CHINA OVERTAKES U.S. AS WORLD’S MOST INFLUENTIAL DIPLOMATIC POWER … or … THANKS, Joe Biden
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY MARCH 4, 2024) — During Donald Trump’s term as president, the United States had resumed its place as the globe’s No. 1 Alpha Male, a standing lost under 16 years first of George W. Bush then Barack Obama. By all measures — border security, economy, foreign policy, and more — Uncle Sam had again become top dog.
Joe Biden took care of that. The economy tanked. His defenders point to the stock market’s gains. They fail to take into account nearly four years of inflation. Market returns on the whole have been (-n ). Moreover, the market’s rally is due to investors anticipating the return of Trump.
Those who invest play the long game on whole, and as each day passes, it seems more likely that Trump will be returning to the Oval Office. This assumes, of course, that panicking Democrats fail to keep Trump off the ballot. Should he be for the third consecutive cycle the GOP nominee, expect Dems to do all they can to throw another election.
Meanwhile, the 2024 Global Diplomacy Index (GDI) for the first time ever now ranks China, not America, as the world’s largest and most influential diplomatic power. China’s geopolitical presence is wider and more intense, for which you can thank mumblin’ stumbling’ bumbling’ Biden.
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Leadership matters. China has Xi Jinping, the world’s greatest head of state. America has Joe Biden, a man whose incoherence is matched only by his inability to realize how to get off the dais.
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“Diplomacy is often overlooked as a measure of influence, but it has never been a more important element of statecraft,” Ryan Neelam, director of the Lowy Institute’s Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Program, says. “The GDI shows that governments continue to invest in diplomacy to project power and achieve their interests.”
America’s role as Global Enforcer has ended … or is in the process of ending. How we play this end game is THEEEE issue at stake in November. Re-elect Biden, and you allow the U.S. to be steamrolled. Put Trump back in and have a fighting chance. The choice is that stark, that simple, and that complex.
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THE PLANET recently watched two interviews. The BBC interviewed philosopher and mathematician Bertram Russell in 1959. In 1960, CBS’ Mike Wallace questioned writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley. Russell and Huxley, each in their own way, predicted that the 21st century would see the decline of the West and the ascendancy of the East, particular the Pacific Rim, notably China.
We are now in that era.
According to the GDI, China holds sway in Africa, East Asia, the Pacific Island nations, and Central Asia. America maintains the lead in Europe, North and Central America, and South Asia. The Middle East and South America are presently in the balance but appear to be shifting toward Beijing.
Leadership matters. China has Xi Jinping, the world’s greatest head of state. America has Joe Biden, a man whose incoherence is matched only by his inability to realize how to get off the dais.
In December, Xi hosted an internal conference on foreign affairs. While most Americans weren’t paying attention except to Taylor Swift and the latest episode of 90 Day Fiancee, China was announcing its plan to promote diplomacy as a means of extending its interests, which it sees as the only realistic path toward world peace. Newsweek said this of the conference: “The rare meeting, which took place behind closed doors and was attended by the nation’s highest-level officials, marked some of Xi’s most vocal remarks to date on the issue of foreign policy. He asserted during the gathering that, ‘China has become a responsible major country with enhanced international influence, stronger capacity to steer new endeavors, and greater moral appeal.'”
China has acted wisely in terms of its own security and in offering “adult guidance” for the cause of world stability. That it does this without being entirely altruistic matters little. The end result will be an alliance of selflessness, namely, a world outlook meant to address in mature fashion “bilateral, regional, and global issues.”
Biden’s failure with China is having disastrous consequences. The U.S. stubbornly clings to its contradictory policy toward Taiwan. On the one hand, it doesn’t acknowledge Taipei diplomatically and support’s Xi’s “One China” policy, but it still engages the island territory as if it’s a member of NATO.
As Biden will learn in November, you can’t have it both ways.
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“There’s only one “best” of anything” — Sir Donald Turpentine, Knight of the Bath.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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Most Favored Nation. Where did the money come from be for Bill Clinton. He had very deep pockets.
