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JUNE FOURTEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

From Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog it’s time for another current events roundup here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist state.

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DEMOCRAT PARTY

FOUR DEMOCRAT CAMPAIGN OFFICIALS IN CONNECTICUT ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH ELECTION FRAUD. More HERE. And this is just the latest incident. No matter how many news reports there are on this topic every year, Democrats still insist there’s no evidence of their election fraud scams.

banned mail in votingANOTHER WIN FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY. MICHIGAN JUDGE STRIKES DOWN THE BALLOT-COUNTING CHANGES THAT THE DEMOCRAT SEC OF STATE MADE BEFORE THE 2020 ELECTION, HOPEFULLY HELPING TO AVOID SUCH FRAUD IN FUTURE ELECTIONS. Add this to the pile of other court decisions striking down the Democrat alterations before the 2020 election. Have I mentioned lately that the 2020 presidential election was as tainted and corrupt as in 1876 and 2000?

BIDEN REGIME STILL FIGHTING ELECTION INTEGRITY MEASURES

bloody hands of joe bidenBIDEN CALLED OUT FOR THE WAY HIS BORDER POLICIES HELP ORGANIZED CRIME AND THE MEXICAN CARTELS.

VIDEO OF THE LATEST GIBBERISH FROM JOE “INCOMPETENT TO STAND TRIAL” BIDEN. Hilarious!

PRO-HAMAS DEMOCRATS TARGET THREATS AT THE HOMES OF JEWISH MEMBERS OF THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM’S BOARD. Democrat = Hater of American Jews as if they are representatives of Israel’s government. Such garbage. Continue reading

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MICHELLE FROM FORCE OF LIGHT ON STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE

michelle from force of light entertainmentMany readers have been asking me about my take on the latest Disney show by Harvey Weinstein’s former personal assistant Leslye Headland – The Acolyte. I checked out of Star Wars quite a few years ago, so I’m not up to date on all the Disney debacles.

Regular readers may remember my 2022 shout out to Force of Light Entertainment, a terrific YT channel by two sisters named Michelle and Natalie. Michelle (who has a PhD by the way) has kept current with the IP and skillfully dissects The Acolyte through its first three episodes.

force of light entertainmentThis pathetic series is apparently every bit as horrible as we’ve heard, but Michelle is much less sarcastic than I am when I write reviews, so her approach may be more appealing. Below is her take on the first two Acolyte episodes, but for Michelle’s review of the execrable third episode AND to subscribe to the channel Force of Light Entertainment, click HERE

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A NEW FOOL KILLER LETTER FROM 2019

Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the many facets of Fool Killer lore. FOR PART ONE, INCLUDING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT, CLICK HERE

Fool Killer garbPART TWENTY: In a surprising development Balladeer’s Blog was contacted by THE actual Fool Killer. Using Jimmy Neutron-level science I determined that this correspondent was indeed the actual supernatural figure who had been at large in America since the 1830s.

After some introductory email exchanges the Fool Killer confirmed for me that Jesse Holmes was not his real name but he often used it as his alias going back to Charles Napoleon Bonaparte Evans’ original publication of The Fool Killer Letters from roughly 1850 to around 1880.

The roaming vigilante stated that since there was absolutely nothing that I or any other mortals could do to stop him from slaying whenever and wherever he pleased he was happy to answer assorted questions for me. He did so in the following email:

Fool Killer condensedComing to you as I wander in search of fools to kill, as usual a murder of crows following in my wake to feast upon the ample corpses I leave behind me in my travels.

Eddie, or Mr. Wozniak or Balladeer or however you prefer to be addressed, I noticed from your queries that you have that modern-day obsession with wanting definitive answers. I’m not able to provide them regarding my exact nature nor would I if I WAS able.

Your tracing of my origins to the Tennessee Hills of the 1830s was part of the reason I contacted you. I figured your perseverance and your perceptive comments about the Hill Portughee or Melungeons importing tales of Longstaff from Portugal showed you deserved to be my new correspondent. You’re no Charles Evans or James L Pearson but I’ve been a mighty long time without a confidant so you’ll do.

