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HAS TO BE SAID: MARCH NINETEENTH

Here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog it’s time for another installment of “Has to be Said.”

ANTI-DONALD TRUMP LOONS ARE REPEATING ALL THEIR ACTIONS FROM HIS FIRST TERM – Do the people who hate President Trump 24/7 have any kind of long-term memory? Last time around assorted showboating judges tried halting his perfectly constitutional actions but over the following months and years most of what Trump wanted to accomplish was upheld.

Trump-haters obviously lack a sufficient attention span to follow court rulings as they ascend through various levels of appeals. The attention-seeking judges are overreaching and exceeding their powers for purely political reasons, just like last time. And just like the farcical political trials they used against Trump during the years that Biden was installed.

For overseas readers who don’t understand why so many judges have abused their positions, it’s all part of the Democrat motto “By any means necessary.” In the “Everything is political” mindset of such partisan robots it is like a religious commandment – “If your job puts you in a position to screw over The Party’s enemies, then you MUST do so, even if your actions later get overruled.” 

Trump has only been back in office roughly two months. It’s a long road ahead and many of the lower court rulings that Trump-haters are celebrating today will eventually be overturned. As usual.

And by the way, the U.S. president who has most often been overruled in the end by the U.S. Supreme Court by unanimous decisions was BARACK OBAMA. But his political party’s media outlets – as house organs will do – refrained from covering that fact with the same breathless hysteria that they use in covering Trump.

Over and over again since 2015 the mindless, uncomprehending anti-Trumpers have insisted that the Donald – America’s Nelson Mandela, Lech Walesa and Gandhi – is through. Remember all of the unfounded attacks on Trump since then? All of which his vile enemies insisted was the end. Every. Single. Time. Continue reading

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MARCH EIGHTEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Time for another current events roundup courtesy of Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog, as always coming to you from an America where the Great Reformer Donald Trump continues to take on the most entrenched governmental corruption in history.

NBC POLL: TRUMP AT HIS HIGHEST APPROVAL RATING, PLUS THE PERCENTAGE OF AMERICANS WHO FEEL THE COUNTRY IS HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION IS AT ITS HIGHEST LEVEL IN TWENTY YEARS. DEMOCRAT APPROVAL RATING IS DOWN TO JUST TWENTY-SEVEN PERCENT.

RESCUED ASTRONAUTS THANK PRESIDENT TRUMP AND ELON MUSK. The latest joke going around is that some showboating, eventually overruled judge will rule that Trump must return the astronauts to being stranded in space.

TRUMP POLICIES LEAD TO BUILDING BOOM IN FEBRUARY. Single-family homes lead the way.

DEMOCRAT “FUND RAISING” ORGANIZATION ACT BLUE SCANDAL OVER ILLEGAL DONATIONS DEEPENS. Have I mentioned lately what a cesspool of corruption America’s political establishment is?

ICONIC PHOTO OF TRUMP UNDEFEATED WINS PHOTO OF THE YEAR AWARD.

PRESIDENT TRUMP GETS ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSINGS DOWN TO THEIR LOWEST FEBRUARY LEVELS EVER.

PRESIDENT TRUMP ENGINEERS PUTIN AND UKRAINE CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT ON ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE. Immediate talks on permanent peace scheduled. Politicians getting kickbacks from Ukraine and blood-soaked weapons manufacturers hardest hit.

NEW YORK TIMES ADMITS AGAIN THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT COVID COMING FROM A WUHAN LAB. More HERE. But the demented “must disagree with everything Trump says” psychosis ruled the corporate media’s reactions in 2020 as it still does today.

ANOTHER ASSOCIATED PRESS LIE ABOUT TRUMP GETS EXPOSED.

LATEST SHOW-BOATING JUDGE TO SOON BE OVERRULED IS ALSO FACING IMPEACHMENT. More HERE. And HERE.

GRASSLEY: THE SENATE IS WORKING TO SOLVE JUDICIAL OVERREACH. No matter WHO is president or from which political party, this pointless interference from attention-seeking judges needs to stop. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: MARCH FIFTEENTH

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

PRESIDENT TRUMP HONORS HEROIC CANINES ON K-9 VETERANS DAY

TRUMP CALLS OUT THE BIDEN REGIME’S DOJ ABUSES AS MORE AND MORE IS LEARNED ABOUT THEM WEEKLY.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR.’s LIST OF DEMOCRAT FOLLIES FROM THE PAST WEEK.

CNN POLL: DEMOCRAT APPROVAL RATING DOWN TO TWENTY-NINE PERCENT. Yet they show no signs of recovering their sanity. 

