John “Let’s Fight Wars All Over The World” McCain (left)
BLACK TRUMP SUPPORTER PRAISES THE PRESIDENT AND SAYS HE CAN’T KEEP UP WITH ALL THE JOBS HE’S CREATING – Click HERE
EXCELLENT COLUMN POINTING OUT HOW CORRUPT THE MUELLER WITCH-HUNT AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP IS – Click HERE
A LOOK AT HOW PRESIDENT TRUMP IS CONNECTING WITH TEENS THROUGH A SHARED CONTEMPT FOR THE AMERICAN MEDIA – Click HERE
Filed under humor, LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
The Labor Day Holiday is taking on greater significance the more that the white collar criminals called Democrats and Republicans sell out the working class. Bought and paid for office-holders from BOTH political parties are content to screw over the working class.
MATEWAN (1987) – This John Sayles film examines the 1920 Matewan Massacre in the West Virginia coal fields. The workers were attempting to form a union and the owners – the kind of people that the one percenters’ beloved New York Times has proclaimed to be “the conscience of the country” used hired thugs to harass – and even kill – the laborers.
On top of that the owners planned to bring in replacement workers who would work for less money and would not expect “luxuries” like worker safety measures and the like.
It’s like today as DemCorp and RepubCorp embrace Corporate Fascism by helping bloated rich pigs usher unlimited numbers of illegal immigrants into countries around the world in order to bring in people who will work for lower wages and without “luxuries” like sick leave and such.
Today’s rich pigs have added a new wrinkle: pretending to be showing “compassion” and lecturing the working class and the poor about the glories of a borderless society. Ultimately this will even overload Social Programs to the point where they all collapse from lack of funding.
AN IMPORTANT REASON FOR HAVING BORDERS IS PRECISELY BECAUSE OF THE LONG-HELD PRINCIPLE THAT A COUNTRY CAN HAVE SOCIAL PROGRAMS OR OPEN BORDERS BUT NOT BOTH. Borders also help in disease control and crime control, but the one percenters and bloated rich pigs never have to worry about either. Continue reading
Filed under Neglected History
The fascist scumbags and rapists from Antifa are proving the old, old saying that “The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists.” How true! Antifa filth are proving that their name is short for “Anti-Fairness” even though they like to pretend it stands for something else.
The corporate media is trying to pretend it’s (yaaaawwwwn) “racist” to point out that Antifa are fascist thugs. Actually, KLANtifa members seem to be mostly white children of privilege who have a comic book level view of the world. Plus they’re cowards who hide behind masks.
Anyway, those Nazis are part of this latest go-round of Mock News Headlines:
ANTIFA PROMISES TO BEAT UP ALL ELDERLY PEOPLE IN MAGA HATS ON THE GROUNDS THAT IT MAKES THEM FEEL “UNSAFE”
TRUMP-HATERS OUTRAGED THAT NOBODY BUT THEM IS MAD THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP POINTED OUT THEIR LIES YET AGAIN
DEMOCRATS DEMAND THAT MINDLESS AGREEMENT WITH EVERY INSANE THING THAT DEMOCRATS SAY SHOULD BE A CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT … ANYWHERE, IN ANY JOB
CNN CLAIMS PRESIDENT TRUMP IS TO BLAME FOR THEIR NEVER-ENDING OVEREXPOSURE OF HIM
CORPORATE MEDIA STILL TRYING TO PRETEND THERE IS ANYTHING PRESIDENT TRUMP COULD SAY THAT THEY WOULD NOT DISTORT OR WOULD FIND ACCEPTABLE!
CNN POLL SHOWS THAT PEOPLE WHO HATED PRESIDENT TRUMP YESTERDAY STILL HATE HIM TODAY
CNN REPORTS THAT PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP CAUSED THE END OF THE WORLD TWICE YESTERDAY AND ONCE TODAY ALREADY
REPUBLICAN LINDSEY GRAHAM CALLS ON ANTIFA TO ASSAULT HIS OWN CONSTITUENTS IN THE NAME OF LOVE
CNN SAYS PRESIDENT TRUMP IS THE MOST HITLERISH HITLER WHO HAS EVER HITLERED IN HITLER-LIKE WAYS SINCE HITLER! AND BY THE WAY – HITLER!
