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… ANOTHER LIBERAL FED UP WITH THE AMERICAN LEFT

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*** *** *** *** *** … … At Politico: Kim McKinney Cohen and husband Robert Carl Cohen

Here’s another American Liberal – Kim McKinney Cohen – explaining how the Left’s forever-increasing corruption  drove her away like it did me. I like to run these items as a break from me noting the reasons why I grew to dislike both American Liberals and American Conservatives.

The link to the whole piece is below, but I’ll start with some excerpts:

Cohen called her vote for Donald Trump a “primal scream” aimed at the Democrats, who – as I often point out – have been pocketed by one percenters and bloated rich pigs as surely as the Republicans were long ago.  

She further stated “I wanted it (the Democrats’ Party) burned down … so that we could build a new, hopefully more equitable one that meets the needs of all, not only the super-rich.”

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The symbol of the nonexistent Balladeer Political Party

“The Democratic Party, to which she had been unswervingly loyal for four decades, had sabotaged her chosen candidate, Bernie Sanders, and then lectured her about the need to vote for a woman whose hawkishness and arrogance rubbed her the wrong way. When Hillary Clinton said dismissively supporters of Donald Trump were ‘a basket of deplorables,’ Cohen had heard enough.”

“Well, then,” she sighed, “I guess I’m a deplorable.” Continue reading

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PRIMER (2004): CREPE SYUZHET

primerPRIMER (2004) – Yes, I’m just childish enough to pat myself on the back for that play on words in the title of this blog post. With that out of the way I know I’m late to the game when it comes to Primer but my own skepticism about it made me keep it on the back burner in terms of priority movies to watch.

Since New Year’s Eve into the New Year is the closest any of us ever get to time travel I figured today was the perfect time to finally review this controversial film. Primer was made for just $7,000 (really) by Shane Carruth, who starred, wrote, directed, edited, arranged the music and pretty much did everything but wash the cars of his collaborators.

The film’s 2:1 film ratio has become legendary and decisively proved the benefits of having your cast repeatedly rehearse scenes before letting the cameras roll. Film stock ain’t cheap and anything an independent producer can do to save on it is pure gold.

primer-2Shane Carruth stars as Aaron and David Sullivan portrays Abe. The pair are engineers who – on the side – run a tech business out of Aaron’s garage. As a side effect of a project they are working on the two discover a means of time travel.

Don’t roll your eyes and assume that Primer is just another use of this well-worn concept. I made that mistake and put off watching this excellent and thought-provoking movie for far too long.

You can ignore reviews which claim the opening half of this 77 minute film is boring. Literally even the most casual exchanges of dialogue have bearing on the overall story. It’s not really a spoiler at this late date to point out that the very beginning of the film is NOT the “first run” of the events in the storyline, as a viewer discovers later. Continue reading

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THE HILLARY CLINTON EXCUSE CALENDAR FOR 2017

hillary-clinton-excusesCareer criminal Hillary Clinton continues to blame everyone but herself for her humiliating loss to Donald Trump this year. One of the hot-selling items headed into the New Year is a calendar on which each day features one of the Hillarytron’s whiny, self-serving excuses.

You’ll get three hundred sixty-five gems like:

THE RUSSIANS FORCED HILLARY TO RUN A FAKE CHARITY, ACCEPT BRIBES AND MISHANDLE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION!

THE VOTES OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS SHOULD BE THE ONLY VOTES THAT COUNT!

MALE VOTERS FELT THREATENED BY A WOMAN LIKE HILLARY WHO LIVES OFF THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF HER HUSBAND!

HILLARY’S SHRILL VOICE WAS SO HIGH-PITCHED ONLY DOGS COULD HEAR HER LIES AND PROMISES.

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… … RED – Trump, Blue – Hillary

ISOLATED, HEAVILY POPULATED POCKETS OF POMPOUS SNOBS AND BLOATED RICH PIGS SHOULD GET TO DICTATE HOW THE REST OF THE COUNTRY LIVES!

BLACK VOTERS FORGOT WE DEMOCRATS OWN THEM LIKE WE DID ON OUR PLANTATIONS!

