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NOV 22nd ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

The latest current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

joe biden mushroom cloudJOE BIDEN STILL TRYING TO MAKE PEACE BETWEEN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA IMPOSSIBLE ON HIS WAY OUT THE DOOR. Joe is garbage. And remember, he’s been declared incompetent to stand trial for his many crimes, yet he’s supposedly competent enough to sit in the Oval Office.

PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER NANCY PELOSI BEING HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR HER MANY DISASTERS. That includes the way she caused the Democrats to lose the House of Representatives TWICE under her “speakership.” More HERE.

DEMOCRAT SETH MOULTON IS THE LATEST TO ADMIT THAT THE PARTY HAS LOST TOUCH WITH AMERICANS. Among his remarks: “Well, obviously, we’ve lost touch with the majority of Americans. Democrats have a habit of preaching down to people and telling them that if they don’t 100% agree with our orthodox view, often defined by the far left, then they’re just bad people. They’re morally wrong. And that’s not going to win us any elections.” 

EXCELLENT ARTICLE ABOUT ALL THE CAREER POLITICIAN/ CAREER CRIMINALS THAT TRUMP HAS BEATEN OR IS STILL CLASHING WITH. Grifting and graft-grabbing members of both major parties have fallen to Trump the reformer. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: NOV TWENTIETH

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

PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT AT LAST INTERVENES TO STOP DEMOCRAT BOB CASEY’S MACHINE FROM COUNTING ILLEGAL BALLOTS IN ORDER TO REVERSE THE LOSS OF HIS SENATE SEAT.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S RNC HEAD DISCUSSES THE BATTLE TO STOP THE BOB CASEY ANTICS IN PENNSYLVANIA. I’m happy to admit I was wrong about the RNC failing to take effective action in this case. The goal was to stop PA Democrats from trying this type of vote fraud ever again, especially after the forever-tainted 2020 election. Further proof – as if more were needed – that Democrat vote fraud that year installed Joe Biden in the White House.  

RNC CHAIR MICHAEL WHATLEY ON FURTHER STEPS THAT CAN BE TAKEN TO PROTECT ELECTION INTEGRITY. Reigning in the Democrat tactic of finding “uncounted” (LMAO) votes several days after election day is certainly a must.

JOE SCARBOROUGH AND MIKA BRZEZINSKI CRAWL TO MAR-A-LAGO TO GET FORGIVENESS FROM TRUMP. He has more patience than I would have had with those two serial liars who compared him to Hitler on a regular basis. The man is open to conversations with almost anybody

TRUMP’S DESIRED AG PUBLICLY SHAMES DEMOCRAT NANCY PELOSI AND REPUBLICAN MITCH MCCONNELL FOR INSIDER TRADING AND OTHER SCANDALS. Call it a stunt if you like, but it’s the kind of wake-up call that America’s cesspool of political corruption NEEDS.

SIXTY-FIVE PERCENT OF AMERICAN INDIANS VOTED FOR TRUMP. His first term policies were very good for them!

THE BLACK HOLE OF CORRUPTION AT THE PENTAGON CONTINUES AS IT FAILS SEVENTH AUDIT IN A ROW. Have I mentioned what a cesspool of corruption America’s political system has been for decades? Continue reading

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BATTLE OF THE JAPAN SEA (1969) MOVIE REVIEW

battle of the japan seaBATTLE OF THE JAPAN SEA (1969) – Japan’s Toshiro Mifune led the cast of this Japanese film about their successful naval clashes with Russia during the often-forgotten Russo-Japanese War (February 1904 – September 1905). U.S. servicemen stationed in Japan played the Russians.

Fans of Reilly, Ace of Spies may remember that the Japanese attack on Port Arthur in 1904 was at the core of that program’s second episode.

