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I am passionately interested in college sports, ancient Greek comedies, bad/weird movies, mythology, the American Revolution, Puck Magazine, World War I, U.S. Presidential history, silent movies, the English Civil War, epic, lyric and comic poetry, U.S. Supreme Court history, the Revolutions of 1848, the Philippine War and old pulp heroes like The Moon Man, Pilot G8, Silver John and The Rio Kid.

DEMOCRAT BUFFOONERY IN PRIME TIME

democrat demagoguery about jan 6thIf anyone is tired of political posts, blame the Democrats because they insist on continuing their lies, their demagoguery and their hatemongering. They are offering up yet another round of lies about de facto Third Party President Donald Trump. Laughably, they are still pretending that the January 6th, 2021 protest at the Capitol Building was an “insurrection” (LMAO), yet still claim that Democrats burning down buildings, looting and trying to kill or blind cops constitute “mostly peaceful” demonstrations.

democrat platform hatredDespite the attempted assassination of a Supreme Court Justice a few days ago Democrats in the House of Representatives blocked a bill to provide additional protection for the Justices and their innocent family members AND STILL ENCOURAGE DEMONSTRATIONS OUTSIDE THEIR HOMES DESPITE THE FACT THAT SUCH ACTIONS ARE ILLEGAL. Joe Biden’s DOJ simply refuses to enforce that – and certain other – laws if it won’t help The Party. Even children of the Justices have been threatened by Democrat fascists.

And no, cops were NOT killed at the January 6th protest, no matter how many times Democrats and their media outlets lie about it. With Joe Biden’s approval ratings far below Trump’s or any other president’s lowest ratings at this point in their term Democrats are desperate to indulge in a show trial. (Their goal is to try to damage Trump, whose popularity is still such that the candidates he endorsed in this year’s primary elections currently stand at 110 wins and 6 losses.) 

Well, that and their fear that de facto Third Party President Donald Trump will return to his office. One of the best things about Trump is how much he terrifies the cesspool of corruption that masquerades as America’s government. He’s NOT a career politician, which automatically puts him above the career criminals in office, he’s rich enough to not be bought and has a thick enough skin to withstand attacks from the bought and paid-for whores from both of our political parties.  

And I will point out again that he was the greatest president for the working class and the poor of all colors during my lifetime. In addition he brought America energy independence and was the first president in decades to keep the U.S. out of any new wars.

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BIDEN CALLED THESE DEMOCRAT RIOTS MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS

Furthermore, the overwrought propaganda of the Democrats this week has had me laughing VERY hard. They theatrically pretend that the mass trespassing incident of January 6th, 2021 was “worse than the Civil War and the 9-11 attacks.” What disingenuous garbage.

Their monumental and hilarious political hypocrisy has been on full display in Washington DC this week as Democrats engage in political theater while pretending to revere the Capitol Building and its “symbolism.” (LMAO) Before I became an Independent Voter I spent most of my life as a Democrat and believe me, they feel contempt for the Capitol and its “symbolism”, even calling it one of the “institutions of imperialist rule” and “the seat of White Supremacy and systemic racism in America.”

Democrats also despise people who DO revere the Capitol and its symbolism, dismissing them as simple-minded patriotic rednecks.

Nancy Pelosi demagogueJanuary 2021 saw a “mostly peaceful protest” (as Democrats described the MONTHS-LONG Antifa riots which terrorized the country) at the Capitol turn into a chaotic mass-trespassing incident with the Democrats of the Capitol Police even killing an unarmed woman. Suddenly, Democrat pretensions that they revered the Capitol poured from the mouths of the demagogues of the Democrat Party.

Hey, let’s rename it “the Demagogue Party”. After all, the Democrat Party is the country’s oldest existing institution which launched a Civil War and fought for slavery, so a name change for that political party is LONG overdue. Okay, so they won’t rename themselves the Demagogue Party, but they should rename it something to distance themselves from the Democrat Party’s horrifically racist past.

capitol bombing 1983Anyway, Democrats felt that their OWN storming of the Capitol was fine back on October 4th, 2018, even though THEY WERE INTERFERING WITH ONE OF THOSE GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS WHICH THEY NOW PRETEND SHOULD BE SACROSANCT. Democrats/ the left cheered on that activity. And let’s not forget the way the left literally set off a BOMB in the Capitol on November 7th, 1983. Also HERE. A million dollars (by 1983 standards, so much more today) in damage was done.

