BATORY GETS THE BEST OF CHAIR LUMPY IN WITHERING PERFORMANCE ON BEHALF OF CITIZENS
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION MAY 1-3, 2026) — Today and for the weekend, THE PLANET takes you to the movies. Now, it’s not our upcoming Stanley Kubrick Film Festival. It’s a tape of the most recent meeting of Revenge of the Nerds, otherwise known as the April 29 gathering of the city school committee.
Let’s get right to the chase. You can skip the dreadfully boring opening and fast-forward to 31:55. That’s when you will see The Only Elected Public Official Who Gives A Spit go to work, Ciara Batory.
At 31:55, Batory begins to question Mayor-Chair Lumpy, bringing forth questions citizens have asked her to ask. In the process, she takes the chair to the woodshed over the Lump’s shady maneuver to illegally rescind an earlier vote (February) to release to the public a redacted version of the PHS scandal report.
Taxpayers paid two connected ex-judges $155,000 to do the investigation. You can be reasonably sure though not certain they furnished the recipes by cooking the books. Nonetheless, despite the suspected sanitization, for some reason, Lumpy is terrified to let The Kapanskis–citizens, the public, taxpayers, We The People, owners of government– see the report.
Batory holds the floor until 51:04 of the meeting — almost 20 minutes of the best political theater we’re likely to see this year. The link of the PCTV broadcast is below.
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Batory’s brilliant performance rates up there with other legendary public hurricanes, including the time Mayor P.J Moore pole vaulted naked into a packed council chambers, as well as when councilors Jim McCaffrey and Peter Arlos staged their re-enactment of Jake LaMotta v. Floyd Patterson.
“You can’t make your own rules,” Batory thundered to a rattled mayor. “I’m not going to play this game.” Repeatedly, she asked when the dancing, dodging chair when the committee would release the report. “You’re abusing your position as chair. Stop protecting these people [named in the document]. Release the report.” Those attending applaud.
At about 44 minutes into the meeting, a discomposed Lumpy surrenders the chair. Vice chair Heather McNiece takes over. And the band played “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.”
Another interesting exchange occurs when Sara “Twenty Muil Team” Muil apologizes to Batory for her February vote to approve releasing the report.
Huh?
Twenty gives the pathetic excuse that she was new to the committee at that time, fresh off the turnip truck apparently, and didn’t understand Roberts Rules of Order. She’s admitting that in her vote, she DIDN’T KNOW WHAT SHE WAS DOING! Rather than accept the apology, an incredulous Batory understandably asks why Twenty did not study the rules before taking her position on the committee. Amateur Hour.
Muil states that it’s the committee’s job “to work together as a team.”
Batory corrects her, (paraphrasing) “No. Our job is to represent citizens.”
Game. Set. Match.
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In sum, Batory gave a performance for the ages, passionately speaking on behalf of the bedraggled Kapanskis.
Finally.
Watch for yourself. Go to 31:55 and continue to 51:05.
Click this link.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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May 01, 2026
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
Pittsfield politics is corrupt. The 6-figure, taxpayer-funded legal report on the alleged school scandals remains hidden from the general public. The Pittsfield School Committee recently unanimously voted to close Morningside Elementary School, which includes the vote of one Ciara Batory. They are dealing with a $4 million school budget deficit in the 2026 – 2027 academic year.
Pittsfield’s public schools have Level 5 ratings. 679 students chose to choice out to neighboring public school districts in the 2025 – 2026 academic year. Enrollment numbers in the Pittsfield public schools are always diminishing. The new faculty turnover rate is around one to three years.
Pittsfield has the 2nd highest Commercial Tax Rate in Massachusetts; Holyoke is 1st. Pittsfield spends tens of millions of dollars per fiscal year more than its peer similarly sized small cities. To illustrate, Westfield spends over $62 million LESS than Pittsfield per fiscal year 2026.
Pittsfield’s close to $1 billion in municipal debts plus unfunded liabilities will be paid off by Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, “Jon Melle the have-NOT”, Kufflink’s cooked books, Lumpy’s financial expertise, Jimmy Ruberto’s Rolodex, Nuciforo’s marijuana millions of dollars, and all of the Fortune 500 corporations that are nowhere near the polluted PEDA debacle.
