s and prejudices, some with a sound basis and others not so much. But to think, after four thousand years of war and just every day silly human confrontation, that we are going to somehow make all humans like and get along with each other is nuts and a gross waste of time. It is what we do. It is a part of our makeup. Deal with it.

No soup for you!

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  snark shark
1 year ago

It’s probably worth the effort and not a waste of time (although PV and its comments do give me pause…). Our civilization has advanced over the past 10K years and has done so by communication. Bean with bacon, PLEASE!

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

“Our civilization has advanced over the past 10K years and has done so by communication”

And every once in a while, the Man above gets irritated and knocks it all down. Sometimes it’s personal, sometimes its globalistic. Stick around here, K. We disagree on much, but you help raise the standards.

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fizzlehead
fizzlehead
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

We have advanced technologically.
But we are killing each other at a record rates. Man, (created by God?) can be a very violent creature.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  fizzlehead
1 year ago

Primary Principle: Man is flawed. Often fatally flawed.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

The glass is half empty.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Well, you are very kind.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  snark shark
1 year ago

Snark – words do hurt. Great advice in yours.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

“Certainly it hurts….The trick is not minding that it hurts.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvQViPBAvPk

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  The Ghost of George Wallace
1 year ago

Yikes. Thank God you are in the minority. (not on Planet Valenti, of course).

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Strange stuff.

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Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

To say the least.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  The Ghost of George Wallace
1 year ago

Your support of speech freedom doesn’t extend to the freedom not to carry a pregnancy to full term.

Acute Angina
Acute Angina
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Did TSC help you with this post?

The Ghost of George Wallace
The Ghost of George Wallace
1 year ago

Wallace’s preoccupation with race was based on his belief that black Americans comprised a separate and inferior race. In a 1963 letter to a social studies teacher, Wallace stated they were inclined to criminality – especially “atrocious acts …such as rape, assault and murder” – because of a high incidence of venereal disease. Desegregation, he wrote, would lead to “intermarriage…and eventually our race will be deteriated (sic) to that of the mongrel complexity.”

I could just as easily expound on the perils of out of wedlock births, or the subsidized adoptions of foster children by dysfunctional lesbians, dykes, queers, bisexuals, transgender, intersexed, asexual, nonbinary, interracial same sex freaks.

Sgt. Bazooka
Sgt. Bazooka
Reply to  The Ghost of George Wallace
1 year ago

George Wallace was a democrat. Democrats are still obsessed with race

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Sgt. Bazooka
1 year ago

You won’t hear any democrats talk like this.

Sgt. Bazooka
Sgt. Bazooka
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Dementia Joe eulogized Senator KKK Byrd.

Hilary is known to throw the N word around

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Democrats passed all the Jim Crow laws and opposed the civil rights acts in the 1960s (filibusters)

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  The Ghost of George Wallace
1 year ago

And, ladies and gentlemen, what more proof do you need that these are beliefs of people who post to this site.

It is true that I would not want to live near people who feel this way, and I would rather not hear these espoused beliefs, even though our country (and this website) gives them the right to espouse them.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

I’m sorry to inform you that you, and your name, are indelibly associated in the public’s mind to posts like Mr Ghost’s, despite your attempts to dissociate yourself with your disclaimers.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

You are indelibly associated with pedophiles and groomers.

Now go to Target and buy some toys for the kids, and have some Bud Lite tranny fluid when you get home.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

I guess at this point I would expect no better response from you. I remember responses like yours….in the 9th grade.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Too bad 9th is as far as You got.

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

How about Joe Xiden’s response to “you ain’t Black,” interview.

Is this “racist” or a “9th grade” level of response by the Supreme Leader of the democRATS?

How Biden’s ‘you ain’t black’ comment unfolded – YouTube

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago
Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

“It is true that I would not want to live near people who feel this way…”

I posted my land to keep people like you out.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

You own no land and you have no children to leave it to.

Last edited 1 year ago by Kindergarden
Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Homes, plural, and acreage.

How is section 8 living?

snark shark
snark shark
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

Aren’t you also a professor of nuclear biology at Harvard MT?

