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JUNE FOURTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

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

JOB OPENINGS AND HIRINGS CONTINUE RISING, FURTHER PROVING WRONG THE PANIC ABOUT TRUMP’S TARIFFS FROM A FEW MONTHS AGO.

SENATOR HAWLEY OFFERS REMINDER THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP WANTS NO CUTS IN MEDICAID BENEFITS.

CHINESE NATIONALS CHARGED WITH SMUGGLING AGRO-TERRORISM BIOLOGICAL WEAPON INTO THE U.S. More HERE.

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS A HIGHER AVERAGE JOB APPROVAL RATING THAN EITHER BARACK OBAMA OR GEORGE W. BUSH. More HERE

MORE ABOUT BIDEN’S WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIAN AND THE COVERUP OF JOE’S UNFITNESS. An enormous Constitutional Crisis. Kamala Harris supporters should be outraged that the Biden Crime Family robbed her of her opportunity to rise to the presidency, as she SHOULD have at the time.

“CRIMINAL EVIDENCE” OF IMPERSONATING THE PRESIDENT EXPOSED IN BIDEN REGIME’S AUTOPEN SCANDALS.

BIDEN REGIME LACKEYS BLAST KARINE JEAN-PIERRE, JOE’S WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY, FOR LEAVING THE DEMOCRAT PARTY TO BECOME AN INDEPENDENT. She also describes “a broken White House” in her new book.

DON SURBER ON HOW TRUMP’S ECONOMIC POLICIES MAKE WAGES RISE AND GROW THE ECONOMY

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE DEAN OUSTED FOR SECRETLY MAINTAINING RACIST POLICIES OF DISCRIMINATION, EXCLUSION AND INTOLERANCE.

SENATE HEARINGS ON JUDICIAL OVERREACH AND NATIONWIDE INJUNCTIONS. Senator Kennedy asks probing questions HERE.

PRICE OF EGGS DOWN SIXTY-ONE PERCENT SINCE TRUMP’S RETURN TO OFFICE. Continue reading

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REBLOG: ALVAREZ GALLOSO’S LOOK AT TRUMP’S UPHILL FIGHT AGAINST POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN BOTH PARTIES

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ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS: JUNE SECOND

It’s Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog with another current events roundup.

COLORADO TERRORIST ATTACK SUSPECT IS IN CUSTODY AND IS YET ANOTHER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FROM THE BIDEN-HARRIS REGIME’S CATASTROPHIC POLICIES.  More HERE. Aftermath of the horrendous attack on people involved with a march calling on Hamas to free hostages HERE. More HERE. Assailant reportedly shouted “Free Palestine” rhetoric.

SANTELLI AT DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET CNBC CREDITS PRESIDENT TRUMP WITH THE PERSONAL INCOME OF REGULAR AMERICANS NEARLY TRIPLING IN RECENT MONTHS AND THE TRADE DEFICIT BEING CUT IN HALF. More HERE. Trump remains the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

TRUMP EFFECT: CORE INFLATION FALLS TO LOWEST IN FOUR YEARS.

KENTUCKY STATE SENATOR ROBIN WEBB BECOMES THE LATEST DEMOCRAT TO LEAVE THAT PARTY TO JOIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Like so many of us former Democrats she cited how the increasingly unhinged Democrats “increasingly alienated rural Democrats like her.” She also cited the Democrats’ “hyperfocus on policies that hurt workforce and economic development” and added that “It has become untenable and counterproductive to the best interests of my constituents for me to remain a Democrat.”  

SENATOR MARSHA BLACKBURN CALLS FOR DOJ INVESTIGATION INTO NASHVILLE MAYOR FREDDIE O’CONNELL FOR DOXING ICE AGENTS AND ATTEMPTING TO BLOCK THEIR ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAWS. Democrat crimes in support of illegal immigration have exploded into an epidemic.

PITTSBURGH STEELER LEGENDS INCLUDING ROCKY BLEIER JOIN CURRENT PLAYERS IN NAMING PRESIDENT TRUMP AN “HONORARY STEELER” AT EVENT. Appropriately it happened at a Steel Workers gathering.

