2026 is the 250 anniversary of the igniting the flame of our Republic. It is a good year to celebrate it.

President Trump needs to give a complete overhaul to our educational system in this country. Randi Weingarten is on “X” spreading more lies and conspiracy theories and NEVER spoke up once about what is being done in the schools with the transitioning of very young children. Randi Weingarten is a big part of the problem of the “woke agenda” in the school system. Young girls especially are being misled into thinking they are getting a good education in our school system when in fact they are being extremely indoctrinated to believe in the “woke culture”.

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Kamala and Nancy both could use a bath.

The school system in this country is the “Belly of the Beast” of spreading the woke culture and messing up the youth of this country. Young men were big Trump supporters in this election so they have been able to think their way out of the indoctrination, but young women were crying and needed to be coddled after the defeat of Kamala Harris. It just shows how they really believed the narrative being spread by the schools and the media about Trump. Young men don’t want to have to live with their parents for the rest of their lives and realized that is what would happen with rising housing prices if Kamala was elected.

Hollywood has it own role in spreading the woke culture. Sell-outs like Bruce Springsteen who used to write songs about the struggles of the working man is now somebody who doesn’t care what is happening to the working people of our country. He is a very wealthy man who lives in the “bubble”. That describes all of the Hollywood stars. Kamala spent over a billion dollars to try to win this race, but working class people have had the final say and Trump will make the next four years and beyond a “golden age” for the working class. The far left is throwing the misogynist label at Hispanic men for voting for Trump, but we have moved beyond name calling in this country and want common sense to rule the day.

Democrats :
Trump “shouldn’t be President: He’s a misogynist, rapist, felon, impeached twice, bigot, etc.. and his “hateful plans for retribution and dictatorship.”

Yet somehow the Democrat Party as a whole can have and do have the same characteristics (except for impeachment) , and it’s all Ok.

If they went after many of the actual democrat criminals on the left with the same self-righteousness fervor as they do for fake crimes and hoaxes perpetuated on the right, this would very likely be a different country – for the better.

November 09, 2024

Hello, again, Governor Maura Healey,

I am being bullied on the blog named Planet Valenti for defending your great leadership in Massachusetts. I am also being bullied because I always write how disgraced Pittsfield (Massachusetts) State Senator (1997 – 2006) Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior has conspiratorially persecuted me – Jon Melle – for the past 28.5 years of my adult life of 49 years.

First, I support you because you are a good person and politician who treats everyone with dignity, compassion and justice. I believe that you represent the ideals of what the U.S.A. should be, while I see Donald Trump as a bully that many people fear.

Second, Nuciforo has hurt me on many levels for a very long time now. Nuciforo has:

1. Nuciforo had people in “the Nuciforo network” conspiratorially bully me since I was 20 years old when I unfortunately first met him during the Spring 1996 when my dad, Bob, campaigned for the elected position of Berkshire County Commissioner (1997 – mid-2000).

2. Nuciforo filed multiple state “ethics” complaints to several Massachusetts state agencies against my dad, Bob, from the Fall 1997 – Spring 1998 to try to get my dad fired from his then state job at the Pittsfield District Courthouse and make his resign his elected office, but Nuciforo’s vindictive actions did not succeed against my father back then. (Please note, then North Adams Mayor and sitting State Representative John Barrett III spoke up in defense of my dad, Bob, back then – Thank You!).

3. Nuciforo filed secretive criminal complaints against me – Jon Melle – in the Spring 1998 to the Pittsfield Police Department falsely alleging that I was making “veiled threats” against him, but it was Nuciforo who was threatening me for 2 years back then, and Nuciforo’s vindictive actions did not succeed against me – Jon Melle – back then.

4. Nuciforo blacklisted me from employment in the beautiful Berkshires when I was a young man in the late-1990’s and early-2000’s. For over one year of my adult life (Spring 2002 – Spring 2003), I walked around my native hometown of Pittsfield job seeking without any success.

