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MAY 2022: A LOOK BACK

FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.

WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR CRUSHED UNDER HARRIS-BIDEN REGIME POLICIES. As the Hodge Twins said about Kamala and Joe’s callousness “I guess it’s ok to laugh about record high inflation and record high prices that are destroying people’s lives?”  This is NOT the Democrat Party of FDR and JFK.

           The brothers have also observed “We have lost so much faith in the Democrat Party. These people are a bunch of liars!

AND REMEMBER, DEMOCRATS STILL BELIEVE THAT SOME MALES MENSTRUATE, THAT MALES CAN NATURALLY GET PREGNANT AND THAT SMALL CHILDREN CAN CHOOSE TO CHANGE THEIR GENDER … WITH LOTS OF PERSUASION FROM DEMOCRAT “TEACHERS” (LMAO). Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

WESLEY HUNT AND OTHER REPUBLICANS IN RACIALLY MIXED MARRIAGES CALL OUT THE DEMOCRAT FEARMONGERING THAT INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES MAY BE BANNED. Democrats are repulsive with their irrational, unfounded scaremongering. They’ve been pushing these absurd dystopian lies for too long to remember at this point and they don’t do anything but fuel the division and hatred that The Party thrives on.

HARRIS-BIDEN REGIME TRYING TO DESTROY THE HEROIC REPAIRMAN WHO CAME FORWARD ABOUT UNDERBOSS HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP.

DEMOCRATS: THE WORST OF BOTH WORLDS NOW. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: JULY 26th

Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, coming to you from an America where anti-Trump lunatics still froth at the mouth with unhinged paranoid fantasies about him!

brandon tatum picOFFICER TATUM SHOW PRESENTS A COMEDIAN WHO ANNIHILATES KAMALA HARRIS POLITICALLY.

LATEST ON TRUMP’S WOULD-BE ASSASSIN: HE MADE SEVERAL SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS SUPPORTING THE BIDEN-HARRIS REGIME’S POLICIES.

ASSORTED DEMOCRATS COURAGEOUSLY JOIN IN CONGRESSIONAL VOTE CONDEMNING KAMALA HARRIS FOR HER FAILURES WITH BORDER POLICY WHICH HAVE UNLEASHED SO MUCH VIOLENCE AND OTHER PROBLEMS. More HERE. Brave bipartisanship. 

selected notYES, KAMALA HARRIS HAS BEEN THE BIDEN REGIME’S “BORDER CZAR” FOR YEARS – PER THE DEMOCRATS’ OWN MEDIA OUTLETS! More proof HERE. Those same media outlets are now lying to try covering up what a mess she made of the border. This article provides several examples of the rapturous “Harris is the Border Czar” headlines over time.

INEPT SECRET SERVICE DEMANDS THAT TRUMP STOP HOLDING HIS SIGNATURE OUTDOOR RALLIES BECAUSE THEY AREN’T COMPETENT ENOUGH TO PROTECT HIM. More HERE. So his campaign gets handicapped under the pretense of “better protecting” him. See what I mean when I say that no matter what, the Democrats outmaneuver the opposition party? No way would they hamstring a Democrat’s campaign this way.

clown kamalaMEMES USING VENN DIAGRAMS TO RIDICULE THE CONFUSED, FOREVER CACKLING KAMALA HARRIS

TEN QUESTIONS THAT DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS WON’T ASK KAMALA HARRIS. And the clueless, outdated opposition party STILL lacks a sufficient number of their own media outlets to have a chance of getting their own message to prevail. One side STILL wants it more.

SOME OF JOE BIDEN’S MOST RIDICULOUS LIES. Yet no matter how many times he was called out on them, he kept saying them. More HERE.

democrats hate free speechJUDGE RULES THAT YES, THE BIDEN-HARRIS REGIME WAS ACTING TO CENSOR PEOPLE ONLINE.

CHINESE AND RUSSIAN BOMBERS TOGETHER PROBING AMERICA’S ALASKAN AIR DEFENSES TO EXPLOIT HARRIS-BIDEN WEAKNESSES. Unprecedented.

THE DEMOCRAT OUTLET NEWSWEEK OBSCENELY CLAIMS TRUMP WASN’T REALLY SHOT. Have I mentioned lately how ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable Trump-haters are?

TRUMP’S COURAGE AND BIDEN’S FAILURES.

marine rapperMARINE RAPPER PRAISES NEW AD FOCUSED ON KAMALA HARRIS’ MANY FAILURES AND BAD POLICIES

CLOWNISH KAMALA’S MOST INANE AND INCOHERENT WORD SALADS.