ASSISTANT AG HARMEET DHILLON PRAISED FOR UNDOING BIDEN REGIME POLICIES THAT MADE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY “AN IMMEDIATE HORROR STORY FOR LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS.” Meanwhile, Democrats pander to illegal immigrants who commit additional crimes. Continue reading

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EVERYONE BELIEVES THEY ARE ON “THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY”

I love exploring the mythology behind the world’s various belief systems.

America’s Democrats have regressed into a faith-based belief system that’s every bit as irrational as any other religion, but since Democrats – or “Democrat Fundamentalists” – are such pompous, hypocritical and close-minded fools it’s A LOT of fun to describe their myths as sarcastically as possible.

THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY – This is the Democrat Party’s version of an afterlife. Narcissistic Democrats strive to live their lives in such a way that people every bit as pretentious and snobbish as they are will sit around in the future sipping wine and pompously expressing approval of the worldview and political opinions that today’s Democrat Fundamentalists held while alive.

This notion of an afterlife is every bit as flawed and fantastic as any other religion’s tales about what happens after human beings die. No one alive today knows how the people of the future will feel about any of us or about our worldview.

SnobIf anything history has shown that people – ESPECIALLY the self-congratulatory asses called Democrats – take great delight in loudly and repeatedly condemning people of the past for (GASP) having opinions that differ from their own. It takes no courage and little effort to put on an air of moral superiority toward long-dead human beings.

That being said it’s more likely that American Democrats of the future will look down on even the most self-consciously “progressive” Puritans of today as hopelessly misguided or simply ignorant.

Those future Democrat Fundamentalists very well may just sit around sipping wine and reassuring each other that they are morally superior to every Democrat of this era for not having THE EXACT SAME opinions as they do regarding race, gender, etc. Exactly like pompous Democrat Fundamentalists of today do with people of the past.

Claiming to be on “the right side of history” represents the same flawed thinking process as being convinced that you have God on your side. EVERYBODY tends to feel that way.

#WalkAwayThe obsessive conformity, status-anxiety and insecurities of Democrats prevent them from questioning their faith and thereby realizing that their own condemnation of figures from long ago is every bit as much of a shallow, meaningless pose as the attitude that may be shown toward them by Democrat Fundamentalists of the future. Continue reading

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APOCALYPSE CULTURE (1987) BEFORE THE INTERNET, THERE WERE BOOKS LIKE THIS

This is an extraordinary collection unlike anything I have ever encountered – a remarkable compilation of powerfully disturbing statements. These are the terminal documents of the twentieth century.” – J.G. Ballard 

APOCALYPSE CULTURE (1987) – Call me a purist, but the only Apocalypse Culture book I like is the very first one from 1987, not the later editions nor the sequel from the year 2000. By 2000 the book was pointless and unnecessary since the internet was already replacing such publications as Apocalypse Culture, Answer Me! and much of the Loompanics catalogue. 

The late Adam Palfrey edited this book, collecting the kind of transgressive, fringe, daring, paranoid, insane and sometimes just plain sophomorically shocking writings that when taken as a whole reinforce the importance of freedom of expression against both left-wing AND right-wing censorship.

Apocalypse Culture seems almost wimpy here in 2025 but it’s an interesting reminder to those of us who remember the pre-internet days, when you had to devote a lot of energy to finding such wild reading material.

WARNING! The subjects and opinions covered in Apocalypse Culture are not for people who are easily (or not so easily) offended or who cannot tolerate reading viewpoints contrary to their own. What follows is similar to the fringe horror movies I sometimes review. Mature minds only.  Continue reading

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THE AUTOMATIC MOTORIST (1911) SILENT FILM SHORT

THE AUTOMATIC MOTORIST (1911) – Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at another silent movie short by England’s Walter R. Booth. It’s a remake of his own 1906 short film The Mad Motorist but taken to the extreme. Running time is 6 1/2 minutes.   

Booth more than lives up to his reputation as “the British Melies” with this light-hearted fantasy. A pair of newlyweds – as in the bride is still in her gown and the groom is still in his tux – visit their eccentric inventor friend.

