April 18, 2023
Please read the following political email:
Jonathan, tomorrow Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. officially announces his challenge to Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination for president.
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Just as the COVID vaccine was becoming widely available, Kennedy tried to equate the vaccine mandates to Jews living in Nazi Germany, saying in a speech at the Lincoln Memorial “Even in Hitler's Germany, you could, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland. You could hide in an attic, like Anne Frank did.” Unfortunately, this wasn't a one-time occurrence; he has made past references to Nazi Germany in his speeches.
Kennedy isn't suing CNN or the New York Times for reporting on this, though. He's suing Daily Kos to unmask the identity of a community user that posted a story on the site about Kennedy speaking at a rally in Berlin that was heavily planned, promoted, and attended by neo-Nazis.
Daily Kos has been fighting this lawsuit since 2021, in two different states. Right now, we're waiting on an appeals court, which means we're still going to need to shell out serious cash to fight this frivolous lawsuit.
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Jonathan, at Daily Kos, we pride ourselves on not only working hard to elect more Democrats, but better Democrats, from the top of the ballot to the bottom, in every corner of the country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. isn’t one of those. The zealot anti-vaxxer, Nazi cavorter was reportedly recruited by Trump mastermind Steve Bannon to run for president, as a Democrat, against President Joe Biden.
A recent poll shows that 10% of potential Democratic primary voters would back Robert F. Kennedy Jr. because of his famous name. That doesn’t make him a threat to win the nomination, but it gives him a platform to spread his dangerous anti-vaccine ideology.
Oh, and he is suing Daily Kos to unmask the identity of a community diarist for writing a story that Kennedy attended an anti-mask rally in Berlin that was heavily planned, promoted, and attended by neo-Nazis.
Kennedy has the personal wealth to prolong the lawsuit against Daily Kos AND fund a presidential campaign that keeps his dangerous, life-threatening misinformation and lies in the mainstream limelight.
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April 25, 2023
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
While Joe Biden has a 50-year public record history of racism in Swamp politics, RFK, Jr. is on a much higher level. I posted the following on your blog tonight:
I recently posted a blog page that Nazi Trumper Steve Bannon recruited his fellow alt-right political bedfellow Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK, Jr.) to run against Joe Biden in the 2024 Democratic Party Primary election. It is the oldest strategy in human history: Divide and Conquer!
RFK, Jr. is NOT really a Democrat. RFK, Jr. has made past references to Nazi Germany in his political speeches. The very wealthy RFK, Jr. is suing Daily Kos in both NY State and California to unmask the identity of a community user that posted a story on the site about Kennedy speaking at a rally in Berlin, Germany that was heavily planned, promoted, and attended by neo-Nazis.
RFK, Jr. said in a speech at the Lincoln Memorial: “Even in Hitler's Germany, you could, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland. You could hide in an attic, like Anne Frank did.”
Daily Kos calls RFK, Jr. a zealot anti-vaxxer, Nazi cavorter who is politically connected to the alt right Nazi Steve Bannon.