KAMALA HARRIS CALLED OUT FOR HER GROTESQUE ANTI-CATHOLIC BIGOTRY. Hatred is in the DNA of the Democrats. Continue reading

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FRONTIERADO: THE JAYBIRD-WOODPECKER WAR IN TEXAS (1888-1889)

The Frontierado Holiday is fast approaching and will be marked Friday August 2nd this year. Frontierado is about the myth of the old west, not the grinding reality. Balladeer’s Blog has covered a lot of Range Wars of the old west, and a few Mormon Wars, but this time I’ll present some politically oriented gunplay. 

jaybird woodpeckerJAYBIRD VS WOODPECKER WAR (1888-1889) – First off, let’s make sure to distinguish between JayHAWKS and JayBIRDS. Jayhawks were the anti-slavery forces in Bleeding Kansas during the 1850s. Jaybirds were in 1880s Texas and were the racist white Democrat forces trying to expel the mixed black and white Woodpeckers who had gained power from Republicans during Reconstruction after the Civil War.   

NOTE: An old song about Woodpeckers and Jaybirds had provided the names of the two factions. Democrats seized upon the name Jaybirds, which left Republicans with the name Woodpeckers.

Fort Bend County in Texas was the site of the Jaybird-Woodpecker War. As election day approached, tensions grew so high that exchanges of gunfire as well as violent beatings had broken out. Continue reading

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“CACKLING IDIOCY” – AUSTRALIAN NEWS LOOKS AT KAMALA HARRIS IN TWO VIDEOS

cackling idiocyIt’s hilarious that Democrats want everyone to forget that Kamala Harris is so much of a disaster that until a few days ago they preferred to have the face of their party be a crooked, pant-soiling, monumentally unfit creature like Joe “Showered with his daughter when she was twelve per her own diary” Biden.

kamala cacklingWhile Crooked Joe Biden lied and gasped his way through a barely coherent pack of lies and mistakes last night, Australian news has provided some recent videos breaking down the idiocy of Joe’s Vice President Kackling Kamala Harris. (And remember, both Joe Biden AND Kamala Harris come from a family of slave owners.)

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And HERE: Continue reading

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JULY 24th ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

travolt and cowFrom Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, coming to you from an America where the opposition leader was nearly assassinated due to unheard of levels of incompetence (wink) on the part of the Secret Service, more current events.

FOR OVERSEAS READERS CURIOUS ABOUT THIS LAST-MINUTE MADNESS THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE CHOSEN TO INFLICT ON THE NATION: There was a time several decades ago when presidential election campaigns didn’t kick off in earnest until after the nominating conventions of both major political parties.

           Believe it or not, there was a time when LABOR DAY was the traditional start of hardcore presidential campaigning. In this era of instant communication, it should be even easier to conduct such quick campaigns. Bump the nominating conventions up a few months earlier if need be.  

          joe biden and harrisYes, unlike recent decades, the candidates were not campaigning entire calendar years before our November election day. Sure, you still had Primary Season on the way to seeing who each party would nominate, but our current nonsense involving “Old Soils Himself” Joe Biden and Kamala “Koo-Koo for Cocoa Puffs” Harris would not be as chaotic IF campaigns still operated that way.   

           Maybe the Democrats and Republicans will look at this year and say “Hey, the less time that the opposing party has to dirty up our candidate and THE LESS TIME THEY HAVE TO EVEN KNOW WHO OUR FINAL CANDIDATE WILL BE, the better.” And from the other party’s side, why spend all that money and effort trashing one opponent only to have to switch gears completely for a new one at around the time WHEN STARTING HARDCORE CAMPAIGNING USED TO BE THE NORM? 

            Sadly, I don’t expect that to ever happen. Anyway, on to headlines.

victims ofIMPEACHMENT ARTICLES INTRODUCED AGAINST VICE PRESIDENT AND “BORDER CZAR” (LMAO) KAMALA HARRIS. Democrats have only themselves to blame for such maneuvers after they put the country through TWO false impeachments of President Trump even though they knew BOTH TIMES they had nowhere near enough votes for conviction in the Senate.

