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COLORADO DECISION ON INELIGIBILITY THE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT TRUMP COULD WANT

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BY DAN VALENTI

PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY

(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION DEC. 22-24, 2023) — The split decision, 4-3, of Colorado’s Supreme Court to overturn a district court ruling and President Donald Trump off the 2024 presidential ballot is the best Christmas gift the T-Man could want.

Before we go any further, let us make clear that pointing out the dangerous ruling by the court does not equate to an endorsement of Trump. Anyone who respects the representative process over rule by administrative fiat will condemn the Colorado decision, Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and anyone else who cares about electoral freedom.

The name “Trump,” however, blinds people across the political spectrum. He’s freedom’s best and bravest friend, to borrow from Lord Byron. Yeah? Or is he what his enemies say, a disrupter who should be buried darkly at dead of night?

Truly, the country has never seen a man, a candidate like this. He’s a walking misconception. He’s bombastic, full of himself, and shoots from the hip. He’s larger than life, goes off script, and takes a hit better than Bobby Hull. Trump appeals to so many people because he dares to be himself. It may look like a social defect, but in politics, it comes off as … what? … nothing like anyone else. He’s

u-t-t-e-r-l-y /

u-n-i-q-u-e.

Today, in the land of stage-managed everything, that is enough for being everything.

Trump defies any known political categorization, which is why both opponents and supporters alike resortt to hyperbolae when talking about him. In the flurry of politically charged indictments, he’s a ham sandwich … and a ham. He’s the Timex watch John Cameron Swayze strapped to the prop of a motor boat — “takes a licking and keeps on ticking.” He’s Jason in Friday the 13th.

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The Democrats and Trump haters who love the Colorado decision remind THE PLANET of a basketball team that goes up by a bucket with a couple seconds still on the clock. The other team inbounds at half court and drains a three. Game over. Glee turns to heartbreak, and the home team celebrates, as Trump fans surely will in November 2024–if, that is, he is given the right of every other citizen of age. If, that is, he does not fall victim to the surest way to seal another election by preventing him from running.

The question boils down to this: Should judges determine who can and cannot be president, or should voters?

This unconstitutional move will surely be struck down on appeal to the United States Supreme Court. It, too, has been weaponized, 6-3, and it’s been that way since Gore v. Bush in 2000. The Supremes will state the obvious: Election interference for starters, plus an unprecedented abuse of the Constitution’s 14th amendment, Section 3. That section of the 14th was added after the Civil War as a means of keeping ex-Confederate soldiers from running for office.

Let’s see, Walter Washington Williams died on Dec. 19, 1959 at age 106 years. He was the last living veteran of the Confederacy. To the best of THE PLANET‘s knowledge, Trump did not serve with the Confederate Grays, although his opposition loves to think he started a civil war on Jan. 6, 2021.

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The Colorado the decision doesn’t take hold until Jan. 4, unless the Supremes take it up earlier than that. The ruling has done what each previous strike against Trump has done. It has backfired.

The 45th President’s fundraising is through the roof, and his removal from the ballot has energized not just his base but the entire GOP plus any number of independent (unenrolled) voters. Even the most vocal and visible critic in the GOP, Chris Christie, has defended Trump’s right to ballot access.

A more united GOP is the Democrats’ Christmas bag of coal. They have managed to achieve what the smart-alecks thought couldn’t be done. The Dem Coloradans on the bench have unified the Republican Party.

“Removing Trump from the ballot in Colorado under this theory is spurious, likely unconstitutional & a sadly predictable but outrageous form of lawfare. SCOTUS should end this,” Texas GOP Rep. Chip Roy wrote on the social media platform X. Roy is notably a supporter of Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Elise Stefanik, a Republican representative from New York, said in a statement: “Democrats are so afraid that President Trump will win on Nov 5th 2024 that they are illegally attempting to take him off the ballot.”

An American

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Indeed, there’s no more direct way of rigging an election than to prevent a person from running in the first place. It’s the kind of tactic used in totalitarian regimes by Strongman Tinpots terrified of opposition.

The Colorado move, besides enriching Trump’s campaign with an infusion of money, backfires in full after the US Supreme Court reverses the decision, setting precedent for all other attempts to keep Trump’s name off the ballot.

Democrats know they can’t win with an ailing, failing Joe Biden. They have two choices: (1) Dump Biden for someone else. But who? (2) Try to make Biden “win” by eradicating Trump, a strategy Dems worked to perfection in 2020 with their brew of election voodoo. Ingredients: Toad dust, wart of newt, hairball, an exploited “pandemic,” and balloting without chains of evidence.

Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice?

Ain’t gonna happen.

Short of assassination, America is less than a year away for Trump II.

———- ooo ———-

Trump issued the following statement:

Crooked Joe and the Democrats know they can’t beat us at the ballot box, so their new plan is to nullify every single “Trump ballot” in the nation to keep Biden in the White House.

Make no mistake: WE WILL APPEAL THIS DECISION IMMEDIATELY.

We will take this fight all the way to the UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT.

I hope to God that Americans everywhere are waking up to what’s happening to our country.

A ruling party is attempting to amass total control over America by rigging the election against its leading opponent who happens to be a political outsider committed to defending the needs and interests of hardworking Americans.

This is how dictatorships are born.

I ran for President to be a voice, a defender, and a champion for the American people.

And that includes protecting YOUR right to vote.

I will not let left-wing judges STEAL the votes of a MAJORITY of Americans.

We will win this battle, we will win the 2024 election, and we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

———- ooo ———-

And here’s how Reuters reported the news (by James Oliphant and Nandita Bose):

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The latest legal challenge to Donald Trump’s campaign for a second term as president seems likely to hand the 2024 Republican frontrunner even more firepower in his quest to win his party’s nomination.

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the former president was barred from its state ballot for engaging in “insurrection” due to a rarely used constitutional provision, an unprecedented decision that the conservative-led U.S. Supreme Court could overturn.

Donors and political analysts from both major parties said the ruling would inflame Trump’s political base, fuel his argument that he is the victim of a partisan legal process, and fill his campaign coffers, as happened earlier this year when he was indicted on a bevy of felony charges for attempting to overturn the 2020 election among other alleged crimes. Those charges did not include insurrection.

———- ooo ———-

Have a great weekend, everybody.

Merry Christmas!

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“Before you foolishly fire both barrels, make sure they’re not plugged” — Sir Donald Turpentine, Knight of the Bath.

“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”

LOVE TO ALL.

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Shama Salama
Shama Salama
1 year ago

Giuliani should run as v p

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  danvalenti
1 year ago

Haley got sunk last debate, she’s not even a RINO like Pence was.

Shama Salama
Shama Salama
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

Valenti hasn’t got one right in awhile he’s due. And does it really matter? Trump runs the show.

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

Haley is a uniparty, neocon. She made her money in the defense industry. She’s Hillary Clinton masking as a RINO.

Hard pass on her.

Crab
Crab
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

Dan, Haley will not be Herr Trump’s VP, since she has been the only candidate saying he should not be President again. Ronnie D is only staying in the race and not attacking Herr Trump because he wants to be the VP. If Ronnie gets out, the race would tighten between Haley and Donny. Ronnie is doing Donny a big favor by staying in. I will bet you a 5 pound bag of Pittsfield chip seal on this.

Shama Salama
Shama Salama
Reply to  Crab
11 months ago

If it’s the chip seal they use here he shold counter with a bag of potatoe chips.

Lenny
Lenny
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

Haley’s a war-mongering globalist. Noem has some skeletons. Hoping he’ll pick Lake.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Lenny
11 months ago

Lake is the obvious choice because she’s the only one obsequious enough and she’s an election denier.