The inventor’s newest creation is a robot which is skilled enough to serve as a chauffeur for the bride, groom and inventor. The robot drives off with its three passengers but the vehicle’s speed gets it pulled over by a traffic cop. When the robot punches the policeman he becomes infuriated. Continue reading

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MAY TWENTY-NINTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

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

*** NEW TODAY – APPEALS COURT REINSTATES THE TRUMP TARIFFS. And the fighting goes on …

LATEST REVELATIONS IN THE DEMOCRAT SCANDAL OVER WHO WAS USING THE AUTOPEN TO SIGN WHATEVER THEY WANTED TO PRETEND JOE BIDEN HAD SIGNED. More HERE. A monumental scandal for which the Party deserves no forgiveness considering their incessant bluster about “democracy.”

FURTHER SCANDALS ABOUT WHO WAS REALLY RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY.

OUTGOING SENATE DEMOCRAT MICHAEL BENNET CALLS OUT THE PARTY FOR ITS “RECORD LOW POPULARITY NOW.” He also stated “I don’t think nationally the Democratic brand helps very much anyway…anywhere.

ICE ARRESTS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ON CHILD SEX CRIMES, DRUGS AND GUN CHARGES. No wonder AOC is calling to abolish ICE. Democrats are the Party of child sex crimes especially. More HERE.

YET ANOTHER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT RAPIST ARRESTED IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” MARYLAND. Are Democrats accomplices to these crimes?

DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS CONTINUE TO GET HUMILIATED OVER THEIR COVERUP OF JOE BIDEN’S UNFITNESS. Anyone paying attention knew he was unfit during his 2020 “hide away” political campaign.

POLL: RECORD HIGH NUMBER OF PEOPLE BELIEVE THE U.S. IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION JUST ENDED EVEN MORE OF THE CRUEL GOVERNMENT ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS.

CONGRESSWOMAN MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE COURAGEOUSLY SPEAKS OUT ON THE DEEP STATE’S LATEST ANTICS AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP. Continue reading

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ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS: MAY TWENTY-SEVENTH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog presents another current events roundup from an America where anti-Trump loons still pretend he’s “a dictator” and “a strong man” just so they can pretend that their hysterical hatred of him is courageous.

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY: CORRUPT JOE BIDEN’S NINETY-THREE BILLION DOLLAR THEFT DURING HIS FINAL MONTHS IN OFFICE. The RICO Enterprise that was the Biden-Harris Regime needs investigated down to their molecules.

OBAMA AIDE ADMITS TRUMP ATTRACTED THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S FORMER BASE AMONG THE WORKING CLASS, THE POOR AND MINORITIES. The Democrats showed them nothing but contempt, so naturally they gravitated to President Trump.

U.S. CONSUMER CONFIDENCE SEES BIGGEST BOOST IN FOUR YEARS.

ED MARTIN WITH MORE ABOUT THE INVALID NATURE OF JOE BIDEN’S LAST-MINUTE PARDONS PER WHISTLEBLOWER.

OBAMA AIDE JOINS THE LIST OF DEMOCRATS ADMITTING THEY KNEW JOE BIDEN WAS UNFIT BUT LIED TO THE PUBLIC ANYWAY. The Party needs to keep answering for this for the next several decades at least.

NEW YORK’S DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR COMPLAINS THAT SHE MAY HAVE TO CUT BENEFITS AND SERVICES FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Even now, “Illegal immigrants uber alles” is the Democrat slogan. Democrats, are there ANY citizens you care about?

DEMOCRAT RAHM EMANUEL DECLARES THE PARTY “TOXIC, WEAK AND WOKE.”

TRUMP’S POLL NUMBERS STILL RISING. Ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable people outraged.

CHARLTON ALLEN: A LIST OF DEMOCRAT LIES REGARDING BIDEN AND MORE. Continue reading

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

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

TOP SUSPECTS IN FRAUDULENT BIDEN PARDONS SCANDAL NAMED. More HERE.

KAROLINE LEAVITT SMACKS DOWN DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET LIES CLAIMING THAT THE CROSSES OF WHITE VICTIMS IN SOUTH AFRICA WEREN’T REAL. The media rep even tried insinuating that “we all know it’s untrue.” Appalling.