Most adults are above the fake tears and the fear-mongering which truly pathetic Democrat members of Congress are indulging in regarding January 6th. The Democrats will probably never lose their competitive edge in phoniness and manufactured emotion, so non-Democrats – as in Independents, Third Party Voters, Republicans and People Who Claim No Political Affiliation, in other words THE REST OF US – will always need to remain highly skeptical of any and all political theater from them. 

Kenosha democrat riotIn May 2020 when the White House was violently attacked for about 24 hours and many secret service agents were seriously injured, Biden and other Democrats said Trump “used tear gas against peaceful protestors” even though it’s been proven that he DIDN’T use tear gas on those “peaceful protestors.” Listen to those Democrat hypocrites today and the draconian measures they now recommend against civil disobedience!
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The night of May 31st, 2020 rioters set fires all over the capital of the United States. A mob of them gathered outside the White House and threatened to storm it. The president was said to have been moved to a bunker. Many Democrats laughed at him and supported the mob. Never mind that the safety of the president, as a symbol of America and self-governance, goes beyond individual or party and should never be a laughing matter, like Democrats are now sniveling about the Capitol.
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Who knows? Some day the January 6th protestors may be looked on as the victims of governmental authoritarianism, like the Bonus Marchers of long ago. Nobody knows how events will be viewed decades and centuries from now, no matter how much Democrats pretend that they do.
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Anti-Trump fascists have sunk lower than ever over the past few years. In 2020 we had MONTHS of Democrat mobs rioting and starting fires and causing literally BILLIONS of dollars of damage and the loss of lives while the media and Democrat political figures cheered them on. Biden’s organization as well as several celebrities even PAID BAIL to get their fascist rioters back out on the streets for more mayhem. (Kamala Harris and 13 Biden staffers even donated money to a bail fund for rioters in Minneapolis and encouraged other people to do so, ballooning the fund up into the millions.)

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VAQUEROS WIN ANOTHER COLLEGE BASEBALL TITLE

NJCAA DIVISION ONE

central arizona college vaqueros logoNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The last two teams standing in NJCAA Division One baseball were the CENTRAL ARIZONA COLLEGE VAQUEROS and the COWLEY COLLEGE TIGERS.

The 1st Inning ended with the Vaqueros on top 2-1 and that became a 3-2 edge in the 2nd. The 3rd Inning saw Central Arizona College squeeze out a little breathing room as they made it a 4-2 game. Continue reading →

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DEMOCRATS AND THEIR VOTE FRAUD-A-PALOOZA

corporate media liesHere at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog it’s time for the latest in the countless news items about Democrats and vote fraud. As always, I make daily visits to Democrat sites like the Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, CNN, etc and to Republican sites like Fox News, OAN, Breitbart and Newsmax. If you avoid the opposite party’s media outlets then you’re only getting half the story. That’s why partisan fools pretend the country is “calmer” under career criminal Joe Biden just because their biased news sources pander to their prejudices by not covering Biden’s many disasters. Check out the news from both sides.  

And as I always say, readers are welcome here no matter who they vote for. NO Democrat site welcomes people who don’t vote with The Party.

GUILTY PLEA IN YET ANOTHER DEMOCRAT VOTE FRAUD/ BALLOT STUFFING SCANDAL IN PENNSYLVANIA. More HERE. Tied to conspiracy with an Election Judge who already pleaded guilty in October of 2021.

AND LET’S NOT FORGET THE LATEST IN A LINE OF GUILTY PLEAS REGARDING VOTE/ BALLOT CHARGES IN ARIZONA. More HERE.   

MEANWHILE, 2000 MULES, THE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT 2020 VOTE FRAUD IS ALREADY THE TOP-GROSSING DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR! Just like the 1876 and year 2000 elections, it looks like the actual loser in 2020 moved into the White House due to assorted types of corruption. The investigations must continue to try to prevent future recurrences.  Continue reading →

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SEVEN ODD MOVIES FOR NATIONAL VCR DAY

June 7th is National VCR Day! Balladeer’s Blog marks the occasion with some very brief takes on old VHS movies that I’ll probably never find the time to write full-length reviews about.

deadly spawnTHE DEADLY SPAWN (1983) – This film is also known as The Alien’s Deadly Spawn. If you’re into less appreciated splatter flicks this is the movie for you! Diminutive creatures (ignore the poster) from outer space terrorize a neighborhood while literally chewing their way through anything in their way, including human bodies. The gore effects are graphic but not extreme, the acting ranges from awful to average and the creature designs may be cheap but the overall package makes this a cult classic. And watch out for that final stinger! 

