1775 TO NOW: IT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE THIS WAY
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY MAY 6, 2026) — Walk into most any store today and you’ll see for sale bric-a-brac, tchotchkes, sundry items, and other dust collectors related to America’s upcoming 250th anniversary — hats, key rings, paper plates, Frisbees, lip balm, even condoms … you name it, and some company will have manufactured the junk.
It is in a perverse way a fitting tribute the America of 2026, where lucre names the game, the lifestyle, and the ambition. That an a society-wide dumb down evident at home, locally, and statewide, where rigged elections have become de rigueur.
THE PLANET welcomes the upcoming jubilee more as a commemoration than an excuse to party. America means too much to us to get all stoopit about the founding of this country. We still, and often, recall the incredible courage shown by the Founders, men and women, who risked all to break free of monarchal rule. Farms, families, fortunes and more, pledged on a long shot. Each year, as a self-imposed exercise in civics, we re-read the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble, the Bill of Rights, and the Gettysburg Address.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Not bad.
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THE PLANET shall ignore at this time the appalling ignorance of the mechanics of citizenship and civics while we reflect upon “origins.”
Actually, while King George III (G3) — contrary to the misguided beliefs of the out-of touch Radical Left, America’s last king — gets cast as the heavy in the story of the American Revolution, it was Parliament who should be wearing the black hats. As a constitutional monarch, G3 had little power, same as today with King Charles III. The Lords and Commons alienated the Colonies, all because of war.
In the Seven Years’ War, one of the endless line of irrational European skirmishes begun for no reason, England defeated France. The “Forgotten World War,” which ended in 1763, left England with a massive debt. This caused Parliament to raise taxes on the Colonies (sound familiar?) to help pay down the obligations, including the infamous Stamp Act and tax on tea.
The Continental Congress appealed to the king, but G3 didn’t have the power to dissuade his legislators. We know the rest.
And here we are. Home of the Fee and Land of the Rave.
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America might have had a chance to pull off its radical experiment in self-government, but the forces against it were too great. In 1945, the United States won the war but lost the peace. For the first time in its history, it didn’t revert back to a peace time economy. Roosevelt and Truman got skunked by Uncle Joe Stalin and fell for his bluff. Enter the Cold War, which lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990. We failed to heed Eisenhower’s warning about the military-industrial conflict and assassinated a man who would have gone on to become the greatest president of the 20th century. Cue the “war on terrorism,” which brings us to today.
Perpetual war, with us to stay.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way.
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“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength” — George Orwell, 1984.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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May 06, 2026
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
In 1775, the Colonists in British America paid 2 weeks of their annual income in taxes.
In 2026, the U.S. Citizens and Businesses pay many months of their annual income and earnings in taxes.
In 1775, Massachusetts was bankrupt. They asked the King of England for a bailout, but instead, the King told Massachusetts to raise taxes. Massachusetts replied No Taxation without Representation. It, the greatest country ever: The United States of America, all started in Massachusetts, which has the oldest living constitution in the World.
In 2026, if “Jon Melle the have-NOT” was in debt and bankrupt like Massachusetts was way back in 1775, and then I asked the King of England for a bailout, but instead, he told me to work 3 jobs to dig myself out of my debts, but then I told the sad truth to the British King that nobody really represents me in the government, while I also owned Slaves like a majority of the Founding Fathers did 250 years ago, would I be just like the rebellious British Colonies in America were way back in 1775?
Does anyone else find it strange that the Founding Fathers espoused Classical Liberalism while a majority of them owned Slaves?
The Founding Fathers knew full well that Slavery was a great injustice. It is historical record. Moreover, it is hypocritical to point out that the British’s economic policies to keep the Colonies with weak economies to be dependent on the United Kingdom’s rule were unjust when a majority of the Founding Fathers themselves owned Slaves.
Then there is The Bible, like other religions and their respective writings, whereby the Prophets said that they talked to God Himself. If “Jon Melle the said-to-be Prophet” said in 2026 that I talked to God Himself like the Prophets said they did thousands of years ago, would I be taken seriously?
Please note, I have been called a Paranoid Schizophrenic with disturbed emotions in my life, so I believe that I would be told the same if I said that I was a Prophet who talked to God Himself like the Prophets in The Bible and other religious writings. I have also been told that I have experience many unusual events in my life that I have written about on my blog(s), as well as email letters. I hope it is not both Schizo and Unusual Events, of course.