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Kindergarden
11 months ago

Are your initials WC?

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  12 Gauge
11 months ago

Why, no.

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  Lenny
11 months ago

I’d like to see a Trump/Tucker Carlson ticket.

Two men who truly believe in MAGA first and not Ukraine and illegal aliens (UIA) first.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
11 months ago

TC would be a popular choice that would strengthen the ticket but it wouldn’t work because he’s not capable of sucking up to Trump to the extent that Trump requires.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Kindergarden
11 months ago

Kamala can suck up, just ask Willie Brown!

H.L. Mencken
H.L. Mencken
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
11 months ago

Why do you hate your own country?

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  H.L. Mencken
11 months ago

I served my country honorably in the US military.

I hate to break it to you Barry, but working the Cumby’s parking lot at 3AM, on a cold Sunday night, does not count as serving your country. It’s not even honorable. Just foolish.

I believe in MAGA, unlike you who believes in Ukraine and Illegal Aliens (UIA) first.

RHABC
RHABC
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
11 months ago

What does MAGA mean?

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  RHABC
11 months ago

Did your parents do your homework too?

Look it up yourself.

Shama Salama
Shama Salama
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

I was just joking. But not Haley.

Thomas Betit
Thomas Betit
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

Tulsi Gabbard
checks many of the boxes
and she’s a outstanding debater.
Trump thinks outside the box, Tulsi kneecaps the Democrats who attacked her.
Haley political career is over.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Thomas Betit
11 months ago

TG would be a fine VP. Probably a good Pres too.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
11 months ago

But Tulsi is too strong a woman for Trump to tolerate.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Kindergarden
11 months ago

Vice Presidents rarely get within a 100 yards of the President.

I believe, with relief!, that we may have found neutral ground.

Last edited 11 months ago by Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

Dan, Trump wouldn’t be Trump if we could make the guess.

The school committee
The school committee
1 year ago

Cult Trump has threatened to kill Colorados Supreme Court Justices….Fear and intimidation as Trump lawyer Rudy use on the 2 poll workers in Georgia is called Fascism….

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  The school committee
1 year ago

When did the Northampton hospital reopen? And now they have internet. They’ll be bringing your meds soon.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  12 Gauge
1 year ago

TSC is an Alumnus of Belchertown State.

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

TSC scored high on the TDS entrance exam to get in.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Optimus Prime
11 months ago

No exam, given a scholarship!

ShirleyKnutz
ShirleyKnutz
Reply to  The school committee
1 year ago

If true, which I doubt, at least they didn’t kill the elderly with the FBI like the current president. BTW is he breaking the law by hiding Hunter in the White House? Heard a funny line yesterday, Hunter is the first taxcheat to be flying around and driving around in taxfunded vehicles while his father who said he is the most transparent politician is hiding a criminal

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

No, that’s the work of leftists. Remember when they threatened SCOTUS justices TSC, and Garlands DOJ did nothing to protect them?

If the SCOTUS does it’s job and follows our Constitution the CO ruling will be shot down.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

How about Schumer threatening to unleash the mob on Justices? That was a direct threat, and it ties directly to your examples. And that is made worse by the tolerance for communists attempts to assassinate GOP representatives (Sander’s guy at the baseball field for example.)

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Charles Kronick
11 months ago

Chu-ki HSUmmer is also owned by Mr Xi

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

FASCISM: Democrats in Four States Including Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Massachusetts Decide to Have Only Joe Biden on the Primary Ballot
“The primary, which typically serves as a platform for party members to choose their preferred candidate for the general election, will not accommodate write-in candidates either, a departure from traditional election practices. This means that voters disenchanted with Biden’s performance will be without a recourse to express their dissent in the primary voting process.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/fascism-four-states-including-florida-tennessee-north-carolina/

ShirleyKnutz
ShirleyKnutz
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

The national democrat party kicked out any democrat that wanted to challenge illegitimate in a primary…they don’t want any debate or choice…to confusing for the sheep

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

Trump blocked from the ballot in Colorado. When a court in another country disqualifies an opposition candidate from running, we say, “That’s not a real democracy.” Now it’s happening here.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr 12/20/2023

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

RFK Jr bailed out of the DNC run primary as he knew it was/is rigged. Just like the MSM has ignored/blacked his campaign, just like they are doing to Trump.

Democrats in Massachusetts, how’s it feel to have no choices or voice in the primary? D-emocracy at it’s finest!

The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

Go to Alabama

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
1 year ago

This is a no-brainer. Trump will not be taken off the ballot anywhere by the Supreme Court or anyone. Trump will win the primary and run, despite his indictments, and he and his running mate will lose handily to Biden and Harris (whether he will be convicted before the election is a whole ‘nother question, but it won’t matter).

The reason Trump was sued to keep him off the ballot in Colorado and elsewhere was because the 14th amendment calls for it given his attempt to change the election results – not because Dems and others wanted to keep him out of the race. 

The Supreme Court will keep him on the ballot despite the 14th amendment because they fear the public reaction if they don’t. 

This, with a tip of the hat to Dan, will not serve as the best Christmas present Trump could get, because it will deprive him of the public reaction that could have reinstalled him as president. 

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

You should see a shrink about your delusions.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Kindergarden
1 year ago

Biden was installed, just like a toilet.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

Trump wanted State congressmen to challenge their Electors on the grounds they are reporting false electoral data. It is a Constitutional provision. Nothing illegal about it and probably, the wise men foresaw the possibility of parties defrauding the ballots.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
11 months ago

And where, Chaz and Dan, does the constitution state that the electors may be challenged at the point of VP certification?

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Kindergarden
11 months ago

Electoral Count Act of 1887. At time of counting the electoral votes one the second monday of January, the electoral votes are subject to stipulations and deadlines. Among them, an objection to the electors stands if signed by a senator and a congressman.

Not Constitutional – my mistake. Thank you for correcting me. It was a law passed by Congress. As you imply, laws are ephemeral and fair game for challenge.

America has seen lots of ‘insurrections’, only today we make meat of those who get the label, much like is seen in gangster run tyrannies where the mob runs the governments and wreaks retribution on those who speak. Maybe this issue is the one to dispute.

Last edited 11 months ago by Charles Kronick
The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  Charles Kronick
11 months ago

Georgia counted their vote 4 times.The republican secretary of state told Trump ,no sir ,I voted for you and you lost…then Trump demanded he find 11,800 votes to make him win….he threatened him during the entire public phone call….cults just believe in their savior….Trump stands between the culter Trumps and the deep state….you think they are coming for you…

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

If that were so, then why did he want Pence to install the alternate electors and not move to halt the violence?

Your desire to bend over backwards reveals your bias, just like in the case of Krol.

You can claim non-bias but your words indicate otherwise.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

Your analysis is faulty.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Kindergarden
11 months ago

“….not move to halt the violence?”

Eat crow, how’s it taste?

“I know your pain I know your hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other side. But we have to go home now, we have to have peace, we have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order, we don’t want anyone hurt.

It’s been a very tough period of time, there’s never been a time like this, where such a thing happened where they can take it away from All of us, from me, from you, from our country, it was a fraudulent election.

But we can’t play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace, to go home.

We love you, you are very special, you’ve seen what happened, you’ve seen the way others were treated, that was so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home and go home in peace.”

Afternoon of 1/6/2021 – POTUS D J Trump

The above is verbatim, and was immediately censorded by Twitter and Facebook, both of whom were pressured by Leftist elements within our government.

Some people got the message, and preserved it before the censorship.

Is that “inciting an insurection”?

