Category Archives: Neglected History

FOOL KILLER FIFTY-SEVEN: JULY OF 1912

Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the many facets of Fool Killer lore. FOR PART ONE, INCLUDING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT IN THE 1850s, CLICK HERE  

Fool Killer garbPART 57 – Some of the Fool Killer’s targets in the July 1912 edition of James Larkin Pearson’s version of The Fool-Killer. As I always point out, Pearson was difficult to categorize, which makes things interesting because he combines what we think of as left-wing and right-wing attitudes.

*** As an example of what might be labeled a left-wing viewpoint, Pearson and his Fool Killer targeted One Percenters like today’s Bush Family, Biden Family, Big Tech Fascists, etc. His 1912 way of putting it was to point out the difference between the Ninety-Nine Percent, or “the ninety and nine” among the working class and the poor, and “the one” or One Percenters who exploit the ninety and nine.

*** As an example of what might be labeled a right-wing viewpoint, Pearson and his Fool Killer pushed the virtues of religion and sticking to the teachings of Jesus.

*** The Fool Killer targeted traveling snake-oil salesmen, who in 1912 still roamed the country with their rip-off “medicines” of dubious content. Continue reading

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DEMOCRATS VERSUS THE REST OF US: JULY 22nd

democrats and republicans cartoonNobody can control their skin color or the country in which they’re born, but they CAN control what political party they belong to. Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes another look at the Democrats’ ongoing, rabid attacks on the rest of us.

democrat platform hatredAnd by “the rest of us” I mean Independent Voters, Third Party Voters, basically any non-Democrat voters. Even people who profess to be apolitical are learning that it’s no protection from the totalitarian loons who call themselves Democrats here in 2021. While the corrupt, buffoonish office-holders of the Republican Party redefine their irrelevance every single day the Democrats have made adherence to their party’s talking points a de facto requirement for employment in education (LMAO), entertainment, the military and (increasingly) elsewhere.

repub dem other(And don’t claim that’s an exaggeration unless you’re willing to leave a comment fully identifying yourself and stating which issues you disagree with the Democrat Party about. Say, regarding how many sexes there are or if children should be allowed to start taking transition drugs, or if children age two are “racists”.) 

Some of the latest (click the item to read a full article): 

DEMOCRAT RACISM TOWARD ASIAN AMERICANS CONTINUES. They’ve even taken to calling Asian Americans “white adjacent” so they can lump them in with their White Privilege talking points.

COURAGEOUS ARTIST DRAWS ATTENTION TO THE HUNTER BIDEN “ART” BRIBERY SCANDAL REGARDING THE BIDEN REGIME. Want to bribe Joe Biden? Pretend to be “buying” his son Hunter’s art.

COMBAT CENSORSHIP BY THE DEMOCRATS AT FACEBOOK BY JOINING NEXTDOOR. Yet another alternative to Democrat social media monopolies.

DEMOCRAT DAMAGE TO CALIFORNIA, THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, ETC.   Continue reading

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JOE BIDEN: DISASTER UPON DISASTER

joe biden extra creepyIn my opinion Joe Biden is the new George W Bush in so many ways. Both men brought disaster upon the U.S. while enriching themselves and their cronies, and both men were selected, rather than elected, joining Rutherford B Hayes as the three presidents who – as the evidence indicates – did not really win their elections. (Links below)

Biden is creepyFor the umpteenth time I will remind Biden supporters that they need to relax – it is far too late to remove Creepy Joe and replace him with Trump, no matter how much talk they hear about that happening. But corrupt and senile Joe Biden will wear an eternal taint like Bush from the contested 2000 election and Hayes from the contested 1876 election. And needless to say, many Republicans resent reasonable people for pointing this out about George W Bush and many Democrats resent reasonable people for pointing this out about Joe Biden. Grow up, partisan fanatics. 

