GUEST COLUMN: GUV’S BUDGET FURTHER BURIES TAXPAYERS, LOCAL COMMUNITIES
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE SUPER BOWL WEEKEND 2026) — With the New England Patriots Invitational (aka the Super Bowl) behind us, THE PLANET continues to extend our reach to other voices. This weekend, we run a guest column from the policy director of the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance. In it, Laurie Belsito enlightens us on the governor’s spend-crazy FY27 budget and other money matters.
We remind everyone that THE PLANET is open to guest columns. Our only requirements is that they be well written and argued.
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BY LAURIE BELSITO
Governor Maura Healey released her proposed fiscal year 2027 budget, and once again it reflects broken priorities on Beacon Hill that leave taxpayers and local communities falling further behind.
The $63.3 billion proposal is an increase of 3.8 percent over last year’s FY26 budget, even as revenue growth is projected at just 2.4 to 2.9 percent. To paper over that gap, the administration relies more heavily on one-time revenues, volatile sources of income like surtax dollars, and accounting maneuvers that weaken the long-term stability of the state budget. The result is a projected structural budget gap of roughly $3.4 billion.
Worth noting is a potential ballot question that would reduce the state income tax rate from 5 percent to 4 percent. If approved by the voters, this new tax cut law would return about $2 billion to the taxpayers, which also means there would be $2B less for Beacon Hill to spend in subsequent budgets unless a new revenue source is created. An average taxpayer would expect to save about $1,300. The potential for such a budget impact seems to be completely disregarded in this record-breaking budget riddled with fixes that degrade structural integrity.
Why Governor Healey has decided to kick the can down the road rather than address a growing problem makes you wonder what kind of conversations are happening at the State House.
Despite this record spending in the Governor’s budget, cities and towns are again being shortchanged. Unrestricted General Government Aid, the funding municipalities depend on for core services like police, fire, and public works, would increase by only 2.5 percent. That barely keeps pace with inflation and falls far short of what local officials say is needed to avoid property tax overrides and service cuts. In real terms, local aid has declined 25 percent since 2010, while the budget itself has more than doubled.
This serial has more believability and truth than Gov. Healey’s budget.
Instead of looking for ways to tighten the belt, the budget repurposes money that would normally go into the state’s rainy-day fund and pension stabilization. The proposal raises the capital gains threshold so that an estimated $470 million more can be spent in the operating budget rather than saved or put towards pension and retirement stabilization. It also increases reliance on surtax revenue to fund ongoing expenses, even though that revenue was intended for one-time uses and is highly volatile.
The administration also proposes slowing required pension fund contributions by capping annual increases at 4 percent for the next three years in order to use funds elsewhere. This change pushes back the date the state’s pension system is set to be fully funded from 2036 to 2038, cutting it awfully close to the statutory deadline of 2040. This also continues a pattern of accounting maneuvers that weaken the structural integrity of the state’s budget and projected financial footing.
One of the clearest examples of cost-shifting in this budget can be seen in housing and shelter spending. The HomeBASE program sees a staggering 44 percent increase, rising to more than $82 million. HomeBASE is the primary state government run housing program where many people are funneled once out of the emergency shelter system. Rather than addressing the root causes of the shelter crisis or reining-in costs, the budget simply shifts expenses from one program to another, allowing the administration to claim progress while taxpayers continue footing the bill.
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While local aid and fiscal stability take a back seat, the budget includes notable spending increases and new programs. Some examples are a 43 percent increase in free community college funding, new housing initiatives, and policy changes that sacrifice cost controls and accountability in the name of speed or flexibility. The proposal also grants agencies broader discretion over welfare and housing voucher eligibility, reducing current guardrails.
The takeaway is clear: Massachusetts does not have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem. Beacon Hill continues to celebrate record budgets while financial pressure increases on homeowners, renters, business owners, and local governments.
Just as troubling, the proposal does nothing to address the growing loss of businesses, residents, and investment capital that are exiting Massachusetts. At a time when employers are leaving, jobs are disappearing, and families are voting with their feet, this budget ignores the Commonwealth’s declining economic competitiveness and doubles down on policies that make Massachusetts more expensive and less attractive to live, work, and invest.
MassFiscal will be closely tracking this budget as it moves through the Legislature and will continue to fight for the taxpayers. We will continue to advocate for fiscal discipline, fully funded local aid, and tax cuts that restore economic competitiveness and keep opportunity in Massachusetts.