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

Thank you, MT. Truth is in the verbatim.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

Those words came in the late afternoon, after it was all over.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Kindergarden
11 months ago

How would You know if you didn’t watch it live?

Oh, I forgot You follow the fake news MSM.

Remember “safe and effective”?

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

And you didn’t watch it live either, Trapper.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

And where, Trapper, do your quotes come from, and exactly when? You can’t answer those questions because those data do not exist.

The quotes you cite are fabricated – how do I know? Because Donald J. Trump is incapable of producing such rhetoric.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

Trump was calling for an examination of the voting as provided by US Constitution/law.

The staged “insurrection” prevented that.

At the end of his rally J6 Trump called on/tweeted, everyone go home and to be peaceful…….both Twitter and Facebook censored this at the bequest of elements in the government.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

It was known and announced that the electors would be challenged. That was the news of the day weeks leading up to 1/4.You could see the anxiety in Pence’s eyes as he heard the State Rep call out their challenge. He wanted to wash his hands of the ordeal and just walk away into the historical Vice Presidential oblivion.
And then magically, there was a ‘crisis’ at the Capitol Building, the crowd was also known to be there days in advance, a riot, and the Capitol Police were no where to be found.

Last edited 11 months ago by Charles Kronick
H.L. Mencken
H.L. Mencken
Reply to  Charles Kronick
11 months ago

Thank the maker that you are no longer on the City Council. This type of paranoid and idiotic rhetoric is precisely what the public does not need.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  H.L. Mencken
11 months ago

We “need” 10 million new unvetted criminal aliens!

H.L. Mencken
H.L. Mencken
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

Your pathetic whining about “open borders” is nothing more than idiotic propaganda. Pay attention to actual facts; not drivel barfed up on Breitbart:

Arrests of Individuals with Criminal Convictions or Those Wanted by Law EnforcementNumbers below reflect FY 2017 – FY 2024.
Fiscal Year 2024 runs October 1, 2023 – September 30, 2024.
 FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24YTDOffice of Field OperationsCriminal Noncitizens Encountered310,59611,62312,7057,0096,56716,99320,1663,318NCIC4 Arrests7,6565,9298,5467,1088,97910,38911,5091,899U.S. Border Patrol Criminal Noncitizens Encountered38,5316,6984,2692,43810,76312,02815,2673,104Criminal Noncitizens with Outstanding Wants or Warrants2,6751,5504,1532,0541,904949988167
3 Criminal noncitizens refers to noncitizens who have been convicted of crime, whether in the United States or abroad, so long as the conviction is for conduct which is deemed criminal by the United States. Criminal noncitizens encountered at ports of entry are inadmissible, absent extenuating circumstances, and represent a subset of total OFO inadmissibles. U.S. Border Patrol arrests of criminal noncitizens are a subset of total apprehensions. See U.S. Border Patrol Criminal Noncitizen Statistics for a breakdown of criminal noncitizen stats by type of conviction.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  H.L. Mencken
11 months ago

Let the 10 million plus have YOUR SS money , Leftist, and leave mine alone.

Same with Ukrainian money launderers.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
11 months ago

I truly marvel at how badly you are able to misconstrue.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

Correction: only electors from states that witnessed severe evidence of elector abuse were set to be challenged by those states.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
11 months ago

Then why, Charles, pray tell, has no evidence of elector abuse been presented by the MAGA GOP to this day?

The only evidence of elector abuse presented so far has been the fake elector scheme cooked up by the GOP.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Kindergarden
11 months ago

There was a great deal of evidence, not proof, presented to State Legislatures. The Supreme Court had ordered PA to sequester the suspicious ballots. The election officials (Philly?) defied the order.

It was reported, and you could watch the hearings unediited live. I trust my common sense and my ears.

The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  Charles Kronick
11 months ago

There is not one place evidence of cheating happened.It was not presented by lawyers because they would be disbarred .Name one state Supreme Court evidence was presented and that court ruled in favor of the presented evidence

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

No, it didn’t happen at the end of his rally. It happened in the late afternoon, after their attempt to stop the electoral count had been thwarted.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Kindergarden
11 months ago

Then please explain why it was censored?

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

You have no proof of that, Trapper- zero zilch nada. It is contrived and wishful thinking on your part and on the part of Dan, Optimus, Chaz etc.

The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  Kindergarden
11 months ago

Just get off the pillow guys newsletters and emails

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

Ha ha ha, what a fucking laugh. Trump tells them to raise hell and storm the capital, and then, according to you, he changes his mind within minutes and tells them “We have to have peace, to go home”.

Does this really seem plausible to you?

Of course not. But it is the only way that Dan, Chaz, Trapper etc. can maintain the façade.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

I know, Dan, you like him a lot.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

Trump does not have me baffled – he is simple and I understand him completely.

The real question is why the MAGAs love, trust and believe him. But that Q has a simple answer as well: because MAGAs think he loves them and because he is the anti-Hillary.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

No, he’s got you and your MAGA cohort baffled but he doesn’t fool me for a minute. I like candidates who are willing to accept election results even when they lose.

Sorry, 45 will not be 47. There just aren’t enough MAGAs to pull it off. Biden wins in ‘24 even if the vote is split. Any amt of $$. And I pay my debts.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

Cash.

The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

But Biden and K don’t support Authoritarian Government…so you like that alot….Jinny Thomas helped fund the coup with the cash as the middle person….Your people are all bribed

The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

Dan,you believe.The candidate Trump swore to uphold the constitution and he did not.I believe you saw the events of 1/6 ,through Trumps teaching to you that the only way he could lose was by democrats cheating….FOX just settled for 800 million about the same Trump lie they supported as you do.

The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

Truth is the victim of your belief in a conspiracy of Trumps making.You now know Jonestown ended in a disaster for their cult beliefs.You just can’t get back to reality

ShirleyKnutz
ShirleyKnutz
Reply to  Kindergarden
11 months ago

This hand the democrats are playing now is just more proof the Jan 6th issue was a democrat sponsored event Pelosi at her wicked best

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  ShirleyKnutz
11 months ago

It is quite straightforward and true.

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
1 year ago

I asked Donald Trump if he instigated the Insurrection on Capitol Hill whereby the “MAGA” mob wanted to lynch his Vice President, Mike Pence, along with the many Members of U.S. Congress who voted to certify the 2020 election. Donald Trump said to me that Joe Biden stole the election from him, and that he will be vindicated by defeating Joe Biden in 2024.

I asked Donald Trump if “MAGA” really stands for “NAZI”, and if his hate speeches really stands for Hitler’s words. Donald Trump said to me that he is a cultural conflict politician who uses demagoguery, racism and violence to stir up his base of supporters.

I asked Donald Trump if he should not have added a little less than $8 trillion to the national debt from 2017 – 2021. Donald Trump said to me that the Swamp has been deficit spending for over 40 years now, and that Joe Biden printed more money out of thin air than any other president in U.S. history.

I asked Donald Trump about his thoughts of Moral Hypocrisy in politics. Donald Trump said that he is the ultimate Moral Hypocrite, but that Bill Clinton is a close second. Donald Trump added that Hillary Clinton took her computer server home with her, while he did not. Donald Trump added that Hunter Biden had access to Joe Biden’s reams of classified documents in his two Delaware homes and elsewhere. Donald Trump pointed out that he is a victim of Moral Hypocrisy.

I asked Donald Trump why he is not being perceived as Innocent until proven Guilty in a court of law. Donald Trump said to me that Bill Clinton is a twice Convicted Felon for Perjury and Suborning Perjury in the Paula Jones Sexual Harassment case because then Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton used the pretense of a state job interview to have his pants down with his penis pointed at Paula Jones when she entered a room in hopes that she would give him a blow job. Bill Clinton ended up paying Paula Jones a little less than $1 million in a settlement.