A REMINDER THAT UNDER THE NEW PARADIGM IT’S THE DEMOCRATS WHO ARE OWNED BY RICH DONORS. More HERE. Kamala is now in bed with the scuzziest plutocrats around. This is NOT the Democrat Party of FDR and JFK. 

democrat rat symbolBLACK LIVES MATTER BLASTS THE DEMOCRATS FOR “ANOINTING” THE UNTESTED AND GIGGLING KAMALA HARRIS RATHER THAN DO A QUICK MINI-PRIMARY SEASON. More HERE.

A BOSTON HERALD LOOK AT HOW JOE BIDEN HAS BEEN THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER. But Kackling Kamala’s saying “Hold my beer!”

you know what isEXCELLENT PIECE ON HOW THE DEMOCRATS HAVE PROVEN THEY ARE THE THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. And to the working class and the poor, for that matter. More HERE. 

THE PARTY OF HATE: REPORT ON HOW THE ANTI-TRUMP PSYCHOPATH WHO RAN OVER MICHIGAN TRUMP SUPPORTERS IN HIS ATV CONFESSES, THEN TAKES HIS OWN LIFE. Yet deranged Democrats still pretend it’s Trump and his supporters who are “dangerous”. More HERE. Continue reading

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THE CISCO KID: O. HENRY’S ORIGINAL TALE

With Frontierado fast approaching on Friday August 2nd, here’s another seasonal post.

tcwTHE CABALLERO’S WAY (1907) – This was the original short story written by O. Henry in which he introduced the character called the Cisco Kid. The Caballero’s Way was first published in the July issue of Everybody’s Magazine, then was included in the anthology The Heart of the West later that year.

The Cisco Kid in this short story bears no resemblance to the Kid of later decades in pop culture. Early silent films like The Caballero’s Way (1914) and The Border Terror (1919) kept the basics of the O. Henry short story. The Kid was a selfish, ruthless, self-centered robber and hellraiser whose only admirable quality was his chivalrous refusal to harm women. 

caballeros wayThe communities in the Cisco Kid’s territory between the Frio River and the Rio Grande help hide the kid from his Texas Ranger pursuers out of fear, NOT out of any fondness for the violent killer. Also unlike later portrayals of the Kid as a good guy, Cisco is an American whose surname is Goodall and he loves to shoot Mexican men.

A romantic triangle develops among the Cisco Kid, his favorite girl Tonia Perez and Lt. Dandridge, the Texas Ranger in charge of the latest attempts to capture or kill the Kid. In O. Henry’s story, Tonia clearly prefers Dandridge and wants him to kill Cisco so they can be together without any danger from him.  Continue reading

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PRESIDENT TRUMP KNOCKS JOE BIDEN OUT OF THE RACE, PLUS MORE NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, coming to you from an America where career criminal Joe Biden acknowledged that the failed assassination of Trump meant he really had no chance against him.

KURT SCHLICHTER’S TERRIFIC TAKE ON JOE BIDEN’S MOST RECENT HUMILIATION. Here are some excerpts – “Alleged President Joe Biden’s cowardly capitulation to the will of the Democrat elite validated the cruel truth that we have always known about him – and that he has always known about himself. He’s a quitter. He’s a loser. He’s weak, and he’s stupid, the Democrat Party’s Fredo given – by default – responsibility beyond running a nightclub out in the boondocks or picking somebody up from the airport and, predictably, botching it.”

           “ … But that’s Joe – always wrong, always inept, always blowing it – yet always convinced he’s a prodigy and a visionary. It would be funny if his incompetence had not gotten so many people killed, from our troops to citizens murdered by coddled criminals and illegal aliens he invited on in.”

           And “Biden feels no shame; his crime family apparently lacks the necessary genes. … Now history will portray him as what he is, a doddering clown and a grubby, corrupt scumbag who couldn’t even stagger his way through a full term without making a fool of himself.”

… HOWEVER, IT’S NOT A PERFECT TAKE. Schlichter seems convinced that the Democrats will stick with Kamala Harris, the woman that The Party has basically admitted for months was an even worse public face than a graft-grabbing, demented crook like Joe Biden.

FOR OVERSEAS READERS, LET ME EMPHASIZE SOMETHING – Joe stepped down from the political campaign – NOT from the office he’s occupying. Kamala did not get to rise to the presidency. Democrats can publicly “endorse her” and “support her” for the inevitable “New polls show Harris trouncing Trump” stories but they DON’T have to nominate her for president at the joke of a convention that The Party will hold in a little while. 