Biden as creep from fam guyGeorge W Bush was being contained until the 9-11 attacks were exploited by him in atrocious ways that continue to scar the country. Joe Biden, as head of the Biden Crime Family, hasn’t hesitated in the least in unleashing disaster on the nation. And, by the way, BIDEN STILL HAS KIDS IN CAGES. More than either Trump OR Obama. Plus EVEN BIDEN’S OWN PEOPLE ARE NOW ADMITTING THE CHANCE THAT COVID ORIGINATED IN A WUHAN LAB. And BIDEN’S NOMINEE TO HEAD THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT has been tied to calls for violence against government officials. (Again, links below) Continue reading

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BIDEN, CUBAN AND CHINESE REGIMES CONTINUE THEIR EFFORTS TO SUPPRESS DISSENT, PLUS MORE …

biden jen psaki baghdad bobIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog welcomes you! It’s fascinating to see how the Biden Regime, the Cuban Regime and the Chinese Regime all unite in hatred of people who a) Protest for freedom and b) Wave American flags. Dissidents from Hong Kong to Cuba to Washington DC this past January 6th show courageous commitment to human rights and dignity, all while waving American flags. Biden and the others also have an ugly, fascistic way of labeling protestors “insurrectionists” too.

(Pssst! Democrats! You’ve made “insurrectionists” the new “deplorables” or “nasty women”, a label people wryly adopt to mock how over the top and inappropriate it is.)

Biden is fine with Mexican drug cartels and human traffickers coming and going across our forever-unsecured southern border but his ugly regime is opposed to Cuban dissidents entering the U.S. I think we can all imagine the corrupt and senile Joe Biden’s response to the new Cuban boat people. He would say something like “These people would not be likely Democrat voters so they MUST NOT enter the U.S. on my watch! They’re waving that same red, white and blue Insurrection Flag that those January 6th protestors were carrying!”  

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The Biden, Cuban and Chinese Regimes really hate this odd piece of cloth for some reason.

*** The Biden-Cuba-China Axis are standing shoulder-to-shoulder in another way – The Biden Regime, through its State Department poseur Blinken, has invited in U.N. figures from their Human Rights Committee, a committee which includes CUBA AND CHINA for the ultimate LMAO moment! Yes, representatives from genocidal, slave labor-using China and brutally oppressive Cuba will be among the people that the Biden Regime wants to come in and “impartially” criticize alleged systemic racism in the U.S. Uh. Yeah.

The Hidden Bigotry of Crosswords

That’s an actual headline from the Atlantic, so obviously the Committee will force themselves to find racism everywhere and in everything. 

*** Meanwhile, the clueless buffoons called Congressional Republicans continue claiming they will be investigating the obvious corruption of Hunter Biden, Underboss of the Biden Crime Family. I guess this means Hunter’s legal troubles are over, because, believe me, when clownish Congressional Republicans say they’re investigating you that means you and your attorneys can exchange high fives and sleep the sleep of the saved, knowing you will never face any consequences for your actions.    Continue reading

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DEMOCRAT ATROCITY ROUNDUP: JULY 12th

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DEMOCRAT PARTY

“There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of (The Party Leadership). There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we (Democrats) are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed.” ~1984, George Orwell, slightly paraphrased in the parentheses

The biggest regret of my life is that I used to belong to the party of the Democrats before I left it to become an Independent Voter. Democrats are the biggest force for hatred and division in the U.S. The Democrats have become everything they pretended to oppose and have driven all reasonable people from the party. Here in 2021 the only people who still call themselves Democrats believe “My political party right or wrong!” and also believe in “Democrat Exceptionalism.” Here is the latest Democrat Atrocity Roundup. (Links are below.)

*** UPDATE – I forgot to include the way Democrats and the Biden Regime are claiming that the anti-communist and anti-Castro protests in Cuba are “really about wanting freedom from Covid.” Democrats. You. Are. Lying. Garbage.

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NO DEMOCRAT WOULD ALLOW THIS SIGN IN A CLASSROOM OR OFFICE.

A. JOE BIDEN CONTINUES HIS PURGE OF NON-DEMOCRATS IN THE MILITARY. There is no other way to describe what the Democrats are doing under the cover of rooting out “extremism.” To them extremism means not openly and enthusiastically embracing every single Democrat talking point and position, no matter how absurd. Military personnel who resist or try to claim apolitical status must undergo political “training” as Democrats call their reeducation programs.