Source: Amanda McKay, Daily Kos
Jonathan A. Melle
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April 27, 2023
Joe Biden is 80. He should retire in 2024 after over 50 years in the Swamp. Joe Biden is a corporate Democrat who received more money from Wall Street and K Street than any other presidential candidate in U.S. history. Joe Biden's foreign relations with Russia and China are looking very ugly with the escalating threats of nuclear weapons in a would-be WW3. On Monday, May 1st, 2023, OPEC will cut its oil exports output just as summer travel will begin to go into peak demand. Joe Biden's Green New Deal only resulted in more GREEN MONEY for the Swamp's Hot Air spewing career politicians. Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden is at risk of being charged in criminal and family court cases alike, which could lead to Hunter Biden's incarceration. Hunter Biden's alleged illegal business activities may involve his father Joe Biden's own finances and political interests, which could lead to Joe Biden's impeachment. RFK, Jr. will capitalize on all of Joe Biden's family and political problems, but he himself has his own political problems, including being recruited to run against Joe Biden in the Democratic Party 2024 primary by Nazi Trumper Steve Bannon. If/when RFK, Jr. loses, he will have divided the Democratic Party by criticizing Joe Biden's public record, which will benefit Donald Trump like it did in 2016 when Bernie Sanders' campaign criticized Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton's corporate politics. History always repeats itself because "Divide and Conquer" is the oldest strategy in the political playbook. Rather than allowing all of this to play out in 2024, Joe Biden should retire at the end of his presidential term in 2024 and allow a new Democratic Party candidate for U.S. President to run and accept the nomination in 2024. I also do NOT want Donald Trump to run for U.S. President in 2024 because he is the leader of the racist White Nationalist political movement in the U.S.A., and he will prioritize authoritarianism over democracy to achieve his ends for minority rule by white elites in our country and in Europe alike. Ronald Reagan used to say that the U.S.A. is founded on Human Rights, Jimmy Carter openly ran his presidential administration based on Human Rights, but Donald Trump only wants white elites' minority rule by White Nationalism. The Swamp is facing a lose-lose situation with a Joe Biden versus Donald Trump rematch in 2024. It is time for change in 2024! I want the U.S. President(s) to go back to supporting Human Rights for All Peoples and people both at home and around the world. It is time to end the rule corporate Democrats, White Nationalist Trumpers, and the Swamp spending us into oblivion.
Jonathan A. Melle
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April 29, 2023
John Adams did NOT write that most of the Founding Fathers should NOT have owned Slaves, but his son John Quincy Adams was a powerful voice to end Slavery in the U.S.A. Abe Lincoln ended Slavery in the U.S.A., but he also wanted to deport all black people from the U.S.A., but then he was assassinated, and his post-Civil War plans never happened. FDR and the Allied Powers defeated Hitler in WW2, but FDR refused to sign a federal law outlawing lynching of black people. Ronald Reagan did not support boycotting South Africa's system of Apartheid. Donald Trump is the leader of the racist White Nationalist political movement to replace democracy with authoritarianism to establish white elite led minority rule in the U.S.A., as well as in Europe. Joe Biden has an over 50-year public record of racism in the Swamp, but he has also made progress towards racial justice. The greatest political evil continues under the U.S. Constitution: Over 200 years of systemic racism by many racist U.S. Presidents, including the classical ones who owned Slaves.
Jonathan A. Melle
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August 7, 2023
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
I thought that Eric SwanSIN the SINNER was going to allege those homophobic salacious sex acts towards me - Jon Melle (I am not a homosexual), instead of against the former U.S. President Barack Obama. I also thought that the Republican Party in the Swamp had another name: The MORAL HYPOCRISY Party! We all have a Penis or a Vagina everybody. We all like to ORGASM everybody. We all have sexual interests everybody. It doesn't matter if it is the three marriages and countless love affairs ultimate MORAL HYPOCRITE named Donald Trump, or the hunky love bug named Barack Obama. Cultural Wars in Swamp politics are never-ending and do no nothing to help to better our messed-up society that the fringe media outlets like to broadcast for cheap, gratuitous political points and the Almighty Dollar. Even Jesus Christ Himself said and THE BIBLE wrote that we are all sinners!
Jonathan A. Melle
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August 17, 2023
Sarcasm: I heard Glen Beck say that the Republican Party in the Swamp is the Grand Old Party of Moral Hypocrisy! Not Sarcasm: Donald Trump is the Republican Party's number one Moral Hypocrite who openly cheated on all three of his wives, paid off a porn star and a Playboy model to not kiss and tell on him. Oh, and let us not forget that Donald Trump equals Adolf Hiter. Donald Trump's presidential campaigns and presidential administration had/have neo-Nazis - aka alt-right - work for him since 2015. I think the terms "Moral Hypocrisy" and "Moral Hypocrite" are too kind because Donald Trump is EVIL! Anyone with a good conscience will never support Donald Trump in U.S. politics! I will never support Donald Trump in U.S. politics!