Other footnotes that might excite interest in this film for people who aren’t familiar with the Russo-Japanese War – President Theodore Roosevelt negotiated the peace between the two nations to end the war; one of the staff officers who accompanied Roosevelt on that venture was a young Douglas MacArthur; and Tsarist Russia’s humiliating loss in the war helped fuel the ultimately unsuccessful communist uprising in 1905.   

toshiro and othersOn to the film itself. Battle of the Japan Sea employs the approach that moviegoers will recall from The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, Midway, even Inchon and others, by having an all-star cast (in the Far East) act out set pieces throughout the scattered fighting. Continue reading

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NOVEMBER EIGHTEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes another look at current events from an America where terrific institutions like HOLTERMANN’S BAKERY are still in operation. HOLTERMANN’S BAKERY is a storied enterprise and is pure Americana. I wish them continued success.

BIDEN TRYING TO RUIN ANY CHANCE FOR PEACE BY AUTHORIZING UKRAINE TO USE AMERICAN-SUPPLIED WEAPONS FOR DEEP STRIKES AS ZELENSKY ALSO PUBLICLY TOYS WITH NUCLEAR OPTIONS. Is Biden’s attitude that he’d prefer mushroom clouds rather than have the Biden Crime Family’s Ukraine corruption be exposed?

ANTI-TRUMP MOBS CAUSE HOMAN AND HIS FAMILY TO BE RELOCATED FOR THEIR OWN SAFETY. Democrats are the fascists they accuse everyone else of being.

SECRET SERVICE AGENT EXPOSED AS SELF-IDENTIFYING “ANARCHO-COMMUNIST” AND ANTIFA MEMBER. Still wonder why so many people suspect the Secret Service of being in on the attempts to assassinate Trump?

BIDEN REGIME BRAGS ABOUT HOW IT HAS ALLOWED OVER FOUR MILLION, EIGHT-HUNDRED THOUSAND SELECT GOVERNMENT WORKERS AND REGIME FAVORITES TO HAVE THEIR STUDENT LOANS FORGIVEN TO THE TUNE OF ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE BILLION DOLLARS. The Supreme Court ruled multiple times that no president has the authority to do this but Biden ignores the rule of law as usual.

CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS JUST ROBBED THE REPUBLICANS OF ANOTHER SEAT THEY WON ON ELECTION DAY BY STILL FINDING “UNCOUNTED” BALLOTS NEARLY TWO WEEKS AFTER THE ELECTION. The Republican “majority” just got even more slender. Since at least 2018 California’s districts have flipped lost Democrat seats back to them by their “count until we can claim we won” approach. The Stupid Party (Republicans) once again stopped fighting on Election Day and once again loses seats they celebrated winning on Election Night.

RELATED: PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS MAY WELL SUCCEED IN KEEPING BOB CASEY’S SENATE SEAT BY CONTINUING TO COUNT ILLEGAL BALLOTS IN DEFIANCE OF PA SUPREME COURT DECISION. More HERE. Can Republicans stop celebrating and pay attention to the fact that they aren’t really going to have the level of Senate and House majorities they thought they had won? Same ol’ same ol. There is no curing the Stupid Party.

IRONICALLY, THE DEMOCRATS AT THE WASHINGTON POST COURAGEOUSLY CALL OUT BOB CASEY’S UGLY MANEUVERS. Hopefully somebody from the incoming administration will do the same.

j. walshDEMOCRAT J. WALSH GOES ON BRITISH NEWS AND SAYS AMERICA’S ALLIES SHOULD WITHHOLD INFORMATION FROM THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. Tell the Republican fools to stop picking out their Inauguration wardrobes and pretending that all their cabinet picks will be confirmed AND START PAYING ATTENTION. Continue reading

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ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS: NOV FIFTEENTH

A look at current events from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog .

PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS STILL WORKING TO STEAL SENATE SEAT IN PENNSYLVANIA BY COUNTING LATE-ARRIVING, UNDATED MAIL-IN BALLOTS IN VIOLATION OF PA SUPREME COURT RULING EARLIER THIS YEAR. Bucks County Democrat official acknowledges that it’s illegal but is doing it anyway. I’m serious. More HERE. Democrat vote fraud rides again. 