B. THE DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS ARE STILL PUSHING FORWARD WITH A NATIONWIDE VERSION OF THEIR CONGRESSIONAL POLICE FORCE. This force will be exempt from Freedom of Information Act requests (and presumably everything Congress exempts itself from, either immediately or eventually) and will answer only to a select few members of Congress.

              Democrats have already designated two Field Offices for the Congressional Police – one in San Francisco and one in Tampa, with more to come. If you defund the real police, like Democrats do, it provides an excuse for a federal replacement. Think of a country run the same intolerant and fascistic way that Democrats run college campuses.

C. JOE BIDEN, THE HEAD OF THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY, IS OKAY WITH HIS UNDERBOSS/ SON HUNTER BIDEN “SELLING HIS ARTWORK” (wink) AS A MEANS OF FUNNELING BRIBES TO THE BIDENS. Democrat media outlets are fine with ignoring this corruption, even though Barack Obama’s own Ethics Chief openly condemns it. Continue reading

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“DO YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER OWNED A LEGO SET?” BIDEN’S GOONS SINK TO NEW LOW

lego architecture capitolWho’s afraid of Lego models of the U.S. Capitol building? Democrats are. Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog has watched the intolerant fascists called Democrats go from their absurd “Russian Collusion” nonsense to their even more absurd “Ukrainegate” gibberish to their utterly brainless “Insurrection” drivel about the protests at the Capitol. You remember the Capitol, where mobs of Democrat protestors have in the past barged into offices and even set off explosives in restrooms, yet which Democrats now pretend to revere for its “symbolism.” Maybe they need to tell their attack dogs/ fellow Democrats at the National Archives, who love to decide what aspects of the Capitol represent alleged White Supremacy each week.

legoland insurrBefore becoming an Independent Voter I spent most of my life as a Democrat and believe me, Democrats despise the Capitol and its “symbolism” and regard people who DO revere it as patriotic hicks and rednecks. The protest at the Capitol earlier this year is being used as a political stick just like the “Kids in Cages” which Democrats treated like an atrocity under Trump but which they apparently support under Biden. “Silence is consent” Democrats tell us, and Biden has far more Kids in Cages than either Trump OR Obama had.

democrat republican or awakeSo, anyway, this “Insurrection” nonsense from the Democrats is as hypocritical as their Kids in Cages phoniness and as absurd as their Russian Collusion witch hunt. The Biden Regime has sunk to a new low recently with the way that they act like it’s sinister that a protestor owned a Lego model of the U.S. Capitol. YES, A LEGO MODEL OF THE U.S. CAPITOL! A LEGO MODEL WHICH CAN AND HAS BEEN PURCHASED ONLINE BY COUNTLESS PEOPLE!  

Will Exhibit A from the Biden Regime be a similar Lego set with Lego-constructed protestors added to it? As so many have noted: First, the FBI, presumably “following orders,” seized a toy. Then the FBI told everyone it seized a toy. Then Democrat media outlets BREATHLESSLY REPORTED that fact with paranoid and sinister inferences. Joe Biden is the ideal face for Clownworld. Continue reading

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JOE BIDEN: THE NATIONAL VEGETABLE

Biden corruptFrom Mad King George III to our present-day corrupt, senile and thoroughly creepy Joe Biden, history has thrown a lot of unhinged and detestable worms at us. 

Joe Biden dem in dementiaBIDEN’S LEAST HARMFUL LIE – Let’s start this blog post with some comic relief. Biden has lied and lied and lied relentlessly, with nationally damaging lies mixed in with almost harmless lies like his imagined battle with “a bad dude” called “Corn Pop.” (Remember, in Biden’s racist imaginings he is able to overcome stereotypical blaxploitation-level villains single-handed.)