Jonathan A. Melle
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https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/cartoons/editorial-cartoon-steve-breen/image_6997fadc-6f60-5db4-9e5c-4115276fad00.html
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January 8, 2024
I do NOT believe that rape is O.K. I do not believe that minors being raped by adults is O.K. I do believe that Donald Trump is a Nazi. I believe that MAGA really stands for NAZI. I have long listed evidence to substantiate my beliefs about Donald Trump's racism. I have stated that Donald Trump had Nazi's work in his campaign(s) and presidential administration. I have stated that Donald Trump has used words and speeches that are similar to those of Adolf Hitler. I have stated that Donald Trump's propaganda that the 2020 election was stolen from him and that the 1/6/2021 insurrection on Capitol Hill was not an insurrection is similar to Nazi propaganda in the 1930's. I do acknowledge that both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden have a history of racism in politics. Hillary Clinton's use of the word "Super-Predators" in the 1990's crime bill really meant "keep the N-word out of the wealthy white suburbs". Joe Biden has a long list of racism in the Swamp going back over 50 years. Both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party have a history of racism in politics. The current Republican Party is one of MORAL HYPOCRISY led by the biggest Moral Hypocrite EVER named Donald Trump. The current Democratic Party is one of corporatism mixed with left-wing socialist big federal spending. I hope for two new presidential candidates to run in 2024. I hope that all of the career politicians get voted out of elected office in 2024 and beyond. The current system of government is not working for the American people it is supposed to serve. The financial, corporate and ruling elites are all benefiting, while the rest of us have to pound sand.
Jon Melle
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September 3, 2024
Kamala will visit Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Wednesday, September 04th, 2024.
(Sarcasm): I will let her know that blogger Dan Valenti writes unfavorable posts about her candidacy for U.S. President. She will tell me that if Donald Trump is elected U.S. President in 2024, then he will turn our democracy into an authoritarian regime that will side with other authoritarian economic and military superpowers such as Russia and China in the name of peace, but it will really be a world of terror and fascism.
(NOT sarcasm): Trump, Vance, Project 2025, billionaires and greed, Saudi oil and MBS and their legacy of 09/11/2001, mass arms sales exports for Wall Street's lucrative profits, cultural conflicts wedge issues, WEIRD moral hypocrisies by a big government full of moral hypocrites, the January 06th, 2021, insurrection on Capitol Hill and Trump's promised pardons of convicted Felons, and Trump's daily propaganda that would tell us that it is all for our own good when it will actually put us in a state of fear from being persecuted.
Blogger Dan Valenti has joined Donald Trump in Donald Trump's lies about Kamala and the Democrats, and Donald Trump's own life of being the ultimate moral hypocrite. The truth: It is all about MONEY and POWER! It is all a GAME! We do NOT matter in any of this Twilight Zone billion-dollar 2024 presidential campaign season.
Jonathan A. Melle
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December 16, 2024
Donald Trump's lawfare threats and defamation lawsuits against the media:
https://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-unleashes-dangerous-attack-media-180024735.html
This comes from a 78-year-old orange buffoon who does nothing but lie to people.
I believe that it will backfire because it will only embolden the media to publish unfavorable news stories and opinions about Donald Trump.
Jon Melle
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Letter: "American voters chose poorly"
The Berkshire Eagle, December 21, 2024
To the editor: American voters installed a treasonous insurrectionist, racist, molester, habitual liar and convicted criminal assaulting the timeless principles of truth, morality and the common good.
Their blind choice will deny specific programs meant to help people: a woman’s freedom, voting rights, increasing Social Security, universal health care with paid family/medical leave and elderly home care, assault weapons elimination, ending the genocide in Gaza, strengthening unions, making homebuying affordable and free higher education in return for national service. Instead of an astute leader in this time of global crisis, we now have a buffoon running a sandbox of transactional bribery.