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  snark shark
1 year ago

Aren’t you an astronomer, who spent your whole life studying the rings around Uranus?

snark shark
snark shark
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

Well, no. But it sounds fascinating.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  snark shark
1 year ago

So why is your head up there?

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  snark shark
1 year ago

Snark, a friend once told me how he got in a two car accident in the wilds of some African landscape. It happened upon a dirt road barely wide enough for 1 vehicle. It stretched on, like roads do in Montana, unbroken or interrupted for hundreds of miles. The event was 5.75 hours in the making and 100% predictable in time and location just by watching a satellite recording.

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Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

That planet has no rings. If you had attended PHS you’d know that.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  snark shark
1 year ago

He has qualifications in chemistry. Probably can teach it.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Right.

wannabe
wannabe
Reply to  Charles Kronick
1 year ago

Trap is unqualified to teach. To get certified, you need to demonstrate basic language and logic competence.

wannabe
wannabe
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

So maybe Trap CAN teach!

wannabe
wannabe
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

Those are the deliverables, and our teachers demonstrate them. If you had spent more time at school and less time at bldg 27 you’d know that.

Acute Angina
Acute Angina
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

This ghost person is a democrat agent provocateur

The Ghost of George Wallace
The Ghost of George Wallace
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Thank GOD, you’re not my neighbor. I really couldn’t f#c*king stand it if you were. There’s already one especially egregious negro much too close for my comfort. You missed the point completely. Slavery was abolished in 1865. And yet those negro savages still can’t, or just won’t assimilate into civilized society. But you’re still getting all stompy over a 6-letter word. Sticks and stones, fuck you! Yes, the negro was treated badly after being sold into slavery, by its own kind. But in the last week, in the year of our Lord, 2023, while channel surfing, I can’t even begin to count the number of times I heard the nigger use the offending word “NIGGER” against one of its own in movies. The nigger is either offended by the word, or it’s not. Obviously, it’s not. Musical lyrics spewed by the nigger are laced with obscenities, especially the 6-letter word, NIGGER! The nigger doesn’t hate the word, it actually loves the word. So much so that it’s wants to own it, exclusively. When a civilized society should be more concerned with good roads, good schools, and lower taxes, instead, the BLACK LIES Negro is exploiting every opportunity to BURN. LOOT, and MURDER. Thus, throwing civilized society into chaos.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  The Ghost of George Wallace
1 year ago

I am actually your next door neighbor, as you well know.

Son of George Wallace
Son of George Wallace
Reply to  The Ghost of George Wallace
1 year ago

You can’t thank God for anything because your God doesn’t exist. You are a cowardly weakling who hides behind your fake religion to justify your massive failures and mistakes. You were the laughingstock of your junior high class, if you recall. Now, go away and hide behind your free speech, little man.

Son of George Wallace
Son of George Wallace
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

Falsifiability of claims is a theory, a highly overrated theory. Belief in God is a convenient place to hide when you are afraid and have nowhere else to go.

Son of George Wallace
Son of George Wallace
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

Sorry Dan, Popper came up with the theory that a claim needed to be falsifiable in order to test the validity of the claim. After that, science generally deemed his theory to be correct and has embraced it ever since. Or did you maybe think that it came as the word of God?

Son of George Wallace
Son of George Wallace
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

Rivals they were not. Wittgenstein was a philosopher of language and Popper was a philosopher of science.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  The Ghost of George Wallace
1 year ago

We presume, Ghost, that this is what you tell your children and grandchildren.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  The Ghost of George Wallace
1 year ago

You could have, but happily, you didn’t. Do they still love the gov’na in Birmingham, boo boo?

Acute Angina
Acute Angina
1 year ago

I watched the Shugrue interview. Pretty good. I learned a little. I think he’ll be really good for the County.

Acute Angina
Acute Angina
1 year ago

Soncere Williams taking out papers for ward 2. Heaven help us.

snark shark
snark shark
Reply to  Acute Angina
1 year ago

When are the Latinos going to start running for public office in Pittsfield? They seem to be a large portion of our population even if the poorly done Pittsfield census does not indicate it. Perhaps they can shake that good old boy tree and knock some apples out of it.

