Monthly Archives: June 2024

BIDEN DIDN’T JUST BECOME THIS WAY, WE KNEW IN 2020

biden in 2021

JOE BIDEN IN 2021, ALREADY LOOKING AS FAR GONE AND PATHETIC AS HE LOOKED IN THURSDAY NIGHT’S DEBATE. THIS IS NOTHING NEW.

Here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, I’ve been deluged with remarks, emails, text messages, etc. ever since Thursday night when Joe Biden once again behaved as unfit for office as he’s been since 2020. Some were surprised that I hadn’t immediately posted a crowing account of how – even with the host network’s accommodations for his unfitness that NO sitting president should ever be given – Biden once again behaved as poorly as we have all seen him do in countless video clips from recent years.   

unfit and pathetic bidenRather than just focus on how idiotically Old Soils Himself behaved Thursday night I will first offer some reminders about how the Democrat Party, the Bidens themselves and ESPECIALLY Democrat media outlets have been running cover for Biden’s unfitness for the past four years. Remember how the Democrats were most recently pretending video footage of Biden’s imbecility were “deep fakes” or “taken out of context.”

Legitimate questions were ignored regarding the Media Wall of Protection around Biden that has been lying to the voters for years now. The Party kept claiming Biden was sharp-minded and alert and that his “just a few hours and done for the day” conduct was just opposition party propaganda and not proof of his unfit condition.

biden embarrassingOne of the benefits of my series of blog posts looking back on the national scene under President Donald Trump and then following the installation of Joe Biden has been seeing how short the public memory is. Every week those posts produced “Hey, yeah, I forgot all about that” reactions from people.

Rather than just dump them all in one long blog post, I will recap the most crucial items in the days ahead. Even if the Democrats drop Biden I will still be making these posts because the monumental dishonesty of the Democrat Party and their media outlets as they forced the pathetic little crook Joe Biden on us NEEDS more attention than the topic has gotten so far.

Joe Biden dem in dementiaFirst, there was this satirical depiction of Joe Biden’s unfitness and inability to truly campaign in 2020 as he hid away from the public as much as possible. It’s a hilarious video: WEEKEND AT BIDEN’S. It could still be rerun here in 2024 because Biden’s unfitness is still apparent to everyone except people who refuse to ever read or watch media outlets that don’t play to their own biases and preconceived notions.

Lastly for this time is THIS 2021 ITEM FROM THE U.K. – yes, 2021 – and the reporter correctly points out how clear Biden’s unfitness already was, AND how clearly the media had failed to properly cover Biden’s inadequacies, AND how it was still going on as even then Democrat “reporters” were helping Biden through his public appearances. The whole item is HERE, but first, some excerpts reminding us that Joe Biden didn’t just suddenly become what he was Thursday night. From 2021:

     “(the) reason why too few realised what the world was going to get from a Biden presidency is that the US media simply didn’t ask the questions it needed to ask. Before the election a near entirety of the American media gave up covering it and simply campaigned for the Democrat nominee.” (NOTE FROM BALLADEER: And so did the near entirety of the British media and other European media.)

“Instead, they just hung on his every incoherent sentence and accepted his pronouncements (generally beginning with “Look”) as if they had any more idea than he did about whatever point he was forever struggling to make.”

“Until you see it up close you just cannot believe the cravenness of most of the American media. Last month the CNN presenter Don Lemon was selected to quiz Biden at a “town hall” event before the cameras. Biden was, as usual, meandering and unfocused as though lost in the fog of his own sentences. But Lemon would not press him properly … It wasn’t journalism. It wasn’t even kindness. He was rooting for the president.” Continue reading

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BALLADEER’S BLOG: WNBA RESULTS – JUNE 30th EDITION

seattle stormWIN IT BY TWELVE – The SEATTLE STORM (11-6) welcomed the INDIANA FEVER (7-12).

By Halftime of the game the Storm were on top of Indiana by a score of 53-39 and from there they coasted to an 89-77 victory. Jewell Loyd led the winners with her THIRTY-FOUR points. For the Fever, CAITLIN CLARK led with 15 points and 7 assists.    Continue reading

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THE BLACK COAT: REVOLUTIONARY WAR SUPERHERO

bc actaThis weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog looks at the independent comic book character the Black Coat, a masked hero in 1770s New York City.

This hero’s stories begin in March 1775, just a month before the Battles of Concord & Lexington will kick off America’s Revolutionary War. He has subsequent adventures set during the war itself.

bc splashThe Black Coat is really Nathaniel Finch, brilliant young scientist and friend of Ben Franklin himself. Our costumed hero runs his own covert network of rebels called the Knights of Liberty, men and women who risk everything to fight against tyranny. His coal-black horse Phobos stands ever-ready as well.

