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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: JUNE TENTH

It’s another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

breaking bidenEVEN THE DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET POLITICO IS REPORTING ON THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY. Good thing for Crooked Joe Biden he was already pronounced mentally unfit to stand trial. (Yet somehow is fine to remain in office.) More Biden Crime Family coverage HERE.

DEMOCRAT PROSECUTOR IN ATLANTA SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR SEVEN YEARS FOR ILLEGALLY USING FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLARS IN COVID FUNDS FOR HER OWN LUXURIES. Have I mentioned lately that America’s career politicians tend to be white-collar criminals? I thought I had.

EXCELLENT BREAKDOWN ON DEMOCRATS AND THEIR OFTEN UNCONSTITUTIONAL WAR ON DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.  

amber rose and trumpAMBER ROSE HEROICALLY DOUBLES DOWN ON HER TRUMP SUPPORT, SAYING “WE’RE NOT BRAINWASHED ANYMORE BY THE LEFT.” More HERE.  

BIDEN REGIME AGAIN INSTRUCTING THE BORDER PATROL TO SIMPLY RELEASE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CAUGHT AT THE BORDER. Over seventeen million illegals entering the U.S. under the Biden Regime aren’t enough, apparently, so Biden makes it even easier for them while publicly pretending he’s clamping down.

DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOME EXPOSED FOR ILLEGALLY BILLING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR OVER FIFTY-TWO MILLION DOLLARS IN HEALTH CARE COSTS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.  

brandon tatum picBRANDON TATUM COURAGEOUSLY HIGHLIGHTS PRO-TRUMP VIDEO. Be sure to read the comments!

POPULIST PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP CONTINUES TO SCORE HUGE CROWDS AT HIS RALLIES. People see through the temporary conviction which will clearly be overturned during the appeals process. Continue reading

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TRADER HORN (1927) PART FOUR

Balladeer’s Blog continues reviewing the 1927 book Trader Horn, the quasi-autobiographical account of the British Trade Agent Alfred Aloysius Horn’s adventures in Africa during the late 1800s. For Part One click HERE.

trader horn moviePART FOUR – We pick up this time with Trader Horn’s reflection on how the British and German firms in Africa dominated the European trade in ivory and rubber, while France was a distant third. There were whispers that the French (whom Horn referred to far more insultingly than he ever referred to the indigenous Africans) were strategizing about using their Colonial Governments to limit the success of Great Britain and the German Empire wherever they could.

The French and Belgians also pressed further and further into Central Africa, encountering tribes who had literally never seen white people before. Alfred’s employers at Hatson & Cookson kept him closer to the coast, but he added the Como, Remwe, and Belagona Rivers to his trading route.

All the trading firms in Africa at the time had their expeditions fired upon by Fan tribesmen, and Trade Agent Horn’s were no exception. As the years rolled by, Alfred was moved to a higher position with his firm. Continue reading

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JUNE SIXTH AND SEVENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

The latest current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

david hilliardACTIVIST DAVID HILLIARD COURAGEOUSLY EXPRESSES HIS SUPPORT FOR DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. He’s known Trump since Trump was a college student, the historical man of color stated. “Trump’s a friend of African Americans, and I knew Trump from the 1960s in New York, where he comes from, and he’s a friend to African Americans,” Hilliard continued. “I mean, he’s not a racist. He’s not a racist, fascist, white man. He supported Black people.”

DEMOCRAT OMERTA.

Trump never called racist til running against DemocratsTHE NUMBER OF JOBLESS CLAIMS JUMPS UP YET AGAIN. Joe Biden’s policies continue to crush the working class and the poor.

GEORGIA COURT OF APPEALS SMACKS DOWN PARTISAN ANTI-TRUMP PROSECUTOR

FINANCIERS BACKING A TEXAS-BASED STOCK EXCHANGE. The move of big money out of corrupt, partisan New York City after its political persecution of Donald Trump continues. More history in the making.