Thank you for standing with us as we hold Beacon Hill accountable.
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LOVE TO ALL.
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I took a page out of VendettaChatGPT’s playbook and ran “Governor Healey’s 2026 budget woes,” through AI and wanted to see what it spit out.
This is what I got back:
Primary Budget Challenges
Every single one of these programs all have a common denominator, and it’s certainly not the hardworking taxpayer. it is Illegal Aliens.
Maura Healey is trying like hell to keep the (illegal) democRAT voting base well taken care of in the sanctuary state of MA.
Could you imagine all of the fraudulent spending of our tax money by Healey and her criminal syndicate, aka- MA democRAT party, if the voter approved audit actually took place.
**This week on The Planet has been rough for The Planet’s resident Marxist, Jonathan Melle. The Planet, as well as all of the posters, have been bashing or “scapegoating” his sugar, Maura Healey.
To help and aid JM in his recovery of Maura’s bashing, I’m going around Bitchfield businesses and requesting job applications to send to JM. Maybe if he worked and paid taxes, he’d learn the value of a hard-earned dollar and why the rest of us hard working, taxpayers, don’t want our money spent on illegal aliens. Plus, it’ll take his mind off his sweetie Maura, when he’s emptying the garbage bins.
The Republican Party has its own baggage, too. The Epstein List. The Trump tax breaks for billionaires (who are on the Epstein List). The trillions of dollars in federal deficit spending. The authoritarian-like Swamp with the Republican Party Members of U.S. Congress allowing Trump to be an Imperial-like U.S. President. ICE Agents, Border Patrol Agents, DHS, and the like’s political violence against U.S. Citizens – some of whom were shot to death by them. The BIG protests around the country against Donald Trump, ICE, and the like. The BIG federal cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, homeless programs, public education, and so on. State and local governments facing BIG cuts in federal funding that is decreasing the amount of money in state administered, federal aid for essential programs that millions of people, including babies, rely on to survive.
Let the posters on PlanetValenti pick on Jon Melle for being a proud supporter of Governor Maura Healey, especially her 2026 reelection campaign. Jon Melle alleged that she is being SCAPEGOATED on this right-wing blog for all of the economic problems in Massachusetts. Never mind that the do-nothing Massachusetts state lawmakers are unproductive. Never mind that common people had more money 90 years ago during the Great Depression to own a home than in today’s 2026-era of great economic inequality. Never mind that families and small business are struggling to pay for the BIG increases in healthcare insurance in 2026.
*Sarcasm: It is all the fault of Governor Maura Healey. If we all blame her, then it all makes sense. She must worship the Devil. She must drink human blood, eat human hearts, torture innocent animals, plan to blow up the Sun, think she should be God….
“Let the posters on PlanetValenti pick on Jon Melle for being a proud supporter of Governor Maura Healey, especially her 2026 reelection campaign.”
Well, you asked for it this time.
Jonny it’s time to dust off your old phs cheerleader croptop skirt and undies and start cheering for governor Healey in park square show these maga jerks you support gov Maura.
You need to jump on the new Trump RX site and get your meds and save the taxpayers some money. Double up on them because what you are doing isn’t working.
Jonnie stop being a Arsie hole
She uses a different AI engine – it’s the one trained to do three coda’s each prefaced ironically “Full Stop!” and written in a quasi-poetic staccato expressing #1 An attack #2 An insult #3: expression of injury.
EG:
blah blahhhhhh blah
Full Stop!!!
YOUR SOURCES ARE WRONG!
YOU’RE A FOOL!!
IT HURTS ME!!!
Blah blaaaaaaaaaaah bla blah blah bl blahh
Full Stop!
etc…
CHAZ
You nailed this one. The Vendetta M.O.
It sounds like jazz to me.
Sounds like weak men who hate smart women to me.
Bless me, but this like Dina Dunce.
Oh, bless your hearts. I leave for Minnesota for a hot minute and suddenly I’m everywhere. Threads. Rants. Spiral posts. Whole think pieces about me.
Imagine missing someone this much and still pretending you don’t care. That’s not outrage, babes. That’s fixation. That’s me living rent free, utilities included, in whatever space you’re calling a brain.
You didn’t expose anything. You just told on yourselves. Loudly. Publicly. With screenshots.