The Founding Fathers said that God made us Equal [because somehow they knew it to be true], therefore we have the natural and human rights to be Free. They signed onto the writings that stated that All men are created Equal by our Creator therefore we have the rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
BUT, once again, why didn’t they include the people who they ENSLAVED having the same rights they fought for and won for themselves in the 18th Century going into the 19th Century?
I agree with blogger Dan Valenti on one thing here, which is that War should NOT be glorified, and its constant occurrences over the past 80-plus years since the end of WW2 has led to the erosion of our nation’s Liberty.
Since the end of WW2 in 1945 – 2026, many millions of people around the cruel world have been killed in Wars, including ones led by the U.S. Government, but so long as Wall Street has made trillions of dollars in BLOOD MONEY off of the military industrial complex, then the Peace on Earth that we all hope for is as hopeless as the hypocritical foundations of our beloved God and Country really are in historical truth, (in)justice(s), and liberty “for all”.
I, myself, am all for lofty ideals. But I also know that history should be seen through many perspectives. If I want friends, I stay away from talking with family and friends about Religion and Politics because nobody wants to hear that things are not always black and white. Rather, we all want to believe that we are special, and the World is lofty instead of cruel.
I was born in mid-1975. I will probably, and I hope to, live until 2060 give or take a few years. I hope that I will live a lofty life whereby when I leave the World someday, I will leave the World a better place than it was when my life began close to 51 years ago now. I like to be lofty, too.
Best wishes,
Jon Melle
The American colonies were bankrupted by the colonial economy which was wholly exploitive, extracted not mere taxes but all means of profit and it was based on slavery, JM.
What was going on between the American colonies an GB was going on between GB the Irish plantations and India. GB further fought down numerous rebellious there too as well as on their own Island.
The Americans, under the leadership of various religious groups and philosophers such as Madison proved to be a unique Revolution that proved to history that there is just one model of governance that is Just and can endure all tests of time. What no government can survive, further argued at the drafts, was the evil inherent in Man which manifests bt the aggregation of power. That evil must be fought each generation.
So slavery was an evil that came not with the Philosophical Revolution but the men and economy of yhe land and the world economy. It could not long survive the Drclaration of Independence.
Liberty uniquely predicated upon G-d, human fallibility, and the unassailable right to the pursuit of happiness formed the unique government and vision that led to a brutal, total war to end slavery forever as opposed to the European practice of pushing slave activity to the forests of the Congo, the Carribean, comfortable distances.
Note also unique outcome of our Revolution was the rapid prosperity experienced upon gaining independence (proving my primary remark above) and the sustained prosperity such that we required zero bailouts or military rescue from any nation since our founding.
It came to King Charles to present himself to the Congress, a body full of the worst specimens of degraded Americans. to remind the Nation that we earned better. I believe his speech went way above the heads of at least half his immediate audience, but they were polite for a change.
Valid points about the mid-1770’s era of the birth of the U.S.A.
Off topic. I did not get a chance to listen to the podcast. If anyone is interested, Pittsfield Mayor Peter Marchetti was interviewed, and it is online.
https://www.nepm.org/podcast/the-fabulous-413/2026-05-06/mayor-peter-marchetti-author-vincent-yu
Chaz
Well stated, But America was assisted by France in our revolution, twice.
First in French) Indian war, teaching George Washington guerilla tactics.Washington survived only by G¥ds intervention, similar to Trumps seeming to be bulletproof.
Then during the revolution.
Thoughts on ;
Has our debt been fully repaid?
How)why only the lowest of humanity,a group of narcissistic psychopaths, are able to manipulate citizens,to injure themselves?
Is this the reason the president elitist politicians,fear Trump?
Is Brett Random Berkshires
Monica Cannon-Grant?
Race baiting in her quest for political power?
Is this out biannual race hoax , to gain political power ( Biden/Harris hay bale arson,Simons Rock race hate crime hoaxes) ….?
How much will Pittsfield owe, the teacher Random slandered,after the obvious lawsuit?