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In 1994 I shared a workbench with a Chinese emigre, I name her today, “She.” We were serfs for the Metropolitan Museum of Art binding slides, some here may not even know those are, for sociopathic curators. If you don’t know, the nation’s worst depravity are there with titles such as “curator”, “Vice President of Marketing”, “Curator of Homosapic Artifacts”.
We slidebinder serfs clocked in by signing in and out on paper on a paper form nailed to Ms Toyota’s door that (referring back to the form here) was impossibly tight and constrained. Your clock in was watched such that if it took an extra minute to squeeze the digits in, her door opened and you got both docked and penalized with tickets.
Managers would threaten all but bodily harm if we were two minutes late. And $11/hour was good money back then so bodily harm was preferable to worse consequence. It’s another story of how I brought the slide library of America”s premier art museum almost its knees, briefly, (45 minutes) and left two deep ruts in floor where my chair rocked back. Back then I was both jock and artist. Prague, Saint Petersburg , and two days notice conflated to push that manager to her very limit. Manager Toyota fought hard and did not degrade into a Dodge. I was airborne.
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She, back to “She”, told me of how an American can opener, rudimentary – the type you probably don’t even know how to use, found its way to her apartment in China. It was such a novelty that the entire apartment building shared it. Wouldn’t hear that story today. They got rich; we grew very poor and became not very nice to each other in the process.
What a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
Hmm I don’t know. Read the Republic – it deals with that problem.
I wonder how many sang your line or now have The Doobie Brothers stuck in their heads
You just helped me understand the people who vote Democrat, Thank You
Counted among his countless scandals, haunts Yah-Lin “Charlie” Trie and his unmarked envelopes.
The good news is that China will open a fortune cookie plant in Pittsfield.
Dina could write the fortunes and make them about climate change
She has earned her own ‘Death Hour’ channel on PCTV.
Love it, G!
“The” GE put many of its manufacturing factories in China, while postindustrial Pittsfield (Mass.) is known for the infamous “Ruberto-Rolodex” that rots at the rock bottom of Silver Lake, while Good Old Jimmy is a full-time resident of Florida.
China buys a lot of its energy supply from Putin’s Russia. The price of energy in the U.S.A. has increased to very high levels with Joe Biden’s so-called “Green New Deal”. China is consuming energy at favorable economic rates that fuels China’s status as the world’s global manufacturing base, while high energy costs in Europe are causing manufacturing firms there to shutter.
On China’s threat to invade Taiwan, hypocrite (on many levels) Joe Biden voted for the U.S. Government’s invasion of Iraq over 2 decades ago, along with Hillary Clinton and billionaire John Forbes Kerry. Why was it O.K. for the U.S.Government to invade oil rich Iraq, but was not O.K. for Putin’s Russia to invade Ukraine, but it is not O.K. for China to threaten to invade Taiwan?
In world history, the U.S.A. was the number one polluter of global warming emissions in the world. In recent history, China is now the number one polluter of greenhouse gas emissions; the U.S.A. is now number two. Combined together, China and the U.S.A. account for a little less than 50 percent of the world’s global warming emissions. Both China and the U.S.A. host the world’s largest military industrial complexes, which are the single largest emitters of greenhouse gases in human history.
The biggest problem with the elderly Joe Biden is his limited time in office. China and Russia’s Presidents will outlast the 81-year-old Joe Biden. They will play the long game versus the U.S. Government. These three powerful countries cannot rationally fight each other directly in a would-be war, but the three nations engage in strategic diplomacy, business interests, and geopolitical conflicts by proxy.
Jon Melle
Dan,are you saying the rest of the world does not know about America’s 1 trillion dollar millitary.You are writting fiction.I am amazed that you watch the Trump speeches and believe what he says and then you pass the nonsense along.I watch his speeches and think he’s a spoiled mentally ill loser.
Can’t you see Dan made the whole thing up? Good piece of writing – well, exept for the typos.