But truly, thank you. Obsession is a form of intimacy, and you all are so devoted.
Stay pressed. I’ll be back when you need new material.
you sound hott r u into guys.
The 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics plus 1-Earl’s upcoming municipal budget proposal will be even worse than Boston’s assault on state taxpayers in 2026.
The Kapanski’s are dreading Pittsfield and Boston alike. Meanwhile, the career politicians are enjoying their 6-figure public pay plus perks for life.
I am relieved that I live in New Hampshire instead of TAXachusetts. I need my own money a lot more than the career politicians and greedy lobbyists in Boston.
Vote the bums out of elected office. Return Massachusetts back to the people and taxpayers. Enough is enough!
Where are the a holes on here complaining about the Dow? Up over a thousand and volume nearing 50,000 !!!!!! Trump is doing it. It will kick in soon,took time to correct sleepy joes nonsense.
Aside. Was listening to the morning show with dumpster as guest. He stated the most expensive school construction cost is the elevator. Yep he said that. We are screwed.
Too bad JM didn’t buy some imperial aluminum stock, which is available to us peasants with internet. Up 200%.
Wonder how he would know that.
…how would he know that? There’s a roof, walls (especially not cheap), boilers/furnaces,. How would he KNOW that the elevator is the most expensive part? A great fornication shall be upon your heads indeed.
I can almost be certain an elevator doesn’t cost what a freaking boiler cost.
Of course there are elevators, and then there are elevators.
Put every cent you have into AI tomorrow morning. That and Bitcoin. Get rich overnight. Just do it. Even the kids college fund. Just do it.
MassFiscal is doing open, honest analysis & reporting of the shenanigans on Beacon Hill. Well worth contributing to this great organization!
Thanks Dan for printing their article!
I am totally against the 43% increase in community college funding. These institutions are nothing more than incubation farms for marxist theology. The schools should be charging tuition to support themselves like any other institution of higher learning. I don’t want my taxes funding free education for every illegal in the state.
Healey needs to go, along with Trisha Buffet & the rest of the Dem stronghold!
Thanks, Fritz. Much appreciated.
Here’s the alternative to NFL’s Bad Bunny halftime show, and how to tune in for free…..
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/pass-it-here-is-how-you-tune-super/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/nfls-woke-spanish-language-halftime-show-will-middle/
As many MA residents pay exuberant energy bills to help fund and keep Gov. Maura Healey’s “green energy” grifts alive and grifting, what does our useless governor due to help the burdened MA taxpayer,
she signs a deal with Nova Scotia to build windfarms in the Atlantic Ocean.
Is this a scam, or is it sustainable?
Let’s ask VendettaChatGPT:
Here are five key disadvantages:
*Intermittency & Unpredictability: Wind doesn’t blow consistently, so energy production fluctuates, requiring backup power or energy storage (like batteries) to ensure a steady supply.
*Wildlife Impact: Turbines can kill birds and bats through collisions or by disrupting their navigation, impacting ecosystems.
*Noise & Visual Pollution: The rotating blades create aerodynamic and mechanical noise, and the large turbines can be considered unsightly, affecting local communities and landscapes.
*High Upfront Costs: The initial investment for manufacturing, transporting, and installing turbines, plus grid connections, is substantial, with rising material costs adding to expenses.
**This is the “green energy” scam right above. “High Upfront Costs.” CA Gov Gavin Newscum has grifted over $20,000,000,000 ($20B) on the CA lightrail. NOT ONE MILE OF RAIL HAS BEEN BUILT IN OVER A DECADE. $20 BILLION SPENT.
With President Trump shutting off the sanctuary states illegal aliens grift, useless blue states gov’s, like Maura Healey, are scrambling to find ways to grift and swindle the MA taxpayers. The “green energy” scam is their desert mirage that’s luckily fading away too.
*Location & Transmission: Ideal sites for strong, steady winds are often far from population centers, necessitating costly transmission lines and creating infrastructure challenges.
https://x.com/massgovernor/status/2019235885548728715?s=43&t=A4dIfU1zY5Cy5R_zEZP9EQ
Irrational exuberant energy bills sound fun.
Do you have any idea how much environmental damage AI causes? Do you know how many gallons of water you waste every time you decide to use ChatGPT for foolishness?