Earl and the 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics pounds, pummels, pulverizes, punishes people’s purses. The aforementioned three stooges are said to be getting ready to propose the city’s elusive fiscal year 2027 municipal budget of up to one-quarter-of-one-billion-dollars. The Mayor still has NOT released his fiscal year 2027 municipal budget proposal that begins in 2 months time on July 01, 2026, while most municipalities in Massachusetts have already done so.
North Street has around 15 empty storefronts. North Street is sarcastically called “Social Services Alley”. The distressed inner-city neighborhoods that surround North Street are called “The Ring of Poverty”. The only economic growth in Pittsfield is in its excessive underclass population.
There is NO MONEY to pay for Pittsfield politics anymore. Don’t you all understand that Pittsfield is really financially insolvent?
It is fun to pretend to put the career politicians in Pittsfield (Mass.) in the toters with wheels and then pretend to throw all of them off of the cliff (Nilan)!
Jon Melle
Jon Melle,
You’re wrong.
The vote was 6-0.
Ciara was not at the meeting, due to an illness.
There’s 7 people on the school committee.
Thank you for clarity my error.
Ciara Batory did not vote with the rest of the School Committee to close Morningside Elementary School due to her absence that meeting.
I am sorry for my mistake.
I agree with Ciara Batory’s views on the School Committee.
Jon Melle
Follow-up….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG7DKKQgs8Y
Pittsfield politics: Are we willing to pay excessive tax dollars for a local government that is QUESTIONABLE?
Jon Melle
I JUST VOMITED IN MY MOUTH A LITTLE.
Does anyone here actually watch Michael Daly on It’s Pittsfield Tonight? **Seriously asking**
I will give him this. Once in a while he stumbles into a decent point. But let’s not confuse that with credibility. Even a broken clock gets lucky twice a day.
What I do respect is that he says what he thinks. No filter. No hesitation. Fine.
What I do not respect is the complete lack of accountability when he is wrong. And that happens a lot. I have watched him tear people down, good people, based on half baked takes and zero real research. He says he reaches out to all sides, but let’s be honest, that is not what is happening. He picks a lane based on how he feels in the moment and runs with it, consequences be damned.
But the second that energy comes back around, the second he is the topic, or the criticism is not flattering, suddenly it is a problem. Suddenly it is unfair. Suddenly he is the victim.
You cannot build a platform on dishing it out and then fall apart the second it comes back at you. That is not commentary. That is ego with a microphone.
And watching the dynamic between him and Peter Marchetti is almost entertaining. Do you hate each other or are you just playing roles at this point? Because the performative respect is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
At the end of the day, it feels less like journalism and more like theater. And not even good theater. Just loud, messy, and way too confident for how little substance is behind it.
I watch his show on YouTube from my perch in Southern New Hampshire.
He was a musician in a band. He is surprised that Pittsfield doesn’t have a Chamber of Commerce. He points out how high commercial tax rates are in Pittsfield.
He interviewed Lumpy, who hates social media in Pittsfield.
I look forward to listening to his views of Lumpy’s record-breaking municipal budget that starts in 2 months time on July 01, 2026.
VV:
At the end of the day, it feels less like journalism and more like theater.
Now, perhaps people will see why the Planets ‘free information’ cornerstone was set. The truth has no agenda!!!!
Thanks, OPIE.
Another Dan Valenti wannabe.
May 02, 2026
Re: I made an Error about Pittsfield School Committee Member Ciara Batory
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
I was corrected on your awesome blog named Planet Valenti for my error about about my post mentioning Pittsfield School Committee Member Ciara Batory. While the School Committee’s vote to close the poorest and highest needs Morningside Elementary School was unanimous, I learned that Ciara Batory was absent from that meeting when the vote occurred. Indeed, Ciara Batory did not vote to close Morningside Elementary School.
Since then, I have thought about Mayor Peter Marchetti’s disregard for Pittsfield’s underclass population since I publicly apologized for my aforementioned error. I call it Mayor Peter Marchetti’s “War against the underclass” residents of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
While Mayor Peter Marchetti’s controversial past proposals to ban panhandling and homeless residents’ encampments failed, his proposal to close Morningside Elementary School did not. His record-breaking budgets and borrowing for capital projects also marginalizes the people in need of government assistance, which from what I read should be targeted assistance to lift people out of the underclass, but he is doing the opposite.