The decision removes any pretense of humane values in this floating garage sale called a country. Our hemisphere has been inhabited by first peoples since at least 23,000 BCE. Europeans came in 1492, initiating a genocide lasting to the present, occupying lands and people for free labor in the profit-driven plantations and industries developed over centuries. When natives could not serve as fodder, enslaved African peoples filled the role in a holocaust begun in 1532 in Brazil and 1619 in what is now the U.S. Succeeding waves of immigrants — Chinese, Mexicans, Vietnamese — were cast as the "other," tortured and killed yet used as integral parts of the labor pool to benefit successive actors in the 1 percent snake-oil medicine show. That has included agricultural and factory operations, with its current offspring, the prison-industrial complex; overseers of immigrant labor; robber barons old and new; and now a new means of production/control via information and virtual reality — all serving the updated radical individual, stealing fortunes for ego and power, diametrically opposed to the idea of communal responsibility.
The American circus is retreating to further extremes in lockstep against the world’s peoples with violence, puppet leaders, oppression and media suppression — a metastasis of domestic and planetary inhumanity. Our moral vacuum is historically and currently drenched in atrocity, denial of justice justice, rejection of laws and the Constitution, all part of the global scene’s last refuge for extractive monopoly capitalism.
Headline news states Kamala Harris lost the election. Yet the people of the U.S. Inc. and the world have lost things that cannot be regained on our path to extinction: democracy, truth, honesty, responsibility and community as one human family. As George Orwell stated at the end of his novel "Animal Farm": "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
Royal Hartigan, Pittsfield
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January 20, 2025
JD Vance once called Donald Trump: "America's Hitler".
Elon Musk looked like he saluted Adolf Hitler today.
https://democrats.org/news/%F0%9F%9A%A8-trumps-inauguration-features-neo-nazis-and-hitler-salutes-from-top-ally/
MAGA = NAZI
Jonathan A. Melle
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February 3, 2025
Wake up, little Susie....to:
Trump & Elon's Techno-fascism/authoritarian politics; Homan's ICE Age raids of middle & elementary schools; the controversial presidential power grabs & Constitutional CHAOS....
1, 2....Musk, Homan, Trump, J.D. Vance, etc. are coming for you....
3, 4....Executive Orders are flying out the door....
5, 6....The Catholic Church is on MAGA's pseudo-Crucifix....
7, 8....They want us to HATE
9, 10....History is repeating itself again....
Jonathan A. Melle
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Letter: "Families like ours bear the brunt of President Trump's policies"
The Berkshire Eagle, February 4, 2025
To the editor: On Jan. 20, President Donald Trump was sworn into office and began signing executive orders including putting a freeze on federal funds and grants.
My son, Michael, has Down syndrome and was diagnosed with leukemia in 2022. Michael is in remission, but he needs to continue to receive treatments to prevent the cancer from returning. Instead of my family just stressing about whether Michael’s cancer will return, we are now stressing over how would we be able to afford these expensive treatments going forward. Will we need to file bankruptcy, or will we need to take a chance and stop treatments and hope that Michael does not die?
Shame on the president of the United States for putting my family (and other families) in this situation.
This executive order is also stressing us about whether two agencies that give Michael such great support — Extra Special Teas and Berkshire County ARC — would be closing their doors due to lack of federal funds and grants. These two agencies help not only my son but so many others in a very positive way.
Due to Michael having a weakened immune system, there are days he is not able to attend Extra Special Teas, and therefore the state has provided funding for us to pay a dear friend while my husband and I work. Will those funds disappear as well? The added stresses continue.
Fewer than 36 hours later, Trump rescinded the freeze only after getting pushback from a federal judge. President Trump is screwing with people’s lives, and this is no way for the president of the United States to act.
President Donald Trump does not give a damn about my son Michael. However, my son’s cancer journey is being followed by so many caring people (including Trump supporters). I hope by sharing my experience it will make at least some of the supporters take notice and want to push back on Trump’s actions.