I asked Donald Trump why he is friendly to authoritarian regimes. Donald Trump said that Joe Biden fist-bumped oil rich Saudi Arabia’s MBS on the world stage. Donald Trump said that Joe Biden surpassed his administration on arms sales exports, including to authoritarian regimes. Donald Trump said that Joe Biden criticized him in 2020 over Saudi Arabia and MBS, as well as arms sales exports to authoritarian regimes. Donald Trump said that Joe Biden is a Moral Hypocrite.

I told Donald Trump that he is a failed leader who put his own Vice President, Mike Pence, at risk of being lynched by his “MAGA” mob, that he is a “NAZI” similar to Adolf Hitler, that his use of cultural conflict is toxic and a slippery slope towards fascism, that he was a big deficit spender, that he is nothing more than a Moral Hypocrite, that he is controversial and a suspicious person in the eyes of the law, that he favors authoritarianism in politics, and that he should retire from politics in 2023.

Jonathan A. Melle

ShirleyKnutz
ShirleyKnutz
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
1 year ago

JM I think it’s time for you to take a Holiday break from all media, electronic devices and the internet. Go unplugged and walk in the NH woods to try and reinvent yourself…it may do you a whole world of good

Dynamic Vibrator
Dynamic Vibrator
Reply to  ShirleyKnutz
11 months ago

JM must be shopping at Andy’s

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
11 months ago

Why did you ask me why I included your initials in my “anti-Xiden blog post,” as you called it, and then post this?

In your fantasy JM, did you ask Xiden why he sold out our country to China?

Did you ask him why his ADULT son Hunter had sex with his JUVENILE niece Ashley?

Did you ask Xiden why he hasn’t and won’t release ALL of the J6 video of the UNARMED fedsurrection?

Did you ask Xiden how many FIB, DHS, and other federal law enforcement agents donned Trump gear and tore down physical barriers to ALLOW people access into the Capitol?

Did you ask Xiden why he and Bathhouse Barry authored Crossfire Hurricane, which allowed them to ILLEGALLY SPY ON AN INCOMING PRESIDENT, BY GETTING FRAUDULENT FISA WARRANTS?

So, the next time you’re playing with yourself having another Xiden fantasy, maybe complete the puzzle and ask ALL questions, not just the ones that fit the agenda. It’ll make you more informed.

H.L. Mencken
H.L. Mencken
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
11 months ago

All of this ridiculous word salad is nothing more than right-wing conspiratorial nonsense barfed up as unassailable fact. Nothing you post is remotely true. It is dishonest twaddle for which you should be heartily ashamed.

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  H.L. Mencken
11 months ago

“Word salad,” says the a**hole about my post. He then offers no counter arguments to dispute what I wrote.

Why? Because it’s all true Dirty Barry.

Word salad is what your wife (Flat) spews when she talks about the “diversity and inclusiveness,” all these bums added to Picklefield.

Remember that salad, Barry? Or were you with the two Pete’s tossing salad?

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H.L. Mencken
H.L. Mencken
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
11 months ago

Barry is a hack. Your posts are mendacious. You simply have no clue . Stop getting your information from the Daily Caller and Alex Jones. It is ridiculously pathetic.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  H.L. Mencken
11 months ago

H.L. Mendacious

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  H.L. Mencken
11 months ago

HL is correct.

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  Kindergarden
11 months ago

HL and Kindergarden, both are firm supporters of Ukraine and Illegal Aliens (UIA) first.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  H.L. Mencken
11 months ago

HL is correct: Nothing they post above is remotely true. It is concocted wishful thinking sculpted to fit their confabulated narrative.

I would be surprised if Dan actually believed it.

U.R. Cuckoo
U.R. Cuckoo
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
11 months ago

TDS from too much PMSNBC!

U.R. Cuckoo
U.R. Cuckoo
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
11 months ago

Buffoon, explain how a gallows was set up and law enfoecement allowed it.

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  U.R. Cuckoo
11 months ago

Maybe it’s legal to build a gallows in front of the Capital

Andy's Special Sauce
Andy's Special Sauce
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
11 months ago

Jon, please help your delusions and come on over to Dalton Ave to get some special herbs and spices. We have some new blends, I’m sure you’d find something to help. Tell em Andy sent you!

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
Reply to  Andy's Special Sauce
11 months ago

Somehow, I drove into Pittsfield’s Gated Community, but my car was stuck between Mayor Linda Tyer’s mansion and Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior’s mansion. I called Linda Tyer, but she said she was already tucked in for the night after a long day at the City Hall. Then I called “Luciforo”, but he said that he only helps out customers of “Berkshire Roots”. I did not know what to do. But then a number’s man with a Cumby’s cape came swooping in. I said, “Cumby’s Clairmont”, my car is stuck, can you help me get moving again. Cumby’s Clairmont whipped out an air pump for my flat tire, he charged my car’s engine, he put 1 gallon of gas in my car’s tank, and he lifted my car up and put it outside of the gate. He then gave my car a good push and said start your engine. I drove off into the night.

But the night was young. I stopped by Cumby’s on 1st Street. I pulled out a crisp new $100 bill. I said to the store clerk, in the name of the 3 am Super Hero of Cumberland Farm’s on 1st Street, please give me $100 worth of scratch tickets. I hit it big. I cashed out with $500 in winnings. I drove down Dalton Avenue. I entered “Berkshire Roots”, I said to the clerk, I have $500 cash to spend at Luciforo’s Pittsfield’s Pot Kingdom. The clerk replied, what would you like to buy. I answered, Andy’s special herbs.

I got real high, and I started to fly around Pittsfield. When I reached the clouds, I deployed my parachute, but it would not open. I thought that I was done for, but out of nowhere, Cumby’s Clairmont swooped out of the sky and brought me safely back to Earth. I said to him, what would I do without you. He said that he patrols Pittsfield into the early hours of the night. He told me to drive home to my condo unit in Amherst, NH. I said that it is over 100 miles away from Pittsfield, but I complied and went back home.

The next day, I thought about Nuciforo’s lawsuit suing the City of Pittsfield for $440,000 in HCAs plus unspecified damages. He would not help me get out of the ditch, while he sat in his $950,000 mansion that is 0.3 miles away from Cumby Clairmont and Linda Tyer’s mansion. I thought to myself that Nuciforo only helps himself, while he sues the city that hosts his Pot Kingdom. I called Nuciforo and told him that not everyone is into his pot, smoke and big bucks. Nuciforo replied that the next time I am in Pittsfield, stop in City Hall and say hello to my second cousin, Mayor Peter Marchetti for him. I replied, I don’t wish to talk to Pete and re-Pete, LUCIFORO!

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
11 months ago

Now yer talking. The start of your Great American Novel. Cormac McCarthy would be proud. Keep it up.

TellitLikeitIs
TellitLikeitIs
1 year ago

One way or another the deep state will get Trump before he can serve 4 more years. And same goes for Sleepy Joe. Mark my words.

Shama Salama
Shama Salama
Reply to  TellitLikeitIs
1 year ago

When are the trump nuts on here going to start the campaign? He’s been a little bust doing it all by himself.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Shama Salama
1 year ago

Trump has been campaigning all over the USA and drawing large crowds. Recently in New Hampshire. The MSM has had a blackout on it.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

Not so; the MSM has covered it well.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Kindergarden
11 months ago

Fixed it for you.

“Not so; the MSM has COVERED IT UP well.