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PLACES FIFTY MORE UNIVERSITIES UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR THEIR RACIST, SEXIST POLICIES OF DISCRIMINATION, EXCLUSION AND INTOLERANCE. More HERE.

TRUMP’S ONGOING EFFORTS TO ALLEVIATE TAX BURDENS ON THE MIDDLE CLASS.

677 WOULD-BE TYRANTS ON THE BENCH. I will say again this overreach has got to stop, and I know I’m not alone. Continue reading

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MARCH THIRTEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

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

EXPOSING THE LIES THAT TRUMP WILL CUT MEDICARE AND/OR SOCIAL SECURITY. He never did it in his 1st term, either. Trump is the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my entire lifetime.

JOB OPENINGS ARE ON THE RISE AS THE LABOR MARKET STABILIZES. The term “the Trump Effect” is being bandied about again.

ONCE AGAIN, TRUMP HAS A “BLUE-COLLAR BOOM” STARTING. Remarkable. 

JOE BIDEN’S FAKE OVAL OFFICE SET FOUND AND DISPLAYED. The one he often used but which Democrat media outlets claimed didn’t exist for some reason.

EGG PRICES ALREADY DROPPING UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP. And only Democrats are upset about it. CNN POLL: TRUMP’S APPROVAL RATING ON HANDLING THE ECONOMY IS ALREADY ELEVEN PERCENT HIGHER THAN JOE BIDEN’S.

SENATOR TOM COTTON TAKES UP JAMES CARVILLE’S SUGGESTION MONTHS AGO TO TAX “WOKE” UNIVERSITIES’ MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR ENDOWMENTS. Such taxes would more than pay for Biden’s unconstitutional cancellation of so much student loan debt. Hypocritical Democrats, who usually LOVE new taxes, will, of course, object to this. 

VETERANS AFFAIRS SECRETARY DOUG COLLINS SMACKS DOWN “REPORTER’S” LIES ABOUT DOGE LOOKING TO MAKE CUTS AT THAT DEPARTMENT. The lying corporate media in America needs to be called out like this more often.

IRELAND’S HEAD OF STATE PRAISES TRUMP’S PEACE PUSH BETWEEN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA.

ONTARIO BACKS DOWN ON THREAT TO OVERCHARGE THREE AMERICAN STATES FOR ELECTRICITY AFTER TRUMP FOUGHT BACK. Even the Democrats at NBC admit it HERE. And more HERE. And HERE.

YASSIN FAWAZ ON TRUMP’S ECONOMIC POLICIES AND HOW THEY COMBAT THE WAY OTHER NATIONS HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF AMERICA FOR DECADES. A similar view on tariffs, etc. HERE.

TRUMP’S ECONOMIC POLICIES ALREADY SLOWING INFLATION. More HERE. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: MARCH ELEVENTH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog offers up another current events roundup from an America where Democrats support sending money to Ukraine only because they’re STILL getting millions kicked back to them by their criminal cohort Zelensky.

STATELY MCDANIEL MANOR BLOG DOES ANOTHER SERIES THAT KNOCKS IT OUT OF THE PARK.

ARTICLE: TRUMP’S FIFTY DAYS AND FIFTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

PRESIDENT TRUMP GETS CMA CGM TO INVEST TWENTY BILLION DOLLARS IN THE U.S. When the crooked Joe Biden was in the White House it seemed like every major deal benefited him, his family or China, not the U.S.

DEMOCRAT MAYOR OF BOSTON ENDS POLICY OF ARRESTING DRUG DEALERS. Remember the chaos when the Democrats in California ended the prosecution of shoplifters based on a dollar amount? Boston has now outdone them. And I wonder if Boston’s mayor is so forgiving of people who “misgender” someone?

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CUTS DEMOCRAT STUDY OF MENSTRUAL CYCLES IN TRANS MEN. More HERE. And HERE. Democrats are enemies of science and rational thought.   

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DEMOCRAT DONOR WHO BASHES ELON MUSK PLEADS GUILTY IN INVESTMENT FRAUD SCHEME. Is anyone surprised?

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REVOLUTIONIZES DISASTER AID FOR THE BETTER.

CHINA SAYS IT’S READY FOR WAR WITH THE U.S. I would imagine that Democrats’ only reply is “if we go to war with China it better not affect sending money to Ukraine or we’ll blame Trump!” Continue reading

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CUBA’S SILENT MOVIES (1897-1907)

Balladeer’s Blog’s latest look at silent films covers Cuba’s early cinematic efforts.