Part Zorro, part Dr. Syn the Scarecrow and part Shadow, the Black Coat uses his sword, pistols and steampunk (well, actually sailpunk) inventions to preserve the emerging United States of America. His right-hand lady Ursula Morgan runs the covert outfit’s day to day operations, with the Black Coat going into action against Great Britain, Tory Loyalists and assorted products of Britain’s weird science & occult arts. 

bc acta 1THE BLACK COAT Vol 1 #1 (2006)

Title: A Call to Arms, Part One

Villains: General Savidge, the Butcher and the League

Synopsis: This tale gets off to an interesting start as the Black Coat and some of his Knights of Liberty pilot his submersible proto-submarine the Scylla in their raid of a secret British ship trying to assassinate Ben Franklin under the guise of a pirate attack. 

NOTE: It’s a nod to the real-life affair of the VERY primitive submarine the Turtle from the Revolutionary War. Except the Black Coat’s sub succeeds in its mission. 

bc fightThe saved Franklin visits with our hero in his civilian Nathaniel Finch identity at the New York Sentinel, Finch’s patriot newspaper. Rumors of war breaking out at any moment are everywhere. British General Savidge has secretly allied himself with shadowy conspirators called the League – an evil version of the Founding Fathers’ Masonic Lodges. Continue reading

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ANNA MARIA LANE AND SALLY ST. CLAIR: REVOLUTIONARY WAR HEROINES

anna maria laneWith the 4th of July holiday fast approaching, here is another seasonal post from Balladeer’s Blog. When it comes to women who dressed up as men and served as soldiers during America’s Revolutionary War, Deborah Sampson gets most of the attention. Here’s a look at two other women who disguised themselves as men to serve in the war.

ANNA MARIA LANE (c1755-1810) – Pictured above left, this courageous woman and her husband John Lane joined America’s Continental Army in 1776. Anna Maria saw action in Georgia, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. Continue reading

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ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: DREAMS OF EARTH AND SKY (1895) PLUS MORE

itsiolk001p1Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky did real-life work crucial to space-flight and is one of the neglected pioneers of Science Fiction. Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at a few of his works.

DREAMS OF EARTH AND SKY (1895) – The opening section of this piece presents the well-worn Hollow Earth with an interior sun storyline. The real treasure is found in the “Dreams of the Sky” portion.

An asteroid in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter is so large that today it would be called a Dwarf Planet like Ceres. The planetoid is inhabited by ambulatory plant-like humanoids who have wings instead of arms and who live in small versions of greenhouses. 

Dreams of Earth and SkyThese flying plant-people from the Asteroid Belt obtain nourishment through chlorophyll and solar radiation. They also have advanced technology like the harnessing of dismantled asteroids into rings, resulting in lower gravity for manufacturing work.

The beings have even created “space-trains” capable of taking them on interstellar journeys. 

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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky bookOUT OF THE EARTH (1920) – Set in the year 2017 A.D. this tale features what readers are told is the first manned flight to the moon, some 48 years AFTER it happened in real life.

An international team of tycoons and scientific adventurers are planning to explore the universe, with the moon an obvious first step. Continue reading

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JUNE 27th ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

From the land of career criminal Joe “not competent to stand trial” Biden it’s time for another current events roundup courtesy of Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

biden is not legitCONGRESS: THE CIA INTERFERED WITH THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND AIDED THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN. Tell us something we didn’t already know.

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION RECORDS REVEAL THAT THE DEMOCRAT NATIONAL COMMITTEE HAS FUNNELED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO LAW FIRMS INVOLVED IN PERSECUTING OPPOSITION LEADER TRUMP. We have become the kind of country so many of our grandparents fled from.

jack smith picANTI-TRUMP PERSECUTOR JACK SMITH ADMITS TO EVEN MORE GOVERNMENT TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE AT MAR-A-LAGO. Jack Smith, looking nothing at all like a stalker and rapist, leads what may be the most corrupt and tainted “prosecution” in history. 

BIPARTISAN LEGAL ADVISORY GROUP DECLARES THE WITCH-HUNTING JANUARY SIXTH COMMITTEE WAS ILLEGITIMATE AND SO WERE ANY SUBPOENAS IT ISSUED.

CNN IMPLEMENTING A 1-2 MINUTE DELAY FOR TONIGHT’S PRESIDENTIAL “DEBATE.” An additional way for them to prop up Joe Biden by deciding what President Trump is allowed to say.

CNN’S PRESIDENTIAL “DEBATE” HOSTS FOR TONIGHT HAVE HISTORY OF COMPARING TRUMP TO HITLER, PLUS MORE. More HERE. I have no idea why President Trump and his people were stupid enough to okay the conditions Biden demanded for this. These days presidential debates – even in more sedate times – have become virtually meaningless. No matter what happens, both sides claim that their candidate won and that the other side lied. Continue reading

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NEGLECTED REVOLUTIONARY WAR ACTIONS IN FEBRUARY 1777

The 4th of July holiday is fast approaching, so here is another seasonal post from Balladeer’s Blog. This one deals with some more overlooked clashes from America’s Revolutionary War. 

continental armyFEBRUARY 1st – At Drake’s Farm near Metuchen, New Jersey. In reaction to British losses throughout January as part of what some have called the Forage War, British General William Erskine sought to lure American forces into a trap.