Being poor should not be a crime, nor should it be a social stigma. I, myself: Jon Melle, have been indigent, on public assistance and social service programs, but fortunately I live in the U.S.A. where U.S. Presidents from George W. Bush, to Barack Obama, to Joe Biden, to Donald Trump, all honor my honorable service by granting me my VA benefits.
I am from Pittsfield (Mass.). I know all about North Street’s woes. From the late-Spring 2002 to the beginning of Summer 2003, when I was 26 – 27 years old – I will turn 51 this Summer 2026, I walked around inner-city Pittsfield seeking employment without any job offers back then. I have been there in the Pitts!
I don’t like that the small city that I grew up, and was poor in as a young man, has become an Oligarchy run by a few privileged people who have no regard for the proverbial “Jon Melle the have-NOT”. Helping people is NOT rocket science, and it there are evidence-based ways to lift people out of the underclass into a rewarding life for generations. What is happening in Pittsfield is WRONG on many levels.
They cannot blame Donald Trump for it all because Pittsfield’s “War against the underclass” has been happening there prior to the Swamp’s significant cuts in federal funding to healthcare, homeless, SNAP, public education, and so on. Yes, Trump’s cuts made a bad situation worse.
I am fortunate to have moved away from Pittsfield (Mass.) to Amherst, NH, 22 years ago. I am also fortunate to receive my VA benefits, too. But please understand, once upon a time, I was there in the Pitts many years ago now. I know all of the privileged people in Pittsfield who live charmed lives, while the common people struggle to stay afloat and even survive in our distressed and severely unequal native hometown.
Best wishes,
Jon Melle
That meeting told on itself.
Peter Marchetti puts a motion on the agenda in Ciara Batory’s name, spends months dodging it, then finally admits it and just… stands there like it’s normal.
Like we didn’t all just watch that.
You don’t borrow someone’s name for a motion like it’s a spare pen. That’s not how this works.
And the second it hit the room, you could feel it shift. That quiet “oh… so that’s what we’re doing now” moment.
Then Heather McNiece grabs the chair and tries to settle everyone down like it’s circle time. Ma’am… this isn’t about tone. That ship already sailed.
And Sara Muil… that wasn’t growth. That was someone realizing way too late that people are actually paying attention.
Because they are.
Not to the performance. To the pattern.
And that’s the part nobody in that room can talk their way out of.
These people are not trustworthy in these roles. And Batory is the only one willing to say it out loud.
She’s going to need backup.
Yes, VAL. Great insight when you mention that it’s “not the performance” but the pattern. The key moment is when, after trying every which way including loose, Batory asks again who put that original motion, in HER name, on the agenda. Finally, Marchetti says, “I did.” With. Game changer. That’s clearly an illegal maneuver, perhaps enough for an impeachment. Too bad it will largely go unrecognized. If we had a legit local daily newspaper, and I’m the managing editor, that’s a Page One, Above the Fold story. It’s rare that such corruption, self-admitted, appears in open session.
To add to that, if you remember during election season in the Scohol Comite race, I said the dark horse was Heather McNiece.
Her family was well connected to the GOBSIG’s and I believe it’s now showing.
They got to her. She’s compromised and not for the regular citizen.
And I do agree with VV, this isn’t 4th grade “time out” Heather.
These are taxpaying citizens, aka-Adults, who want to know what THEIR money was spent on.
A cover-up? Sure seems like it.
I trust a judge to do a fair and impartial investigation, as much as I trust a rookie street cop, to understand and explain case law and how it pertains to a criminal court matter, as an experienced attorney could. .
MARK
I agree. When McNiece took the chair, she seemed timid, afraid to run the meeting. She said her job was to lover the temperature of the room. NOPE! That’ not the chair’s job, especially when one of the members has exposed fraud by another member. Heather looked every bit like someone who had been coached. Barry at least said she would vote for the release of the report … again.
Dan and Val
Forgery isn’t a crime?
Has anyone filed a criminal complaint application?
If not , why? Intimidated?
All criminal complaint hearings are now mandatorily recorded, so evidence of corruption is now available.
A party is also allowed to record the proceedings, to assist in their efforts. If “On The Record” varies , its a violation of 18USC2071-
and further predicate act.
