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JUNE TWENTY-THIRD ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog does another current events roundup from an America where ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable anti-Trump loons have conveniently forgotten the eight years of Barack Obama’s periodic strikes on the middle east.

*** NEW! TRUMP ANNOUNCES CEASEFIRE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND IRAN.

PRESIDENT TRUMP PRAISED FOR HIS DECISION ON THE STRIKES AGAINST CRAZED IRANIAN REGIME’S NUCLEAR SITES. Trump critic praises the president and acknowledges the strikes saved American lives HERE. Even this unhinged anti-Trumper admits this was the right call HERE.

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE JOHNSON: PRESIDENT TRUMP GAVE IRAN EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A DEAL.    SENATE MAJORITY LEADER THUNE: IRAN REJECTED ALL DIPLOMATIC PATHWAYS.    INSIDE THE MISSION.   

DEMOCRAT PARTY

DEMOCRATS OBJECT TO THE IRAN NUKE STRIKES IN A WAY THEY WOULD NEVER OBJECT TO ANY ACTION TAKEN BY UKRAINE AGAINST RUSSIA OR BY HAMAS AGAINST ISRAEL. So predictable and so tiresome.   

SENATE INVESTIGATION PROVIDES MORE EVIDENCE OF DEMOCRATS OUTRIGHTLY LYING ABOUT JOE BIDEN’S CONDITION TO COVER UP HIS UNFITNESS. More HERE. Unaccountable figures were acting as president while a figurehead was trotted out in public. There is no bigger story right now.

ACCUSED MN ASSASSIN BOELTER’S CONFESSION LETTER CLAIMS HE KILLED TO CLEAR THE WAY FOR A SENATE RUN FOR DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR TIM WALZ.

DEMOCRAT JUDICIAL CORRUPTION IN COLORADO UNDER INVESTIGATION. When “judges” are nothing more than political party operatives.

DEMOCRAT HENRY CUELLAR COURAGEOUSLY ADMITS PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS RIGHT TO USE THE NATIONAL GUARD IN LOS ANGELES AND REFUTES THE NOTION THAT THE RIOTS WERE “PEACEFUL.”

NEW YORK DEMOCRATS FIGHTING TO KEEP COUNTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN THEIR FAVOR FOR REPRESENTATION IN THE 2030 CENSUS. Continue reading

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BALLADEER’S BLOG IS NOW FIFTEEN YEARS OLD

THANK YOU once again to all of you readers for making Balladeer’s Blog so enjoyable to write. As I always say, the unusual and controversial items I sometimes churn out here mean that readers have to be open-minded and very secure in their own beliefs not to just take offense and leave. You folks are the greatest!  

Here are some of my most popular blog posts from the past 12 months.

BAD MOVIES – “Teenage” Monsters from the 1950s HERE, The Bionic Boy (1977) HERE, Fist of Fear, Touch of Death (1980) HERE, Television Spy HERE, Ron Ely’s Spaghetti Westerns HERE, Keith Richards movies HERE.

ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION – The Air Battle (1859) HERE, Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (1686) HERE, In the Deep of Time (1897) HERE. Conquest of the Moon (1887) HERE. The Aleriel Novels (1874-1893) HERE. A Voyage into Tartary (1689) HERE. Elektropolis (1928) HERE.

FORGOTTEN TELEVISION – The Swamp Fox with Leslie Nielsen as Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion HERE, Wildside (1985) HERE, Reel Wild Cinema episodes HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE. The Best of Broadway HERE. Big Hawaii (1977) HERE. The Blue Palace (1974-1976) HERE.

SILENT FILMS – Rin Tin Tin’s silent movies HERE. Seven silent films about the American Revolution HERE. Samson in silent films HERE. Rudolph Valentino’s silent movies HERE. Mabel Normand’s silent films HERE. 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1916) HERE. Astrea the Strongwoman HERE.

FRONTIERADO – The original Deadwood Dick Dime Novel (1877) HERE, O. Henry’s original Cisco Kid story HERE. Shotgun John, neglected gunslinger HERE. The real Judge Roy Bean HERE. The Buffalo Soldiers HERE. Red Sun (1971) with Charles Bronson, Toshiro Mifune and Alain Delon HERE.

FOURTH OF JULY SEASON – Neglected battles: February 1777 HERE, Anna Maria Lane and Sally St. Claire HERE, the Black Soldiers of the Chasseurs-Voluntaires de St. Domingue HERE. The Black Coat, forgotten Revolutionary War superhero HERE. Blackheart Rum for the 4th of July HERE. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: JUNE TWENTIETH

Here’s another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

THE LATEST DEMOCRAT RIOTS, THIS TIME IN PORTLAND, TARGET FEDERAL WORKERS WITH EXPLOSIVES AND MORE. Fascists are gonna fascist. DEMOCRATS CONTINUE STOKING THE VIOLENCE.