Given PSD , treatment of Turning Point , Smith college DEI, and PSD DEI racist hiring practices,DOJ /DOE going to make an example of Massachusetts?
Did Good Ole Boys use this to discredit Ciara Batory, deflecting from PHS grooming scandal?.
5/7/26@9:15am
Tom
TOM
Yeah, that all taxpayers need — their own version of Monica Cannon-Grant.
The Planet may want to read While England Slept JFK 1940, to gain insight as to why proactive action, is likely saving 50,000,000 lives.
Does the world need another fanatic, like Hitler?
Who would wait until Iran had nuclear weapons, much less provide material support, as odumba did with appeasement?
That Europe through its liberal policies, has left itself defenseless, to have socialism light, free sub par healthcare, 6 week vacations and education- at the cost of national security.
Europe is funding Putins war effort by purchasing fuel, how’s that Green energy policy working out? How stupid can people be?
Demonrats want to repeat, the failure upon America!
Long overdue NATO pays for its own security, shuts its mouth and understands its position in the world.
Wall Street journal- What happens when Europeans find out how poor they are?
Israel with 11,000,009 citizens, has more military power than the whole of Europe.
The genocide the Jews have suffered, still not recovered from the 18,000,000 prior to Hitler, because of Iranian terrorism.
Let’s look at a different scenario
Canada perpetrated 9/11/2001, would America stop until they were defeated?
Of course not!
That Trump is limiting Israel’s wrath after 10/7 attack, should be appreciated, not manipulated , misconstrued and propagandized.
5/6/26@7:30am
Tom
Did anyone see the California Governors debate last night. Are you kidding me. Politics are so bad as well as candidates on all levels. There isn’t one politician loca o rational that anyone can trust or respect.
Aside. What is going on at west street with the drain covers in the road. There is no option but to hit them. I guess the city wants us to take up nascar type driving. I guess the ward councilor is ok with it. It’s a shit show Cardeau.
Excellent Tom. Great one. Iran challenged Rubio with announcing they had, on hand, enough uranium to complete 10 bombs in weeks. They hoped to either force us to back down or draw us into a war they believed they would win. Its not a stalemate, and they have not won at this time.
As for limiting Israel’s wrath – they are unchained. And as they move to release themselves of the Memorandum of Understanding, an act South Korea who enjoys an even richer one, has yet to even speak of, so goes the right for anti-semites campaign against them and for meddlesome presidents micromanage them.
World is always full of change, and these days I’m liking what I see.
Chaz
I’m betting/hoping the fanatics refuse latest offer.
Trump bombs anything military, leaving civilians as safe as possible.
With Saudi, forcing issue( denial of air space) I’m guessing, they and Israel will finish the job, the Demonrats won’t allow Trump to do peacefully.
He would avoid loss of life,either way American involvement ends soon.
Trump is back channeling with ME allies, Suggesting limitations on Chinas fuel supply, taking control of Iran’s resources
Similar to US/Venezuela situation.
Forcing Putin to chose between Ukraine and oil production to China at market rates- but Zelinski may keep the war going.
5/7)26@9:30
Tom
Looking forward to a discussion on the newest PSS scandal.
Does anyone know where to send a donation for the (big dig) White House ballroom which started at 200 million and now is at over a billion in cost.
What does that have to do with another little scandal in Pittsfield School System?
You mean the manufactured scandal, in the name of DEI?
BULLYING is not DEI. VIOLENCE is not DEI. Reid students are causing actual physical harm to one another and you’re concerned about manufacturing scandal in the name of DEI? SMH. Another moron.
The parent is making it about DEI. Read the story in The Eagle.
Precisely Holmes. Sounds like a kid in class used some forbidden words that the main stream media is scared to repeat, and the teacher reported what the kid said, and is now being hung for it, in the name of DEI.
J2C
What happened during the incident? There’s vague references to it, but do you know — or does anyone know — precisely what happened in this “incident?”
I do not know precisely what happened. I read what is in The Boring Broadsheet and IBerkshire site. The complainant’s daughter is offended because the teacher repeated what was said when she reported it. Nothing to see here. Now the complainant is complaining there are not enough minority teachers, despite all the government money spent trying to recruit them.
Thanks, JOHNNY.