In Da Know
In Da Know
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

WWE events and Monster Truck shows draw large crowds as well Rube ROTFL

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  In Da Know
11 months ago

Do your sheep love you?

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  12 Gauge
11 months ago

The sheep get nervous when “It” is near!

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  In Da Know
11 months ago

You enjoy sheep rodeos

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  In Da Know
11 months ago

Know Nothing

The Army-Navy game 2023 had a huge crowd; Biden was not part of them.

The cadets were chanting FJB!, FJB!, FJB!,……..

H.L. Mencken
H.L. Mencken
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

Yeah, idiots tend to chant at sporting events. Trump lost to Biden. There was no rigging. Anyone who thinks so is a moron.

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  H.L. Mencken
11 months ago

So the military cadets, our future military leaders are “MORONS”.

Carry on H L M, you will be happy in a NWO…..

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Shama Salama
11 months ago

Stop dreaming about Trump’s nuts.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  12 Gauge
11 months ago

12 gauge and Trapper argue like 12-year-olds. When are you two gonna grow up?

Shama Salama
Shama Salama
Reply to  TellitLikeitIs
1 year ago

Hamas is gaining support in U S. Biden won’t be able to wiggle out of his current policy.Won’t be long til a strong wind blows him over. He’s to Old.Trump might still be able to carry the day.

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Shama Salama
11 months ago

Yeah from democrats

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
1 year ago

Democrats removed Abe Lincoln from the ballots in 1860, the civil war started 1861.

Crab
Crab
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

Instead of mindlessly parroting disinformation from sites like “Emerging Civil War” and “realchasegeezer” on Instagram, maybe you should crack open a history book instead. You might learn that Lincoln was not on the ballot in 10 southern states because THERE WAS NO REPUBLICAN PARTY in those states in 1860. Southern Senators who refused to accept Lincoln as President did not participate in sedition or insurrection, they did the honorable thing and simply resigned or never returned to the senate. Unlike what several GOP Senators did after the last election in 2020. Among those who refused to accept President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Trump: Ted Cruz (Tex.), Josh Hawley (Mo.), Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Ron Johnson (Wis.), John Kennedy (La.) and James Lankford (Okla.).

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  Crab
11 months ago

You read a book!!! OMG!

Nope you Googled up the 1860 election…………. and only got pages of results from far Leftist websites like Snopes, Fact Check……..and fake news MSM reporting

U.R. Cuckoo
U.R. Cuckoo
Reply to  Crab
11 months ago

Hey nitwit, tell us about Jamie Raskin, Hilary Clinton, Stacey Abrams and Terry McCauliff. Pull your head out of your PMSNBC behind.

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Crab
11 months ago

Fractured history from MSNBC

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  12 Gauge
11 months ago

Fractured fairy tales

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

Narrated by Edward Everett Horton.

snark shark
snark shark
1 year ago

Former President Trump didn’t want to visit a cemetery near Paris for Americans who fought and died in World War I because it was filled with “suckers” and “losers,” John Kelly, his longest-serving chief of staff, said in a statement to CNN on Monday.

Why it matters: In the statement, Kelly supported this and several other instances of Trump disparaging service members that were reported by The Atlantic in 2020 and vehemently denied at the time by the Republican 2024 presidential front-runner.

Of note: Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin previously confirmed parts of The Atlantic’s story, including his refusal to visit the Aisne-Marne Cemetery in France.

The big picture: Other instances in the statement from Kelly, whose Marine son, Robert Kelly, was killed in Afghanistan in 2010, that appeared to confirm the report were:

Trump saying at a 2017 Memorial Day event in Arlington National Cemetery: “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
Kelly said Trump did not want to include military amputees at a White House military event in 2018 because it would make spectator’s uncomfortable, and added that Trump had said their presence

Dan, any vets in your family?

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  snark shark
11 months ago

fake news

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  snark shark
11 months ago

How did Biden treat the families of the 13 servicemen who were killed, as a result of the disaster and his ineptitude, in bringing Americans home from Afghanistan?

Veteran homelessness is at an all time high under Biden. Meanwhile he is giving criminal aliens vouchers for $5000 US Taxpayer dollars, and free housing, living expenses stipends, medical care, and education .

In comparison the average elderly American collects ~$1800/month in social security benefits. That SS fund, is also currently being looted ,by the money laundering scheme Biden has going on with Zelensky in Ukraine.

Why did Biden not attend the 2023 Army-Navy football game. and why were the cadets chanting FJB?

THE Vet needs to see your family!

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Mad Trapper
11 months ago

Biden took the mullah behind the gym and beat the tar out of him

In The Know
In The Know
11 months ago

The peanut gallery here isn’t sophisticated enough to understand the Trump conundrum. Stick to local issues, remember you guys thought Krol was a viable candidate for mayor, he lost in an embarrassing landslide. Shows what you know.

stick to things like bird scooters giving Pittsfield the bird. They filed for bankruptcy yesterday.

https://apnews.com/article/bird-global-bankruptcy-electric-scooter-company-b1c48aca963ba163160e2b610a1eb870

snark shark
snark shark
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

The good news about those Bird scooters was that even though young kids were encouraged to drive in and out of moving traffic on North street to promote them during their roll out, none of them were maimed or killed.

(as far as we know ………cuz in Pittsfield not everything makes the news…if ya know what I mean)

Pat
Pat
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

Don’t just stick to local Dan because this is what these local leftists want you to do. They hate Trump because he will interfere with their free ride from the government handouts and so they don’t want to even talk about it. They are so closed minded and yes, even simple minded, when it comes to power in this country unless they are benefitting from it directly as with the school personnel who are feeding off of the corruption. They don’t want anybody talking about that because it calls attention to their con job so let’s discuss innocuous things like bird scooters, pickleball, and skunk pot.

Pat
Pat
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

Merry Christmas!

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Pat
11 months ago

You guys like Trump because you watched ‘The Apprentice’ and took it seriously.

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

Didn’t Flat call the Birds an “economic engine,” for Picklefield too?

Thinking back to the Birds….dodging POC scholars riding them in and out of North Street vehicular traffic. A few extra ER trips with broken bones, Adding to the “vibrancy” of Picklefield, by decorating the river bottoms. The Birds couldn’t let the graffiti have all the limelight now.

Rumor has it, Dirty Barry (aka-Mr. Worldwide) wanted to add lights and sirens to a Bird and use it to patrol the Cumby’s parking lot or the city clerks office on election night.

It never materialized. Something about maximum amount of weight a Bird could carry, or something like that.

Shama Salama
Shama Salama
Reply to  In The Know
11 months ago

They filed but got a chunk of help from the city. It was only a matter of time before a death by accident occurred.

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  In The Know
11 months ago

And you should stick to your sheep.

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
11 months ago

What amazes me is people, like Kindergarden, fail to realize what’s going on in this country. Step back and ask yourself, why are the D’s completely going off-grid, to keep Donald Trump out of the White House.

Did he sell our country out like Joe Xiden, Hillary Clinton, or Mitch McConnell? No

Did he illegally spy on an incoming President or American citizens? No

Were there any wars under his presidency? No

Did he give $5000 US taxpayer paid gift cards and $1000 cell phones to illegal aliens entering our country? No

The D’s can’t get our guns. Lord knows, had Hillary won in 2016, they would have tried. What’s the best way to usurp the 2A, knowing the US military is not going to want to confront and battle fellow US citizens if that day ever comes, how about this?

Durbin proposes U.S. citizenship for illegal immigrants through military service | Prairie State Wire

Use illegal aliens who have no allegiance to the US and more than likely hate Americans to do their dirty work.

