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SGT. YORK: LEGEND OF WORLD WAR ONE

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Veterans Day is just a few days away so Balladeer’s Blog looks at some more World War One history.

SERGEANT ALVIN YORK – At age 29 (yes, twenty-nine) Alvin York of Tennessee was drafted into the United States Army in November of 1917. York trained with the 82nd Infantry Division at Camp Gordon, GA. In April 1918 the unit arrived in Liverpool, England and by mid-May was at Sommes, where they began relieving various units in the trenches to acquire their first field experience.  

June saw York and the 82nd move to Lagney, where they patrolled and raided enemy lines for several weeks. In September York and his comrades participated in the St Mihiel Offensive and in October they fought in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, during which York earned the Medal of Honor. Continue reading

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EDDIE RICKENBACKER: AMERICA’S GREATEST FLYING ACE OF WORLD WAR ONE

Eddie RickenbackerBalladeer’s Blog examines American Flying Ace Eddie Rickenbacker as we lead up to another November 11th, now called Veterans Day but formerly known as Armistice Day since November 11th, 1918 marked the end of World War One.

EDDIE RICKENBACKER – “Fast Eddie” Rickenbacker was first known as a race-car driver who competed in four Indianapolis 500s before the U.S. entered World War One. Upon America’s entry into the conflict Rickenbacker enlisted in the Army and was in France with his unit by late June 1917.

Fast Eddie’s mechanical abilities – honed working with engines during his racing days – kept him grounded as a mechanic for several months. During that period Rickenbacker learned to fly in nearly every spare moment. Eventually he got his wings and took to the air with America’s legendary Hat in the Ring Squadron (the 94th Aero Squadron).    

Eddie made Ace – five confirmed kills – with less than a full month between his first kill and his fifth. Lieutenant – eventually Captain – Rickenbacker scored his sixth verified kill on May 30th, 1918 before getting an ear infection which kept him out of the air for a few months. Many more kills lay ahead of him.   Continue reading

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ANNUAL NOVEMBER FIFTH POST: 2025

Che Guevara 2Yes, it’s once again Guy Fawkes Day, the day Balladeer’s Blog celebrates figures who became symbols of the exact opposite things they represented in their actual lives!

Guy Fawkes was a religious fanatic whose face became a symbol of resistance against a fictional theocratic dictatorship thanks to a comic book. Che Guevara was a murderous, homophobic, racist would-be dictator depicted as a symbol of youthful rebellion thanks to the spiteful cluelessness of Left-Wing Archie Bunkers.  

Thank the forever-childish 1960s generation leftists for elevating such a repulsive and barely human creature to such heights. Even at HUFFINGTON POST the truth about blood-soaked animal Che has been written. Click HERE  

Here are some actual quotes from hatemonger Che:

“Go ahead and try them tomorrow morning — but execute them NOW!”

“We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.” 

Viva La Ignorant“Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood.”

“We don’t need proof to execute a man. We only need proof that it’s necessary to execute him. A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.” (Note from Balladeer: Gee, I thought the poseurs and buffoons of the American Left said they’re AGAINST “hate.”)

 “What we affirm is that we must proceed along the path of liberation even if this costs millions of atomic victims.”

Che QuoteRead more of this animal’s own words and you will see what a callous, unfeeling political fanatic this hate-filled scumbag was. He never wanted to overthrow dictatorships to help “the people”, he just wanted to overthrow them to install dictatorships more to his liking.

In other words, dictatorships that would let that bloodthirsty maniac kill as many people as he wanted. Che Guevara was a waste of biomass and was the exact opposite of what delusional and uninformed fools consider him to have been. Continue reading

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SEVEN AMERICAN ACES OF WORLD WAR ONE

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Eugene Bullard

With Veterans Day approaching, here’s a shoutout to the Flying Aces of World War One. The movie Flyboys is a good fictional film about their mystique (but based on the real-life Lafayette Escadrille).

EUGENE BULLARD – This African-American boxer from Columbus, GA served in the French Foreign Legion as early as the Battle of Verdun in 1916 and had already won a Croix de Guerre before joining the legendary Lafayette Escadrille on a bet.(!) He qualified but the prejudiced French Foreign Legion’s Dr Edmund Le Gros rejected him for service.