              Recently the Daffy Democrat regaled his audience with a bizarre lie HILARIOUSLY exaggerating his performance at a Congressional Baseball Game of the past. In a game where he went 0-2, Biden became – in his feverish longings – a mighty hitter of almost Babe Ruth proportions. Considering how one of Biden’s fellow Democrats opened fire on opposition party Congressmen at a practice on the diamond a few years back, we’re lucky that Joe didn’t claim he was the trigger-man in that horrific incident. Give it time and he probably will.  

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Corrupt, senile, tiny-handed Joe Biden

BIDEN CONTINUES TO EMBODY POLITICAL CORRUPTION AS USUAL IN AMERICA – As the head of the Biden Crime Family, with his repulsive son Hunter as the underboss, Joe Biden embodies 48 years’ worth of American political corruption from the white collar criminals called Democrats and Republicans. The only true Reform President we’ve had in decades had to go for opposing the uniparty swamp, with Joe Biden selected but not elected, just like the equally disgusting George W Bush.

IS JOE BIDEN SENILE, DEMENTED OR JUST EXCEPTIONALLY STUPID? – It’s recognized around the world that Joe Biden is mentally unfit, but debate continues over the exact nature of his failings. He showed hostility to people of color long before now with his punitive and draconian legislation against them plus his war on the poor and the working class is not new, so those seem more like malice aforethought than senility.

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Captain Pike cosplaying as Joe Biden

With Biden’s other doddering behaviors, like stumbling on stairwells and wandering around lost and needing notes to answer the simplest questions, though, who could really say for sure? Continue reading

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NATIVE CALIFORNIAN ON TRUMP AND CHINA

democrat republican or awakeHere at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog I was intrigued by this video interview of a native Californian who lived in China for years and the experience made him feel that de facto Third Party President Donald Trump was right about China and other issues. The comments under the original video come from both pro and anti-Trump people. 

How living in China changed my view on Trump and US politics: Californian native – YouTube

 

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HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY 2021

American flagBalladeer’s Blog wishes a happy birthday to the USA! What happened in early July of 1776 certainly needs no rehashing so in keeping with my blog’s theme of addressing more out of the way subjects this post will examine various events that took place on other July 4ths throughout American history.

JULY 4TH, 1778 – George Rogers Clark led his rebel forces in taking the British stronghold of Kaskaskia, near the confluence of the Mississippi and Kaskaskia Rivers. Clark and his Rangers were on a mission for then-Virginia Governor Patrick Henry.

JULY 4TH, 1783 – The Massachusetts Supreme Court is finalizing its written decision holding that slavery has been illegal in the state since adoption of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights in 1780. Continue reading

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AND EVEN MORE NEGLECTED BATTLES FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

american flag revo warThe 4th of July is coming up soon so why not do another seasonal post? The format of my recent look at some overlooked American victories from the Revolutionary War was pretty popular with readers, so in that same format here’s a look at some victories AND defeats from 1778.

george rogers clarkMAY 15th, 1778 – George Rogers Clark and his troops seize the British base at Cahokia on the Mississippi River near what is now East Saint Louis, IL. This officially kicks off Clark’s campaign to take control of America’s northwest frontier (of the time) away from the British. The campaign was begun at the behest of Virginia’s Governor Patrick Henry.

MAY 30th, 1778 – British-educated Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant leads a combined force of 300 Iroquois and British Loyalists against 60 militiamen and Continental Soldiers who were defending Cobleskill, NY. Brant’s army wins, resulting in the looting and burning of Cobleskill.

JULY 3rd, 1778 – At what became called the Wyoming Valley Massacre in Northern Pennsylvania, British Loyalist Colonel John Butler leads 574 combined British Loyalists and Mohawk Indians against 360 Americans under Colonel Zebulon Butler. The Americans lose and the British Loyalists allow the Mohawks to torture to death surviving Americans who could not avoid capture. Roughly 340 of the original 360 men were killed, either in battle or by slow torture.   

JULY 4th, 1778 – George Rogers Clark and his American army attack and capture the British post at Kaskaskia, IL at the confluence of the Kaskaskia and Mississippi Rivers. Continue reading

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