WAKE UP PEOPLE!!

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
11 months ago

I have a pretty clear picture of what is going on, Markus, because I take in all sources of info. If you take it all in, and don’t exclude certain information outlets because you don’t agree with them, a clear picture emerges. What certain sources fail to cover is just as telling as what they include.

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  Kindergarden
11 months ago

Give me an example then and quit talking in code.

I spelled out my position.

If you agree with allowing illegal aliens, who we know next to nothing about, into the US military, you are as looney as TSC. PhD and all.

Dumping illegal aliens in the poor neighborhoods is what Democrats call “diversity.”

NIMBY-the older-white, liberal, mantra.

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
11 months ago

My guess this clown is a doctor of education….. he’s not a phd

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
11 months ago

I think I literally could not make my posts more clear.

Shama Salama
Shama Salama
Reply to  Kindergarden
11 months ago

Someone mentioned on stooges remote show from his basement if he’s gonna have his fifth anniversary celebration at his house instead of in the studio? Is the public invited?

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Shama Salama
11 months ago

In Da Know will bring a sheep for his date

In Da Know
In Da Know
Reply to  12 Gauge
11 months ago

All the sheep are at the tRump rallies Rube

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  In Da Know
11 months ago

They are corralled in your bedroom

Pat
Pat
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
11 months ago

I was thinking that all along that these military age men coming into this country who don’t care about Americans would have no trouble arresting, shooting, or fighting against us. These leftists are up to such no good. Signing them up for military duty this quickly by old Durbin is not a good sign of the far lefts intentions. They are war mongers and would absolutely go after Americans just like the old George Soros DA in New York is creating camps where Americans can be detained who don’t comply with the far left agenda. These are very dangerous time in which we live.

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Lenny
Lenny
11 months ago

Bird Scooters filed for bankruptcy in FL court.

Shama Salama
Shama Salama
Reply to  Lenny
11 months ago

These birds go north and south a parrotly.

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  Lenny
11 months ago

Fear not we still have a bird brain mayor

In The Know
In The Know
11 months ago

Kronick owes the city $365.76 in unpaid water and sewer bills from the two quarters of fiscal year 2024.

Yeah a real role model of a city councilor. He doesn’t pay his sewer bills.

Good riddance to Kronickally late bill payer.

12 Gauge
12 Gauge
Reply to  In The Know
11 months ago

Baaaaa

Shama Salama
Shama Salama
Reply to  In The Know
11 months ago

Maybe it was his way of saying don’t pay them they’re to high.

In The Know
In The Know
Reply to  Shama Salama
11 months ago

Maybe he’s just another “do as I say, not as I do.” Politician.
Funny how he wants to talk on here or how he rambles on in city council meetings wandering off on tangents but when asked by the Eagle, he refused to answer why.
Maybe Krol is helping him do his bill paying?

Kronically late Kronick did you pay your bills yet?

Mississippi Jack Crock
Mississippi Jack Crock
Reply to  In The Know
11 months ago

Maybe he dug his own well and doesn’t need the water.

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  In The Know
11 months ago

I hope your poor sheep don’t catch anything from you.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  In The Know
11 months ago

We knights aren’t in the habit of sorting mail and silly stuff like that. We fight dragons and winning important challenges and tasks.

snark shark
snark shark
Reply to  In The Know
11 months ago

This might be a great time for a few thousand of us to withhold our tax payments in protest. Why is it in Pittsfield that many wealthy, who do not even need cuts, rebates and tax forgiveness get off not paying their fair share? Why do the rest of us have to subsidize the upper class with connections? They have no shame when it comes to shifting their burden to the less fortunate.

Greed is a sad thing to watch.

Pat
Pat
Reply to  snark shark
11 months ago

I agree except that there is a political reason, isn’t there always, why the Berkshire Eagle is exposing these people and their failure to pay. They are standing up against raising taxes on Pittsfield residents again. Get them out of the way and this new mayor and his cronies can go wild raising taxes.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Pat
11 months ago

Pat – who got exposed? What happened??

I must have missed it.

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Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  In The Know
11 months ago

You get a free $h!tter and water in Section 8, Know Nothing

Dynamic Vibrator
Dynamic Vibrator
Reply to  In The Know
11 months ago

It was good to know that some of the councilors understand the struggles of Pittsfield’s tax and rate payers.

It is Thyme
It is Thyme
Reply to  In The Know
11 months ago

Remember Boston Tea Party.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  It is Thyme
11 months ago

A fine insurrection it was. If it were today, the Eagle would describe it as rash, costly, and terribly irresponsible and demand punishment and reparations.

Free Bird
Free Bird
11 months ago

“Colorado Supreme Court ruling makes America look like a Banana Republic. Why doesn’t every American understand that If they can do this to a former US President, EVERYONE is vulnerable to punishment for crimes with which they have never been convicted. Democracy would be a total shambles.“. – RFK Jr.

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
11 months ago

It is almost Christmas 2023 – just 3 days away until the big day. In 10 days, we enter the new year of 2024. What news headline stood out to me today? “Homelessness in the U.S.A. is at an all time high”.

I thought about the true meaning of Christmas. I thought about our hopes for the New Year 2024. Then I realized that Ebenezer Scrooge’s “Bah Humbug” won, while his “Merry Christmas to all” lost.

The government on all levels is spending more taxpayer dollars than ever, but at the same time, there are more homeless people and families than ever. Wall Street is recording record high indices, while the federal minimum wage sits at $7.25 per hour since 2009. Sarcasm: I could really use that $7.25 per hour job to support my family!

The Dirty Bird (Berkshire Eagle) published a news article that focused on 4 Pittsfield City Councilors with municipal tax arrears, but did not focus on the city tax rate increasing by a little less than 9 percent during the current fiscal year. Meanwhile, Mayor Linda Tyer lives in a mansion in Pittsfield’s elitist Gated Community neighborhood west of Berkshire Community College, along with her litigious neighbor Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior, who is also known as Pittsfield’s Pot King “Luciforo”. The Haves versus the Have Nots of Pittsfield politics – and the Eagle chose to deride the common taxpayers.

Earlier this month, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey’s administration stated that the state’s cash surplus is at a record $8.2 billion without any sympathy for the common taxpayers. Beacon Hill lawmakers are enjoying their 7-weeks-long taxpayer-funded vacation. Some registered lobbyist on Beacon Hill earn 7-figure salaries, while many others earn 6-figure stipends. Massachusetts State Government at its WORST!

In the Swamp, in January 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives will begin the impeachment of Joe Biden over his scoundrel son Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings that resulted in tax and wire fraud federal charges against Hunter Biden. Donald Trump faces 91 criminal indictments in 2024. Sarcasm: I am sure that the average U.S. household is really concerned with Hunter Biden’s alleged corrupt business connections with his father Joe Biden, along with Donald Trump’s alleged wrongdoings in business and politics.

Jon Melle

Eric Swansin
Eric Swansin
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
11 months ago

The other day when you went and visited Santa and took a picture sitting on his lap what did you ask for Christmas? Anything special this year. He didn’t bring you a hunk last Christmas. You musta been bad.

It is Thyme
It is Thyme
Reply to  Eric Swansin
11 months ago

He hit the lottery already 3000 a month and benefits

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
Reply to  Eric Swansin
11 months ago

I asked Santa Claus what gift he would bestow on Eric SwanSIN the SINNER. He answered that I would have to check his web browser history for a clue. I replied that I don’t have to because I know all about Eric SwanSIN the SINNER!