TRIUMPH OF THE CHAMPIONS OF JUSTICE (1974) – Another movie in the Campeones Justicieros series from Mexico. Blue Demon, Superzan and the White Phantom are back in action, aided by Elsa Cardenas as Venus. In their usual way, these wrestlers/ pulp heroes/ superheroes are clashing with their foe Black Hand and a group of evil midgets from another planet (or dimension, it’s hard to tell sometimes). And did I mention that for most of the run time the midgets are INVISIBLE while kidnapping Earth women? Lucha Libre the way it was meant to be – hard-hitting, Dutch-angled and barely coherent! Continue reading →

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THE PLANET JUGGLER (1908): ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION

planet jugglerTHE PLANET JUGGLER (1908) – Written by J. George Frederick. An early space opera set in an undesignated future year. Absurdly enough, Esperanto has become the global language in a reflection of the high hopes held by Esperanto speakers at the time this book was written.

An alien from the planet Canopus broadcasts a message to the entire Earth, in Esperanto of course. The extraterrestrial demands 500 million tons of gold or else it will send the Earth hurtling into the sun.

masc graveyard smallerThe Planet Juggler claims to have monitored Earth people for a decade, thus accounting for their fluency in Esperanto, but world leaders are skeptical that it’s all a hoax perpetrated by someone on our own planet. To disabuse Earthlings of that notion, the alien entity shuts down all of the electricity in and around New York.

Later, to convince any remaining doubters, the Canopian throws the Earth out of its orbit just enough to make their point. World leaders surrender and claim to be mining enough gold to meet the demanded 500 million tons. Secretly, the scientist Elverson and a network of other brilliant minds desperately struggle to devise a solution to this crisis.    
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POLL: BIDEN APPROVAL RATING DOWN TO TWENTY-EIGHT PERCENT

biden polls in the toiletIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes notice of the fact that even the Democrats at the ABC/Ipsos Poll couldn’t help but note that only 28% approved of career criminal Joe Biden’s abysmal performance. Of course they beclowned themselves with the hilariously slanted headline “Three in five Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of economic recovery.”

weak joe biden flees the podium

A corrupt, weak and ineffectual man retreats.

SO, not only did they bury their own poll’s result that only 28% approve of Biden overall by citing only the percent disapproving of Biden’s handling of the economy, but they added the ridiculous editorial touch pretending that there is an economic “recovery” going on. Joe Biden’s disastrous policies are crushing the working class and the poor and are causing out of control inflation PLUS baby formula and other shortages of necessities. But, yes, they pretend there’s a “recovery” going on.

Meanwhile, even the Democrat media outlet the Washington Post could no longer avoid reporting on the Arizona Democrat who just gave a guilty plea to the kind of widespread vote fraud that Democrats lie about by claiming it never happens. More HERE. And HERE.

AND, in Georgia, one of the states whose 2020 presidential election results are forever tainted, a Democrat who supposedly won their primary race was replaced by the REAL winner when a manual investigation showed that THE STATE’S VOTING MACHINES HAD MISCOUNTED THOUSANDS OF VOTES.  

Also, after the farce that was 2020 and the widespread Democrat antics that continue to come to light, some voters are FINALLY SUING DEMOCRATS OVER THEIR ILLEGAL 2020 DROP BOXES. More HERE.  Continue reading →

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NJCAA3 COLLEGE BASEBALL CHAMPS CROWNED

NJCAA DIVISION THREE

HERKIMER COLLEGE GENERALSNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – In a battle of Cinderellas, the 6 seeds – the HERKIMER COLLEGE GENERALS – took on the 5th seeded EASTFIELD COLLEGE HARVESTERS.