Kelly Koperek, Lee
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Letter: "A pertinent history lesson from my former BCC professor"
The Berkshire Eagle, February 14, 2025
To the editor: Many years ago, I had a fantastic teacher at Berkshire Community College who taught us something that is important to pass on at this time.
The teacher's name was Jan Wiener. He had been a young soldier in Czechoslovakia during the Second World War, and the course he taught at BCC was "The History of Nazi Germany."
This teacher had many fascinating anecdotes, including his escape from a concentration camp and hanging onto the undercarriage of a train while getting away through Europe.
One thing Mr. Wiener warned us about was not ever to say that Adolf Hitler was a monster or devil. He said referring to him this way puts him in realm of fantasy, and people would think this kind of evil could never happen again. Hitler was a sick human being, and it is completely possible for another human to be like him and do what Hitler did.
It is hard not to be reminded of this warning as we hear news of minorities and immigrants being denigrated and demonized by this administration.
Housing migrants at Guantanamo Bay, where no one is overseeing what is happening to them, is absolutely chilling.
After the world wars, it was said we must never forget. Apparently, many Americans have.
Joan Mazzeo, Pittsfield
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February 15, 2025
I am NOT the one who uses "Hitler".
In fact, Elon Musk looked like he was saluting Adolf HItler on the night of 01/20/2025 (Trump's inauguration ceremony).
In fact, JD Vance did call Donald Trump "America's Hitler".
In fact, many HATE groups support Donald Trump's racist White Nationalist so-called Christian movement in the U.S.A. (& beyond).
Jesus Christ was a Jewish Rabbi. The Neo-Nazi's hate the Jewish People and other minorities. The White Nationalist "Christian" political movement that is led by Donald Trump is NOT about religion, but rather, it is about HATE in the Government.
You - Charles Ivar Kronick - write about the U.S.A.'s Founding Fathers' religious political movement that somehow correlates with Trump's MAGA movement, but many of the Founding Fathers owned SLAVES.
As an aside, I was at the Market Basket grocery store in Nashua, NH, a few weeks ago, and a Catholic Priest was in line behind me. I was humbled by his presence. I feel the utmost honor when I think about the Founding Fathers.
Over the past 3 weeks, the Catholic Church was placed on MAGA's Crucifix. Trump has issued questionable Executive Orders stripping away our U.S. Constitutional Rights. The Separation of Powers has been put into crises by the Trump administration.
There are many parallels between Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump and some of his supporters.
Jonathan A. Melle
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February 16, 2025
The other religious aspect of 1776 was the moral hypocrisy of the cause of Classical Liberalism when Slavery was the exact opposite of Liberty.
In the mid-1770's, the taxpayers in the American British Colonies paid a net of 2 weeks of their annual incomes to King George III. Fast forward to 2025, and the U.S. taxpayers pay months of their annual income to the career politicians in the government, which has tens of trillions in public debts that will paid off by Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
Taxation without representation centuries ago was actually a better deal than in 2025 whereby the government represents us, but it only does DISSERVICES to the common people and taxpayers on many levels.
We have a federal government ran by billionaires who each make millions of dollars in net income per day, while the common people on average make less than $100 in net income per day.
It was not like it is now in the 21st Century in the latter part of the 18th and most of the 19th Century. Furthermore, post-WW2, the U.S. middle-class actually did well for a little less than 30 years before losing ground for a little over the past 50 years.
In 2025, we live in a financial-postindustrial era that is fostering great economic inequality. Most people do not even comprehend financial management in the first place. The government has conditioned the common people to be financial fools for the benefit of the super wealthy and elites.
The Founding Fathers fought against financial tyranny, while in 2025, we are the victims of it. Donald Trump wants to sign into law a $4.5- to $5 trillion federal tax cut for the wealthy and elites, but both U.S. inflation and government deficit spending is increasing, which would be exacerbated by Trump's proposed tariffs.