DEMOCRATS CALL FOR ROVING MOBS OF ANTIFA RAPISTS TO REPLACE CONVENTIONAL POLICE
CNN ANNOUNCES THEY ARE WORKING ON TECHNOLOGY THAT MAKES VIEWERS SEE PRESIDENT TRUMP IN THEIR SLEEP
ANTIFA THREATENS TO KILL PEOPLE WHO POINT OUT THAT THEY ARE THE BIGGEST FASCISTS IN THE COUNTRY
FEEBLE-MINDED DON LEMON BLAMES HIS ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION ON PRESIDENT TRUMP Continue reading
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I guess technically this could have been one of my Ask Balladeer segments. Some readers and fellow Harry Flashman fans reacted to my speculative look at what George MacDonald Fraser might have had in mind for Flashman’s U.S. Civil War adventures by asking me how I’d have handled it. Some were just curious, others were ticked off that I dared to criticize what I saw as Fraser forcing Harry into WAY too many Civil War incidents. So here we go with how I’d have handled it:
Last time around I said my prospective title would be The Battle Cry of Flashman as a play on The Battle Cry of Freedom. I’d have limited Harry’s involvement to part of 1862 and part of 1863. I would also have avoided having Harry – a British Cavalry Officer – outrightly joining American armies.
THE SET-UP: In February or March of 1862 Flashman has been back in England with his wife Elspeth since the spring of 1861, following his involvement in the Taranaki War in New Zealand.
Queen Victoria’s government is pondering whether or not to recognize the Confederate States of America, which broke away from the Union nearly a year earlier. The fate of nations hangs on this. Official recognition of the Confederacy may well enable them to win, just like the original 13 Colonies were helped against England by recognition from France. Continue reading
Filed under Neglected History, Pulp Heroes
In a way it’s fascinating as hell to be alive during this period in which America’s rival gangs of white collar criminals – Democrats and Republicans – have been forced to show their true, ugly, totalitarian faces.
The Democrats, who have lost countless elections at all levels across the country, are openly embracing the concept of having Corporate Rich Pigs force their (the Democrats’) irrational opinions on the rest of us with a savage ferocity that our actual government could never get away with on its own. The Democrats are being referred to these days as “The Party of CEO’s” and with good reason.
In a move even Machiavelli might have saluted, the Left-Wing Archie Bunkers who run the party of the Democrats have basically said to the country: “You can vote all you want, but we’ll just embrace Corporate Fascism to FORCE our dictates upon all of you!”
“After all,” the Democrats’ reasoning goes, “if we can work hand-in-hand with bloated rich pigs to ensure you won’t even be allowed to make a living if you express disagreement with us, then we think you’ll realize it’s in your own best interest to stop resisting and pretend you go along with even our most ridiculous positions.”
Going beyond Orwell’s much-cited “2+2=5” example from his novel 1984 the Democrats simply brush aside the impotent, bought and paid for Republican trash and go straight for the kill.
*** Instead of Orwell’s 2+2=5 we’ll go with another obvious fallacy just for the sake of variety. Let’s pretend the Democrats have somehow determined there is a political advantage to publicly embracing a similarly obvious fallacy – for that aforementioned variety we’ll say that Democrats want to force people to say “Earthworms are mammals.”
The Democrats will follow their tried and true process:
When free-thinking adults refuse to echo the ridiculous claim that “Earthworms are mammals” the Democrats will wheel and deal with bloated rich pigs like Mark Zuckerberg and similar types, like the powers that be at Starbucks and other companies.
Democrats will make it clear to those rich pig CEO’s that there are advantages to be had by cooperating with the Democrats in pushing their latest irrational Papal Bull. Political favors are to be had if various CEO’s use their bloated rich pig power to push the Democrats’ dogma down our throats.
Soon it gets to the point where these CEO’s (at places like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Silicon Valley, etc) will be firing and/or refusing to even hire people for holding positions that their Corporate Fascist political allies don’t like. It will all be done in the name of “combatting hatred” or “preventing puppy-dogs from being kicked” in the usual drama queen manner that Democrats love to use.
CORPORATE FASCIST MARK “SKIPPY” ZUCKERBERG
Bloated rich pigs like Zuckerberg will enforce the ridiculous “Earthworms are mammals” claims by letting all of their social media users hit that all-powerful “report abuse” button to silence all dissenting opinions. Never mind that social media users can block whatever they personally don’t want to see, Democrats ALWAYS insist that opposing viewpoints are dangerous or “hatred” and must be censored.
And if, say, certain states or cities refuse to enforce the Democrats’ “Earthworms are mammals” notion by teaching it in schools then rich pig CEO’s – including the NFL, NBA, etc – will grandly announce they are boycotting those locations until they cave in and go along with what the Democrats have decreed that “all decent, compassionate people” believe.
Democrats will smilingly approve and Republicans – who apparently only run for office to get bribe money and well-placed connections – will bluster insincerely about how they’re going to “stop this corporate blackmail” but will just get paid off by the same bloated rich pigs working with the Democrats and will do nothing.