FIRE DRILL aka Simulacro de Incendio (1897) – On January 24th of this year, Gabriel Veyre (at left) held the very first exhibition of silent film shorts in Cuban history at a theater in Havana.

Veyre was the Lumiere Film Company representative to Central America, and he parlayed the popular reaction to the Havana exhibition into financial support for Fire Drill, the first movie made in Cuba. That 1-minute film short from February 1897 was a documentary look at firefighting in Havana. Actual firefighters of the Central Fire Station of the City of Havana played themselves.

FILM COMMERCIAL FOR LA TROPICAL BEER aka the Missing Sorcerer (1898) – This was the very first film directed by a native Cuban – Jose Esteban Casasús, a noted pioneer of Cuban Cinema. Lasting just under a minute, this short advertised the brewery & product of La Tropical beer and was produced by Cinemataca de Cuba.

CONSTITUTIONAL ASSEMBLY (1901) – A film capturing the 1901 assembly, the equivalent of our Constitutional Convention. Following the defeat of Spain in the Spanish-American War, Cuba produced its first constitution a few years later. That document was openly based on the United States Constitution but had 115 articles instead of America’s 7.

        The three branches were Executive, Legislative (bicameral) and judicial. Cuban presidents were to be elected for terms of 4 years, while Senators were elected for an initial term of 8 years, following which they could run for additional terms of 4 years each. The lower house members were elected for an initial term of 4 years, following which they could run for additional terms of 2 years each.  Continue reading

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HAS TO BE SAID: MARCH TENTH

Here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog it’s time for another installment of “Has to be Said.”

*** LET’S CUT THROUGH THE POLITICAL THEATER – The European politicians talking tough about standing with Ukraine are just voguing for attention. We’ve all seen the wording in their agreements that none of them will take any action unless the U.S. is on board with it and pays for it.

        The ONLY reason they’re making such a public display of their hollow theatrics is for petty ankle-biting at the United States, a country that HAS ALREADY PROVIDED FAR MORE SUPPORT TO UKRAINE THAN ANY OF THEM HAVE OR APPARENTLY WILL BE ABLE TO.

        Yes, the United States has provided far more support to Ukraine in its war against Russia’s Biden-caused invasion (remember Joe’s statement that ” a small incursion” would be acceptable) yet countries and people who have done virtually nothing much beyond rah-rah-ing Ukraine act outraged if America expresses any say in how badly Little Man Zelensky handles situations. (Remember, even BIDEN lost patience with the grotesque little toad Zelensky and his ingratitude.)

*** ZELENSKY STILL CAN’T ACCOUNT FOR ABOUT HALF OF THE FUNDS SENT TO HIS CORRUPT REGIME. And he knows that any kind of cease fire while negotiations continue could provide time to investigate where all the lost money went. Into Zelensky’s pockets? Into the pockets of his lackeys as Ukrainians continue to die under his mismanagement of the war?

*** DEMOCRATS PRETEND TO BE ALL-IN FOR UKRAINE SIMPLY AS A MEANS OF ATTACKING PRESIDENT TRUMP. Democrats pretend the only way to support Ukraine is to mindlessly support the crooked failure Zelensky. Ukraine is NOT equivalent to one person. The pathetic, cosplaying little man Zelensky is a corrupt authoritarian.

        Little Man Z has proven he cannot be trusted. If a new Ukrainian leader comes in, even if they support the same war policy as Zelensky they would at least be TRUSTWORTHY. Crooked Z is not.

*** ZELENSKY CHICKENHAWKS AND DEMOCRATS WHO SUPPORT ZELENSKY ALSO SUPPORT HAMAS. Obviously, peace and innocent lives are not at all a priority for such people. They encourage “fighting to the last dead Ukrainian.” Hey, whatever happened to that “if it saves even one life” talking point Democrats love to use? How about “If a cease fire between Russia and Ukraine saves even one life isn’t it worth trying?”

        But we all know that Democrats never really mean it when they use that “if it saves even one life” remark. Although, given how the UK and US have been negotiating with Ukraine about rare earth minerals, the MINUTE that Democrats want to sell out Ukraine they will insist America withdraw support and use “No more blood for rare earth minerals” as one of their chants, I’m sure. Continue reading

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MARCH SEVENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog here in an America where the Democrats who get giddy about the Ukraine-Russia War would NEVER support their own country if it comes to war between the U.S. and China. (Or anyone else.)