BIDEN REGIME ILLEGALLY GRANTS DE FACTO AMNESTY TO HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

UNFIT JOE BIDEN SOILS HIMSELF AGAIN DURING D-DAY CEREMONY AT NORMANDY. He also screwed up his speech and fell asleep, prompting his wife Jill to nudge him awake

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DEMOCRAT PARTY

ILLINOIS JUDGE RULES UN-CONSTITUTIONAL A DEMOCRAT-BACKED LAW WHICH WOULD HAVE PREVENTED REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FROM BEING ON THE BALLOTS IN NOVEMBER. The Democrats still prefer to try winning elections via unconstitutional means while pretending to care about “democracy.” #WALKAWAY from the fascistic party of the Democrats like so many of us already have.

ARIZONA JUDGE RULES THAT DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR HOBBS VIOLATED THE CONSTITUTION BY APPOINTING THIRTEEN DEPARTMENT HEADS WITHOUT STATE SENATE APPROVAL. Such constitutional checks and balances are nuisances to the criminally minded Democrats in office.

CONGRESSIONAL HEARING REVEALS ADDITIONAL ARGUMENTS FOR WHY POLITICAL PARTISAN JACK SMITH’S APPOINTMENT AS SPECIAL PROSECUTOR WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Continue reading

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O. HENRY’S TAKE ON THE FOOL KILLER

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

Matthew as the Fool Killer would be perfectPreviously I examined Joel Chandler Harris’ 1902 story Flingin’ Jim And His Fool-Killer, set in Georgia in October of 1872, plus Ridgway Hill’s Facts for the Fool-Killer, set in and around Buffalo, NY in 1909.

Now we back up a year for the great O. Henry’s story The Fool-Killer, published as part of The Voice of the City in 1908. In his younger years O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) had personally known Charles Napoleon Bonaparte Evans, the editor of the Milton Chronicle.

Evans was the man behind the earliest written examples of Fool Killer stories and published them as if they were letters from the “real” Fool Killer himself, who claimed Jesse Holmes was his actual name. O. Henry started his short story The Fool-Killer by recapping the fame of the folk-figure, claiming he was known “from Roanoke to the Rio Grande.” 

In apparent deference to his old friend Charles Evans, Porter kept Jesse Holmes as the Fool Killer’s “real” name but introduced some of his own innovations to Fool Killer lore.      Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: JUNE 3rd

Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

outlaw heroTHE “OUTLAW FOLK HERO” MEMES FOR TRUMP ARE IN FLIGHT! His enemies have made him an immortal symbol of resistance to their form of oppression and corruption.

* AND NEVER FORGET THAT THE ONLY REASON JOE BIDEN IS NOT A CONVICTED FELON IS BECAUSE HE’S BEEN DECLARED MENTALLY UNFIT TO STAND TRIAL FOR HIS CRIMES. *

biden tax returns(Oh, and never forget that anti-Trump fascists acted like forcing Trump to release years of his tax returns was so important, yet the returns revealed he had done nothing wrong. Our corrupt elected officials then declined to have any other politicians reveal several years of their tax returns. It has only – and ever – been about “getting” the outsider Trump.) 

SENATOR JOE MANCHIN LEAVES THE INCREASINGLY FASCISTIC DEMOCRAT PARTY TO BECOME AN INDEPENDENT. As a former Democrat who made that move long ago I’d say it’s about time Manchin joined the many, many other Democrat officeholders who have left that political party in recent years.

MORE REMINDERS OF HISTORICAL HEROES WHO WERE “CONVICTED FELONS” (LMAO) LIKE TRUMP, WALESA, MANDELA, GANDHI, ETC. Plus remember JFK, who was killed by many of the same forces opposing the populist Trump.

biden the fascistJOE BIDEN AND HIS REGIME’S FINGERPRINTS ARE ALL OVER THE POLITICAL SHOW TRIALS OF DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.

EL SALVADOR’S PRESIDENT BOASTS “WE DON’T JAIL THE OPPOSITION.” America USED TO BE like that, too. More HERE.

flushing justiceREAD THE LONG LISTS OF REASONS WHY LEGAL SCHOLARS SAY THE BOGUS TRUMP CONVICTION WILL BE OVERTURNED ONCE THE CASE IS OUT OF THE CORRUPT NEW YORK CESSPOOL. More HERE. And HERE

BIDEN REGIME SCREWS SENIOR CITIZENS WITH THE LARGEST MEDICARE PREMIUM INCREASE EVER. Can people stop pretending this is the same Democrat Party that it was under FDR and JFK?