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
11 months ago

The playbook never changes. Any R ( including a R – POC) running for just about any elected office in this country and especially for the presidential office is labeled a FASCIST ,RACIST , NAZI. Etc.. . In 2024 Trump gets the label again. Come 2028 and so on, they will dust off the playbook and say, yeah Trump was a bad Nazi etc.., but this new R candidate is really
worse than Trump.

Shama Salama
Shama Salama
Reply to  Optimus Prime
11 months ago

Bowl Hame results……..South Floria 45….Syracuse O

Dynamic Vibrator
Dynamic Vibrator
Reply to  Optimus Prime
11 months ago

Democrats save democracy by preventing democracy,

snark shark
snark shark
11 months ago

I heard the new mayor is thinking of installing parking meters at all the super markets and having tow trucks stand by to tow away violators if they are three minutes over the limit. Guy wants to raise money for a proposed Rugby field and grandstand off Homes road near the sewage treatment plant. All violators will also have their names and pictures posted in the local paper especially if they are found not to have voted for him. This is awful if you ask me. Just awful to do just before Christmas, the day Jesus was born and placed in a manger for gods sake.

Ron Kitterman
Ron Kitterman
11 months ago

Abraham Lincoln quote sums it up pretty much spot on “If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” As stocking stuffer someone should mail those pocket sized copies of the Constitution to the 4 Judges.

Dynamic Vibrator
Dynamic Vibrator
11 months ago

With Tyer every thing was vibrant and dynamic or we collaborated. What will Marchetti’s embarrassing pet phrases be?

RHABC
RHABC
Reply to  Dynamic Vibrator
11 months ago

He won’t have one. Not his style.

Dynamic Vibrator
Dynamic Vibrator
Reply to  RHABC
11 months ago

Trust me. He does.

snark shark
snark shark
Reply to  Dynamic Vibrator
11 months ago

It will probably be …”Kiss my fat ass suckers!!.

Shama Salama
Shama Salama
Reply to  snark shark
11 months ago

Which mayor?

Markus Aurelius
Markus Aurelius
Reply to  Dynamic Vibrator
11 months ago

Flat Tyer stole the phrase “collaborated” from Tricia Farley-Country Buffet (D-illegal aliens).

TFCB had been in office for well over 5 years, when someone noted she had NEVER authored any piece of legislation during that time.

Soon after, TFCB began “collaborating,” with others in the legislature.

She was the co-author on getting illegal aliens driver’s licenses in MA to her credit. She even gave it a fancy name too. DL’s was just the ruse to get ID’s in illegal aliens’ hands, so they (or others) can vote multiple times in multiple states that they “just moved to.”

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Markus Aurelius
11 months ago

MA:

Can’t really believe that she even comes up with those bon mots on her own.

Illegal rights issue is to offset the migration of taxpayers from the Commonwealth to greener fields. The Party needs to keep a high population to protect their headcounts.

In The Know
In The Know
Reply to  Dynamic Vibrator
11 months ago

“At least I pay my bills unlike Kroll and Kronick.”

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  In The Know
11 months ago

Taxpayers pay Your bills.

In Da Know
In Da Know
Reply to  In The Know
11 months ago

Get your own name Rube

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  In Da Know
11 months ago

How does the mixture of alcohol and street drugs You consume, go with Your psychotropic medications?

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  In Da Know
11 months ago

Baaaaaa

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  In The Know
11 months ago

I give you credit. You work for your sheep.

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  Dynamic Vibrator
11 months ago

Marchetti’s Catch phrase might be “Everything is Bitching in Pittsfield “.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

lol

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

Like Tom Wolfe. “From Picklefield To Bitchfield” A narrative of municipal follies and bad art.

Jumpin Joe Curtis
Jumpin Joe Curtis
11 months ago

https://www.iberkshires.com/story/73992/Teacher-of-the-Month-Krista-Harrington.html

Congratulations to Krista. I have heard first hand she is a fantastic teacher. However, I wonder how much credit the other two classroom teachers and her paraprofessional get. 4 adults in a single classroom, 3 are licensed teachers.

I am Joe Curtis and I stand by this set up.

In Da Know
In Da Know
11 months ago

Don Mattingly is batting a thousand

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ShirleyKnutz
ShirleyKnutz
11 months ago

I hope you cover the book issue down in Great Barrington. Just wondering when did the school start allowing porn in the middle schools? I thought there was a law contributing to the delinquency of minors that didn’t allow this predatory grooming….how times have changed when I was 10 I liked reading the comic books

Mad Trapper
Mad Trapper
Reply to  ShirleyKnutz
11 months ago

Word is out there is a litter box in student restrooms, as one of the students “identifies” as an animal.

Pat
Pat
11 months ago

Our military lost a lot of good soldiers because they refused to take the COVID jab. Now we find out the COVID jab isn’t as safe as everyone thought especially for younger men. So these soldiers were right to refuse the jab. Now the military is in some cases begging these people to come back to the military and they desperately need people and that desperation is supposedly making them consider illegal immigrants without background checks? They are coming from some of the most dangerous places in the world. If not to have an army that they could use against American citizens, why would the military and the far left politicians even consider doing such a dangerous thing?

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
11 months ago

Kind of like my water bills, maybe I’m a day or two late with this….

Driving home through long and dark country roads, homes no lights no candles and snow beginning to drift down, this poem returns to me:

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
-Robert Frost

Merry Christmas everyone, I wish you all a peaceful and most holy Christmas holiday! G-d bless!

H.L. Mencken
H.L. Mencken
Reply to  Charles Kronick
11 months ago

Frost’s poem is about resignation and death. It’s no surprise you’ve misread it.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  H.L. Mencken
11 months ago

No, it is about the tension between civil life, mundane facts of property, village ties, and the urge to seclude in nature. The woods are lovely, deep and dark. The ‘owner’s has no knowledge that I ‘trespass’, think about taking some form of primal ownership in them. In fact, the ‘owner’s is oblivious to his woods, and the woods neither simmon him nor pay him any regards.

That’s just one layer of the poem. Yours does not reside within his words; you may be suicidal.

Seek help.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  H.L. Mencken
11 months ago

I find it unfathomable that you cannot understand what Frost has written in these short lines with no hidden metaphor nor mysterious symbol.

Your penchant for crude imposition is a general flaw in your thinking.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  H.L. Mencken
11 months ago

It’s about obligation and the rhythm of life that govern the lives of man and their beasts. And how they be incompatible with Nature which has it’s own Law and Beauty.

Think Winslow Homer, or Mending Fences.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

I wonder if she is wanting a well being check.

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Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

Promises to keep: promises are future commitments. Day’s done, longest night of the year which means it’s a short day to work. Tomorrow requires energy to do much in less time. Therefore, a night’s sleep, not when you want it necessarily, breaks your moment of solitude and wonder.

The horse wants a house and his bell, the rider wants the woods.

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Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  danvalenti
11 months ago

That’s the advantage of being a knight. We knights are an educated lot.