SEATTLE’S DEMOCRAT CHIEF OF POLICE PROMISES TO DO EVERYTHING IN HIS POWER TO HELP ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMINALS ELUDE ICE. I will ask the Democrats again – given your irrational claims that we live in a “dystopia” under Trump, aren’t there any suffering CITIZENS you would be willing to champion? “Illegal immigrants uber alles” remains the Democrat motto.

REPUBLICAN CONGRESSWOMAN ANNA PAULINA BRAVELY HELPS LEAD THE EFFORT TO SUBPOENA INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL AND PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER GEORGE SOROS.

APPEALS COURT RULES IN TRUMP’S FAVOR ON CA NATIONAL GUARD CASE.

SENATE HEARINGS ON THE GROTESQUE DEMOCRAT COVERUP OF JOE BIDEN’S UNFITNESS CONTINUE. Continue reading

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2025 JUNETEENTH: MARKING THE DAY DEMOCRATS LOST THEIR SLAVES

democrats kkkIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog wishes you a happy Juneteenth, marking the day Democrats lost their slaves. (Democrats owned slaves, not Republicans.) African-Americans continue fighting for their freedom from the Democrats, who today treat people of color like they still own them and that they MUST vote for Democrats and ONLY Democrats.

That political party, which I’m ashamed to say I used to belong to years ago, even distorts the Juneteenth holiday. They try fundamentally transforming it into a day when Democrats – the only extant political party which supported slavery and even fought a Civil War over it – can act like they are above reproach while THE REST OF THE COUNTRY shares a guilt The Party pretends to be free from. 

Joe Biden, embodying the grotesque hypocrisy of that detestable political party, EULOGIZED A KLANSMAN – DEMOCRAT SENATOR ROBERT BYRD – yet Biden thought he was fit to give finger-wagging lectures to the rest of us. (If this post upsets you, tell the Democrats to stop politicizing Juneteenth by pretending they had nothing to do with slavery, or the Ku Klux Klan, or Jim Crow, etc.) Continue reading

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JUNE EIGHTEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog offers up another current events roundup from an America where anti-Trump loons pretend to not like kings but are okay with all the faceless kings who used Joe Biden as a prop and a figurehead to sneak through their own agendas. And never forget how the Democrats and their media outlets spent years covering up Joe Biden’s unfitness and calling people “conspiracy theorists” for telling the truth about Biden.

POPULIST PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES HAVE BROUGHT ON THE LARGEST INCREASE IN BLUE-COLLAR WORKING-CLASS WAGES IN SIXTY YEARS. Trump, the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime, continues his successful policies from his first term.

        Meanwhile, Democrats go around fatally shooting their own party members for voting with Republicans in the Minnesota legislature.

BERNIE SANDERS REGAINS A LITTLE OF THE INTEGRITY HE THREW AWAY. DEMANDS THAT THE DEMOCRATS BAN BILLIONAIRE-RUN SUPER-PACS FROM THEIR PRIMARIES IN 2028. Bernie obviously remembers how the DNC rigged their primaries against him in 2016 and against Tulsi Gabbard in 2020.

THE DEMOCRATS’ BELOVED G-7 ISSUES A JOINT STATEMENT SAYING “IRAN CAN NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON” AND ACKNOWLEDGING ISRAEL’S RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF. Following in President Trump’s wake as the leader of the free world.

EXPLOSIVE NEW REVELATIONS ABOUT VOTE FRAUD IN 2020 THROUGH THE INHERENTLY CORRUPT “CHEAT BY MAIL” CON INCLUDE EVIDENCE THAT THE INFORMATION WAS COVERED UP. The 2020 election was as tainted and corrupt as the 1876 and 2000 election results were.

EXPOSING THE ADDITIONAL MONEY FUNNELED TO THE “JUSTICES” OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT. Ketanji Jackson leads the sleazy pack with her two-million-dollar “advance” from PRH. Time for Americans to grow up and stop pretending that the SCOTUS isn’t as corrupt as the rest of our political establishment.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S AMAZING ACCOMPLISHMENT AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER.

DON SURBER’S GREAT ARTICLE ON WHY TRUMP IS AT FIFTY-THREE PERCENT APPROVAL RATING AND ONLY THIRTY-ONE PERCENT TRUST THE MEDIA. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: JUNE SIXTEENTH

I’ll be making my Bloom’s Day post later today. Right now it’s another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

THE DEMOCRAT “NO KINGS” MURDERER ON THE LOOSE AFTER THEIR POLITICAL KILLINGS HAS BEEN APPREHENDED. WAS AN APPOINTEE OF MINNESOTA’S DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR TIM WALZ. The suspect allegedly killed their victims for being Democrats who voted with Republicans in the state legislature last week. Killer’s manifesto found.