OUTLAW” FOLK HERO AND POSSIBLE POLITICAL PRISONER PRESIDENT TRUMP GETS A HERO’S WELCOME AT UFC 302. More HERE. And HERE. CROWD CHANTS “F*CK JOE BIDEN!” HERE. Continue reading

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VILLON CHAPTER LINKS

a stranger in villonHere is my usual post-completion collection of chapter links, in this case for The Villon Legend.

PART ONE – Francois Villon, poet and outlaw, is born in 1431 into a nearly post-apocalyptic France in the wake of the Hundred Years War and the Plague. He grows up idolizing and defending the memory of the controversial Joan of Arc, who was not made a saint until 1920.

           Villon begins writing irreverent poems in his teens and through his years getting a Master’s Degree at the Sorbonne.

           After that, he falls into a career as a thief in Paris while still churning out poetry. CLICK HERE.

Continue reading

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DECEMBER 2021: LOOKING BACK

FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.

biden derangedLIFELONG RACIST JOE BIDEN SAYS SCHOOLS IN IOWA DO BETTER THAN SCHOOLS IN WASHINGTON DC BECAUSE IOWA HAS A LOWER AFRICAN AMERICAN POPULATION. If we had a competent opposition party that understood media usage like Biden’s party does, this remark would still be getting quoted on a weekly basis, just like any such remark by an opposition party candidate would be endlessly quoted by the media-savvy Democrats. We need 3rd Parties, or maybe I should say an effective 2nd Party.   

JOURNALIST SHARYL ATTKISSON STILL IN COURT OVER THE WAY DEMOCRATS VIOLATED HER RIGHTS.

Trump ala Lech Walesa and Nelson MPRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP NAMED MAN OF THE YEAR.

DEMOCRAT POLLSTER: 67 PERCENT SAY BIDEN HAS MADE THE U.S. MORE DIVIDED THAN IT WAS UNDER TRUMP. And Biden was just getting started on dividing the country with his hatemongering.

JUSSIE SMOLLETT HATE HOAX AGAINST TRUMP SUPPORTERS EPITOMIZES ALL THE LIES PUSHED BY ANTI-TRUMP FASCISTS.

populism picESTABLISHMENT FEAR OF POPULISM FUELS THEIR HATRED OF TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS.

JOE BIDEN CRIMES AND SCANDALS: DECEMBER 20th Continue reading

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DEMOCRATS PLAY THE SHORT GAME AGAIN: TRUMP VERDICT WILL OBVIOUSLY BE OVERTURNED ON APPEAL

political martyrsIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog recognizes that multiple titles could have applied to this blog post, so before I get into the meat of this item, let’s look at some of those potential alternate titles.

VERDICT MEANS JUST ONE THING: PEOPLE WHO HATED TRUMP YESTERDAY STILL HATE HIM TODAY AND PEOPLE WHO LIKED TRUMP YESTERDAY STILL LIKE HIM TODAY

rock star trumpDEMOCRAT FASCISTS FURTHER TRUMP’S MARTYRDOM IN PURSUIT OF A TALKING POINT THAT WILL ULTIMATELY GET OVERTURNED ANYWAY. (Just like all the frantic “Trump colluded with Russia” nonsense and “Trump was running a nuclear program at Mar-a-Lago” and all the other anti-Trump fables that have been spun out of whole cloth.) ALSO, REMEMBER, ALL OF THESE CHARGES ARE USUALLY MISDEMEANORS THAT WERE DISTORTED INTO FELONIES JUST TO “GET TRUMP,”

CLEARLY PARTISAN JUDGE AND JURY MAKE SURE TRUMP IS THE NEW NELSON MANDELA, MAHATMA GANDHI AND LECH WALESA, ALL OF WHOM WERE ALSO “CONVICTED FELONS” (LMAO) VIA THEIR COUNTRY’S CORRUPT AND SLANTED LEGAL SYSTEMS

mandela and trumpONLY FOOLS ARE ACTING LIKE WE DIDN’T ALL KNOW THIS WOULD BE THE INITIAL VERDICT FROM DAY ONE. THAT’S WHY THE APPEALS PROCESS EXISTS, BECAUSE OF FLAWED OUTCOMES LIKE THIS.