Republicans like John McCain, Paul Ryan and Lindsey Graham will publicly lecture the nation that they need to stop being “divisive” and get on board with this whole “Earthworms are mammals” program. After all, if the Democrats have decreed that it be taught at all levels of the educational system then it MUST be the truth.
All the Democrats in the Teachers Unions agree, for crying out loud. (That’s only because teachers who dissent from Democrat dogma get “complaints” filed against them until they’re gotten rid of, but still. Teachers agree! Or else they won’t be employed as teachers for very long. “Haters” don’t you know.)
Besides, the Democrats’ irrational dogma is so thoroughly embraced by shallow, uninformed and emotionally unstable singers, actors and talk-show hosts that – horror of horrors – they MAKE FUN of people who don’t conform!
Why, the underlings who manage the social media feeds of those celebrities might – OMG – BLOCK you or “unfollow” you if you publicly disagree with Democrats.
Corporate Fascism is openly proving on a daily basis that the ballot box can be bypassed and political dictates can be enforced through this totalitarian alliance of political zealots and Corporate Rich Pigs.
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
Murky Mueller and his Funky Bunch of Hillary donors continue their criminal antics. Mueller and his fellow thugs have so many conflicts of interest that I would not blame any reasonable person who rejects anything and everything peddled by those gangsters.
The more that comes out the more clear it becomes what a pro-Hillary and anti-Trump hit job Mueller’s work is. The following is a terrific piece. The link is below, but first some excerpts:
“From 2001 to 2005 there was an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
A Grand Jury had been impaneled.
Governments from around the world had donated to the “Charity”.
Yet, from 2001 to 2003 none of those “Donations” to the Clinton Foundation were declared. Now you would think that an honest investigator would be able to figure this out.
Look who took over this investigation in 2005: None other than James Comey; Coincidence?”
“Guess who was transferred into the Internal Revenue Service to run the Tax Exemption Branch of the IRS? None other than, Lois “Be on The Look Out” (BOLO) Lerner. Isn’t that interesting?
But this is all just a series of strange coincidences, right?”
“Guess who ran the Tax Division inside the Department of Injustice from 2001 to 2005?
No other than the Assistant Attorney General of the United States,
Rod Rosenstein.
Guess who was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during this time frame?
Another coincidence (just an anomaly in statistics and chances), but it was Robert Mueller.
What do all four casting characters have in common?
They all were briefed and/or were front-line investigators into the Clinton Foundation Investigation.
Another coincidence, right?”
“Fast forward to 2009 … Continue reading
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JOHN BRENNAN: THE MAN FROM S.C.U.M. – The anti-Trump fascists have proven once again that they will ally themselves with ANYONE, no matter how low, in their insane hatred of President Trump, the working class and the poor.
John Brennan, former head of America’s forever- repulsive C.I.A. had his Security Clearance rightfully yanked by President Trump since Brennan has been abusing it by peddling his access to make money as an “expert” on Democrat tv programs.
C.I.A. trash Brennan resigned long ago after a scandal involving illegal and unconstitutional COVERT SPYING OPERATIONS ON MEMBERS OF CONGRESS! Democrats have decided to pretend amoral C.I.A. thugs like Brennan are heroic when they’re running Dirty Tricks Programs for their political party and are pretending it’s a “scandal” that Trump yanked “Dirty John” Brennan’s Security Clearance.
PRESIDENTS HAVE BEEN WITHDRAWING SECURITY CLEARANCES FOR FORMER GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS FOR YEARS – Obama, George W Bush and other presidents have withdrawn security clearances for former officials for YEARS. If you weren’t upset about it when previous presidents did it, don’t pretend to care when President Trump does it.
THE GANG WARFARE IN OUR GOVERNMENT CONTINUES – It’s no secret that Donald Trump is a de facto Third Party President. His efforts to Drain the Swamp of Democrat and Republican corruption is why career politicians from both political parties – AND the bloated rich pigs who OWN those career politicians – have been fighting President Trump so hard.
Only an outsider like Trump could do what he has done to rock the boat of crooked business as usual in Washington D.C. and I have been riveted by the man’s virtual one-man battle against the white-collar criminals called Democrats and Republicans.
Supposedly – I repeat – supposedly, we are close to seeing the much-hyped possibility of the President de-classifying some of the documents about Obama’s FBI, NSA and CIA helping Hillary Clinton while targeting Trump in our last presidential race. NewsMax TV ran an interview with Joseph DiGenova regarding this possibility. It’s all just talk right now but supposedly the President will declassify the docs if Congress refuses to expose Obama and Hillary’s abuse of the intelligence agencies. For the DiGenova interview click HERE and for a written piece outlining the potential implications click HERE . Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
For Flashman Down Under, Flashman in the Opium War & Flashman and the Kings click HERE Balladeer’s Blog moves on to another Harry Flashman adventure referred to but never completed before George MacDonald Fraser’s death.