           Behind the scenes some of the worst embodiments of what America’s cesspool of a two-party system has to offer will be maneuvering. If Kamala screws up so badly that it proves the Democrats right for not actually giving her the presidency by making Joe step down, then Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, or Gavin Newsome might still get nominated at the farce of a Democrat Convention coming up.          

ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. COURAGEOUSLY POINTS OUT HOW HIS FELLOW DEMOCRATS ARE OLIGARCHS LIKE I DESCRIBED ABOVE

THE DEMOCRATS AT THE NEW YORK TIMES WANT KAMALA HARRIS OUT OF THE RACE. As I noted, the behind the scenes fighting and throat-cutting is still going on.       

DEMOCRATS APPARENTLY CONFIDENT THAT THEIR VOTERS ARE UNINFORMED ENOUGH TO FALL FOR GAVIN NEWSOME’S (AND HILLARY’S) NON-BINDING SUPPORT FOR KAMALA HARRIS. Every prominent Party member can praise her to the skies, it STILL doesn’t mean they have to officially nominate her at the convention. If she’s as clearly unfit as Joe, “the need to preserve “Democracy, children’s smiles and puppy dogs” by beating Trump” will be used to justify installing another candidate.

ANOTHER COURT DECISION SAYS THE BIDEN REGIME CANNOT ELIMINATE STUDENT DEBT, BUT JOE KEEPS ON DOING IT ANYWAY. For SELECT people, most of whom are children of Democrat one percenters and don’t NEED it. Continue reading

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APRIL 2022: LOOKING BACK

FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.

joe biden is so creepyBIDEN REGIME SICS ITS POLITICIZED DOJ ON STATES THAT TRY PROTECTING SMALL CHILDREN FROM THE DEMOCRATS’ “TRANS” OBSESSION. More HERE. And HERE. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

ANOTHER ROUNDUP OF EXPLOSIVE REVELATIONS ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS’ ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTIONS AGAINST TRUMP FROM APRIL 2016 ONWARD.

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TEACHER CLAIMS TO KINDERGARTENERS, FIRST AND SECOND GRADERS THAT DOCTORS ONLY “GUESS” WHAT SEX A BABY IS AT BIRTH. Any bets about who they vote for?

JOE BIDEN’S CORRUPTION AND DISASTERS CONTINUE.

ANOTHER REPORT ABOUT UNDERBOSS HUNTER BIDEN FUNNELING MONEY. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And HERE. Much more has come out since April of 2022.

           And remember, all of this was exposed before the forever tainted 2020 presidential election, but Democrat media and social media outlets banned the information to protect the Biden Campaign.

DEMOCRATS AT CBS STEP UP THEIR POLITICAL LITMUS TESTS TO WORK THERE. Not a member of The Party? They don’t want you there!

democrat republican or awakeADDRESSING A PREJUDICED VIEW HELD OVERSEAS

ANOTHER REMINDER OF HOW MUCH BETTER DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES WERE FOR VOTERS OF COLOR THAN BIDEN’S POLICIES ARE.

A LONG LIST OF JUST SOME OF THE MANY DEMOCRAT LIES.  

YET ANOTHER EXPOSE ABOUT VOTE FRAUD IN FIVE SWING STATES IN 2020. The 2020 presidential election was as corrupt and tainted as the 1876 and year 2000 presidential elections. Joe Biden, George W. Bush and Rutherford B. Hayes were all “selected, not elected.” Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: JULY EIGHTEENTH

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

jack smith so we IF YOU MISSED IT IN ALL THE ACTION RECENTLY, THE POLITICAL PROSECUTION OF TRUMP FOR THE DOCUMENTS AT MAR-A-LAGO NONSENSE WAS THROWN OUT (as everyone with a grip on reality knew it would be from day one) AND THE APPOINTMENT OF WITCHHUNTER JACK SMITH WAS MARKED UNCONSTITUTIONAL (like we all knew from the beginning as well).

           Add to that the fact that another Supreme Court decision recently knocked the charges against January 6th protestors down from “insurrection” (LMAO) to what it really was – trespassing. Balladeer’s Blog has been among those saying since the beginning that all these things would happen once the witch hunts against Trump got outside the partisan Democrat courts.    It’s just a shame that the court system in America moves so slowly.   

anne fundnerCOURAGEOUS ROLE MODEL ANNE FUNDNER HOLDS JOE BIDEN AND EVERY OFFICIAL RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR UNSECURED SOUTHERN BORDER RESPONSIBLE FOR HER SON’S DEATH. The heroic woman said “I hold Joe Biden, Kamala Harris the ‘border czar,’ — what a joke — and Gavin Newsom, and EVERY Democrat who supports open borders responsible for the death of my son.”   Honest, blunt statements are necessary against the smug, self-satisfied asses who run the Democrat Party these days.