Bullard instead flew a Spad 7 with French Escadrille 93. Eugene still had an uphill fight against prejudice and the French supposedly failed to credit him with all of his kills, limiting him to just 2 in the official records but tradition credits Bullard with between 5 and 9. He had what may be the best nickname outside of the Red Baron and was called the Black Swallow of Death. On the side of his plane he painted the words “ALL blood runs red” in reference to the bigotry he had faced.

paul-iaccaciTHE IACCACI BROTHERS – In the 1960s young American men would head to Canada to avoid serving in the Vietnam War. During World War One a number of young American men headed to Canada to serve in British Military Units because the U.S. had not yet entered the conflict.

Two of those men were Paul T Iaccaci  and his younger brother August. The brothers served in the 20th British Squadron flying Bristol F.2 Fighters.

Both brothers were Ivy League men – Paul at Harvard, August at Princeton. Both Iaccaci’s became Aces on the exact same day – May 31st, 1918. Paul ended the war with 17 kills and his brother August … kept the uncanny coincidences going with 17 kills of his own. In late October of 1918 August was wounded in the eye and spent the few remaining days of the war hospitalized in England.   Continue reading

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FLASHBACK: ROLLING STONE EDITOR BLASTS THE DEMOCRATS’ “PERMANENT COUP ATTEMPT” AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP

FROM OCTOBER 17th, 2019 – 

democrat republican awakeEven if you hate Donald Trump I have no idea how you can possibly think he is worse than the corrupt white-collar criminals arrayed against him.

Given that various Marches for Trump are taking place today across the nation, here are excerpts from Rolling Stone Contributing Editor Matt Taibbi’s perceptive analysis of the ugliness of the Democrats’ slow-motion coup against President Trump … AND WITH JUST OVER A YEAR BEFORE THE ELECTION WHEN THEY COULD VOTE HIM OUT WITHOUT DIVIDING THE NATION.

Link is below. First the excerpts:

“Taibbi’s article comes after he criticized corporate media’s framing of the Deep Stater as a non-partisan “whistleblower,” despite being a registered Democrat who worked with former Vice President Joe Biden in the White House.”

March for TrumpTaibbi also stated “My discomfort in the last few years, first with Russiagate and now with Ukrainegate and impeachment, stems from the belief that the people pushing hardest for Trump’s early removal are more dangerous than Trump. Many Americans don’t see this because they’re not used to waking up in a country where you’re not sure who the president will be by nightfall. They don’t understand that this predicament is worse than having a bad president.”

“The Trump presidency is the first to reveal a full-blown schism between the intelligence community and the White House. Senior figures in the CIA, NSA, FBI and other agencies made an open break from their would-be boss before Trump’s inauguration, commencing a public war of leaks that has not stopped.”

“I don’t believe most Americans have thought through what a successful campaign to oust Donald Trump would look like. Most casual news consumers can only think of it in terms of Mike Pence becoming president. The real problem would be the precedent of a de facto intelligence community veto over elections, using the lunatic spookworld brand of politics that has dominated the last three years of anti-Trump agitation.” Continue reading

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EXTRA: PRESIDENT TRUMP PERSUADES HAMAS INTO ACCEPTING HIS CEASEFIRE PLANS IN GAZA

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“Extree, extree, read all about it!” as newsies shouted in old movies and television shows.

Barring treachery from the warmongers of Hamas, President Donald Trump has added the umpteenth peace or ceasefire arrangement to his tally from both his terms in office. LINKS BELOW:

HAMAS AGREES TO CEASEFIRE IN GAZA. But let’s all be wary until the war criminals of Hamas release all their hostages.      PEACE DEAL ANNOUNCED IN MIDEAST

ISRAELI LEADER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR HIS ROLE. Fingers crossed on this.

DEMOCRAT SENATOR FETTERMAN, ABOUT THE ONLY SANE DEMOCRAT LEFT AT PRESENT, CONGRATULATES TRUMP ON HIS “HISTORIC PEACE PLAN.”

NATE MORRIS SUGGESTS RENAMING THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN HONOR OF PRESIDENT TRUMP. Not going to happen, of course, but the thought of the anti-Trumper fits over it is hilarious to picture.

PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG ADDS HIS NAME TO THE LIST OF WORLD LEADERS WHO HAVE STATED TRUMP DESERVES THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. I doubt the establishment will give it to Trump no matter how much he deserves it, unfortunately. Too much TDS. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: SEPTEMBER TWENTY-NINTH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog does a Monday current events roundup from a country where the Democrats continue killing and burning and calling for even more killing and burning. And where more and more cowards seem to be saying to themselves “Democrats are far more likely to use violence against me than Republicans are, so I’ll do what the Democrats say and blame the dead victims for all this.” 

ATTACK ON MICHIGAN CHURCH: THE AFTERMATH CONTINUES.

DEMOCRAT SENATOR JOHN FETTERMAN COURAGEOUSLY PUBLICIZES A STUDY IN WHICH EVEN FAR-LEFT AXIOS ADMITS LEFT-WING VIOLENCE IS AT A THIRTY-YEAR HIGH. More HERE. Fetterman deserves high praise for this kind of non-partisanship. Surely he knows this puts him in the crosshairs of his Party’s increasingly bloodthirsty fanatics. And I’m impressed Axios did this study.

SENATOR FETTERMAN ALSO TARGETS THE DEMOCRATS’ EXTREME RHETORIC LIKE CALLING PEOPLE “HITLER”, ETC.

DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM PUTS A TARGET ON WHITE HOUSE DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF STEPHEN MILLER BY POSTING IN ALL CAPS “STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST.” Posobiec states “They know exactly what they’re doing” HERE. There is no way ANY Democrat does not recognize that that’s “a dog whistle” (as Democrats love to say) for the Party’s unhinged zealots.

KRUISER: “DEMOCRATS LIE AND PEOPLE DIE.

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DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET NBC USES THEIR PROPAGANDA PROGRAM LAW & ORDER: SVU TO DEPICT ICE AGENTS PROTECTING RAPISTS, ETC. It’s a win-win for the Democrats because if such propaganda goes unchallenged, they benefit. And if reasonable people call it out, they claim it violates their First Amendment rights.   

        Let me remind people of Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson’s remark in the case of Terminiello vs Chicago that “the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Constitutional protections must be balanced with the need for societal survival and order, especially during times of crisis.”      (And since 2025’s Democrats only view the world through television shows and movies, I’ll point out for them that Jackson was portrayed by Alec Baldwin in the year 2000 miniseries Nuremberg, so they have the Party’s permission to like him.)

IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” STATE ILLINOIS, PROTESTERS CHANT “KILL ICE! SHOOT ICE!”       ELSEWHERE, A GRAND JURY INDICTS THREE PEOPLE FOR STREAMING THEIR STALKING OF AN ICE AGENT AND DOXXING HIS HOME’S LOCATION. More HERE. Just another wink and a nudge to violent Democrats.  

PAKISTAN’S PRIME MINISTER PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP. Trump receives hero’s welcome HERE.

JOE LAVORGNA: TRUMP DELIVERING FOR THE “EVERYDAY AMERICAN.” Trump is the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime. Continue reading

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TRANSGRESS WITH ME: SEPTEMBER TWENTY-SEVENTH

Balladeer’s Blog resumes my recurring item Transgress with Me in a slightly altered format, but it’s still only for the politically daring.

ANOTHER BRAVE WOMAN EXPLAINS WHAT DROVE HER AWAY FROM THE DEMOCRATS. “I see increasing numbers of so-called liberals cheering censorship and defending violence as a response to speech.”

COURAGEOUS PROFESSOR DEFIES THE CHURCH OF IRRATIONAL THOUGHT AND POLITICAL INTOLERANCE. “Reasoning requires you to understand truth claims, even truth claims that you think are false or bad or just icky. Most of you have been taught to label things with various “isms” which prevent you from understanding claims you find uncomfortable or difficult.”

MOTHER JONES COMPARES PRESIDENT TRUMP TO FDR, TRUMAN, SERPICO, BRUBAKER AND MORE.

DEMOCRAT DONNA BRAZILLE COURAGEOUSLY SPEAKS OUT ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON’S CORRUPTION OF THE DNC AND ROBBING BERNIE SANDERS OF THE 2016 NOMINATION.

FROM ANTIFA MEMBER TO TRUMP SUPPORTER HERE. Continue reading

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SEPTEMBER TWENTY-SIXTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog, coming to you from an America where bloodthirsty Democrats continue to kill and to call for even more violence.