If we want to preserve democracy and liberty, then we have to change the financial tyranny by rebuilding the middle-class.
Jonathan A. Melle
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Letter: "Trump administration piles up Hitler parallels"
The Berkshire Eagle, February 22, 2025
To the editor: Donald Trump used to keep the collected speeches of Adolf Hitler by his bedside and occasionally looked through them.
His favored oligarch, Elon Musk, performed two straight-arm Nazi salutes at a Trump inaugural event last month.
So far, Trump is following the Hitler model.
Increasingly he claims powers beyond the scope of the office to which he was elected.
Incessantly he lies, following the "big lie" strategy of Joseph Goebbels.
Consistently he blames all society’s ills on people he deems ethnically impure.
He describes disfavored people as “vermin” or “poisoning the blood of our country.”
He advocates white supremacist “racehorse theory” or eugenics.
He demeans disabled people.
He has unleashed fanatics to commit acts of violence in support of his cause (Proud Boys instead of Brownshirts).
He intends to acquire territory of other countries (Gaza, Panama Canal, Greenland, Canada instead of Sudetenland, Austria, Poland).
I have heard Holocaust survivors say “I have seen this before.”
We have got to get off this track.
Anthony P.X. Bothwell, San Francisco, Calif.
The writer was an aide to the late U.S. Rep. Silvio Conte, of Pittsfield, a Republican who represented the Massachusetts 1st Congressional District.
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February 24, 2025
I read that on Tuesday, February 25th, 2025, the Republican Party Members of U.S. Congress in the United States House of Representatives plan on voting to cut federal funding for Medicaid and SNAP benefit for the low-income American people, but I then wondered if they plan on cutting their own federal public pay plus perks too?
Jonathan A. Melle
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February 27, 2025
Re: Blogger Dan Valenti defends Trump's apologist negotiations with Putin over Ukraine
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
Over 2 decades ago, the Bush 2 led U.S. Government invaded Iraq.
Over 3 years ago, the Putin led Russian Government invaded Ukraine.
China has the intention to invade Taiwan in the future.
Trump criticized the Bush 2 led U.S. Government for its invasion of Iraq. Trump's MAGA movement is a reaction to Bush 2's neo-con movement.
Trump wrongly criticized the Ukrainian Government for being invaded by Putin's Russian Government. Trump did not invite the Ukrainian Government to his apologist negotiations with Putin over Ukraine. Trump is trivializing Ukraine in favor of Putin.
My opinion of Putin is that he is a straight up ASS. My opinion of Trump is that he is bald-faced LIAR.
I believe that Ukraine should have a strong voice in Trump's apologist negotiations with Putin.
On another subject, I believe that you, along with many of your blog readers and posters, do not understand how dangerous Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior is to me in my adult life. For decades of my adult life, I have discussed Luciforo's persecution of me with mental health providers, and they do not understand the extent of it either.
We all know what happened to the late Bernard Baran in Pittsfield (Massachusetts). If I don't write, blog, post, etc., about Nuciforo's persecution of me, then I fear that Luciforo would turn me into the next Bernard Baran, even though I live in Amherst, New Hampshire.
Nuciforo is a millionaire political brat of Pittsfield politics. Luciforo keeps the company of billionaire John Forbes Kerry and other rich and powerful people in Boston. Luciforo has ruined my life as an adult. I look like a disgruntled paranoid schizophrenic to Luciforo's sympathizers. Luciforo mockingly laughs when my name is mentioned to him, as I was told by people.
Lastly, the ultimate Pittsfield insider named Cliff Nilan once said, as I was once told, that I can speak out about Luciforo, the late Carmen, and others in his political network, but there is nothing I could do them. I think old Cliffy summed it up perfectly.