THE CASEY FAMILY POLITICAL DYNASTY IN PENNSYLVANIA VIOLATING PA SUPREME COURT RULING BY COUNTING ILLEGAL BALLOTS IN ORDER TO HELP BOB CASEY RETAIN HIS SENATE SEAT. Unreal.

FEMA SCANDAL ABOUT NOT HELPING HURRICANE VICTIMS WITH TRUMP SIGNS DEEPENS. More HERE.

GREAT ARTICLE – THE HARRIS-BIDEN REGIME PROVED TRUMP HAD BEEN THE ADULT IN CHARGE ALL ALONG.

DEMOCRAT TEACHER IN CONNECTICUT RESIGNS OVER REACTION TO HER VIRAL VIDEO THREATENING TO KILL TRUMP SUPPORTERS. The Party of Hatred.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN ABIGAIL SPANBERGER, A LIFELONG CIA SCUMBAG, FEARS TULSI GABBARD. And yes, this known CIA figure still infests the U.S. Congress . Continue reading

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NOVEMBER THIRTEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Another look at current events from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog as we Americans wonder if President Donald Trump will make it to Inauguration Day alive and well. He’s been very open about his plans to limit the power of America’s spy agencies. The last president to do that was John F. Kennedy when he vowed to shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter those pieces to the winds. JFK was eliminated.

          Also, in November and December of 2016 anti-Trump fascists tried intimidating the members of the Electoral College into not casting their votes for Trump even though he won the election, even going so far as DOXING those Electors. I mention this because too many people seem to have forgotten the anti-Trump push for “Faithless Electors” 8 years ago.

FEMA SCANDAL ABOUT THE HARRIS-BIDEN REGIME TELLING HURRICANE HELENE RELIEF WORKERS NOT TO OFFER AID AT HOMES WITH TRUMP SIGNS EXPANDS. Looks like the administrator who was fired was just part of the story. These are Chicago tactics.

THE LATEST UGLY REVELATIONS ABOUT CORRUPT REPUBLICAN SENATOR MITCH MCCONNELL. Even more HERE.  

CENTRAL AMERICAN NATIONS FORM REGIONAL COALITION TO WORK WITH TRUMP.

SAUDIS EXPRESS HOPE THAT TRUMP CAN COMPLETE HIS WORK OF PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

DEMOCRATS AT NBC NEWS ADMIT THAT TRUMP REALIGNED THE ENTIRE POLITICAL MAP.

POMPOUS DEMOCRAT “ACADEMIC” JUSTLY RIDICULED FOR HER ELECTION DAY VIDEO SNOBBISHLY STATING HER EXPERTISE TOLD HER KAMALA WOULD WIN. She roundly ridiculed a person she merely SUSPECTED of being a Trump voter. This person embodies what hilariously pretentious asses Democrats are. More HERE.

EVEN MORE DEMOCRAT SNOBBERY FROM “ACADEMIA” (LMAO) – “Educated people vote blue.” Keep it up, Democrats. You drive away more and more voters. 

DEMOCRAT ICON MICHAEL DOUGLAS ADMITS THAT TRUMP HAS MADE HIS PARTY THE “PARTY OF THE PEOPLE” WHILE DEMOCRATS ARE SEEN AS “ELITISTS.” Tell us something we don’t know. Continue reading

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VETERANS DAY: SIX RECOMMENDED BOOKS PLUS MORE

Happy Veterans Day, formerly called Armistice Day since it marked the end of World War One on “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918. Here are six books on that often-neglected conflict. (I will omit Barbara Tuchman’s Guns of August because of how well-known it already is.) 

Hat in the Ring GangTHE HAT IN THE RING GANG: THE COMBAT HISTORY OF THE 94th AERO SQUADRON IN WORLD WAR ONE – Written by Charles Woolley, this excellent book covers America’s 94th Aero Squadron aka The Hat in the Ring Gang.