If a Black teacher called a white student “little cracker” in class, half of you would be foaming at the mouth demanding arrests, firings, lawsuits, press conferences, and a candlelight vigil for Western Civilization.
And we ALL know it.
So stop pretending this is about “DEI” or “manufactured outrage.” It’s about people wanting permission to dish out hateful garbage while losing their minds the second it comes back their way.
Was the teacher wrong for repeating the words? Yes.
Was it likely an error in judgment from being surrounded by nonstop chaos, slurs, and stupidity from kids all day? Also yes.
Both things can be true.
But while some of you are busy auditioning for Fox News comment sections, kids in Pittsfield schools are reportedly getting beaten unconscious while crowds gather around fights before adults intervene.
That should concern you more than your desperate need to defend saying slurs.
Val
The students call each other my nigga, constantly.
Please Keep fanning the latest probable race hoax , it exposes your Agitprop, and limited intelligence.
Sadly Ciara Batory hurried to join, the parade.
I bet
Give it 72 hours, it will be over, like most hoaxes, until Fandoms settlement with the teacher she slandered, for political power.
Only question now,
How long before Head Start audit finds missing funds by?
Monica Cannon-Grant East …
Should of quit while she was ahead.
Seeing the pattern yet?
5/7/26@9:45am
Tom
True. Young people frequently reference each other with “nigga.” It might be the third-most employed word in a middle-schooler’s vocabulary behind “like” and “fuck.”
At this point, the public is learning more from terrified students coming home after school than they are from the actual people running these buildings.
And honestly? That should concern everyone.
And before someone clutches their pearls, let me be clear about something. I’m not shocked that kids say offensive things anymore. Not just teenagers either. Kids. Pre teens. Teens. Young adults. They push boundaries. They repeat garbage they hear online, at home, from gaming chats, TikTok, social media, friends, everywhere. Racial slurs, homophobic language, cruel jokes, ugly comments. Sadly, none of that even feels rare anymore.
Teachers and school staff hear chaos constantly. After years in that environment, I can absolutely understand how hearing ugly language eventually becomes background noise. Human beings adapt to environments whether we want them to or not.
But that’s not the part setting off alarm bells for me anymore.
It’s the growing culture of silence around escalating violence, intimidation, bullying, and institutional damage control.
Parents are describing fights at Reid that sound less like “school incidents” and more like public beatdowns with spectators. Students are coming home talking about crowds of 50 plus kids gathering while students are reportedly beaten unconscious before adults intervene. Blood splattering onto nearby students. Chaos continuing long enough for audiences to form.
Read that again slowly.
How does that happen inside a school building?
Where are the adults before it reaches that point?
Because this is no longer sounding like isolated hallway scuffles. Parents are describing environments that feel completely out of control while administration keeps responding with polished statements about “privacy” and “ongoing internal processes.”
And that disconnect is exactly why trust is collapsing.
People are starting to feel like the priority is protecting the institution instead of protecting the children inside it.
That’s the issue.
Not optics.
Not PR.
Not carefully crafted emails.
Safety.
And yes, I’ll say this too. I genuinely hoped “Queen Latifah” would be different. I thought maybe we’d finally see someone willing to stand up when women are being bulldozed, manipulated, dismissed, or publicly undermined. Instead it feels like more image management and silence while the same dysfunction continues around her.
Leadership is not smiling through chaos while pretending everything is under control.
People are watching.
Parents are talking.
Students are talking.
Teachers are talking.
And the harder leadership works to quietly contain these situations instead of openly confronting them, the faster public trust disappears.
Superb comment, VV.
I’m going to answer your two posts with just one of my own.
Do you remember during George Floyd and the Summer of Love 2020, when Bitchfield liberal wingnuts, like Helen “Handgun” Moon, bought into the theory that school resource officers in schools were bad, because it “made children of color not want to go to school?” Shortly after, they were all removed from the schools on a fulltime basis.
You don’t remember hearing about the schools being out of control when the SRO’s were in all the schools.
It brings me to my next point. In your first post VV, you type “cracker,” and reference it to a white person with such ease. No shame that it might have offended a white person, because in a democRATS mind, white people are exempt from racial discrimination. Your post proves it.
Now, flip the script, if I wrote the word ni**er, VV and every liberal on here would beg and plead with Dan to release my name, to try and destroy my character.