By the 3rd Inning the Generals were on top 3-0 but the Harvesters made it a 3-2 game in the 4th Inning before tying things up 3-3 in the 5th. From there Herkimer College clamped down defensively as their bats went white-hot. Continue reading →

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IRON MAN: 1970s CLASSICS 10 – MODOK, THE HULK AND THE BLACK LAMA

For Part One of these Iron Man 1970s classics click HERE.

im 75IRON MAN Vol 1 #75 (June 1975)

Title: Slave to the Power Imperious

Villains: Modok, the Mad Thinker, the Yellow Claw and the Black Lama

Synopsis: This issue picks up right where the previous one left off. Modok, with his squat body and enlarged head resting atop the kaiju-sized mechanical body that he wore to fight the Hulk months earlier, has burst into the Mad Thinker’s subterranean headquarters in the forests of Michigan.

mad thinkerPer the Black Lama’s ongoing War of the Supervillains, Modok plans to kill his first opponent the Mad Thinker (at right) then take on the war’s frontrunner – the Yellow Claw. Modok tosses aside the defeated and unconscious Iron Man, whom the Mad Thinker had used as a pawn against Modok and A.I.M. last time around.

Before Modok can finish off the Thinker, the latter unleashes one of his kaiju-sized androids, the green, faceless kind that are powerful enough to battle the Fantastic Four (the Mad Thinker’s usual foes). While the fight between that Android Warrior and Modok goes on, Iron Man regains consciousness, then realizes that the damage to the Mad Thinker’s laboratory has destroyed the equipment with which the villain was controlling his armor. Continue reading →

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JOE BIDEN ATROCITY ROUNDUP AND MORE: JUNE 3rd

We need alternate political parties! Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes another look at the career criminal Joe Biden, head of the Biden Crime Family.

Tiny hands Joe Biden

Corrupt, senile, tiny-handed Joe Biden

BIDEN’S BABY FORMULA SHORTAGE WORSENS – WORKING CLASS AND POOR FAMILIES HARDEST HIT. 

EVEN FELLOW DEMOCRAT RO KHANNA BLASTS BIDEN FOR HIS INFLATION, WHICH IS AT A 40-YEAR HIGH.

SMALL BUSINESSES STILL BEING CRUSHED BY BIDEN’S POLICIES, REPORT FINDS.

STILL FLIRTING WITH WORLD WAR III, JOE BIDEN ANNOUNCES HE WILL SEND ADVANCED WEAPONS SYSTEMS TO UKRAINE. Unbelievable. And remember, all this started with Biden encouraging the deranged Putin to make “a small incursion.” Yet the corporate media used to pretend that de facto Third Party President Donald Trump was a threat to world peace despite him being the first president in decades to keep America out of any new wars.

LATEST INVESTIGATION: 19,000 INVALID BALLOTS WERE COUNTED IN ARIZONA IN 2020 ELECTION, MORE THAN ENOUGH TO FLIP THE RESULTS TO BIDEN. Like George W. Bush before him, apparently Joe Biden was “selected and not elected.” 

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MICHAEL AVENATTI, WHOM THE DEMOCRATS’ MEDIA OUTLETS ONCE PUSHED AS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS. Their biased media pushed Avenatti on the public just like they sided with Andrew Cuomo and Amber Heard and against Kyle Rittenhouse and Nick Sandmann.

JOE BIDEN 2022 ENDORSEMENT ALREADY CRUSHED. Yet the Democrats’ media outlets still act like the small percentage of Trump’s endorsements who lost is a major story . Continue reading →

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LAST STAND OF A PONY EXPRESS RIDER: BILLY TATE

The major holiday Frontierado is just over two months away, so as a followup to last week’s look at the first Pony Express riders Balladeer’s Blog explores the one-man stand and death of 14-year-old Expressman Billy Tate.

pony express ridersBILLY TATE – Born in 1846, Billy Tate traveled west with his family in 1857 as part of the Baker-Fancher Wagon Train from Arkansas. In September of that year, Billy’s family were among the pioneers slaughtered at the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah. The massacre was perpetrated by Mormons disguised as Native Americans.

Billy and possibly other child survivors (accounts vary) were taken in by Mormon farmers and worked on their farms. By some accounts Billy’s original last name was Miller but it was changed to Tate to match the family who took him in.

In 1859 the government ruled that any child survivors of the Mountain Meadows Massacre should be returned to relatives back in Arkansas. Billy, not wanting to be sent back east, ran away, ultimately signing on as a bullwhacker with the parent company of the Pony Express in December of that year. By the April 3rd 1860 launch of the Express Billy Tate was serving as a rider. Continue reading →

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