For a trillion dollars, I want soldiers who won’t set their own pants on fire whenever there’s a battle going down somewhere.
Or bail out of the battle saying he got bone spurs
https://masslawyersweekly.com/files/2024/02/BerkshireDANonDisclosureMemo.pdf
“Put Trump back in and have a fighting chance.”
What a laugh. Trump is the very one who tanked our global status during his term as president. Trump wouldn’t have the first notion what to do with Xi Jinping. We’d be better off having Chaz and Dan serving as tag-team diplomatic emissaries than having djt calling the shots.
The Biden’s and The DC Swamp are not for sale, Xi already owns them.
Traitor Joe can’t even read his teleprompter, nor make it to a toilet without an “accident”. The current Junta in the White House is the whole worlds laughing stock. It it filled with perverts degenerates and incompetent, lacking morals and scruples; they arebent on the goal of making America a 3rd world $#!t#Ole.
America’s only hope is a free and fair election, unlike the Sell-ections of 2020 and 2022.
When you get your posts copy-edited I’ll listen.
Trump is the Russian swamp
Cuckoo,Cuckoo I see they let you near a computer again, just wish you would stop typing about your delusions
Well said ! Have you ever noticed, that when liberals criticize conservatives, its always about grammar/misspellings, editing, other surface issues etc. and rarely ever on the substance of the matter discussed. They live in a fabricated veneer world minus fact/substance , a world that looks good on the surface but has no depth or composition of reality. Michelle Obama is the perfect representative of this point. That’s why in the liberal world she is the best possible Presidential candidate, To them she is black, looks good, bloviates well and rides on the coattails of her iconic husband. To the rest of us she is an anti-American racist and ungrateful for the blessings received from living in this great Republic She has nothing to offer for the betterment of our nation and will only support the continual downward spiral and devolution of our nation as it continues headlong into Abaddon.
Trump is the swamp…Jonestown lives in you
Cuckoo, Cuckoo
Well done, NAT!
Send them crates of old can openers for the opening round. Let them know what’s coming.
Old can openers? Yes, that would have worked in 1990.
Not being part of the elite crowd, or privy to the wisdom they exude, tell me, just a confused peon that I am, what are the current benefits of riding in the hand basket to hell under the direction of this spurious and illicit Biden regime ?
You and your cohort have your own wisdom, which you are fully privy to, and you are not a confused peon, and so you can wallow in your wisdom for as long as you see fit, just as I am allowed to wallow in mine. That’s what freedom of belief and freedom of expression are all about. I have just as much a right to be wrong as you.
Since freedom is such a valuable commodity, then why would you abdicate it by supporting a regressive Biden regime that is hellbent on removing those sacred freedoms you relish so much ?
Festus, I don’t believe, like you do, that Biden is regressive and hellbent on removing freedoms. My fear is that Trump is out for himself and will operate chaotically both at home and abroad, resulting in no end of upheaval.
There are two hand baskets. And they are both going to hell. Neither side wants to offer up a different choice. Might be time to do away with all governments as most of them seem to do more harm than good.
Trump represents Corp elite fascism
Cuckoo, Cuckoo
While China ascends to world dominance, the US and it’s (s)elected leaders have more pressing issues than that.
Xi and China are pushing for world diplomacy. Joe Xiden, Bathhouse Barry, and democRATS have other more pressing issues, like normalizing drag shows for children.
Hell, it’s even made its way into Bitchfield. This past weekend was Drag Story time for families and children, in an effort to try and encourage children to play dress-up and pretend to be who they’re not (sorry, I said the quiet part out loud). It’s also trying to normalize mental health issues in adults.
And while we are on this, have you ever wondered why you never see a woman dressed in drag as a man? Are adult women more stable than men? Or is it, men with mental health issues such as this, have a strong propensity towards pedophilia and most women do not?
democRATS also like to “church-up” the language and the former terms used to describe these adults. For example, “illegal aliens” has now been replaced with “migrants.” “Global warming” (1990/2000’s) has now been replaced with “climate change.” And the term that fits this, “transvestite” has now been replaced with “drag show.”