What I find most fascinating is how quickly you jump to “it must be AI” the moment something goes over your head. The accusation isn’t evidence. It’s a confession. You don’t recognize the language because you’re not fluent in it.
You keep insisting I used ChatGPT, yet you’re the ones running to it to figure out what I said. Even with the assist, you still can’t counter a single point with facts. Not one.
For the record, I don’t use, support, or respect AI based technology in the way you imagine. I am exactly the kind of tree hugging liberal who actually cares whether the planet survives. Your projection is lazy.
And yes, it is possible that someone simply knows how to write. I know you’re accustomed to Dan’s creative relationship with English, grammar, and basic human empathy, but this is what educated people sound like in real life.
No algorithm required. Just literacy. I see that threatens you.
V V is quite well-spoken and does indeed speak the truth. She looks at the world and accurately reports what she sees, unlike the bloggers here who can only report what their cohort believes.
So, reading vH is like absorbing “The Good”, which by nature is TRUE, that Socrates describes as the fundamental bedrock of happy Justice. That should feel better than what I experience.
In what will be my last post for today, I found an interesting article in iBerkshires about Bitchfield’s own Ricky Rumpus and the “green energy” scam.
The Cliff Notes of the article is Bitchfield gets money back from the state for recycling old or destroyed cell phones. There are “ATM” machines in different places throughout Bitchfield and people get money for recycling old/destroyed cell phones. It keeps the cell phone (battery) out of the landfill and elsewhere.
Definitely seems like a nice program. Lord knows Bitchfield has enough trash and litter strewn about the city. One less thing is a plus.
As I read further, I found out how Bitchfield qualified for this state money. I cut and paste that section of the article below. I’m curious if you can spot the one “qualification” that has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH RECYCLING.
**The city received points for bulky items, curbside recycling regulation, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION, organics, and waste prevention outreach and education.**
How does a racist program towards white males help the recycling effort?
They must have included all the plastic baggies filled with cocaine that Da Dancin Dean sold while on the clock as a PHS administrator, as “recycled,” to show why DEI is needed as a qualification.
(D) IDN’T
(E) ARN
(I) T
https://www.iberkshires.com/story/81611/Pittsfield-Council-Approves-Green-Items.html
That’s how “racism” is spelled today: DEI
What are your thoughts on the “PROTECT Act” that Pittsfield State Representative Tricia Farley Bouvier wrote about in her latest newsletter?
https://mailchi.mp/7780cada50fe/updates-from-your-state-representative-17661590
The bill’s web-page:
https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/HD5608
Co-Sponsers:
Leigh Davis (3rd Berkshire), Tricia Farley-Bouvier (2nd Berkshire), John Barrett III (1st Berkshire)
* Sarcasm: I thought the “PROTECT Act” would have protected the Kapanski’s personal finances from the above tax and spend happy career politicians in Boston.
JM: Nothing good can come from those three working together.
And this…. Does it spell Racism?
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/06/trump-racist-video-barack-michelle-obama-truth-social
Of course it does.
I agree, Dan.It’s shameful. All partisanship aside- it’s a beyond despicable post by Trump. But, as Maya Angelou once said- ‘When someone tells you who they are believe them’
What’s the difference between this and what the Autopen administration used to do with undercover FIB agents and claim they were the “proud boys,” and try and manufacture racial division between whites and blacks?
Did you watch the whole video Meanwhile, or just that clip?
Curious if you thought it was “racist” when AOC was depicted as a giraffe?
If not, why not?
Some hilarious Memes of Donnie and Melanni looking a tad like monkeys they own selves. Every time trump throws shit it comes back tenfold right in his orange puss. The big boy bully is finding that not everyone is afraid of him.
You assume Trump had anything to do with it? Bad thinking where skepticism rules the day in this advanced information age.
I wouldn’t assume anything, and I wouldn’t assume it wasn’t an anti-trump activist hired into the media dept.
Except that he admitted it.
(also in the Epstein files 3000) times}
https://planetvalenti.com/2026/02/guest-column-guvs-budget-further-buries-taxpayers-local-communities/#comment-307107
He even said posting it was NOT A MISTAKE. Look it up charlie. Ya know its true. Cuz he be makin merica great again. Bringing us altogether and stuff.
https://planetvalenti.com/2026/02/guest-column-guvs-budget-further-buries-taxpayers-local-communities/#comment-307107
CELTICS
That last sentence … so true.