When it comes to Flying Aces of World War One the Americans in the Lafayette Escadrille get the lion’s share of the attention. That’s ironic since Eddie Rickenbacker, America’s greatest ace of the war, served in the Hat in the Ring Gang along with many other famous paladins of the skies. To buy it click HERE 

Doughboy WarDOUGHBOY WAR: THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE IN WORLD WAR I – Written/ edited by James H Hallas. I feel this book is perfect for people who are just diving into World War One and don’t want inundated with all of the overwhelming details of more involved works. Doughboy War covers every aspect of American soldiers’ experiences in the Great War, often in their own words.

Follow them from enlistment, training and crossing the Atlantic to facing action in Europe, including accounts of the ordeals faced by wounded Doughboys. To buy it click HERE    Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: NOV TENTH

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog offers another look at current events.

EUROPEAN UNION COMMISSION STATES THEY WILL BE BUYING OIL FROM AMERICA NOW INSTEAD OF PUTIN

SOUTH KOREA, WITH THE MADMAN KIM TO THE NORTH, STATES THEY WILL “ESTABLISH PERFECT SECURITY POSTURE” WITH THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.

TRUMP MAKES HISTORY AGAIN BY NAMING SUSIE WILES AS THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF IN AMERICAN HISTORY. Yet Democrats STILL tell women nothing but “Shut up and vote for Democrats!”

TULSI GABBARD THANKS PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR LETTING HER BE PART OF HIS CAMPAIGN.

“TRUMP SINGLE HANDEDLY TURNED THE GOP POPULIST. WHICH GUTS THE UNIPARTY” SAYS LIBERTARIAN ECONOMIST MURRAY ROTHBARD

THE EMOTIONALLY CRIPPLED DEMOCRATS WHO RUN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES CANCELED CLASSES SO THAT THEIR PROPAGANDIZED STUDENTS COULD COPE WITH TRUMP’S WIN. Just like in 2016, and NONE of their dire predictions for a Trump presidency came true during his first term. 

TRUMP DEFEATED HARRIS IN ALL SEVEN SWING STATES. The 2024 election is being called “the revenge of the working class” on Democrat intolerance and misrule. More HERE.

OTHER UNIVERSITIES LITERALLY GIVING THEIR “STUDENTS” MILK AND COOKIES TO COPE WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP’S VICTORY. These are not adults in any way, shape or form.

gary franksGARY FRANKS PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SUCCESSFUL OUTREACH TO HISPANIC AND BLACK VOTERS.

FEMA STAFFER WHO ORDERED WORKERS TO SKIP HURRICANE DAMAGED HOMES WITH TRUMP CAMPAIGN SIGNS FIRED. It’s about time! Democrat intolerance knows no bounds! More HERE. And HERE Continue reading

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ELECTORAL MAP AND OTHER VISUALS

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog offers up a few visual items as we head into the weekend.

First off, here’s the 2024 electoral map:

Next, some joke toys for this Christmas: Continue reading

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CLEOPATRA (1917) SILENT FILM WITH THEDA BARA

Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog may remember my fondness for silent movies.

CLEOPATRA (1917) – Born Theodosia Goodman in Cincinnati, OH on July 29th, 1885, Theda Bara was the first monumental “man-eating”, femme fatale sex symbol in American cinema. It was inevitable that she would portray one of history’s most notorious women. Only part of this film has survived, and the story is a mix of various accounts of Cleopatra’s activities.  

Cleopatra is covertly brought to Julius Caesar (Fritz Leiber Sr.) wrapped in a carpet and seduces him. The pair plan to conquer the known world, but Caesar’s assassination prevents this. A plot to kill Cleopatra herself is formed within her own court, but Pharon (Albert Roscoe), the designated assassin, succumbs to his love for her instead. Continue reading

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