Sgt. Bazooka
Sgt. Bazooka
Reply to  Acute Angina
1 year ago

She seems to be another Dina:(

The school committee
The school committee
1 year ago

The leader of the Republican party’s insurection was just sentenced to 18 years in prison.Next up on the agenda will be disgraced ex President Donald Trump and on this Memorial day the candidate conservatives relate to is aninsurectionist who does not believe in democracy unless he wins.They really need to remember why it’s a Memorial day.Republicans are an embarrassing political party of FOX messaging and the forgotten Rush Limbaugh.

snark shark
snark shark
Reply to  The school committee
1 year ago

Good old Rush Limbaugh. Putins main propaganda minister working for Moscow. Mentor to Tucker Carlson.
Created a pseudo religion of moron followers, largely, but not exclusively, from Appalachia.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  snark shark
1 year ago

Not just Appalachia, countrywide. His heir was Trump, advised by Bannon.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Dan and Trap are Trump 2.0.

Acute Angina
Acute Angina
Reply to  The school committee
1 year ago

What crime did that guy commit?

The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  Acute Angina
1 year ago

Non payment of income taxes,non payment of services,profiting off the Presidency by putting people in his DC hotel,stealing top secrets for the purpose of espionage,sexual assault,cash payments and hush money to a prostitute using your donations,conspiracy to overthrow an election result that had him being kicked to the curb

Ham Anex
Ham Anex
Reply to  The school committee
1 year ago

Throwing back the old Bub lights I see

The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  Ham Anex
1 year ago

Budlight broke your ego.

The school committee
The school committee
1 year ago

Marchetti is running on raising taxes to pay for Milltowns profits.Milltown should be embarrassed to ask Veterans on SS to support their business. SS pays on average 1700.Marchetti should be afraid of Kroll but only if Kroll pledges to stop spending and get rid of every new position created by Tyer for the last 8 years.There are 1500 high school kids in kids in 500,000 feet of buildings.Pittsfield high is 100 years old and has no parking or playing fields.There are now 4 Catholic churches in Pittsfield reflecting population.The school committee needs every student over at the new Taconic high building

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  The school committee
1 year ago

Wow! I agree with you on this one! Krol might pledge away but it’s before the election. After the election is over is what counts. Both candidates are one in the same.

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

Great points. From some I’ve heard is that Pete seems robotic in his campaign along with an appearance of showing a lack of outward enthusiasm that Krol is showing.

snark shark
snark shark
Reply to  Optimus Prime
1 year ago

Robotic as in like the way a puppet moves? Herky jerky like? Only moved by control of others? Pete IS and HAS BEEN, by choice, simply a cog in a machine. He was/is a pathetic city council president and if you fail at that you have zero credibility running for any higher office.

And he knows more than anyone else that he let his city down. Made fools of those who put their trust in him. But to then run for mayor, he is now giving them both middle fingers

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  Optimus Prime
1 year ago

I should also state that I’m not buying Krol’s rah, rah approach. In the end he will be not much different. He is just better at kissing babies and stealing their lollipop’s (Red October) than Pete.

The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

Marchetti has raised every voters taxes 20% to 30% in two budgets.Marchetti loses because he has to run on that.If I was to put 100 bucks on who is the next mayor its Kroll for not being part of the CC irresponsible numbers crunch.Pittsfield is targeted to be at 30k plus in 10 years.These budgets will also have to watch the FED bring us from 3.5 employment to 5.5 to over 2024.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  The school committee
1 year ago

I arrived late to last budget hearing – I had to make an emergency extraction of family from Albany for a call that came in at 4pm. But, while I was out, Marchetti did do some buzzing though in my absence.

Prior meeting, I requested reductions to line items. I am focusing not on pens and toner cartridges, but the extravagant raises to management. Over two years, they are enjoying a combined 15% hike. 7.5% 2023, and 5% this year combined with a slap on the back attaboy worth 2.5%.

Upon my return from Albany, I proceeded to address 8% pay hikes to management. Marchetti informs me I must make them line by line. Didn’t you know, he suggested, that we are not allowed to make bottom line reductions? I was taken aback by his suggestion that I should have known his change of heart, but rules change fast on the Council. In fact, they change very fast when a councilor starts mucking things up by asking for reductions.

Anyone bring a calculator to a budget hearing? Nope. Not even the President. Check the tape – I asked.