5. Nuciforo and “the Nuciforo Network” spread vicious and half-truths rumors against me – Jon Melle – even after I relocated to Southern New Hampshire around 21.5 years ago now.

Nuciforo’s corrupt history as a politician, Attorney, and pot King include:

1. In January 2007, The Boston Globe published a news story that explained that from 1999 – 2006, then State Senator Nuciforo was allegedly illegally double dipping as the Chair of the State Senate Finance Committee and at the same time, he was a private Attorney for Boston’s big banks and insurance companies. In 2006, Nuciforo had to step down as a disgraced State Senator because he was a corrupt politician and Attorney. To this present day in late-2024, Nuciforo still has a law office in Boston’s Financial District. Nuciforo got away with enriching himself via corruption.

2. During the 2006 state election for Middle Berkshire Registrar of Deeds, there were two women running for the elected seat, who are named Sharon Henault, who worked at the Pittsfield Registry of Deeds, and Sara Hathaway, who is a former one-term Pittsfield Mayor (2002 – 2003). Nuciforo strong-armed the two women candidates out of the election to anoint himself to the no-show sinecure (2007 – 2012). In 2012, Nuciforo campaigned for U.S. Congress, but lost to PAC Man Richie Neal by 40 points back then. Thank God (especially for me – Jon Melle), Nuciforo’s corrupt and mean-spirited political career came to an end back then.

3. In March 2017, Nuciforo co-founded his marijuana business that he named “Berkshire Roots”. Nuciforo was one of the first people to receive a pot permit(s) in Pittsfield back then. Later, Nuciforo opened a second marijuana dispensary in east Boston whereby, once again, he used his political connections and deep pockets to be one of the first people to receive a pot permit back then. Earlier this year 2024, Nuciforo settled his pot lawsuit with the City of Pittsfield, and Nuciforo walked away with $341,000 from the city’s coffers. Nuciforo knew full well what he was doing when he paid for his pot permits, but he became greedy and won $341,000 from the very city government his once corruptly served in Boston.

4. In August 2023, Nuciforo purchased a $950,000 mansion in Pittsfield’s elitist Gated Community west of Berkshire Community College. Also, Nuciforo is a landlord who owns properties in Boston and Pittsfield alike. Nuciforo is a millionaire who worships money and power, and he hurts anyone – especially me: Jon Melle – who stand in his way of winning at any cost.

5. Lastly, Nuciforo had/has a lawsuit in Suffolk (Boston) Superior Court whereby he is trying to make it illegal for workers to join and belong to unions in the marijuana industry in Massachusetts. While Nuciforo has always said that he is a Democrat, even his hometown daily newspaper named The Berkshire Eagle once wrote that he is a fiscal conservative.

In closing, while I believe that I am persecuted person on this otherwise cruel world, I see you as a warm light of decency and democracy, Maura Healey, and as the Governor of Massachusetts, you have my full support, especially when it comes to your resistance of Donald Trump’s cruel plans to hurt innocent Peoples and people who the government is supposed to be serving with dignity and respect.

Best regards,

Jonathan A. Melle
Veteran

November 09, 2024

Re: Rinaldo’s Republican letter

Rinaldo Del Gallo III’s letter is a study of Republican Party talking points. FDR’s New Deal programs helped the common people 8 to 9 decades ago, but it was WW2 that brought the U.S. economy out of the Great Depression. How Rinaldo omits this crucial fact shows that his understanding of history is limited.

Joe Biden’s presidential term saw 40-year high U.S. inflation that caused economic pain to the common people. Biden printed somewhere around 15 trillion dollars out of thin air and onto government computer screens, as well as borrowed trillions of dollars; the U.S. National Debt is around $36 trillion . Biden and the Democrats in the Swamp never adjusted federal spending back to pre-pandemic levels.

