THE GIFT OUTRIGHT … A NEW SUPER … HITCHCOCK DIRECTS … AND A GREAT WEEKEND
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION MAY 16-8, 2025) — Several UFOs were spotted circling THE PLANET. Our crack team directed them in for landing. Here they be:
The Gift Outright–It’s a sign of how desperate Democrats have become when you see them raising a stink about the “bribe” President Trump accepted from Quatar, a new 747 that will retrofitted to serve as Air Force One. If you look about 1/4″ under the headlines, however, you see that the Arab country did not make a gift to Trump. They gave the jet to the U.S. Department of Defense. The President merely accepted on behalf of the nation. Why wouldn’t Trump accept this $500 million gift, or would people have taxpayers cough up the $$$? Sorry. Sorry, but there’s no “story” there.
New Super–As many predicted, the sochkawfuloo kumitee selected Latifah Phillips for the post of interim superintendent of school in the city. Phillips will take over amidst an ongoing scandal involving drugs, pedophila, and Lord knows what else that has yet to surface. In her interview, she said that just because the reports did not find credible evidence to sustain allegations against PHS administration and staffers, it doesn’t clear them. The accused may be guilty as charged. That’s a good start. The courts can have their presumption of innocence, but the streets and corridors … well, that’s another story. Many have been quick to jump on her as a DEI hire, but that will come out or not in her ACTIONS. Meanwhile, THE PLANET advises to let her do the job and see what comes of it. Phillips comes with some impressive credentials compared to outgoing Jumpin’ Joe Curtis, who has an online certificate from a diploma mill. This HAS to be a step up.
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Hitchcock Directs–A name in recent news has been Michael Hitchcock, who has upped his game as a warrior for social justice. THE PLANET knows Hitch, and while we may not agree with all his positions, we applaud how he has taken his responsibilities as a citizen seriously. Michael is an articulate, sincere, passionate advocate in the public arena, and we bestow upon him the title of Supercitizen. Yes, he is every bit as much of one as others upon whom we have given the honors. Supercitizen ranks second only to THE PLANET‘s Coveted Orbit Award. Bitchfield is fortunate to have him in the mix.
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Maybe the first thing the new superintendent will do is to reopen the investigation of the PHS scandal and get everything out in the open. Everything! If she does she gets instant credibility.
But sadly, one of the criteria for getting the job was probably to promise on a thick Bible NOT to ever discuss that awful made up, phony, never happened, witch hunt scandal again with anyone, any time, anywhere.
EVER!!!
That’s been the first criteria for anyone hired to public office in Bitchfield: Dummy Up. Second is Shut Up. Third is Don’t Look Behind the Curtain. In other words, Play Ball or we ruin you.
Please listen to the new Superintendent’s words.
https://www.wamc.org/news/2025-05-15/pittsfield-school-committee-taps-phillips-to-take-over-interim-superintendent-role-as-curtiss-departure-looms
Hitchcock is a phony IMHO. He masquerades as a social justice warrior but what he’s really doing is making sure he doesn’t have to get a real job.
Then he fits in with the rest of them in Pittsfield politics!
Agree with this assessment.
Speaking of Hitchcock, one of his posse called for wild Bills removal from the school committee and another to defund the cops. Refer some of the defund money to homeless programs.
Yeah, about that gift of the
plane. An issue only because of Trump accepting it.
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/05/16/senator-markwayne-mullin-just-tossed-a-wrench-into-the-media-freak-out-over-trumps-qatar-plane-n2189165
Maybe violent protesting is the way to go like at the last city council defund police seminar
Great article OP.
Kufflinks will make darn sure for the umpteenth year in a row we have a good interest rate on something. Amusing will bark about how they’ll have to tighten our belts Next Year. And Lumpy will tell us how the budget is hard to fund not knowing what the fed money will be like but he’ll try to make it as painless as possible.
I’d really like to hold out hope that Latifah Phillips will right the ship, but her DEI background and all of the repeated DEI failures like Da Dancin’ Dean, tell me otherwise.
If she is to do that, she needs to remove the liberal indoctrination from PHS.
Kids need to be able to read, write, and have basic math skills at their appropriate grade levels.
Kids do not need to know their teachers/administrators private dating lives.
Kids do not need to hear about TDS from teachers.
Teach math, not lecture kids on democracy being stolen because Trump won’t allow mentally ill boys masquerading as girls, play in women’s sports.
**Kids need to learn to read and comprehend what they just read and be able to articulate it properly. Not be social media influencers during class.
*White males are not the enemy, contrary to the “Cultural Competency Coach,” and her racial hatred of them masked as educating or “social justice” teachings.
IMO it’s not a matter of can Latifah do this. It’s a matter of will she do this?
Time will tell.
One last thought, you know Kufflinks Kerwood was salivating like Pavlov’s dog, when KK heard Latifah lacked any financial management experience.
I’s sure Kifflinks will”teach” her.
Well said, MARK. Performance and action, not words. A great start would be an overhaul of the curriculum, reinstalling the basics. Get rid of all the other feel-good and political indoctrination crud.
Get rid of the computers first. Back to basics means long form learning. Can only be done practically on paper with pencil.
Dave is missed.
Latifah reminds me of the New Orleans female Chief of Police whose resume is full of DEI crap. Ten of her dangerous inmates just broke out of prison. She knows how to “promote equity” but no clue as to how to recapture the escaped prisoners.
No clue how to protect her city from a recent out-of-control terrorist driver who killed pedestrians.
Does Latifah’s resume, also full of DEI crap, have anything to do with her new responsibilities of overseeing a large school district with an equally large budget?
Good questions, LEN. Only time will tell. I will say that Latifah doesn’t have much of it. The district, even though The Suits are reluctant to admit it, is in free fall. It eats 75% of the city budget to produce failure. The new super must get out of the gates fast. No 90 days for her. A month, tops.
Former FBI Director James Comey has posted a picture of seashells formed to say “8647” and supposedly found in the sand and admitting that it is political, but Comey had to post it anyway. Comey said he assumed it was a political message and not a violent one. Really? With his former high FBI position there is no doubt that he knows what it means to “86” someone and President Trump is our 47th president. Comey will be under investigation for calling for the assassination of President Trump. This is so disgusting coming from this former FBI director.
Comey for prison, ASAP!
Deserves the General Flynn treatment. First jail him, then charge him with high crimes, and then bring as evidence his tweets. “You follow X who follows Y who has a friend who follows J who follows Z who is a known terrorist.” Therefore you are one hell of a dangerous man.
May he rot for 2 decades behind bars living in a Kafka novel.
Lock em up!