Last edited 1 year ago by Charles Kronick
Fishstory
Fishstory
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

Krol is reckless, a showoff and a very poor judge of character. Have you no sense of decency, sir?

CRomeo Ed
CRomeo Ed
Reply to  Fishstory
1 year ago

And what the hell is he doing in the schools. He’s a nobody and certainly not a school employee?

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  The school committee
1 year ago

That’s what democrats do

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
1 year ago

Where will Joe Biden be Monday? In the basement?

On Memorial Day 2017, President Trump spent his day at Arlington National Cemetery with Gold Star families. 5-year old Christian Jacob, who lost his father, ran up to him and asked if “he wanted to meet my Daddy?”, and showed him the headstone.

President Trump hugged him.

snark shark
snark shark
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

Trump also spent the whole Vietnam War dodging the draft. Five deferments? Must be a record. Anybody who can walk can go to a cemetery by the way. Perhaps you want to set the bar a little higher for your heroes.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  snark shark
1 year ago

Traitor Joe had more deferments, that’s a fact Jack!

snark shark
snark shark
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

Off topic….can car washes in Pittsfield get TIFFS?

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  snark shark
1 year ago

Don’t know but their assets are liquid

The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

His two sons served.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  The school committee
1 year ago

Hunter got kicked out + for drugs.

The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  Mad Trapper
1 year ago

You forget what Trump said about people that serve and John McCain and all prisoners of war.Trump is a coward.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  The school committee
1 year ago

McCain was never good for Americans in the Senate.

He did serve, and I’m sorry he got shot down and was a POW.

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
1 year ago

Would you pay Linda Tyer a salary of $115,725 to run you firm?
Mayor’s Office | Fiscal Year 2024 (cleargov.com)
Would you pay Matt Kerwood a salary of $114,329 to manage your firm’s finances?
Finance & Administration | Fiscal Year 2024 (cleargov.com)
Do you support Pittsfield politics increasing its annual spending by a little less than $15.7 million?
Budget Overview | Fiscal Year 2024 (cleargov.com)
If your name is Candidate Banker, Candidate Unemployed, or Candidate Fringe, then please answer these questions?

CRomeo Ed
CRomeo Ed
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
1 year ago

Of course not. But the taxpayer was aware of her credentials..She can’t do the job. This is why Mr.G’s idea was so keen. Have a super majority in all votes by city council, if and only if there is not a plurality in the vote tabulation for council. Call it. The Puppet Rule.

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
Reply to  CRomeo Ed
1 year ago

Other than Linda Tyer, Matt Kerwood…., Who else benefits from Pittsfield politics spending over $205.6 million starting on July 1st, 2023? How does spending so much money create and retain living wage jobs in Pittsfield? How does it stop the last 50 years on losses in population and living wage jobs in Pittsfield? How does it address the 15 empty storefronts on North Street? #Twilight Zone!!!!

Game day
Game day
Reply to  CRomeo Ed
1 year ago

I like the super majority idea. It will put a serious dent in the 6-5 simple majority of tyers rubber stamps. We should have initiated the super majority idea a long time ago. I’m for the super majority idea

Craig C Gaetani
Craig C Gaetani
Reply to  Mr. Fritz
1 year ago

Mr.Marchetti and Mr. Krol. Please contact me at 14132811089 so we can arrange for you to host my TV show.only ground rules are that you speak for one hour as to what you will do for the citizens of pittsfield if you are elected mayor of the city of pittsfield. Please reply asap so that we can make arrangements to have you on the show. Thank you. Craig C Gaetani

Mr. Fritz
Mr. Fritz
Reply to  Craig C Gaetani
1 year ago

Why don’t YOU call THEM?

CRomeo Ed
CRomeo Ed
Reply to  Mr. Fritz
1 year ago

Cops are earning their pay today. Non Stop Nonsense and were only in May.

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  Craig C Gaetani
1 year ago

I would love to see if Marchetti and Krol are up to the challenge. I’ve watched Valenti’s tv show and Gaetani’s show. Both men can easily carry an hour. I’m not so sure John and Peter can do it without help . Come on boys .

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Craig C Gaetani
1 year ago

Wowy-zowy!