Does it surprise me that China has supplanted the USA as the #1 in the GDI?
Nope, not when we have the “leaders” of our country giving out US taxpayer money to illegal aliens and Ukraine.
***One more time for all you democRATS: drag shows (transvestites) and books like “Gender Queer,” are intended for adults and not children.
‘Love is love, and people should be treated equally.’ Drag Story Hour launches in the Berkshires | Local News | berkshireeagle.com
As always, MARK, well put.
“This past weekend was Drag Story time for families and children, in an effort to try and encourage children to play dress-up and pretend to be who they’re not (sorry, I said the quiet part out loud).”
Spot on MA.
You Jonestown folks don’t like straight people having sex if you guys aren’t in on the results..you are all nuts
Cuckoo,Cuckoo,,,,think it’s time for your TDS, white hating racist diatribe medications
Good Point. The only man who should be allowed to wear a ton of makeup and tell wild stories is tRumpy.
Don’t sell yourself short INDA.
Isn’t that you in the above picture with your green hair to match your green shirt?
Mark, your blame and anger at democrats is misplaced. Do you really feel the GOP could do much better? They don’t seem to have their act together. The rule is, what Trump says, goes, and Trump’s judgment is highly flawed.
NAT
I like the way your argue. Most effective. And you raise a fair point with the Republicans. The electorate has been bounding back and forth between the Dems and the GOP since the days of Truman-Eisenhower. Things took the fatal turn with Bush and 9-11 and since then, it has mattered little who gets in … except for the four years of Trump. He is much of what you say he is. The one saving grace, the one that makes him exceptional, is that he is a TRUE outsider with respect to the Beltway. That’s the only thing that will reverse the disastrous course Biden and Co. have plotted.
“I like the way your argue.”
Why? He resorts to diversion and argues a non-point by assertion. Very common.
Example: “Do you really feel the GOP could do much better?”
Draws focus off MA’s argument that Democrats are exploiting children with a general claim GOP is not capable. Could be true, but not logically connected to MA’s opinion, and particularly his opinion regarding the abuse of children. (Do all Dem’s engage in child abuse? The answer requires a definition of range. Democratic Party platform? National statistics? Or say, the City of Pittsfield and the Commonwealth’s social/political institutions.”)
“The rule is, what Trump says, goes, and Trump’s judgment is highly flawed.”
That is strictly an assertion, not an argument. He presents a ‘rule’ that has no proof. Hence, it is completely unconvincing to a Trump supporter.
Please stop Dan,he met with Putin in secret and dismissed our interpreter and soon after said he wanted NATO abolished.The NRA top people went to Moscow to meet with Putin….can you guess that Moscow was funneling cash to Republicans through the NRA a very evil cult present day America.How about the 17 Senators who met in Moscow on the 4th of July a couple of years ago.The Republican party is with your support bringing down our democracy…..How did Germany not see what the party of Hitler was doing
Cuckoo, Cuckoo still reiterating the misinformation campaign of the Democrats. Trump told the European Nation they had to pay their fair share for NATO to continue, The party most closely related to the Depression era Nazi Party is the Democrat Party in America today. Just look how they change the definition of words and control the talking points in the media. Look how well you are brainwashed, so I think you should ask yourself that question, why can’t you see how corrupt the Democrats are and for god’s sake look into the actions of Nancy Pelosi before saying anything about January 6th. BTW look into the new video footage of the so called pipe bombs, very strange indeed
Natt, there are only two parties in the US today. MAGA, which I am a proud member of and the democRATs and RINOS. For sake of argument, I’ll call them the “Uniparty.”
Trump is weeding out the neocons and the RINOS out of the GOP. Take the soon to be departed, Ronna McDaniel. Who will no longer sink….I mean lead the GOP.
A side note, McDaniel is the niece of uber-RINO, Mittens Romney. Enough said.
Getting back to my post, as Sir Chaz pointed out, you ignore my argument of adults with mental health issues, should not play “dress up in mommies clothes” and expose that weirdness to kids.