That’s how Trial court entrapped itself, falsifying , altering and destroying government documents, in many of the proceedings against myself, going as far as bribing court stenographer to produce falsified transcripts.
In retaliation, Trial court Trespassed myself from ,Shitsfield Court complex, Hampden Court Complex, Berkshire Distracted Attorneys office, in attempt to silence a Victim, witness of their criminal conduct.
All predicate acts of conspiracy to violate civil rights ,witness intimidation, destruction of evidence 18 USC 241,242 & 2071 respectively.
Because of the scandal , exposed by Boston Globe investigative series “Inside Massachusetts Secret courts”
The conspiracy to conceal and continue felonies by/for elitists ,is much more difficult since our Trial court fiascos.
Additionally it adds tolling time to Trial courts, continued violation of Rights Racketeering Influenced Criminal Organization case.
As I’m not a Shitsfield resident, I have no standing, And know of any resident willing to file complaint. I will gladly assist in filing, and attend via Zoom. Massachusetts G.L. c 271 s 1, is criminal statute.
5/2/26@1:40 pm
Tom
P.S. if you would forward, my contact to Ms. Batory, as the victim, I will gladly assist her.
TB
That’s true.
Dan
Censoring my replies again.
are you protecting Lumpy , from prosectution for his violation of G.L. c 271 s1 Forgery and Counterfeiting Certificate and Other Writings ?
Trial court got your key board?
5/1/26@2;25pm
Tom
TOM
Take a look at what you’re actually saying. Chill, man. Not everyone’s out to “get” you. We DID publish your comments.
This is about the time an article weirdly shows up in the media lauding the great job the mayor is doing and how grateful we should all be for him having offered his services as mayor.
Has Kerwood spelled out to him what the economic picture is going to look like in three months cuz the mayor is not going to be able to raise or collect enough taxes to pay for its needs no matter what.
The costs of heating oil for city buildings and gas for its several hundred vehicles is exploding as we speak and going to get much worse. And that is for starters. Constructions costs for new ballparks and schools etc. is climbing or spiking , pick one.
Enough of the Bitchfield moldy, stale bread and circus routines.
Citizens need to stop buying it.
“The bread is stale, and the circuses are
boring.”
Thanks, Dan!
Now we are asking the only question that actually matters.
What are we going to do about it?
What are we going to do about it?
Because calling it out is step one. Sitting in comment sections nodding at each other is step two. And that is usually where this city stalls out.
We have already seen what happens when people show up. The pushback on the camping ordinance was not small. It was loud, visible, and impossible to ignore. People stood there, did the research, held signs, spoke up, and refused to be quiet. You included. That matters more than most people want to admit.
So let’s not pretend we do not know how to do this.
The difference now is focus.
This is not about left or right. Not anymore. That is the distraction that keeps everyone arguing sideways while decisions get made straight over our heads. This is about being a resident of Pittsfield and deciding that accountability is not optional depending on who you voted for.
What Peter Marchetti admitted about using Ciara Batory’s name is not just a mistake. It is a signal. It shows how comfortable things have become behind the scenes. And the fact that it had to be dragged into the open tells you everything about how often it probably is not.
So what do we do?
We stay on it.
We start showing up at meetings if we haven’t already.
We keep asking the same question until the answer does not change.
We document everything.
We stop letting things disappear after one news cycle.
We support the people willing to say it out loud instead of isolating them for it.
And most importantly, we stop waiting for someone else to fix it.
Because there are more of us than there are of them. There always has been. The only question is whether we act like it.
Yes, VAL. Again, THIS is the story here: “What Peter Marchetti admitted about using Ciara Batory’s name is not just a mistake. It is a signal. It shows how comfortable things have become behind the scenes. And the fact that it had to be dragged into the open tells you everything about how often it probably is not.” After several meetings of Batory telling the committee, telling the mayor, and telling citizens that Marchetti placed an item on the agenda USING BATORY’S NAME, she finally got Marchetti to admit it.