EX-ILLINOIS HOUSE SPEAKER, DEMOCRAT MICHAEL MADIGAN, SENTENCED TO SEVEN AND A HALF YEARS IN PRISON ON CORRUPTION CHARGES. Have I mentioned lately that 21st Century Democrats are a combination of the Mafia and Nazis?

BRUNER REVEALS THE MONEY BEHIND THE DEMOCRATS’ LATEST RIOTS IS BEING PROVIDED BY THE PARTY’S BILLIONAIRES, INCLUDING BILL GATES, GEORGE SOROS, REID HOFFMAN, MARK ZUCKERBERG AND HANSJORG WYSS

TIK TOKER REVEALS THAT PRO-VIOLENCE FORCES HAVE BEEN PAYING INFLUENCERS TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS A DAY TO POST IN SUPPORT OF THE RIOTS. No surprise. Democrats are known for astroturf, not grass-roots movements.

STEPHEN A. SMITH BRAVELY CALLS OUT DEMOCRAT ALEX PADILLA FOR HIS MANIACAL BEHAVIOR AT DHS SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM’S PRESSER LAST WEEK.

MAN ARRESTED FOR SUPPLYING EQUIPMENT TO THE LATEST DEMOCRAT RIOTERS IN LOS ANGELES IS A MEMBER OF THE FASCISTIC, RACIST HATE GROUP THE BROWN BERETS.

UNLIKELY SOURCE LAYS BARE THE LIES ABOUT THE ONGOING SITUATION IN CALIFORNIA.

STEPHEN KING, LOOKING NOTHING AT ALL LIKE A CREEP WHO HANGS AROUND PLAYGROUNDS, SAYS HE WANTS WOMEN IN CHARGE OF NUCLEAR NATIONS. As I’ve done in the past when imbeciles like King say this sort of thing, I will point out that WHAT STEPHEN KING REALLY MEANS IS THAT HE WANTS ONLY WOMEN WHO AGREE WITH HIS POLITICAL OPINIONS TO RUN NUCLEAR NATIONS. Does anyone really think the sexist King wants Kristi Noem, Tulsi Gabbard, Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Pam Bondi, Lauren Boebert, etc? Continue reading

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FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH (1907)

friday-the-thirteenth-novelFRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH (1907) – Written by Thomas William Lawson, a writer and stock manipulator who made a fortune from shady stock deals … in between advocating for cleaning up Wall Street to shut down those fleece jobs. The reforms Lawson campaigned for were taken up decades later when Franklin Roosevelt appointed future Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas to head the Securities Exchange Commission.

Coincidentally enough the overall feel of Friday the Thirteenth put me in mind of FDR’s cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. The novel did that with its New York setting, with the way the story takes place late in T.R.’s presidency and most especially with the way it dealt with ethics in the marketplace.  

lawson-cartoon-betterJim Randolph, one of the novel’s main characters, is in the T.R. mold: he may be a bloated rich pig but at least he’s a bloated rich pig with a sense of noblesse oblige. Jim shares Teddy Roosevelt’s disdain for the Trusts and for con men who use the stock market to rip off their clients.

It’s not as if Jim Randolph is as fiery as Teddy Forstmann was in his opposition to Leveraged Buy Outs during the 1980s, but like Forstmann he has a sense of what makes for a healthy economy and frowns upon the fly-by-night operators who thrive on irresponsible “frenzied finance” as Randolph calls it.   Continue reading

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JUNE THIRTEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

With America’s hate group the Democrat Party once again rioting, looting and terrorizing various cities – which will then demand taxpayer money to bail them outIndependent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog takes another look at current events. (And another reminder that the United States PAID Mexico for the land they perpetually snivel about.)

DEMOCRAT SENATOR PADILLA EJECTED OVER HIS VIOLENT ATTEMPT TO ATTACK DHS SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM. Padilla’s misogynistic lies exposed HERE. More HERE. And HERE

DEMOCRAT NEA HEAD BECKY PRINGLE ENCOURAGES THE BURNING AND LOOTING RIOTERS AND TOLD THEMAnd I need you to make a commitment that when we send out the call, whoever it’s for … that you will answer that call like you did today.” In other words, be ready to riot again at The Party’s command. 