DEMOCRAT AL GREEN WAS ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO PAID SEXUAL ASSAULT HUSH MONEY TO HIS ACCUSER FROM THE INFAMOUS CONGRESSIONAL SLUSH FUND OF TAXPAYER MONEY. That was all years ago and BOTH PARTIES had guilty members, but people often forget about this scandal just like they forget about the Congressional Bank scandal of years ago.

PRESIDENT TRUMP PROVIDES EVEN MORE HELP FOR CALIFORNIA FIRE VICTIMS BY EXTENDING THE MORATORIUM AGAINST FORECLOSING ON THEIR PROPERTIES. Yet Hollywood creatures didn’t even offer their $200,000 Academy Awards gift bags to the people who lost their homes. But they still pretend to be the “compassionate” ones.

THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD BRAIN CANCER SURVIVOR D.J. DANIEL CALLS OUT UNHINGED DEMOCRATS FOR ATTACKING TRUMP. He has more class than the entire Democrat roll call in Congress.

D.J. DANIEL’s FATHER TELLS RACIST DEMOCRAT HATEMONGER RACHEL MADDOW TO “SHUT HER MOUTH” IF SHE HAS NOTHING NICE TO SAY ABOUT HIS SON AND PRESIDENT TRUMP.

ALVAREZ GALLOSO: REALITY IN AMERICA. Brilliant piece!

COURAGEOUS FEMALE ROLE MODEL TULSI GABBARD ANNOUNCES THAT THE BIDEN REGIME RELEASED ROUGHLY ONE HUNDRED TERROR-LINKED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS INTO THE U.S. LAST YEAR.

CNN HAS TO ISSUE CORRECTION ACKNOWLEDGING THAT TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT DEMOCRATS FUNDING TRANSGENDER MICE EXPERIMENTS. More HERE. The main problem is that Democrat policies are so idiotic that they sound like they can’t possibly be real.

POLL: TRUMP’S GOLD CARD IDEA IS RIGHTFULLY DISAPPROVED OF. Is he forgetting what a “Caesar’s Wife” situation he and Elon are in? Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: MARCH FIFTH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog provides another current events roundup from an America where Democrats have made embracing war, transing children and advocating for political corruption their platform.

CBS NEWS/ YOUGOV POLL: SEVENTY-SIX PERCENT APPROVE OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SPEECH BEFORE CONGRESS. Yet Democrats still pretend it was “divisive.” (?)

        Over three-quarters of viewers also approved of Speaker Mike Johnson ordering the Sergeant at Arms to eject the unstable Rep. Al Green (D-TX) for his deranged behavior and for disrupting the president’s speech despite warnings. (Remember when Democrats pretended that simply calling Obama a liar during a Congressional address was unacceptable?) More HERE.

TRUMP HEARTWARMINGLY MAKES YOUNGSTER WITH BRAIN CANCER AN HONORARY SECRET SERVICE AGENT. Democrats refused to stand for the child. I guess they were too busy telling each other how “compassionate” they consider themselves to be.

PRESIDENT TRUMP READS LETTER FROM LITTLE MAN ZELENSKY, WHO SIMPERINGLY BEGS FOR A CHANCE TO SIGN THE DEAL HE COULD HAVE SIGNED A FEW DAYS AGO. People can support Ukraine but not support the sleazy toad Zelensky, y’know. No one man is synonymous with a nation.

STEPHEN A. SMITH SKILLFULLY DEFENDS TRUMP FROM IGNORANT JOY BEHAR.

MARTINA NAVRATILOVA BLASTS CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS FOR VOTING TO KEEP MEN WHO PRETEND TO BE WOMEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS.

DEMOCRAT SENATOR MARK WARNER COURAGEOUSLY PRAISES  THE “GREAT, GREAT PROGRESS” MADE BY PRESIDENT TRUMP.

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE PRESIDENT SPEAKS OUT ON HOW DEMOCRATS WERE FUNNELING USAID MONEY TO THEIR OWN CAMPAIGN COFFERS. Monumental scandal continues to be exposed. Continue reading

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THE MYSTERY OF DR. FU MANCHU (1923) SILENT FILM SERIAL

THE MYSTERY OF DR. FU MANCHU (1923) – One of the earliest, if not THE earliest, big screen adaptations of Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu novels, which launched in 1913. The tales depicted the brilliant Chinese figure Dr. Fu Manchu at most plotting global domination but most often uniting many Far Eastern races against White Colonial nations to drive them out of Asia.  

Yes, these stories have quite a bit wrong with them given their bigoted, unfair caricatures of Chinese people and other Asians. Personally, I would never expose children to them as they require adult minds to sort through ugly wording and concepts.  Continue reading

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