Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES RESULT IN LOWEST NATIONWIDE RENT PRICES IN FOUR YEARS. Another positive aspect of Trump for the working class and the poor but not the useless bloated rich pig millionaires who sing, act, or play meaningless “sports”, which is why garbage like those people always bash Trump. He doesn’t tend only to their boutique issues.
I will say again that before any of those shallow celebrities shoot their mouths off they should start with an announcement for which charity they have just increased their donations to AND acknowledge that their various homes stand on “stolen land.”
IF BILLIE EILISH THINKS “NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND” THEN THAT MEANS EVERYONE WHO PLEASES CAN TRESPASS ON HER PROPERTIES. Property lines are just imaginary lines on the ground, like national borders, right? AND ALL CELEBRITY ESTATES ARE WIDE OPEN FOR IMMIGRATION SINCE THEY LIKE TO PRETEND THE U.S. IS “STOLEN LAND.”
MELANIA MOVIE CRUSHES THE BOX OFFICE TAKE FOR FILMS ABOUT THE CORRUPT OBAMAS. And she still speaks more languages than both Barack and Michelle combined.
MELANIA MOVIE ALREADY OUTDID FIVE OSCAR NOMINATED FILMS AT THE BOX OFFICE. Give the people what they want, and they’ll go to the theater.
TRUMP EFFECT: U.S. MANUFACTURING SHIFTS INTO EVEN HIGHER GEAR SO FAR IN 2026.
THE LATEST ON BILL GATES’ TIES TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN. Continue reading
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JAMES JOYCE! His works got me hooked in my teens when I really related to his character Stephen Dedalus as he rejected his religion and indulged what I call his “young and pretentious side” in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). I wore out my copy of Joyce’s novel Ulysses (1922) and continue to mark Bloom’s Day to this very day.
This weekend’s belated superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog looks at this Iron Fist adventure serialized in Deadly Hands of Kung Fu. It was penned by Chris Claremont and though it features his X-Men foes the Demons of the N’Garai and a woman called the Firebird whose schtick resembles his later retcons to the Phoenix Force, the story ultimately sucks and is an incoherent mess. 
DEADLY HANDS OF KUNG FU Vol 1 #19 (Dec 1975)
Iron Fist attacks the pair, joined by Colleen, who is swiftly defeated. Our hero continues fighting the Messengers and when he uses the power of the Iron Fist to finish them off, that somehow causes him and Jade to be transported from Earth to Feng-Tu. They are in the throne room of Dhasha Khan (right), who affirms that he is the ruler of this afterlife and states that he plans to strip Jade of her soul and have it damned forever.
Like Demond Wilson in Baby, I’m Back, Balladeer’s Blog is BACK! 
SCHALCKEN THE PAINTER (1979) – The British Film Institute has released a terrific video edition of this 69-minute Gothic Horror telefilm which originally aired on December 23rd, 1979 as part of the Omnibus program. 
Jeremy Clyde of Chad & Jeremy fame stars as the Dutch artist Schalcken with Maurice Denham as his already famous teacher Garrett Dou and Cheryl Kennedy as Rose, Dou’s niece and Schalcken’s desire.
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A JOURNEY IN THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY (1824) – Written by Faddei Bulgarin, who had served in the Polish Legion of Napoleon’s Grand Army in his youth before going on to work for the Czars of Russia. In this fascinating tale an unnamed narrator gets swept overboard in the Gulf of Finland in 1824. The cold water and another element somehow put him in suspended animation and when he comes to he is all the way over in Siberia, where his body was recovered in the waters of Cape Shelagski centuries after he was lost at sea.
“In one of the FUNNIEST stories of the decade it turns out that many spoiled and whiny American Democrats trying to move to Canada to escape their Antichrist Trump are being TURNED BACK BECAUSE OF CANADA’S IMMIGRATION POLICIES WHICH EXCLUDE THOSE WHO “WON’T CONTRIBUTE TO THE ECONOMY.” 
THE EAGLE (1925) – Valentino dabbled in 
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