For the umpteenth time, she asked him who put the item on the agenda once again, to reintroduce the vote on releasing the PHS report, after the committee had already VOTED TO RELEASE IT, you hear and see the mayor say “I did.” THAT’s the news. Any self-respecting newspaper would have jumped on this, immediately got over the city hall, and asked the mayor to comment, along with every member of the committee as well as members of the public. It was an admission of fraud, corruption, and, likely, actionable forgery. The sad part is that it just passed by the zombies on the committee, a “ho-hum, so what else is new” parliamentary disaster.
Will We The People act on it?
In my view, not a chance. It’s over in this city … barring an act of divine intervention.
Did Marchetti give a reason why he did it? I would like to hear him say WHY he did it. Might be interesting.
She’ll need Danno and Mcgarrett. Said this before. She’s a lone wolf. She’s good though. She ruffled the interims feathers as well as the bobble headed assistant. Another bobble head?McNieces bobble head is Muilwatch the tape.
The supers assistant was bobble heading before Latifa made her points. Batory clearly ruled the day. The lone wolf doesn’t work in a Pittsfield politics. Gotta have a posse at open mike and attendance at sochol meetings. There is none. Batory is going places if she wants it. Stay he course. Ad she doesn’t have to apologize for the way she talks,acts or ruffle feathers. She works for the taxpayers not the Lumpy administration.
I have not witnessed such a courageous stand against our own local “deep state” since Mr. Terry Kinneis stood up to the mob. We all saw what was done to him. Hope for a different outcome this time.
Ying
CRAIG GAETANI stood against ”
‘GOOD OL BOYS” wastewater treatment fraud, which as he said would be newest cash grab for Shitsfield and Dalton elitists, now being perpetrated.
June 22, 2011 Shitsfield Trail court gestapo officer David Hadley, assaulted Gaetani, to intimidate/silence a victim of Pittsfield Corruption.
Gaetani filed suit Case 3:14-cv-30057- Which Bent District court judge Dennis Saylor- dismissed, to protect his colleague, Professional Curtesy.
Trial court OTR recording of Hadley’s vicious assault upon the victim disappeared.
Hadley assaulted myself, 12/2017, in similar manner, with assistance of two other gestapo officers, when i attempted to file a pleading in criminal complaint application, which was perpetrated exactly the same as Merideath Nilan hit and run. resulting in hospitalization, and continued health concerns to this day.
Seeing the pattern yet?
Until “blue slip” nonsense is junked, the criminals will continue to evade prosecution. Fortunately Massachusetts, has made the list of most corrupt ( SOU address), and JD will soon be rolling up our criminal elitists.
Hubris fortunately is widespread in GOB club, Lumpy is guilty slam dunk.
Seeing the pattern yet?
5/1/26@2:20
Tom
That girl stands tall amongst her peers.
And her “peers”, sitting there with their thumbs up their collective asses, smsug as they may be, are being judged by the students and staff as to their uselessness in critical times of need.
Im not 100% convinced the “voters” mean anything to Lumpy and many others but donations.
Except every two or four years….and even then.
Ahh Mayor bleach white….had him quite flustered. Keep up the good work Ciara.
Keep
You’d be flustered too, had you committed a few felonies recorded and witnessed in public.
If Lumpy hasn’t been arrested yet, we can assume rumors of Timmy and Lumps amorous relations…..
HUBRIS is a great quality, to have in an adversary.
5/2/26@1:50pm
Tom
This is why citizens are very weary of the whole Bitchfield political production system and no longer wish to participate in their stupid games but really, what choice do we have but to continue hoping, against all odds, that something will finally cause the dam to
break?
There was an “emotionally distressed” person that showed up at Morningside School the other day and evidently became violent hurting several young children trying to get on their bus. The principal sends a notice to parents which stated that councilors would be at the school the following day to help any children that were upset/scared. One parent said his little girl was knocked to the ground and is a now afraid to go back to school. Another parent kept their child home the next day. Why weren’t these young children protected? Why does the public not hear a word from Mayor Lackluster Lumpy and Superintendent Queen Latiifah or the Berkshire Eagle? It seems like they are doing anything they can to hide the truth about the out of control City and especially the schools. It’s bad enough that many children are constantly bullied during the school day, but now they don’t even feel safe taking a bus.