Best wishes,
Jonathan A. Melle
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March 02, 2025
FACTS:
In 2003, the Bush 2 led U.S. Government invaded Iraq. John Forbes Kerry, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Joe Biden all voted for the aforementioned invasion of Iraq, which has one of the highest oil and natural gas reserves in the world.
In 2022, the Putin led Russian Government invaded Ukraine. The ongoing war is over 3 years old and counting. Trump is negotiating with Putin without Ukraine being at the negotiating table. Trump says that he wants the war to end with a ceasefire. The war continues with Ukrainian-friendly European countries backing Ukraine.
China has made its intentions clear that it plans to invade Taiwan in the future. The U.S. Government opposes China's threat to invade Taiwan.
Jon Melle's OPINIONS:
The U.S. Government should NOT have invaded Iraq in 2003. The U.S. Government is morally hypocritical to oppose Russia's invasion of Ukraine, along with China's threat to invade Taiwan.
Donald Trump is a LIAR. Putin is a straight up ASS. The Communist Party leadership in China is wrong to threaten to invade Taiwan. Two or more wrongs does NOT make it right. That is why we have international laws and diplomacy. War should be a last resort.
I believe that J.D. Vance is a far-right extremist. He recently went to Germany and met with the Neo Nazi-like far-right woman leader Alice Weidel prior to the February 23rd, 2025 national election in Germany. He told European leaders that they should listen to otherwise fringe extremist leaders, as well as blamed them for the immigration crises in Europe.
Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are an embarrassment to the U.S. Government. I support Governor Maura Healey in state and national politics. I hope that she will run for U.S. President in 2028 to bring change and common sense back to the U.S. Government.
On another subject: Nuciforo.
I understand that most people do not comprehend the extent of Nuciforo's persecution of me since I first met Luciforo in the Spring 1996 when I was 20 years old; I turn 50 this upcoming Summer 2025. It sounds absurd, but I am speaking, writing and blogging the truth about Nuciforo's harmful actions against me for a little less than the past 29 years of my adult life.
I believe that Nuciforo needs to explain himself to me and the general public alike. I do not rule out suing Nuciforo in a court of law.
Thank you for allowing me to publish my writings on the blog named Planet Valenti.
Jon Melle
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March 03, 2025
Part of my post was edited out on the blog named Planet Valenti.
I tried to respond to the prior posts concerning my long-term feud with Nuciforo.
I am grateful for the related posts and your concerns.
There has been around 300,000 years of human behavior and human nature, which never changes throughout human history. I believe that most of the time, human behavior happens in the present, and then we try to rationalize it in the future, while we try to understand the past.
I have an old dog named Chocolate, who will turn 17 years old this upcoming Summer 2025. I like dogs more than human beings.
Jon Melle
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Letter: "Is Rep. Goodlander MIA?"
The New Hampshire Union Leader, Feb 27, 2025
To the Editor: Where is Maggie Goodlander? Why are we not hearing anything from her about what she is doing to push back on Elon Musk and this Trump administration? I sent an email to her office a couple of weeks ago and have received no response as of yet. Town halls are being held all over this country in person or by telephone. Citizens are rightfully upset about the antics in Washington. I do not see or hear that our representatives are doing anything. Did we make a mistake by voting her into office?
Jill Minoughan
New Boston, New Hampshire
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Letter: "Key context on the bone-deep cuts in House budget plan"
The Berkshire Eagle, March 8, 2025
To the editor: In the midst of a national budget crisis, House Speaker Mike Johnson has advised Republican members of Congress against holding town hall meetings in their districts to discuss the contentious budget proposal passed by the House.
This directive stems from a fear of constituent backlash over decisions that could significantly impact public welfare as well as the ham-handed cost-cutting approach of Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency. Meanwhile, Democrats find themselves without the leverage to counter these actions effectively.