If you have kids, post the pics of you and son/daughter’s attendance. This way I know you back up your words. Plus, I’ll stay far, far, away, from you. I promise.
If you don’t have kids, your opinion is worthless.
And please refresh my memory with a link, of Drag Time Story Hour with Kids, when Trump was president.
Nice try.
The US Limbo Champ, three years running, how low can you go Joe, is now operating(so be it ,on one cylinder), in a manner that has all the markings of being removed as the democrat candidate for President , by the time of or perhaps before the DNC convention.. Considering his legal battles, his treasonous open border actions/China involvement, lack of sufficient cognitive ability to function properly, etc. etc. the likelihood of his being nominated for a second term is nil, nada, zilch. I personally believe that this was decided by the DNC as far back as Biden’s inauguration. These are highly calculating, deceitful and abhorrent people who have long ago taken up residence in Abaddon, as Satan’s minions of doom. Biden has been the fall guy for these prevaricating, behind the scenes puppeteers, who have succeeded so well in “fundamentally transforming” our great Republic. They are now finished with Joe(and Kamala as well) and now have the opportunity to reveal their successor’s. The only possible options for them are Shillary, Michelle or Gavin. Their number #1 pick would be Michelle, especially considering that the democrats have been losing a significant number of the black vote. Having said all this however, my greatest concern is whether Trump will actually be the Republican candidate, come November 2024. The Globalist Deep State is more powerful than most people can even comprehend. They will stop at nothing, and may well be successful in taking him out, prior to the election by whatever means necessary. They have made it to the 20 yard line, reaching their goal is now within their grasp and are resolute in reaching it. This will be by far, the most important election in our history, as well as the most turbulent year, unlike any other we have experienced in our generation.
FESTUS
A most thoughtful reply. I would not be surprised if there is a nominee other than Syracuse Joe.
Well spoken, Festus, but your belief in a globalist deep state is off the mark. If there is such an entity, you can be sure that Republicans are involved just as much as Democrats.
Many have been saying that for a very long time. What is likely happening in the GOP is the blossoming of the effort and message of Ross Perot. His campaign represented the first real revolt against the political establishments and was extraordinary for its depth of information broadcasting. The impact was felt first by GHB.
Yes Nat, the deep state encompasses both sides of the aisle. Thats why we see little action on the border, continued funding being pushed for the Ukraine etc.I would love to see the dirty money bank deposits/ sources thereof, of our politicians. Just at the surface level,we see a lot of pockets being filled. Take AOC, when she arrived in DC she was complaining about not being able to afford an apartment( on at the time a salary of $175,000) now she is worth 29 million. Its all about serving oneself over serving the constituents in the DC Septicus Tankus
No question that Joe Biden is a terrible president and handing the reins over to China who also happens to be in bed with Russia and Iran. For all the complaining the left does about Russia, they are making Russia, China, and Iran very wealthy. Remember the lies about Trump being in bed with Russia that we all suffered through for years from the left and our deceptive media, but the people really helping these countries are Biden and the far left. Biden could very well become our next president because far too many people in this country are feeding off of his administration like the schools.
Well said! As always( no exceptions) the regressive left always accomplishes the opposite of their stated intent.
Almost got it right, what the Democrat Party does is put what they are actually doing on the Republicans so people won’t investigate them This tactic has been going on since Clinton
You are correct. They have become( with of course help from the blamestream media) madters of this propaganda ploy. Their linguistic con artistry never ceases to amaze
If China is in bed with Russia and Iran then we damn well better ensure that we are maintaining a strong NATO.
Today’s Humour:
From iBerkshires (reg. Wahconah Park)
“He [Commissioner on Historical Commission] read aloud historical documentation that describes the circa 1950 Wahconah Park grandstand as a simple structure consisting of mostly steel. It states that “the spare utilitarian lines mirror its New England heritage, a functional building set in a beautiful set in beautiful surroundings of mountains, lakes, rivers, and wooded expanses, all of which are in scale with the humankind who lives there.”