Projected Title: THE BATTLE CRY OF FLASHMAN
Time Period: Part of the United States Civil War
NOTE: The title is a play on the famous Civil War ballad The Battle Cry of Freedom. That title was also used for one of Bruce Catton’s examinations of the conflict.
The Story: Personally I think a collection of short stories would be the only way of reconciling all the scattered and varied references made to Flashman’s Civil War adventures in other novels. From those other Fraser writings we know that Harry somehow wound up serving on both sides of the war but ultimately won a Medal of Honor for his service in the Union Army.
Further complicating things is the fact that the author mentioned how Flashman left and re-entered the U.S. multiple times during the war after his initial involvement starting at some point in 1862. Continue reading
Filed under Neglected History, Pulp Heroes
ROGER SIMON SUMMARIZES HOW THE “RUSSIAN COLLUSION” NONSENSE KEEPS INCRIMINATING HILLARY AND OBAMA, NOT TRUMP – Roger, like me, used to be a Democrat, but that party’s descent into fascism and worse drove him away, too. Here is his excellent look at how Obama thoroughly politicized America’s already disgusting Intelligence Agencies and how it’s all coming out now. CLICK HERE
DON’T FORGET MEWE.COM, GAB.AI and INFOGALACTIC.COM ARE EXCELLENT ALTERNATIVES TO THE INCREASINGLY UGLY YOUTUBE, FACEBOOK AND WIKIPEDIA.
ANOTHER AFRICAN-AMERICAN LEADER PREDICTS DONALD TRUMP WILL BE “THE MOST PRO-BLACK PRESIDENT OF OUR LIFETIME” – It’s Darrell Scott, yet another figure of color praising President Trump. I seriously cannot keep up with all the African-Americans courageously pointing out how Trump has done more for them than the Democrats have in decades. (Hence the Democrats’ increasingly frantic attempts to smear the Donald as a racist).
UPDATE: AND THE LATEST RASMUSSEN POLL HAS TRUMP AT 36% APPROVAL AMONG AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTERS (Up from the previous 29%), AN ASTRONOMICAL FIGURE FOR SOMEONE WITH AN (R) AFTER THEIR NAME. This must be why the ugly Bush Family and Paul Ryan and his ilk hate Trump – he’s attracting a wealth of Voters of Color to the GOP, formerly known as the party of stuffy white guys in suits.
AND SPEAKING OF CORPORATE MEDIA LIES ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP – The Chronicle of Higher Education’s own statistics verify that in the 2016 election Trump outdid career criminal Hillary Clinton by getting votes from 49% of college educated whites to Hillary’s 45% of them. I love it! I EXPECTED TO HATE TRUMP, BUT HE HAS CONFOUNDED AMERICA’S CORRUPT POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT IN A MYRIAD OF WAYS.
And he has saved the economy while doing more for the working class and the poor than any other president in my lifetime. I will not ignore that just because the corporate media hates him and distorts everything he says and does.
WE NEED THIRD PARTIES! TRUMP IS, AFTER ALL, A DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT.
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
WE NEED THIRD PARTIES! Time for another Democrat Atrocity Roundup.
ANTIFA RACISTS ASSAULT AFRICAN-AMERICAN CANDACE OWENS – The Democrats of Antifa (Motto: “Large numbers of crazed losers acting in concert”) continue their roving Hate Squad antics. Recently these fools were attacking Woman of Courage Candace Owens in public. Antifa trash aren’t exactly intelligent and they were screaming at Candace to end “White Supremacy.” Uh. Yeah. Gutless clowns.
Democrat bigots are getting very upset that the recent Rasmussen poll showed President Trump at 29 percent approval with African-Americans, higher than any Republican in an eternity. #WalkAway is a wonderful thing. Democrats do not deserve votes from working class people of ANY color.
At any rate Antifa should be known as KLAN-tifa instead.
“SANCTUARY CITY” PHILADELPHIA PROTECTED ANOTHER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WHO THEN WENT ON TO RAPE A CHILD – Remember Philadelphia’s Democrat Mayor dancing for the cameras when a court decreed that Philly could remain a sanctuary city? If they had turned the rapist in to immigration authorities like they were supposed to the child would not have been raped. The biggest regret of my life is that I ever belonged to the party of the Democrats.
Democrats proudly scream from the rooftops that illegal immigrants mean more to them than all the dead and raped victims of illegal immigrant violence. Democrat Nancy Pelosi reminded voters this week that votes for Democrats “empower” illegal immigrants.
FOR DEMOCRATS HISTORY IS BUNK – Salim Mansur takes a look at the Democrats’ Orwellian attempts to rewrite history. CLICK HERE
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