However, there is a proactive strategy available. Democrats should organize town hall and public meetings in Republican-held districts to directly address the constituents about the impact to their communities of proposed cuts to vital programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Program and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as well as the potential effects of eliminating crucial government roles. At these meetings, Democrats should invite the incumbent Republicans to participate and make it publicly known when they choose not to attend. Highlighting the disparity between the cuts to public services and the tax reductions for the wealthiest Americans — which the proposed budget favors — could illuminate the stark choices that are being made.
To give these issues the broader audience they deserve, it would be important to record and post each meeting online. Such transparency might not only inform the public but could potentially galvanize voter response.
Some budget context to consider: The proposed budget includes a $4.5 trillion tax cut over 10 years, directing $2.5 trillion of that to the top 10 percent of taxpayers, with half of that going to the top 1 percent, whose average annual adjusted gross income is approximately $2.5 million. It’s projected to add $3 trillion to the deficit.
The House plan calls for $2 trillion in spending cuts, including $880 billion from the Energy and Commerce Committee, whose jurisdiction includes Medicaid, and $230 billion from the Agriculture Committee, which oversees SNAP. Those programs support up to 200,000 individuals in each congressional district, more than 70 million Americans on Medicaid alone — more than 20 percent of our population.
For perspective, the annual federal civilian payroll is about $110 billion, illustrating that the elimination of every one of these positions wouldn’t come close to covering even a quarter of the cost of the tax cuts proposed for billionaire donors, large corporations and other ultra-wealthy individuals.
Democrats cannot wait until the midterm elections to take effective action. It will be too late.
Arthur Peisner, New Marlborough
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March 10, 2025
Trump is hurting Veterans!
https://theconversation.com/5-reasons-veterans-are-especially-hard-hit-by-federal-cuts-251188
Jon Melle
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"Musk Boosts Claim That Hitler Wasn’t to Blame for Holocaust"
By David Gardner, The Daily Beast, March 13, 2025
Elon Musk has reposted a tweet suggesting that Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong were not responsible for murdering millions of people.
The post amplified by Musk to his 219.6 million followers blamed “public sector workers” for the atrocities carried out in the name of some of the most barbarous tyrants in modern history.
It was unclear whether the DOGE boss was seeking to defend the infamously ruthless former leaders of Germany, China, and the Soviet Union, or seeking to encourage debate over the mass killings carried out in their names.
The MAGA millionaire shared a post on his X platform by an account with the username @TheAlice Smith that read: “Stalin, Mao and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector workers did.”
By highlighting a post blaming “public sector workers” and painting them in a negative light, Musk is likely to draw the ire of the thousands of federal staffers his Department of Government Efficiency has targeted for job cuts and slashed budgets during the unrelenting purge of government departments since Donald Trump returned to the White House.
While the post doesn’t suggest a denial of the Holocaust that left six million Jews dead during World War II, as it appears to concede that millions were murdered, it will almost certainly raise questions once more about Musk’s motivation in promoting such a controversial message.
The Tesla founder faced a storm of criticism for a gesture at a Trump inauguration event in January that was remarkably similar to the Nazi salute used by Hitler and his followers. The controversial gesticulation was subsequently celebrated and aped by neo-Nazis and other far-right groups.
Musk was condemned by Jewish leaders, but later condemned his critics on X, saying: “Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is soo tired.”
The world’s richest man didn’t add any comment to his repost on Wednesday night.
Six million Jews were systematically killed as a result of Hitler’s maniacal quest for what he saw as racial purity during his reign as Germany’s Führer between 1933 and 1945, when he shot himself in his Berlin bunker as Allied troops stormed the German capital towards the end of World War II.
Stalin, who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953, had nearly a million of his own citizens murdered and millions more are thought to have perished in forced labor camps, famine, and massacres under his regime.
“Chairman” Mao Zedong founded the People’s Republic of China and led the country from 1949 until his death in 1976. During that time, tens of millions died as a result of maltreatment, starvation, and Communist Party purges.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/musk-boosts-claim-hitler-wasn-224050228.html
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May 22, 2025
Co-President Elon Musk's DOGE should be spelled DAMAGE.
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