The Democratic Party and its wealthy financial backers understood that Biden would lose to Donald Trump in 2024. So they forced Biden to drop-out, and replaced him with his Vice President, Kamala Harris. From the beginning of her 2024 presidential campaign, Harris said that she was the underdog and it would take a lot of hard work for her to defeat Trump.

Despite what Rinaldo wrote, Donald Trump is a fascist who admires the EVIL Adolf Hitler. It is understood that MAGA really stands for Nazi. Project 2025 is a road-map to authoritarianism that will destroy our U.S.A.’s democracy.

Rinaldo wrote about identity politics, but it is Donald Trump that is the one who uses cultural conflict and violence for his own gain. Does Rinaldo think that someone such as myself – Jon Melle – is supposed to give up my identity as a person who lives in the disability community at the VA and in society alike?

Rinaldo wrote that the Democratic Party stands for censorship, but he did not give us examples of how we are the victims of censorship by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, etc.

Rinaldo wrote that the Democratic Party was once for peace and anti-Vietnam War. In 1968 alone when LBJ was the U.S. President, over 1 million Vietnamese People were killed by the U.S. Armed Forces. Protesters marched by The White House back then chanting, “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many more did you kill today?”. Did Rinaldo forget that LBJ was a Democrat?

Rinaldo Del Gallo III is wrong on the Democratic Party – past and present. I have questioned Rinaldo’s involvement with so-called “Free Speech” political movements and his failed legal defense of far right political activists. I am happy that he likes Bernie Sanders of Vermont, but there is more to Rinaldo’s politics than his support for the old-man Socialist U.S. Senator who owns 3 homes.

Jonathan A. Melle

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Letter: “Of course the Democrats lost”
The Berkshire Eagle, November 9, 2024

To the editor: For years, I have been lamenting the shift of the Democratic Party from economic progressivism to identity politics.

Worse, there has been a decadelong focus — with a few brief and fleeting exceptions — on how rotten and evil the political opposition was. “Lawfare” became a term in the American lexicon. It resulted in lawn signs saying “I’m voting for the felon.” Jan. 6, 2021, was sold not merely as a riot by some but a full-blown effort to have a literal coup d’etat.

As America’s economy was reeling from the ravages of COVID, we were barraged with hearings and news stories about Jan. 6. We Democrats stopped being the party that said “it’s the economy, stupid” of the Clinton era to become the “the Republicans are fascist” of the Biden era. The legislative accomplishments were few, while big corporate donors enabled Vice President Kamala Harris to vastly outspend Trump. I remember going to Bernie Sanders’ rallies; they weren’t long laments about identity politics, they were about economic progressivism.

What made the modern Democratic Party was the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt. It turned the party from the party of slavery to the party of economic progressivism. The New Deal saved people from the Great Depression. The famous economist John Maynard Keynes is often recognized as the intellect behind the New Deal. He had such an influence on American political economic policy, decades later conservative economist Milton Freedman, adviser to Richard Nixon, said “We are all Keynesians now.” Joe Biden did have his “Build Back Better,” but it never really happened.

The party once against censorship became one of its staunchest defenders. The party of peace and anti-Vietnam War sentiment has become the party of jingoism and multibillion-dollar interventionism. We Democrats made it nearly impossible to appear on the ballot in the Democratic Primary (as Robert F. Kennedy showed us), lied about Biden being competent, were caught when he miserably failed in a debate and then literally presented a candidate that had not garnered a single primary vote. Harris literally campaigned on a platform that Trump was going to be a fascist dictator, as if the American public had the memory of a goldfish. When asked softball, predictable questions about how she planned to differ from Biden (who has low favorability ratings), she whiffed. Of course we lost.

Rinaldo Del Gallo, Pittsfield
The writer has been a delegate to numerous Democratic state conventions.

All you need to know…..

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/trump-effect-u-s-economy-world-power-rise/

Prices Thanksgiving 2019. How much have we lost.