OBAMA TOLD HILLARY IT WAS A GOOD STRATEGY TO CALL MOST OF THE COUNTRY “A BASKET OF DEPLORABLES.”

AMERICANS ARE BIASED AGAINST CAREER CRIMINALS LIKE HILLARY!

UPPITY ORANGE PEOPLE LIKE TRUMP LOVE TO PLAY IDENTITY POLITICS! Continue reading

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CATHERINE CHEW ON WHY EDUCATED WOMEN COULD SUPPORT TRUMP

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*** *** *** *** *** *** Catherine Chew

Donald “Agent Orange” Trump actually takes office in January Balladeer’s Blog has been having a lot of fun providing many points of view rebuking the pompous snobbery, cowardly hypocrisy and hilarious pretentiousness of the American Left.

Catherine Chew authored a terrific piece outlining her ultimate drift to Trump in the 2016 election. The link to the item is below, but first some excerpts:

“After eight years of ineffective leadership, it was time for an epochal change.”

“My biggest priorities in this election were the economy and national security.”

“I was a ‘closet’ Donald Trump supporter and I’ve decided to come out. I am a professional woman, educated and hold a university terminal degree. I am a former community college president. I am not racist nor am I xenophobic. I have a multicultural son conceived with an Iranian Muslim former husband.”

“Since the tsunami election occurred, pundits, journalists and pollsters have obsessively given credence to the voting bloc of male, working-class individuals from rural areas as being the cause for Trump’s successful campaign. They have consistently showcased an elitist attitude about Trump supporters.”

women-for-trump-2“Many predicted that Trump’s campaign was doomed because it could not attract enough women or minorities. But reports suggest Trump captured about 42 percent of women voters, including white, college-educated, middle-class and wealthy suburban women.”  

” … I was attracted to a Trump presidency because I sincerely believed only someone as unorthodox and bold as he could take on the deeply infested establishment and extremely dysfunctional system that exists in the federal government. As a non-career politician and businessman, he thinks differently and his unconventional and nonconformist campaign proves it.”   Continue reading

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HILLARY LOSES AGAIN: DEMOCRAT DEATH-THREATS FAIL TO INTIMIDATE ELECTORAL COLLEGE MEMBERS

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Rejecting Hillary Clinton is the new American Pastime.

The election that never seems to end passed another milestone today as the Electoral College members met to certify Donald Trump as the next president of the United States. Weeks ago Hillary Clinton supporters publicly posted names, addresses, phone numbers and social media information of Electors as part of the massive attempt to intimidate them into ignoring the results of the November 8th election.

Many Electors reported getting death-threats through various media and some even needed police protection today because of the Democrats’ unprecedented attempt at overruling presidential election results via intimidation.

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*** *** *** *** ***   Are death-threats to Electors the wave of the future?

Corporate media outlets have been coyly ignoring much of this and have been downplaying the fact that there is an implied threat in the mere public posting of the Electors’ information. “Everyone knows where you live and how to contact you now” is the message conveyed by ANY contact with the Electors.

OVERSEAS NEWS OUTLETS were MORE RELIABLE sources of information on the death-threats and other attempts at intimidation THAN AMERICAN NETWORKS! And thanks to the Democrats we now face a situation in which presidential elections of the future may well be waged up until the last moment before the Electors meet.  

Because the American Left seem determined to drive away all of us rational people who used to consider ourselves a part of them I am repeating this blog post from Election Day. Hey, if we had to sit through their Drama Queen antics the past several weeks, why not?

HILLARY AND OBAMA ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY

women-for-trumpCAREER CRIMINAL HILLARY CLINTON FAILS IN BID FOR WHITE HOUSE

DEMOCRATS SUDDENLY REALIZE WHY A PRESIDENT’S POWERS NEED REINED IN: And It Ain’t Because of (YAAAAAAWWWN) Racism

WAR WITH RUSSIA AVERTED WHEN MADWOMAN DENIED THE PRESIDENCY

ONE PERCENTERS AND BLOATED RICH PIGS OUTRAGED AT TRUMP WIN

BLOW STRUCK AGAINST AMERICAN LIBERAL COLONIALISM

latinas-for-trumpVOTERS TO OBAMA: DROP DEAD

THE WORKING POOR DEFEAT THE MEDIA-DEMOCRAT MONOLITH

DEMOCRATS BANKED TOO MUCH ON ELDERLY WHITE LIBERALS WHO THINK IT’S 1967

ORANGE LIVES MATTER!