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
11 months ago

Pittsfield politicians’ Christmas gifts to the fictional Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski family:

Linda Tyer’s gift is record high city spending

The City Council’s gift is 6 rubber stamp votes

The School Committee’s gift are Level 5 public schools

Tricia Farley Bouvier’s gift is promising to legalize sex workers

Smitty Pignatelli’s gift is GE putting a toxic waste dump in Lee

John Barrett III’s gift are his decades as a career politician

Paul Mark’s gift is being Karen Spilka’s biggest rubber stamp vote

Richard Neal’s gift is representing K Street corporate lobbyist firms in the Swamp

Ed Markey’s gift is all of his HOT AIR

Elizabeth Warren’s gift is supporting the reelection of Joe Biden

Joe Biden’s gift is telling us how proud he is of his scoundrel son, Hunter Biden

The New Year’s resolutions in Pittsfield politics will be:

Linda Tyer’s lucrative sinecure at Berkshire Community College

Peter Marchetti taking a pay cut as the next Mayor of Pittsfield

Pete White’s anointment as the next President of the City Council

The City Council’s forthcoming fiscal year 2025 municipal operating budget

The School Committee paying 6-figure salaries to all of its top heavy administrators

Jon Melle

Shama Salama
Shama Salama
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
11 months ago

It was the Night before Christmas and all through PC TV’s house The Morning Show was absent but done in somebody’s basement in his house. The taxpayer finance school committee’s license was transferred to the studio, the new studio with care, but the little bald elf who wanted to talk at nauseam would never go there.

The host you know has been all over the world and back and every morning he tells us all six people) don’t give the city council or mayors any flack. So why does he mock people day? after all he has the the last say.

Shama Salama
Shama Salama
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
11 months ago

Will stooge visit the baby in fla? Stay toned.

It is Thyme
It is Thyme
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
11 months ago

Shut the f up.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
11 months ago

Merry Xmas from Tokyo, everyone.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Kindergarden
11 months ago

Don’t eat the fish!!

Craig C Gaetani
Craig C Gaetani
Reply to  Charles Kronick
11 months ago

Who is the most vile man on the planet?? He cheats lies doesn’t respect women is a flim flam man a thief and has no respect for the constitution and has blood on his hands. This miscreant belongs in jail and will get there soon. He cares nothing about any of you and has no use for young men who died fighting so that we can enjoy the freedom we so cherish. He has orange hair and a face like a bulldog. He is an expert in everything or so he thinks and soon will be wasting away in prison. He must atone for 91 counts of stifing others and 4 counts which are criminal. This person thinks that we are stupid but he will see how smart we are in November of 2024. Any guesses who this buffoon is. Think of the trauma he has foisted on our country while praising another buffoon like himself —vlad putin You all know him now make sure you do not vote for him in 2024. To do so will make many sick. Kick this scum out

H.L. Mencken
H.L. Mencken
Reply to  Craig C Gaetani
11 months ago

Tell Valenti you despise Trump.

Fake News
Fake News
Reply to  Craig C Gaetani
11 months ago

You are very well misinformed. You are actually describing Biden.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Craig C Gaetani
11 months ago

Well said, Craig. Thank you very much.

Craig C Gaetani
Craig C Gaetani
Reply to  Charles Kronick
11 months ago

Merry Xmas to all.may the lord bless you and your families

It is Thyme
It is Thyme
Reply to  Craig C Gaetani
11 months ago

If police can’t understand language barriers then get some multi lingual dispatchers.

It is Thyme
It is Thyme
Reply to  Charles Kronick
11 months ago

Paul Mark eats the fish.

Kindergarden
Kindergarden
Reply to  Charles Kronick
11 months ago

If you don’t eat the fish you starve. いつでも魚を食べます。

It is Thyme
It is Thyme
Reply to  Kindergarden
11 months ago

Traitor.

Chuck Garivaltis"/"
Chuck Garivaltis"/"
11 months ago

Dan,
Thank you for always bringing us interesting and current information. I wish to wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Chuck

It is Thyme
It is Thyme
Reply to  Chuck Garivaltis"/"
11 months ago

Merry Christmas Chuck. Chuck,did you know Daniel Boone blazed through the Cumberland Gap at age eighty?

Chuck Garivaltis"/"
Chuck Garivaltis"/"
Reply to  It is Thyme
11 months ago

Merry Christmas Thyme. Boone was certainly extraordinary man. I can tell you from experience explorations at 80 years of age are not easy. Go back to Boone’s time it was a major accomplishment. Indeed, quite a guy.

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
11 months ago

Christmas Eve, 2023

Around 2,000 years ago, Rabbi Jesus Christ was a persecuted Jewish man who Christians believe to be the Son of God as a matter of their Christian Faith. JFK, and now Joe Biden, are the U.S.A.’s only two Catholic U.S. Presidents out of the 45 U.S. Presidents so far. The ultimate Moral Hypocrite Donald Trump is making controversial comments claiming that Joe Biden is directing the FBI to persecute traditionalist Catholics due to their conservative stance against abortion that may lead to political violence and even domestic terrorism, and that the “DIE” programs are meant to subvert the religious right that more likely than not votes for Republican Party candidates.

What is Donald Trump doing to Joe Biden here? It is called “Cultural Conflict”. Let us remember the three layers of conflict and violence, please: The bottom layer are direct actions such as verbal and physical assaults; The middle layer are structural assaults such as homelessness, joblessness, poverty and the underclass, and distressed communities; the top layer are cultural assaults such as sexism, racism, hate, religious intolerance, and divide and conquer for the elites to win at any cost.

The ideal model of the human condition is that we do not verbally assault one another, that we do not physically assault one another, that we do not have people living without a roof over their heads, that we do not have people without access to employment, that we have programs and policies to limit poverty and the underclass, that we transform distressed communities into middle-class ones by supporting career politicians who invest in people and communities instead of the elites voting to enrich themselves at the public trough, that we do not have people being hurt based on their gender/or and their race, that we unlearn hate, that we tolerate all religions, and that we know that divide and conquer is a cruel tactic that is akin to putting us common people on a chess board as pawns for the elites to win at any cost.

The Golden Rule: Everyone is treated both SAFELY and FAIRLY in the world. Donald Trump’s cultural conflicts are the opposite of the Golden Rule. Donald Trump is trying to divide us in order to conquer all of us because he always tries to win at any cost. Look at all of the people who were close to Donald Trump who ended up paying for his cut throat tactics in business and politics. It is fair to say that Donald Trump does NOT treat everyone both SAFELY and FAIRLY. In fact, his words are similar to the words of Adolf Hitler around 100 years ago.

It is always a demagogue like Donald Trump – who openly cheated on all three of his wives, paid off his mistresses to stay silent, who has 5 children by 3 women, who declared multiple bankruptcies in his failed businesses, who refuses to release his tax returns to the public, who instigated the insurrection on Capitol Hill whereby 5 people were killed, who uses Hitler’s words in his controversial political speeches, who favors authoritarian regimes around the world, who was twice impeached but not convicted, who is facing 91 criminal indictments in multiple court cases, who points his finger at his political adversaries without looking at himself in the mirror of self-reflection because he believes he is a perfect narcissist, who added a little less than $8 trillion to the U.S. national deficit in 4 years, and so on – who is a perfect illustration of MORAL HYPOCRISY!

Jonathan A. Melle

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
11 months ago

Golden Rule: The assumption behind Common Sense. Do Unto Others As You Would Have Done Unto You.

That’s it. Simple. Also, JC was not a rabbi who are modern (PORO (Post-Roman)) spiritual leaders. JC is just one fact, just a fact. No need to argue it. No reason to doubt.

It is Thyme
It is Thyme
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
11 months ago

‘‘Twas the night before Xmas and all through the the pctv house not a radio station was being used not even the louse.

The studio in question has new gimmicks and toys,but the radio host refused to make noise.

No,the school department didn’t care and the licence was given for kids but the greedy old master decided to use it for his own digs

Anywho,the fifth anniversary is coming up soon,will the basement at his abode be used for the public to praise the buffoon? Or will he finally be at a radio station as it was intended….to be used.

Charles Kronick
Charles Kronick
Reply to  It is Thyme
11 months ago

I always said ‘anyhoo.’ Which is the correct pronunciation?

Tree Mail
Tree Mail
11 months ago

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