If 1950 is a historic structure, then every house in Morningside, Allengate neighborhood should get a plaque. Spare utilitarian lines, um, maybe he meant to say ‘economical?’
Waconah Park was originally built for baseball. This new version is not for baseball (even though the promoters are selling it to the public as such) But if it were, then the people building a 40 plus million dollar stadium, paid for with taxpayer dollars, should be tarred and feathered. No one in their right mind would build a 40 million dollar ball park for the likes of the teams Pittsfield attracts, on a swamp loaded with mosquitos and in a neighborhood only the stout of heart dare to even pass through.. It would be beyond stupid, even for a Pittsfield mayor.
While this will be sold to the taxpayers as a baseball park, the reality is that it will be used for a wide assortment of activities probably the LEAST of which will be baseball. And while the taxpayers will be paying for it for the next three generations, they will also be ponying up at least another half million per year for upkeep, fireworks and promotional material.
But the cherry in the deal, outside of contractors who get to build it out, (probably without any bidding process) will be the elaborate food court vendor who will reap nice rewards for sure. And this vendor probably already knows who he or she is and is licking his or her chops. Ask Jim Bouton what brought his deal down. Posthumously of course.
This is simply the Civic Authority crowd coming back and shoving their ideas down Pittsfields throat and making the taxpayer pay
The ONLY reason millions will vote for Biden is because the only other choice is Trump. They would rather not have Biden but they know Trump is far scarier. It is a choice of bad and worse. The republicans have about ten other people they could run against Biden that would beat him. But alas, they are going with the guy with a mile of stinking baggage. Go figger huh?
Blumin or Bandini?
You must have not been alive when Trump was President.
To your point, it did not feel like being alive. And his insurrection was no picnic either.
If your insurrection lasts more than 4 hours, call your doctor.
Good advice. Are insurrections covered by insurance?
incorrect again, look at Pelosi and the FBI who had over 200 employees egging on the mass
If Trump had ever been president, we would be living in a dictatorship now!
Most of his baggage is made up by the main stream media and the democrat party They do not want an outsider in the Swamp. Only known Presidential Candidate that was spied on by the sitting President
Once the Chinese demographic bomb hits, their diplomatic prowess will be for not. Just follow Peter Zeihan and you will understand.
Zeihan presents compelling analyses. His big flaw, though, is that the first (diplomacy) will occur well before the second (demos)
Good point Dan, but I do wonder if the Chinese are releasing real data or polished data…time will tell. By the way, I hope you do an update on Wahconah Park…I wonder what the real story is there.
Real story for WP is fatter budgets for Parks, $15 million bond, cost overruns, and the public pays to subsidize all the expenses of the Park.It will not generate revenues for the city. It’ll be like the Airport which negotiated a 500 year fixed rate contract for fueling jets ensuring the airport runs a deficit and lives on the taxpayer.
Finally: 50 years from today they will tear it down and build a new one.
they are watching us destroy ourselves
They are doing it. I have seen their presence (physical) in our schools. The only way out is to renew the teaching of our history starting at the earliest age and through high school. If your child’s school does not teach it, then parents have an obligation to self-teach and pull the student out. It’s doing that or lose your child to the psychopaths.
As long as the PPS follows the insane “woke” agenda, a prime example of which is the emphasis on identity politics (all the trans, drag queen, etc. bullshit), American history will remain in the dustbin. And has anyone noticed that since Marky Maypo became mayor, the gender hogwash has been amplified, and not just in the schools. The case is MM:OG/STTC (Marky Maypo: “Openly Gay/Slipped Through the Cracks”). Remember this code. MM:OG/STTC. Your life may depend on it, as Captain Midnight used to warn us.
I’m serious though. They are alienating children from their parents deliberately.
They are effectively working toward the complete capture of the minds of the children so much so,that this next generation will soon be fully accepting of this woke ideologic insanity as the norm, causing further detrimen to the nuclear family which is already on life support.