Now there’s a story out there that Jeffrey Epstein is alive and is in Israel.
I saw it too. He was spotted at a café with Golda Meir.
Sharon showed up too and ate all the shmaltz herring.
Supposedly they have photos.
Moron Healey
Was practicing the typical Demonrat, vote buying strategy.
Give away taxpayer assets to compromised voters.(junkies, illegals, teachers, lawyers and cops)
Importation of undocumented Demonrats, issue “motor voter” picture ID’s.
Give said undocumented demons, free housing ( which drives up taxpayers rent &utilities )
Enroll more children into colleges( state funded indoctrination camps) at taxpayer expense.
Worked well until Minnesota learing center scandal, ( wonder where Kameltoe found 1,000,000,000$ to blow in 15 weeks ?) wait for it….Tampon ,Ellison and fried aren’t killing their useful idiots for nothing-
only weeks away from the reality of “Why is it only Minnesota?
Like all diseases, demonrat fraud has spread to Maimed , Commiefornia and Taxatwoshits.
in reality it began with the Kennedy Korupt Klan,.
Moron and Mills are about to suffer indictments-along with cambell for racketeering.
Diane DiZoglio forcing the issue- Leah foley( who sat on 12,000,000 $ snap fraud) about to have special counsels -counselors Habba and Haligan are about to destroy “blue slip -protection racket.
Now that pedo wolfe (disgraced former federal 1st circuit judge- resigned during investigation 11/25)
1st circuit is ripe for rehabilitation ( exposure), as “Blue Slip” judges are inherently corrupt, and Americas satisfaction of judiciary is 25%, any lower its whale feces. All that’s needed is a shutdown- come on Chuck, YOU CAN DO IT-or we wait till Easter recess 🙂
ICUMI Ed Martin be running public corruption wing of DOJ.
Demonrats use of judicial activism, going to be more beneficial to Trump than Harry Ried’s “Nuclear Option” how’s that working out?
God bless America- and Demonratic hubris.
lets see how long the planet censors this post,
2/6/26 @ 3:20
Tom Betit
Since Mayor Lumpy, his buddy Pete White and Dina Lampiasi have to drive West Street every day to get to the center of Shitsfield, find it hard to believe that they accept the latest Ricardo Morales bump out just past St. Mark’s Church. The bump out forces drivers to cross the center line into oncoming traffic. Are these three elected officials that filled with the political Kool aid that they don’t realize this is a total safety hazard? Wonder who would be held responsible for a head-on collision? In just a matter of time the city will be hit with another lawsuit. There’s absolutely no oversight of these projects. The city is getting more pathetic by the day.
Plow drivers and the mechanics that fix plows love them
What about partridge oak hill no warning even at 30 very dangerous. It’s stupid. Cars don’t speed on that street. A former city ckowncilor that lived there proposed it or that’s the rumor”
Rumors are like ghosts. People claim to see them, no one believes.
The Gov’s budget is the same as the arseholes in Pittsfield. Living in the past. 5 Fire-stations , 14 schools, trucks for all employees . Yet population is shrinking, government is growing,
Joe They have it down to a science. Bitchfield let’s the state be its guide. Year after year. Can’t wait to see what they’ll do with the school budget this year. Gotta cut and no apologies or excuses.
Bitchfield taxpayers will and are going into the abyss and many heading out.
About five city employees in my neighborhood and they all take their vehicles home at night. Sometimes at noon.
Fun fact, in 2006 Pittsfield public schools had 6,500 students. Now 2026 4,000 plus or minus the DOE estimates. Yet still maintaining 14 schools . Still crying about the State and Federal Government not giving them enough. Stop being stupid. Close schools save money.
Joe
But Moron hold it Healey, Needs the votes.
The 65-128,000$ a year, is the purchase price of their votes.
Certainly you’ve noticed, that construction projects, are awarded to politically connected .
Unions demand layed off workers, work for Demonrat campaigns .
Your tax dollars, are actively used against your interests.
Nice to see , Ariana Presley about to be indicted ( 14th circuit) for autopen pardon fraud ( 40,000$ purchase price – for each of 3 her family received)
Quiet water runs deep
Be patient, justice in coming-
Let’s see if this post is allowed, prior to the superbowl.
2/7/26@ 10am
Tom Betit
It’s not in the lumpy playbook or the missing kufflinks to cut. Lumpy for votes,kufflinks for his job.