The recent School Committee meeting was beyond pathetic. Kudos to Ciarra Batory, the only member with a brain. Sarah Muil is completely lost, really thought Carolyn Barry would be better, she is not, I felt Heather McNeice treated Ciara Batory like a 4th grader and I can’t help but wonder if Heather is attached to Mayor Lackluster Lumpy, why is she afraid of him. To think these elected officials not only don’t understand what they are voting for, they don’t even take the time to read the petition, motion or rules. What the hell are they doing, just feeding their egos? The Mayor should NOT be chairperson, especially if he does not believe in following rules and thinks he can lie to the other members and most importantly he has NO PROBLEM lying to the taxpayers who pay his very inflated paycheck. Had to laugh the other night at his bright red face and quivering lips when confronted by Ciara. Keep it up Ciara, thank you for standing up for us, shame the others don’t do the same.
A while back the Eagle had an article stating firmly that that report should be made public. How do they feel about it now? Seem oddly quiet on the matter. Did they get a talking to?
I’m pretty certain state ethics does not allow serving on two separate gov positions.
But then you have a guy choosing external audits, and heading Treasury. Finance, and property tax.
I was thinking with all the know it alls on here, we could make a fortune on the polymarket. Fritz and Aurelius could make us millions. Now they have candidates betting on their own elections? And winning? Wouldn’t that be akin to insider trading.
These committee members could lose their generous stipends and health insurance should they upset the king in the corner office. He can dismiss them at will or certainly make their life miserable.
By the way, heard the other day that Pittsfield city workers can get the generous health insurance deal when they retire until dead. Is this true and if so how many are there and HOLY SHIT WHAT A DEAL!!!
That’s your OPEB talking. Every hire is a lifetime burden.
Holy crap. Is this the reason many of them crave the position and not that they really give a rats ass about students or the city? That kind of perk might make someone want to toe the corporate line and not rattle any higher-level cages huh?
So what could be a lifetime savings if say a city councilor started in his or her twenties and live to be eighty? A serious chunk of change I would assume. Marchetti’s city portfolio must be substantial as would be his predecessor.
(John Crawford Crosby – Wikipedia)
I’d put Ciara Batory on higher standing than P J Moore and the others you mentioned. She’s right up there with the likes of John C. Crosby, Pittsfield’s 3 Mayor, also serving on the School Committee, as well as a member of the Massachusetts House and Senate, Ma Supreme Court, Ma Superior Court, and City Solicitor. He wrote the city Charter, the same one that Mayor Marchetti rewrote to give the a four year term to the office instead of a two-year term. She is correct though we use to be a nation of laws not men.
Seems to be an increasing power grab going on. Let’s not wait till it gets like the one at the federal level please.
Here’s a playful poem about the famously aloof reporter Joe Dumbwin, who always seems to be everywhere except where the story is:
—
Joe Dumbwin, the Reporter Who Never Quite Reports
Joe Dumbwin strolled into the newsroom late,
Holding yesterday’s paper like it was up‑to‑date.
He said, “I’ve cracked the case!” with a confident grin—
Though no one could tell which case he thought he was in.
He interviews pigeons, mistakes them for sources,
Writes headlines like “City Considers More Horses.”
He once chased a lead that was literally a rope,
And called it “breaking news” with unreasonable hope.
Editors beg him, “Joe, please focus, just try!”
But he wanders off pondering clouds in the sky.
Yet somehow his stories still end up front page—
Mostly because they’re bizarrely on‑brand for this age.
So here’s to Joe Dumbwin, aloof but sincere,
The reporter who’s never quite mentally here.
He may not get scoops or the facts lined in rows—
But he sure keeps the newsroom supplied with good shows.
—
A Dan Valenti wannabe. Old proverb: “When you’re waiting for a train, don’t lay on the tracks.”
Gas Prices About To EXPLODE
Better watch this people
I’d rather gas prices explode versus a possible nuke exploding here. I thought the loons wanted to rid us of fossil fuels and go strictly with wind, solar and electric? Want it both ways as usual. Maybe if they didn’t tax the shit out of a gallon of gas that would help also. Now you have Gore talking about ice age shit .
Be careful you don’t walk out in front of a car with that hood over your head. Ignorance is bliss…but only until it is not.
Just let me know when you’re going to be out and about behind the wheel and then I’ll be just fine.
That’s what I was thinking. Anti-carbonists generally support high gas prices.