Why is that?
Isn’t that the definition of racial discrimination VV?
Did the teacher mess up by repeating what the student said in the presence of other students? Yes, she did.
Is it terminating offense worthy? Absolutely not. A note in her file that any future violations would result in termination, but not on this. It would be no different if she said “fu*k” and a student overheard.
The student needs to be held FULLY ACCOUNTABLE. No more passes because he/she is a POC.
I know democRATS feel people and children of color are immune from being held responsible for their own actions. It’s the “victim mentality,” that’s been propped up for the last few years. Now we are seeing the results.
I’ll never question why a parent choice’s their children out of Bitchfield Pubic Scohol to other school districts.
*Drug Dealing Deans
*Pu$$y Pic Sharing Principals
*Fights
*Fights
*Brawls
*Gangs
*Covered up Pedophile Report
The next sheriff of Berkshire County should get ready. The Bitchfield Pubic Scohol Systim will be churning out BCHC inmates, faster than McCann puts out welders.
Great final sentence, MARK.
Numerous
Me too
Tom
Political and economic scholars are estimating an absolute minimum time of 12-15 years, after the trump fiefdom leaves power, assuming they ever do, for the United States to begin to get a foothold as a viable nation. And this is if everything goes right and the rest of the world takes pity on us and forgives us for shitting all over them and destroying their economies.
Both Markus and I are hoping for the best and that the Pope will say a litany of Hail Mary’s for all of us in these dire times.
Foothold? Trump will do what the fuck he wants the next four years.
Mean
Seek help, your TDS has left you, delusional and incapable of rational thoughts.
America is stronger,more prosperous and generous,than any nation.
Trying to save lives, is deficateing on people?
Seriously Mean , get some help , turn off CNN and news period.
Tom
Are those the same “political and economic scholars,” that told us that “presidents don’t control gas prices,” and that it was the “Putin Price hike,” that made gas prices explode during the Autopen Administration.
Or the best one to date, you even bought into like the chump you are, “Biden is sharp as a tack.”
It’s sunny out today MW. Maybe try taking a walk outside and enjoying the weather. Sun is a good disinfectant for TDS. It helps clear the mind of liberal ideology.
Marco Rubio’s response to a question yesterday of what his goal for America was ?
“My hope for American is what it’s always been . We want to continue a place where anyone from anywhere can achieve anything. Where you’re not limited by the circumstances of your birth or the color of your skin, by your ethnicity. America is a place where you can overcome your challenges and achieve your full potential. I think that should be the goal of every country in the world quite frankly but I think when you look back we’re not perfect. It’s history is not one perfection but its surely better than anyone else’s. Ours is the story of perpetual improvement – Each generation has left the next generation more prosperous, safer our goal as well. It is a uniquely exceptional country As we come upon our 250th anniversary, I think we have a lot to learn and be proud of in our history learn and be proud of but it’s a country of perpetual improvement where each generation has done its part that brings us closer to the goal and vision the founders of this country had upon its founding.”
Rubio 2028.
Good luck. Gavin Newsome is coming on strong.
Coming on strong in the Democrat party which still suffers being that what it is in the minds of a supermajority of American voters. Watch him crash if he gets the ticket.
GAVIN NEWSOM: Representing Yogamerica:
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1RQF1u.img?w=768&h=511&m=6&x=417&y=103&s=63&d=63
Chaz.
Kameltoe 2.0
Tom
A little too strong?
https://x.com/matthewrquan/status/2051694379350581289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2051694379350581289%7Ctwgr%5E7e9d220c177e9798be3d5a8901e62facb50f605f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fgordon-kushner%2F2026%2F05%2F06%2Fspence-pratt-ai-ad-n2427871
Villian.
Where can we send donations to Newscums campaign?.
Tom
Tom, Just go Barnes and Noble or Amazon and buy a copy of it, Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery. Dyslexic Gavin bought 1 million copies to give out to less fortunate to boost his sales.
Chaz
Yup
Unless JD can eliminate Fraud completely, looks like Marco gets the knod .
Trump has a stable full of thoroughbreds, mostly young .
Hopefully many more worthwhile Democrats, join the fold. ..
Bobby jr is performing well also, Bessent goes without saying. ..
Tom
Marco would be a fine President