True dat. Kufflinks’ version of a financial plan is to call up the previous year’s budget and wait for Lumpy to tell him if it’s going to be 4 or 5% increase. Lumpy has to first hear from his controllers. Taxpayers? No say whatsoever in this corrupt city and state.
Sir C – Trump’s own words and nobody else’s on Airforce One in reference to the Obama video.
‘No, I didn’t make a mistake,” he said on Air Force One, adding that he didn’t see the full video. “I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine.”
We can take him at his own word that he is a racist.
Gorillagate?
State Senator..former, Adam Hinds first vote as S S was to give himself a raise. Farley Bouvier sent her kid to school out of district. Amuso the other night would not vote on the reading of the finding on the dancing caper Over 100 g report, at Bitchfield Get High. She stated she already voted on it ?????
Actually, said this:
“No, I didn’t make a mistake. I mean, I look at a lot of – thousands of things. I looked at the beginning of it, it was fine,” and also ““I guess during the end of it there was some kind of a picture that people don’t like. I wouldn’t like it either,”
So, take him at his own words.
There are NO grown-ups in the Swamp. You are a LABEL. You are to BLAME. You are President AUTO-PEN; V.P. Knee-Pads. You are President ORANGE-MAN; V.P. Lazy-Boy LOVER. DEI is BAD. ICE is BAD. Thousands upon thousands of NDA’s.
PAY to PLAY K Street PAC Man firms. Dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Rename federal buildings after Trump. Put insulting words beneath former Democratic Party Presidents.
Post inappropriate videos of former Democratic Party Presidents and their spouses. Post Trump flying an airplane dropping poop on his protesters. Cover-up the Epstein Files release with careful editing.
Target Democratic Party-led cities and states with retribution. Persecute immigrants with extremist politics and violent federal agents. Divide and Conquer the American People with needless cultural conflicts. Write the Narrative that the other side is EVIL.
Watch the billionaires and Trump’s millionaire backers enrich themselves, while the U.S. National Debt increases to historically high levels.
Plan to rig the 2026 mid-term elections that will otherwise favor the Democratic Party candidates for U.S. Congress.
Just like Pittsfield politics is over-charging the fictional Kapanski’s by tens of millions of dollars per fiscal year;
Just like Boston’s state leaders are short-changing the people, families, small businesses, cities and towns, and so on;
The Swamp is also playing political games against us.
We are being DISTRACTED from the REAL ISSUES that we are facing in our country. BUT, we are NOT fools. We know that the government on all levels is NOT serving us in GOOD FAITH. We know that politics is NOT supposed to be all about MONEY and POWER for the ELITES.
Sir C- You got it! I do!
Stand by your man!
LOL – one of us knows when to stop.
But, I think it’s time to understand that of the GOP voting base – 10% are virulent racists. It’s not a number that we want to see grow. The only way that can happen, and in the area of TC is happening, is with overwhelming assistance of the media which is willing to amplify the bandwidth of individuals with a tiny footprint in the social media sphere. The number is larger on the other side of the aisle.
Otherwise, 65% of the GOP voters are comprised of conservatives who are happy to have anyone of all religions and ethnicity. It’s the MAGA block at its core principle – America First (but not America only.) These are reasonable people who do not like to see the harm happening.
This large majority is also tired of 8 years of abuse directed at them and others like them and dog whistles. They will not be outraged upon command.
Vast majority of voters, and 90% of GOP voters (65% traditional conservatives) reject without reserve racism and hate.
We are also weary from 8 years unrelenting abuse from the Left, insults directed at those we identify with. As such, we refuse to feel outrage on command.
Still no discussion on the Epstein files, huh?
What a bunch of cowards.
The Clintons friend Ghislaine plead the 5th before the House Committee today
Goodell a “schmuck”…..
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/wayne-root-its-super-bowl-sunday-nfl-commissioner/
Super Bowl hooray! I like the Pats to win 25 :24. Seahawks a bunch of Buffoons.
Well. That ended almost as fast as Lindsey Vonn.
If you are offended by America hating superbowl halftime perfomer Bad Bunny, Turning Point USA is broadcasting an alternative .
“No men in dresses and make up, no queer junk, no anti-police, no anti-ICE or anti-Trump propaganda… Something families could enjoy watching together with their children.”
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