Watch the 1980’s movie, The Killing Fields, about the reeducation camps of PolPot. Children separated from parents and taught to hate them.
Doesn’t Scientology do that as well?
Yes.
Like I said above, they don’t want the imposition of a R or L agenda, they want to instigate internal dissent.
You guys are missing the point. What Russia and China want is our internal conflict and dissent, not the imposition of a R or L agenda.
We cannot use 1930’s European political language to describe USA which experiences a conflict between traditional patriotism based on founding American principles, politically neutral groups versus an anarchist and communist power center that is well funded and committed.
‘R/L agenda’ are not definable terms. Left equates with communism – that holds. Communists are stronger than ever today here and abroad. Their agenda: seize by ballot and force political offices, social institutions, and direct business activities. R: what is that? Franco? Did Mussolini persist in American politics? A convincing argument states that the Nazi Party, dispersed from Germany after WWII, insinuated itself into our political institutions and throughout South America by adopting the politically correct language of the Left. After WWII, there were only Good Germans left.
Book recommendation , Blood Money by Peter Schweitzer : why the Powerful turn a blind eye while China kills Americans is a good read fentanyl and covid connections are pretty chilling
Add to it Red Cocaine. Gives a well footnoted history behind the Communist Iron Curtain nations policy of drugging America. It helps not to consider drug addiction as a mental health disease but as a casualty.
The Republican party will rewrite your history.
Right you are, RK. And idiots like the current city government, led by the two biggest in the mayor and CC president, are loving it.
The Berkshire Eagle proudly crowing that Drag Queen Story hour is now in the Berkshires. Is everybody happy about this?
Psychopathic.
Why aren’t parents and citizens at the net school board meeting and CC meeting with pitchforks, tar, and feathers? If the nascent citizen watchdog group is ever to be effective, this is the issue it needs, tailor made, to get on the map and make noise.
I would be if I had children there. Parents are tuned out.
They were at Berkshire Pride’s Depot location, but it’s story hour for small children. If adults want to do this, then that’s their right, but I don’t understand making tiny children a part of this. They will say it’s to make them more accepting of people in drag, but what about the children being exposed to this and their feelings? They are reading a children’s book that tells of a boy who loves all the things society decided were meant for girls. The little boy in the Berkshire Eagle picture looks just confused by it all.
Pat:
The little boy in the Berkshire Eagle picture looks just confused by it all.
Confusing the minds of children is the goal of the gender confused adults so it becomes acceptable in their young minds.
Yes, he looks incredibly sad. It’s abuse.
It is a satanic message. Meant to violate nature, common sense, and designed to confuse the vulnerable. In short, corruption.
Back in the day much of the bullying was directed at the more flamboyant boys. Parents might want to think twice about sending Johnny to school in pink tights.
And I say this to be helpful.
Yes. That bullying was likewise cruel and intolerable.
The social intolerance to homophobia is a positive gain from the 1980’s.
Most likely fear and oppression. The culture imposed by psychopaths running our schools is pervasive. Kids abuse their parents who set limits and the schools become the ‘safe place’ to flaunt them.
When parents challenge them the school admin will libel them in writing accusing them of interference homophobia or whatever. Parents actually have consider the principals siccing a protective order on them.
They can read to whoever they want, just stay away from the children. Thank god not many people read The Eagle.
Yes stop gas lighting. They’re harmless. Why hasn’t anyone said anything about the clean up in February of Gulf of Mexico where 1.1 Million gallons of crude were dumped due to a faulty pipeline?
Classic liberal modus operandi, insult, give no substantive response, then change the subject. Truth/facts/ substantive debate are never found in the regressive leftists playbook
Definitely. The changing of the subject is the rule.
Now we know what Rutberg did in his chambers when he was a judge
These drag queen folk seem to have a lot of clout in Pittsfield. Maybe they should be the ones to step up and insist on a forensic audit. Maybe White and Marchetti would listen to them.
By the way, is it true that George Santos is going to be quest speaker at the next council meeting?