DE FACTO THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE WINS THE PRESIDENCY

DEMOCRATS’ PLANS FOR 2020: ANYTHING WITH A VAGINA!

MICHAEL MOORE ENGINEERS TRUMP VICTORY

NON-DEMOCRAT AND NON-REPUBLICAN BREAKS GLASS CEILING!

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One percenter and bloated rich pig Mark Cuban (actual size)

MARK CUBAN: FROM BEGGING TO BE TRUMP’S VICE PRESIDENT TO SOUR GRAPES CRITIC TO IRRELEVANT BUFFOON IN ONE ELECTION CYCLE!

DEMOCRATS VOW: THE NEXT CRIMINAL WE RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY WILL HAVE ALREADY BEEN CONVICTED AND SERVED THEIR TIME

TRUMP ON HOW HE ATTRACTED SO MANY AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTES: “I ASKED FOR THEM” (DEMOCRAT TIP O’NEILL STILL HAS WISDOM FOR US)

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LUNATIC FRINGE CONSISTING OF MORE THAN HALF THE COUNTRY ELECTS DONALD TRUMP AS PRESIDENT

HILLARY INSISTS GETTING MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT VOTES IN CALIFORNIA MEANS SHE WON (Democrats refuse to investigate vote fraud to weed out those illegal votes.)  

BLOATED RICH PIGS WHO OWN HILLARY SAY: WE WANT OUR MONEY BACK!

HILLARY: IF I HAD KNOWN U.S. CITIZENS WERE VOTING I TOTALLY WOULD HAVE PANDERED FOR THEIR VOTES

black-trump-supportersTRUMP DOUBLES GOP’s USUAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTE, PROVING WHAT A RACIST HE IS …?

GEORGE WILL AND BILL KRISTOL TO STAR IN FEATURE-LENGTH VERSION OF MONTY PYTHON’s “UPPER CLASS TWIT” SKETCH

PARTY OF SLAVERY, THE KU KLUX KLAN AND JIM CROW DEFEATED

MEDIA WHICH ASSURED US HILLARY WOULD WIN IN A LANDSLIDE NOW ASSURES US TRUMP WILL BLOW UP WORLD

DEMOCRATS STUNNED TO LEARN THAT ACTUAL VOTERS OUTNUMBER ACTORS AND SINGERS

CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS SUDDENLY IN LOVE WITH THE NOTION OF CONGRESSIONAL OBSTRUCTIONISM Continue reading

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2016’s BEST BLOG POSTS ABOUT ISLAM

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THIS HAUNTING IMAGE STRIKES RIGHT TO THE CORE OF THE HATRED THAT IS ISLAM.

Enjoy this latest Best Of list for the end of the calendar year. 

“WE ARE ALL MUSLIMS” : HERE

RAHEEL RAZA – MUSLIM HEROINE: HERE 

MUSLIM FANATICS STONE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE IN GERMANY: HERE

MUSLIMS WHO ASSIMILATE ARE REJECTED BY THE LEFT: HERE

Sun LadiesYAZIDI WOMEN FORM UNIT TO FIGHT ISLAMIC STATE: HERE

HEROIC MUSLIM WOMAN SHAMS BANDAR: HERE

ANN-MARIE WATERS ON MUSLIM RAPE MOBS AND CENSORSHIP: HERE

THE LEFT’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH ISLAM: HERE

FRANCES BARBER SPEAKS OUT ON MUSLIM MISOGYNY: HERE

ANOTHER COURAGEOUS WOMAN TAKES ON ISLAM: HERE

Nonie DarwishNONIE DARWISH – HEROINE VS ISLAM: HERE

BRAVE MUSLIM WOMEN: HERE

ANOTHER BRAVE MUSLIM WOMAN: HERE

MUSLIM VIOLENCE: HERE Continue reading

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2016’s BEST BLOG POSTS UPSETTING LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES

Liberals conservativesHere at Balladeer’s Blog I hear from Conservatives who accuse me of being a Liberal and Liberals who accuse me of being a Conservative. I always point out that I think those labels are outdated and increasingly meaningless.