Trump never called racist til running against DemocratsUNDER DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION HELD A MEETING OF BLACK DELEGATES. Donald Trump has been transforming the Republican Party in his own Populist mode. Trump was the greatest president for the poor and the working class of all colors during my lifetime.

           The main problem was that so many Americans who don’t pay attention kept assuming that Trump was letting the Republican Party continue its horrendous ways from George W. Bush, the Cheney Family, John “Let’s fight wars all over the world” McCain and Mitt Romney.

amber rose and trumpAMBER ROSE BRAVELY SPEAKS THE TRUTH – “THE MEDIA HAS LIED TO US ABOUT DONALD TRUMP.” They certainly have. Every day since he announced his candidacy in 2015. 

TRUMP FINALLY GETTING CREDIT FOR THE WAY HE HAS CHANGED THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE FORMER POLITICAL PARADIGMS FOR BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES. Some excerpts: “Last night, voters saw a Republican Party that they (and I) have never seen before. 

        “A stage filled with hardworking taxpayers, African-Americans, working women, union members, and delegates dancing in the aisles. Speeches bashing Corporate America and the status quo.    

        “We witnessed the realignment of American politics, Trump-style.”     I guess they didn’t notice this years ago because the old default modes of the simple-minded made them miss the way Trump became a hero to all the people ignored by so many of our thuggish office holders. Those same office-holders who fundamentally transformed the U.S. into a cesspool of political corruption.  Continue reading

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MAVERICK (1994) – FILM REVIEW

MASCOT COWBOY 2THE FRONTIERADO HOLIDAY IS COMING UP ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 2nd!

As always, the Frontierado holiday (now celebrated on 6 continents) is about the myth of the Wild West, not the grinding reality. 

MaverickMAVERICK (1994) – Richard Donner directed and Mel Gibson starred in this excellent tribute to the 1950s and 1980s Maverick television series. The original series starred James Garner as slick-talking gambler/ gunslinger Bret Maverick AND, in old-age makeup, as “Pappy” Beauregard Maverick, the gambler and con-man patriarch of that family of rogues.  (No relation to the real-life Maverick family of Texas, for whom “maverick” cattle were named.)

Maverick was just as often comedic as dramatic and nicely anticipated the many deconstructions of Old West mythology that were to come in the decades ahead. Sometimes the program was daringly farcical as in episodes like Gun-Shy, a spoof of Gunsmoke, and Three Queens Full, a Bonanza parody set on the Sub-Rosa Ranch (as opposed to Bonanza‘s PONDErosa). The storyline featured Maverick encountering a Ben Cartwright-styled rancher and his three less-than-straight sons, hence the episode’s title.

The original series centered on Garner’s Bret Maverick (and later other Maverick family members) vying in cardplaying and con-games with assorted rival gamblers, gunslingers and con-men. Efrem Zimbalist Jr – in his pre-FBI years – played Dandy Jim, one of the recurring members of Maverick’s Rogue’s Gallery of foes. 

Elaborate schemes and multiple double-crosses often kept viewers guessing who would come out on top til the very end, since Bret sometimes ended up on the losing side. 

The constant betrayals and double-crosses were part of the charm of the television series and were perfectly captured by the 1994 big-screen adaptation of Maverick. This thoroughly enjoyable film is often dismissed as just another of the pointless movie adaptations of tv shows that began to flood theaters back then, but that is far from the truth.

Maverick 2Mel Gibson portrays Bret Maverick since by 1994 James Garner was too old for the role. Jodie Foster co-stars as rival gambler Annabelle Bransford and the iconic James Garner provides memorable support as a lawman. 

NECESSARY SPOILER: Many people that I’ve discussed this movie with said they avoided it or stopped watching it once they realized Garner was not portraying a member of the Maverick family. In reality – as we learn near the very end – he IS. He may have been too old to play Bret this time around but he reprised his role of Pappy Beauregard from the original series – no old age makeup needed by that point.

Pappy is just POSING as a lawman and his son Bret obligingly plays along without blowing his Pappy’s cover. (Yes, as in Bret’s frequent “My ol’ Pappy always told me …” bits.) Continue reading

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