Prolly descendants of the child-molestation ring that ran amok for decades (or is that a city myth?); it may even be an offshoot of the still-active brand. Lots of big names were/are allegedly involved. But this is Pittsfield. Nothing to see there, folks.
Next time you hear Biden say things are great now under his administration. Check out these facts.
https://www.bidenomics.com/
The Chinese rise to power started when the bi-patisian two corrupt parties in our Congress opened pandoras box when they agreed on the China Free Trade Ageement…….how about we hold Congress responsible for the problem they created? All the creatures and corporations tied to DC got rich and are still getting rich. Cheap labor was just the starting point to dominating for them.
Better ask China to revoke the 16 trademarks it gave to Ivanka Trump’s fashion company.
I will , after you tell me what PRODUCT (s) Hunter was selling to enrich himself and family in China with.
Probably mining/manufacturing rights in our natural preservations.
One day the Berkshire Eagle will tell the public the history of 1/6/2021 ,but for now they pretend him to not be a traitor.
They will never tell how Pelosi and the Democrats set all those innocent people up and sent them to jail!!
Give it a rest
March 4, 2024
Re: Governor Maura Healey’s ongoing social cuts and inequitable financial policies
The Boston Globe published a news story today explaining that Governor Maura Healey’s proposed fiscal year 2025 Massachusetts state budget (a) cuts social services funding that helps compulsive gamblers who live a life of addiction(s) and distress, and (b) doubles the state’s gambling marketing budget that would attract new gamblers. What the news story does not explain is that on a policy level, gambling is a regressive taxation scheme targeted at the mostly financially illiterate and policy ignorant low- to moderate-income residents of the commonwealth.
Earlier this year, Governor Maura Healey cut $375 million in state funding to social services agencies and other programs that help people and communities in need of assistance. Last Fall 2023, she signed into state law a huge tax cut that disproportionately favors the wealthy in Massachusetts.
In 2022, did Governor Maura Healey campaign on any or all of decisions that treats the people like a doormat, while treating the wealthy like gold? Answer: No. To be clear, Governor Maura Healey is a big PHONY!
The following is what happens when someone such as Governor Maura Healey serves the elites instead of the people: The greedy lobbyists in Boston only see MONEY. Gambling takes from the poor and redistributes the MONEY to the rich. The career politicians receive big dollar campaign donations from the gambling industry and other big businesses, which makes state elections non-competitive (because MONEY matters instead of democracy to the elites). The greedy lobbyists use the gambling and other regressive revenues to get millions of dollars more in state tax breaks for their big business clients. The elites all cash in at the public trough.
What is the problem here? The answer is that most regions of Massachusetts do not host the elites like the wealthy Boston area does. To illustrate, in my native hometown of Pittsfield (Mass.), there are little to no big businesses there like there are in Boston. Instead, Pittsfield hosts social services agencies, not-for-profit agencies, state lottery tickets, and so on. The benefits of inequitable financial public policies that boosts Boston have the opposite impact in Pittsfield.
Jon Melle
Strong argument, JM
While the stock market closed 2023 on a high note, capital gains distributions were paltry. That had to be disappointing for states like Taxachusetts that feel a need to tax such income twice as much as ordinary income. The market is inflated like everything else.
IBerkshires: Millionaires Tax was bait and switch.
“McCandless said part of the problem for local school districts is that education distribution from the “millionaires tax” Massachusetts voters approved in 2022 has been, “disappointingly small to those of us who advocated vociferously for that new tax.”
McCandless said there is a case to be made that the surtax on income over $1 million approved at the polls was, “a bit of a bait and switch.”
Speaking of China……anyone else following the suspicious death of Angela Chao, sister of Elaine Chao the former Sec. of Transportation?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/international-intrigue-ranch-texas-angela-chao-story/
Well, it’s logical isn’t it? She was an expert in boats and shipping.
More suspicious Chinese deaths.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5602971/Real-Bodies-Exhibition-cadavers-come-Chinese-political-prisoners.html
I think all deaths in China are suspicious.