DONATIONS POUR IN FOR TRUMP CAMPAIGN FOLLOWING LATEST LEGAL TRAVESTY AGAINST HIM. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. Silicon Valley man donates $300,000 HERE.

reminder that trump neverOkay, for overseas readers, let me mention once again that EVEN IF TRUMP IS SENT TO PRISON, HE CAN STILL RUN FOR PRESIDENT JUST LIKE EUGENE DEBS DID. Hell, such a provision was made possible by recognition of the fact that any incumbent administration could well turn out to be as criminal and authoritarian as the Biden Regime has proven to be and would jail political opponents.  I never thought the hopelessly corrupt Democrat and Republican political establishment would allow Trump to win, anyway, and have said so in countless previous blog posts. I will still vote for him, though.  It looks like my comparison of these situations to the ending of the Robert Redford movie Brubaker years ago was accurate.  

trump won twiceAnd remember: “The evidence and testimony don’t matter, because the outcome was predetermined before the “trial” ever started. This is a political operation organized by the Democratic Party to punish Trump and, if possible, to prevent him from being elected president again.
Understand that 86% of voters in Manhattan voted for Joe Biden in 2020. There are no honest people on that jury. They know full well why they are there, and what is expected of them.”      Every word of that is true. Plus, in another of the Trump cases NY literally changed the Statute of Limitations to get Trump, remember that? They also broke ex post facto by trying Trump, for whom that statute of limitations had already passed

Now, on to my usual roundup of news, memes and political cartoons: 

ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST PARTISAN ANTI-TRUMP ZEALOT MERCHAN ALREADY FILED.

tulsi gabbard heroicTULSI GABBARD BRAVELY CALLS OUT BIDEN FOR “ABUSE OF POWER”.

LEGAL SCHOLARS DELUGE THE MEDIA TO POINT OUT THE MANY, MANY THINGS WRONG WITH THIS ABSURD TRUMP VERDICT. More HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE.

MOTHER JONES: TRUMP IS MANY HEROES IN ONE. Continue reading

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TRADER HORN (1927) PART THREE

Balladeer’s Blog continues reviewing the 1927 book Trader Horn, the quasi-autobiographical account of the British Trade Agent Alfred Aloysius Horn’s adventures in Africa during the late 1800s. The partially factual book spawned multiple movies. For Part One click HERE.

trader horn another picPART THREE – Trader Horn’s skills at bartering and deal-making with the indigenous people grew as he acquired more and more experience. His account always expressed his awe at the high populations of animal life throughout the region in the 1870s-1880s.

Gorillas were plentiful enough to live in what Horn and his fellow Trade Agents called colonies. It was from observing gorillas that humans had learned to break open the huge water vines to drink the water inside. Alfred was always grateful for the way this practice allowed one to make one’s water supply last longer on extended journeys through the jungle. The water from the vines was clean enough to avoid dysentery, too. Continue reading

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FOOL KILLER: MELUNGEON TALES

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 condensedMELUNGEON VARIATIONS PART ONE

In the previous installments I reviewed the various surviving Fool Killer Letters recounting the folk figure’s homicidal adventures in North Carolina, Virginia (including what is now West Virginia) and Kentucky.

Those tales presented the Milton Chronicle‘s Fool Killer from the late 1840s or early 1850s on through the late 1870s or possibly as late as 1880. That figure slew fools with his club/ walking stick/ cudgel and his set of Bowie knives, each blade inscribed with the words “Fool Killer.”  

The very first Fool Killer Letter by Charles Napoleon Bonaparte Evans’ fictional Jesse Holmes has not survived, so if Evans made reference to being inspired by any older Fool Killer traditions we have no way of knowing it.

East Tennessee MountainsIf he had, one possible source would be the Fool Killer figure from Melungeon folklore in East Tennessee and other Appalachian areas. Or, since we have no way of checking exact dates, Evans’ darkly satirical tales may have influenced the existing Melungeon lore since Melungeons at the time were scattered from Tennessee to North Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia. Continue reading

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