DEMOCRATS STOOP TO DELUSIONAL LEVELS TO DEFEND THEIR RIOTING, BURNING, LOOTING AND KILLING MOBS. The Democrats are still the combined Mafia and Nazi Party of the 21st Century. More HERE.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES CONTINUE LOWERING GAS PRICES EVEN MORE THAN EXPECTED. He was and is the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

TRUMP’S TARIFFS STILL DELIVERING ON CPI AND THE LOWEST INFLATION RATE SINCE EARLY 2021. The Biden Regime destroyed the economy, Trump is once again saving it. More HERE.

PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER NANCY PELOSI DEFENDS THE RIOTING, BURNING, LOOTING AND KILLING BY THE DEMOCRAT MOBS IN CALIFORNIA.

HILARIOUS THREAD RIDICULING THE DEMOCRATS’ IDIOTIC DEFENSE OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND THE RIOTS. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: JUNE ELEVENTH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog offers up another current events roundup. For fun, today I’ll use the word “Democrat” as often as Democrats use the word “Nazi.”

FEDERAL JUDGE DENIES DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR NEWSOM’S ABSURD LAWSUIT TO MAKE PRESIDENT TRUMP WITHDRAW THE NATIONAL GUARD. Wow. When even a venue-shopped judge won’t play ball with The Party you know it’s bad for them.

CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR NEWSOM GETS FACT-CHECKED ON HIS LIES CLAIMING THE RIOTS DIDN’T START UNTIL AFTER PRESIDENT TRUMP FEDERALIZED THE NATIONAL GUARD. If it’s any consolation for Newsom, Democrats are still mindlessly repeating the claim like they do with every other anti-Trump lie.

SENATOR CHRIS MURPHY OF THE FASCIST DEMOCRAT PARTY GOT HIS WISH FOR THE PARTY’S MOBS TO “BE ON THE STREETS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.” 

DEMOCRATS CONTINUE RIOTING IN SUPPORT OF THE CHILD MOLESTERS, MURDERERS AND DOMESTIC ABUSERS ARRESTED BY ICE. More of their crimes HERE. A true cross-section of Democrat voters. 

WOODS: WHEN YOU VOTE DEMOCRAT, YOU’RE VOTING FOR THIS. This many riots later, that statement is incontestable.

TEN CONCEPTS TO UNDERSTAND THE LATEST DEMOCRAT RIOTS

MEXICAN GOVERNMENT PROVIDING LEGAL AID TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED IN THE LATEST DEMOCRAT RIOTS. Hey, one person’s Act of War is another’s collusion with a foreign government to commit acts of violence in Democrat controlled cities.

CNN POLL SHOWS LEGAL IMMIGRANTS SUPPORT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ACTIONS AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Many people trying to migrate LEGALLY to the U.S. patiently wait in line while the Democrat Party’s illegal immigrants jump the line and commit additional crimes. Continue reading

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JUNE NINTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

LOS ANGELES POLICE CHIEF STATES THE DEMOCRAT VIOLENCE IS ESCALATING, DESPITE DEMOCRATS  SCHIFF, BASS AND GOVERNOR NEWSOM’S CLAIMS OTHERWISE. But hey, Schiff, Bass and Newsom don’t care about the safety of the people, they care only about “owning” Trump by demanding he call off the National Guard to handle the riots. Can Democrats make ANY decisions not based on their monomaniacal hatred of one man?

DEMOCRAT CITY COUNCIL MEMBER IN LOS ANGELES ENCOURAGES RIOTERS TO ESCALATE THEIR ATTACKS. No surprise. The office-holders who still call themselves Democrats in 2025 are not rational.

SBA ADMINISTRATOR SAYS THEY ARE MOVING THEIR REGIONAL OFFICE OUT OF LOS ANGELES SINCE THE CITY “WON’T PROTECT ITS PEOPLE” BY COOPERATING WITH ICE. Democrats in office are indefensible at this point. 

KARINA LIPSMAN: CANDIDATE IN THE SPECIAL ELECTION IN VIRGINIA’S ELEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

PAKISTANI DELEGATION SAYS “TRUMP IS NOT BEING CELEBRATED ENOUGH” FOR THE CEASEFIRE WITH INDIA.

POLL: SEVENTY-FOUR PERCENT OF CALIFORNIANS WANT TO END SANCTUARY CITIES. But Democrats never care what the voters want despite their endless bluster about “defending democracy.”

ANCHORMAN AT DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET IN LOS ANGELES ACTUALLY REFERS TO THE RIOTERS AS “HAVING FUN” AND WARNS ABOUT AUTHORITIES COMING IN “THE WRONG WAY.” And an idiotic British news outlet claims Trump is “bullying” the violent rioters.  

NEW GAZA AID HEAD PRAISES TRUMP’S HUMANITARIAN BREAKTHROUGH THERE. Yes, making sure the people receive the aid and not letting it be hijacked by Hamas is an improvement. Continue reading

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