CNN DEFENDS CHANTS FOR CONTINUED GENOCIDE IN SOUTH AFRICA.

TRUMP’S “BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL” SUCCEEDS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

SENATOR JONI ERNST DISCUSSES THE AUDITED ABUSES OF GOVERNMENT CREDIT CARDS BY BUREAUCRATS AND OTHER FUNCTIONARIES

KELLYANNE CONWAY, THE FIRST WOMAN TO SUCCESSFULLY MANAGE A U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BACK IN 2016, CALLS OUT THE DEMOCRATS’ LIES AND COVERUP ABOUT JOE BIDEN.

PRESIDENT TRUMP INITIATES FURTHER REFORMS TO KEEP FOREIGN CITIZENS OFF AMERICAN VOTER ROLLS. Election integrity continues to be addressed.

TRUMP’S LABOR SECRETARY LORI CHAVEZ-DEREMER ON HER EFFORTS TO FULFILL HIS POLICIES FOR A WORKING CLASS BOOM. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS ACCUSED BY AUDITOR OF STEERING “NO-BID” CONTRACTS TO HER CRONIES. Have I mentioned lately that many American politicians tend to be white-collar criminals?

CONGRESSWOMAN ASHLEY HINSON PRAISES TRUMP’S BILL FOR ITS ATTENTION TO BORDER SECURITY AND ENFORCEMENT.

AMAZON CEO ANDY JASSY SAYS TRUMP’S TARIFFS HAVE NOT IMPACTED PRICES.

TRUMP EFFECT: VENEZUELA RELEASES AMERICAN POLITICAL PRISONER ARRESTED UNDER BIDEN AND HARRIS. Continue reading

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ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS: MAY TWENTY-FIRST

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog serves up another current events roundup.

WE STILL DON’T KNOW WHO WAS UNCONSTITUTIONALLY MAKING DECISIONS WHILE BIDEN WAS USED AS A FIGUREHEAD. There’s a constitutional procedure for presidential disability – Vice President Kamala Harris was next in line. The Democrat coverup was the REAL “threat to democracy”.

NEVER FORGET: DEMOCRATS AND THEIR MEDIA OUTLETS REPEATEDLY LIED ABOUT BIDEN’S UNFITNESS AND CALLED FOOTAGE OF HIS DEMENTED BEHAVIOR “DEEP FAKES.” More HERE.  

MEDIA AND POLITICANS LIED ABOUT BIDEN BEING “SHARP AS A TACK” LIKE THEY LIE ABOUT EVERYTHING PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS OR DOES.     MARLOW WEIGHS IN

JIM JORDAN ON DEMOCRAT LIES AND PROPAGANDA ABOUT BIDEN.

PRESIDENT TRUMP ONCE AGAIN WARNS CONGRESS: “DON’T F**K WITH MEDICAID.” But Trump-haters are still pretending otherwise.

DHS ARRESTS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT SEX OFFENDERS, MURDERERS AND DRUG DEALERS THAT DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR TIM WALZ PROTECTS UNDER MINNESOTA’S “SANCTUARY” POLICIES. I will say again that Democrat sanctuary policies never protect the victims, just the perpetrators.

DEMOCRAT CITY MANAGER OF WORCESTER, MA BLOCKS POLICE COOPERATION WITH DHS AND ICE. At this point Democrats are accomplices to the additional crimes committed by illegal immigrants.

DHS: DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” POLITICIANS ARE PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH AMERICAN LIVES. “If it saves even one life” these sanctuary policies should be done away with.

TRUMP’S AGRICULTURE SECRETARY BROOKE ROLLINS DISCUSSES HOW PRESIDENT TRUMP IS RIGHTING THE WRONGS INFLICTED ON AMERICANS BY OTHER NATIONS’ UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES.

TRUMP EFFECT: MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND SET FOR LOWEST GAS PRICES IN OVER TWENTY YEARS.

SENATE PASSES TRUMP’S “NO TAX ON TIPS” BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT. Trump remains the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime. Continue reading

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