Erskine sent a small party of his men pretending to be foragers to Drake’s Farm, seemingly to pillage supplies. American forces under General Adam Stephen and Colonel Charles Scott attacked them, at which point Erskine revealed his real strength and sent his hundreds of Redcoats and Hessians plus eight artillery pieces against the rebel forces. Continue reading

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THE FOOL KILLER: 1919 RETURN AFTER ANOTHER HIBERNATION

Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the many facets of Fool Killer lore. FOR PART ONE, INCLUDING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT, CLICK HERE.

fool killer miniAUGUST 1919 RETURN – From January of 1910 to July of 1917, James Larkin Pearson’s monthly Fool-Killer had been published, with his revival of the violent folk figure doing his ages-old job of bashing political and societal fools. In April 1917 America entered World War One and by July Pearson felt that a unified front for wartime was appropriate.

Just as Charles Napoleon Bonaparte Evans’ original Fool Killer had gone into hibernation early in the Civil War, so did James Larkin Pearson’s figuratively hibernate for a few years. In August of 1917 Pearson’s nationwide publication called The Fool-Killer changed its title and format from the hard-hitting satire of Fool Killing in order to show solidarity while the war raged. 

james larkin pearsonIn August of 1919, nine months after the end of the war, Pearson changed the name back to The Fool-Killer and resumed the hard-hitting political satire. That month’s targeted fools included: 

*** People still pushing President Woodrow Wilson’s claim that the World War (1914-1918) was fought to “Make the world safe for Democracy.” The Fool Killer would swing away at such people while pointing out the less-than-democratic nature of some of the Allied Powers governments from the recent conflict, for instance Italy and Japan.  

*** Cowardly or dishonest “journalists” who distort the facts and just produce propaganda for their bosses. (WOW! Pearson should see today’s lying reporters!)

*** People who thought the League of Nations would somehow end war. Continue reading

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BALLADEER’S BLOG’S FAVORITE RUMS FOR FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATIONS

For the 4th of July 2024 Balladeer’s Blog has a new rum selection which has earned its place on the chart.

leadslingers black flag rumLEADSLINGERS BLACK FLAG RUM – This is a terrific spiced rum that I find much better than Captain Morgan and other brands. It’s only 80 proof, so for Balladeer’s Blog regulars who prefer stronger rums read below.

Distilled right here in the U.S. Leadslingers Black Flag Rum’s nose presents hints of banana, in terms of palate think strong vanilla flavor.

This rum makes for a smooth finish, so it’s ideal for entertaining less hardy drinkers. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: JUNE 25th

It’s time for another current events roundup courtesy of Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, coming to you from the land of career criminal Joe “not competent to stand trial” Biden.

paul ryanTHE REPULSIVE REPUBLICAN PAUL RYAN AND EVEN MORE REASONS WHY HE DESERVES TO BE DESPISED.

MARYLAND DEMOCRAT PARTY OFFICIAL CAUGHT ON VIDEO IN STING OF PEDOPHILE RING. Democrats, can you please leave children alone? Remember this every time you hear M.A.P. – Minor Attracted Persons – the Democrat euphemism for child molestation and grooming. 

ARTICLE EXAMINING WHY THE OUTSIDER TRUMP IS SO SAVAGELY TARGETED BY THE CESSPOOL OF CORRUPTION THAT THE DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENTS HAVE MADE OF OUR GOVERNMENT.

nancy pelosi is garbagePRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER DEMOCRAT NANCY “ASK HER ABOUT HER INSIDER TRADING SCANDALS” PELOSI ENDANGERS DEMOCRACY BY CLAIMING THE SUPREME COURT HAS “GONE ROGUE.” I couldn’t resist the reference to endangering democracy since that’s what shrill Democrats forever snivel about anything and everything they disagree with.

BIDEN REGIME’S LATEST HATEMONGER CAUGHT SCRUBBING THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA HISTORY TO TRY HIDING THEIR BIGOTRY.

LANDMARK ELECTION VALIDITY LAWSUIT IN PENNSYLVANIA.

flushing justiceEVEN DEMOCRAT ANDREW CUOMO COURAGEOUSLY DENOUNCES THE BLATANT POLITICAL PERSECUTION OF OPPOSITION LEADER DONALD TRUMP VIA LAWFARE. Chelsea Handler most affected. More HERE.

DEMOCRATS EXPLOIT WELFARE OFFICES IN FORTY-NINE STATES BY HANDING OUT VOTER REGISTRATION FORMS TO NON-CITIZENS. This political party is the lowest of the low.  Continue reading

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