PRIVILEGED WHITE TERRORISTS OF ANTIFA (KLANTIFA) ONCE AGAIN CALL FOR MORE KILLING AND OTHER VIOLENCE.

THREE ARRESTED IN SHOOTING OF YOUTH BASEBALL COACH WHILE HE WAS LEADING HIS TEAM IN A PRAYER. Sorry, Democrats, he’s still alive! Arrested were Mahmood Abdelsalam Rababah, Ahmad Mawed, and Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah. I’m sure blackface performer Jimmy Kimmel will be claiming Mahmood, Ahmad and Mustafa were Trump supporters any minute now. 

CORRUPT FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY INDICTED. Hey, no one is above the law. More HERE.  

TRUMP EFFECT: THE U.S. ECONOMY GROWS EVEN MORE THAN PREDICTED UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES. He is the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

TRUMP ASKS DEMOCRATS TO “STOP DEMONIZING LAW ENFORCEMENT” IN WAKE OF LATEST DEMOCRAT-INCITED SHOOTING AT ICE FACILITY. The shooter missed the ICE agents he targeted and accidentally killed two illegal immigrants in custody instead. More HERE.

PRESIDENT ALIYEV USES HIS U.N. ADDRESS TO ONCE AGAIN THANK TRUMP FOR BROKERING THE PEACE DEAL BETWEEN AZERBAIJAN AND ARMENIA.        

ALSO, QUATAR’S PRIME MINISTER CALLS PRESIDENT TRUMP THE “ONLY ONE” IN THE WORLD WHO CAN ACHIEVE PEACE IN GAZA

MORE ABOUT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FINDING AND STOPPING A PLOT TO DEFRAUD FOURTEEN BILLION, SIX HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS FROM MEDICARE, MEDICAID AND OTHERS. I will point out again that the corporations and other white-collar criminals that Trump is exposing like this keep growing more desperate to destroy him. No one else has been as successful against America’s cesspool of corruption as President Trump. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: SEPTEMBER TWENTY-FOURTH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog does another current events roundup from a country flooded with Democrat hatred, lies and callousness toward the survivors who mourn their dead victims. Long time readers may remember when I titled a 2017 blog post Democrats: The Smirking Jackasses of Life. Well, Democrat Fundamentalists have spent the years since then more than living up to that designation. Anyway, here we go.

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ALPHABET PLATFORM ADMITS THE BIDEN REGIME PRESSURED GOOGLE AND YOUTUBE TO SHUT DOWN DISSENTING OPINIONS. In other words, Democrats really did what they are lying about Trump doing to callous capitalist and blackface performer Kimmel.

THE FIFTEEN WEALTHIEST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS ALL ELECTED DEMOCRATS. This isn’t new and it continues to prove that Democrats haven’t been the party of the working class and the poor in a very, very long time.

DEMOCRAT-INCITED ATTACK ON ICE FACILITY RESULTS IN THE SNIPER ACCIDENTALLY KILLING TWO DETAINEES BUT NOT THE ICE AGENTS HE TARGETED.

REPUBLIC OF CONGO PRESIDENT PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP’S U.N. SPEECH.

GEORGIA DEMOCRATS IGNORE COURT ORDER TO SEAT TWO REPUBLICANS. It’s against the law to do that, but Democrats only pretend to get upset about ignored court orders when they want to use that against President Trump. 

VIDEO: THE LATEST MONTAGE OF FORMER DEMOCRATS DRIVEN TO LEAVE THAT HATE GROUP OVER THEIR CELEBRATION OF THE CHARLIE KIRK ASSASSINATION AND THE HARASSMENT OF HIS WIDOW. Not being cruel to people who just lost a loved one isn’t a very high bar, but Democrats STILL weren’t capable of reaching it. 

DEFEATED AND HUMILIATED KAMALA HARRIS MORONICALLY CALLS PRESIDENT TRUMP A “COMMUNIST DICTATOR.” Unreal.

DEMOCRAT HATEMONGER JASMINE CROCKETT CALLS LATE VICTIM OF AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT “A RANDOM DEAD PERSON.” But Democrats unceasingly claim to be oh-so-compassionate. The mother responded HERE. Continue reading

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