Mean really is delusional! He and others didn’t care how this country suffered under Biden. Now they care because orange
man bad.
And they talk like carbonists like me.
Exactly OP. During Autopen’s term, it was the “Putin Price-hike.”
President’s don’t control gas prices, world issues like war (Ukraine) cause this spike.
Remember that A$$clo…I mean, Meanwhile?
Working overtime to protect his oil company billionaire friends and his own personal investment in their industry, trump has hamstrung the alternate energy movement at every turn, while the rest of the world has embraced it.
And America and its people are and will continue to suffer the consequences.
Ask yourself this simple question.
Is donald trump smarter than all the people who have invested in solar and wind energy?
There are approximately 400,000 wind turbines operating worldwide as of 2023.
Globally, wind energy has expanded rapidly, with around 400,000 wind turbines currently generating electricity across more than half of the world’s countries. These turbines contribute to a total installed wind power capacity exceeding 1,173,000 megawatts (1.17 TW), with both onshore and offshore installations playing a role. The number of utility-scale wind power plants is estimated at 5,278, highlighting the widespread deployment of wind farms globally.
Distribution and Leading CountriesChina leads the world in wind energy, with over 73,000 turbines generating more than 153 GW of power. Other major contributors include the United States, Germany, India, Brazil, and the United Kingdom, which together account for a significant portion of global capacity. Offshore wind farms are increasingly important, with China, the UK, and Germany having the largest number of operational offshore installations.
greenbusinessbarbados.com
+1
Growth TrendsWind power capacity continues to grow, though the rate of new installations outside China has slowed in recent years. In 2024, countries excluding China added 34,413 MW, down from 42,095 MW in 2023, reflecting an 18% decrease. Despite fluctuations, long-term projections suggest continued expansion, with wind energy expected to become the second-largest source of global renewable electricity after solar PV.
World Wind Energy Association
+2
My tax returns were much, much, better than the previous 4 Autopen years.
I get it that I’m a MAGA, white male, not afraid to get my hands dirty and put in an honest days work.
I’m not a dependent welfare rat that hates that Trump’s administration is making people of your ilk get off your a$$e$ and become contributing members of society.
I know the trump family of billlionaires got a nice tax break. I worked got a little back… and didn’t your landslide of a refund was virtually a benefit for nothing with inflation? Just in gasoline increase alone my stipend was wiped out. Idiot.
Dan used to have a caller Sunshine. Brought nothing to the show like Aureally but he loved them both. Sunshine was a real dud.
Donald Trump has halted wind farm projects across the US, suggesting they are a threat to national security and the environment.
More than 150 projects are understood to be on hold amid suggestions that they interfere with defence radar systems.
It marks the latest crackdown on wind power by the Trump administration, with the president branding it a “con job” and criticising turbines for ruining the landscape.
Wrong. Again.
Ok, I forget illegal aliens too.
I was trying not to upset the MA illegal aliens representative, Tricia Farley-Country Buffet (d-illegal aliens), constituents.
The difference between Victor Orban in Hungary and Trump is that Orban accepted his electoral defeat while Trump could not and cannot accept the will of our democratic republic.
Here are a couple of more differences. One is a man and the other is a boy.
Victor Orbán: A Statesman’s JourneyEarly Life and Education
Victor Orbán was born in Székesfehérvár, Hungary. After graduating high school, he served in the military and pursued a law degree at ELTE in Budapest. In 1987, he graduated and worked as a sociologist in Szolnok. In 1989, he received a Soros Fellowship and studied at Pembroke College, Oxford.
“[D]emocratic republic.” Great punchline, as if … Love ya, kid!
It has gotten so bad at
the Bitchfield’s public meetings-hearings that citizens need to apply some Vapo-Rub around their noses before attending, so as not to succumb to the foul stench coming from those holding the meetings.
Not as bad as trump economy though. 39 trill in debt. Gas 459 here today. Hottest economy though. NOT !
Did DJT accumulate 39 trillion dollars in the last year? Not possible. But shrinking the Federal Government, which is his job, is the only way to address it.
Needless wars are costly especially if you start one and find out you are in way over your head and cannot find a way to end it.
(but that won’t be coming out of trumps pocket) (and for some folk wars can be very lucrative, like those invested in the American war machine) Like the trumps and their friends.