Anyway here are the top blog posts from this year that upset self-described Liberals and Conservatives. 

*** UPSET BOTH SIDES ***  

LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES AND ART: HERE

THE MOST REPULSIVE LIBERALS & CONSERVATIVES: HERE

GALLUP: AMERICANS REJECTING BOTH PARTIES: HERE

LEAP DAY MILESTONES: HERE

TO THE 4th POWER: HERE Continue reading

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DEMOCRAT CRIMINALS: CHAKA FATTAH

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… *** *** *** *** ***     Is Mr Fattah the Democrats’ 2020 Presidential nominee?

Ah, those Democrats! They love to act like they are THE moral models for everyone else in the world. Disgraced Democrat Representative Chaka Fattah – living up to the grand standards of the Party of Hillary “Bugsy” Clinton – has been sentenced to TEN YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON for bribery, for stealing campaign contributions, for stealing charitable donations, and for stealing federal grant money, all to finance his own Democrat-model lifestyle.

democratic party donkeyI THINK THE DEMOCRATS HAVE FOUND THEIR 2020 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE! Nobody will ever match the criminal career of the Hillarytron or get as many cops killed as Obama has, but hey! There is obviously a great farm system in the Party of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, the Spoils System, Tammany Hall, Jim Crow, making police Public Enemy Number One, vote fraud, Cities of Illegal Immigrants and making death threats against members of the Electoral College! Democrats are so innovative!

C’mon, Democrats! Lecture the rest of us some more in that sickeningly sanctimonious way that you love to do!  

On the Republican side: Continue reading

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OBAMA LIES AGAIN, CLAIMING THERE’VE BEEN NO MUSLIM TERROR ATTACKS DURING HIS PRESIDENCY

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Obama consulting with his speech writers.

And this piece of garbage has the nerve to talk about “Fake News?” At what point does somebody do an intervention with this deluded fool? Yes, Barry, we know you always tried to mislabel Muslim terror attacks on U.S. soil as “workplace violence” or “toxic American gun culture” and all the other excuses you’ve used but I doubt if even Paul Krugman believes THIS particular lie.

Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon Muslim Massacre, the Muslim fanatic gunning down gay people in Florida earlier this year, last December’s Muslim slaughter at an office party, and many others, right on up through the recent Ohio State Muslim loon there have been PLENTY of Muslim terror attacks on U.S. soil under this weak, inept and crooked little man. Continue reading

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AMERICAN MEDIA: SOME ADMIT THEIR TRUMP MISTAKES, OTHERS DOUBLE-DOWN

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Media bias rages unabated

Some elements of America’s hilariously biased Corporate Media have shown some integrity by pondering the way their prejudices and snobbery blinded them to the Donald “Agent Orange” Trump victory. Others apparently think they didn’t go far ENOUGH in their snobbery, hatemongering and lying to cover up Hillary “Bugsy” Clinton’s countless crimes and conflicts of interest.

And you have to laugh at the biased media’s new obsession which has them insisting that “Fake News” is ANYTHING that puts the Democrats in a bad light. 

*** THE WASHINGTON POST ran this story about the study by Harvard (no friends of anyone outside the Democrats) regarding the 10-1 media bias AGAINST Trump. CLICK HERE 

*** TIME/ WARNER CEO admitted the Democrats are a bigger threat to the First Amendment and Press Freedom than Trump ever was. CLICK HERE 

*** THE JACKSON PRESS ran this item on the media’s obsession with praising Left-Wing Dictators and expressing contempt for the working poor. CLICK HERE 

*** AND A REMINDER about how the American Media ignored black support for Trump – CLICK HERE Continue reading

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