My birth around 1830 was roughly as recounted in Mountain Legends. I can correct the record on one particular item, though. My Daddy, whatever he really was, was not THE Devil. Not even I could have overcome Satan himself like I did and driven him from the Tennessee Hills. He may have been “A” devil or demon or maybe something from another world. Maybe he was just a relic from Earth’s distant past or some unknown thing that walked up from the very bottom of the ocean. Continue reading

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JANUARY 2022: A LOOK BACK

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

biden family values sampleINVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST REPORTS THAT THE BIDEN FAMILY HAS RECEIVED 31 MILLION DOLLARS FROM INDIVIDUALS IN CHINA’S INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY. More HERE. And HERE.

NBC NEWS POLL: SEVENTY-TWO PERCENT SAY JOE BIDEN HAS THE COUNTRY GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION.

PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTERS DEMOCRAT NANCY PELOSI AND HUSBAND GROW EVEN WEALTHIER FROM CHINA. And what about Nancy’s insider trading scandals, too?

BIDEN POLICY WILL MAKE MONTHLY HEALTH CARE COSTS SKYROCKET.

tulsi gabbard heroicCOURAGEOUS TULSI GABBARD POINTS OUT THAT JOE BIDEN IS DOING ALL HE CAN TO DIVIDE US.

DEMOCRAT ATROCITY ROUNDUP: JANUARY 28th

BIDEN’S MISOGYNY: HE CONTEMPTUOUSLY TELLS A FEMALE REPORTER SHE ASKED A “STUPID QUESTION” AND HIS HANDLERS PREVENT THE PRESS FROM FOLLOWING UP. More HERE. Under Biden’s predecessor, this would have been treated as “the Apocalypse of the Week” by Democrat media outlets and declared a “war on the free press.”  Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: JUNE TENTH

It’s another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

breaking bidenEVEN THE DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET POLITICO IS REPORTING ON THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY. Good thing for Crooked Joe Biden he was already pronounced mentally unfit to stand trial. (Yet somehow is fine to remain in office.) More Biden Crime Family coverage HERE.

DEMOCRAT PROSECUTOR IN ATLANTA SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR SEVEN YEARS FOR ILLEGALLY USING FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLARS IN COVID FUNDS FOR HER OWN LUXURIES. Have I mentioned lately that America’s career politicians tend to be white-collar criminals? I thought I had.

EXCELLENT BREAKDOWN ON DEMOCRATS AND THEIR OFTEN UNCONSTITUTIONAL WAR ON DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.  

amber rose and trumpAMBER ROSE HEROICALLY DOUBLES DOWN ON HER TRUMP SUPPORT, SAYING “WE’RE NOT BRAINWASHED ANYMORE BY THE LEFT.” More HERE.  

BIDEN REGIME AGAIN INSTRUCTING THE BORDER PATROL TO SIMPLY RELEASE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CAUGHT AT THE BORDER. Over seventeen million illegals entering the U.S. under the Biden Regime aren’t enough, apparently, so Biden makes it even easier for them while publicly pretending he’s clamping down.

DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOME EXPOSED FOR ILLEGALLY BILLING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR OVER FIFTY-TWO MILLION DOLLARS IN HEALTH CARE COSTS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.  

brandon tatum picBRANDON TATUM COURAGEOUSLY HIGHLIGHTS PRO-TRUMP VIDEO. Be sure to read the comments!

POPULIST PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP CONTINUES TO SCORE HUGE CROWDS AT HIS RALLIES. People see through the temporary conviction which will clearly be overturned during the appeals process. Continue reading

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JUNE SIXTH AND SEVENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

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

david hilliardACTIVIST DAVID HILLIARD COURAGEOUSLY EXPRESSES HIS SUPPORT FOR DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. He’s known Trump since Trump was a college student, the historical man of color stated. “Trump’s a friend of African Americans, and I knew Trump from the 1960s in New York, where he comes from, and he’s a friend to African Americans,” Hilliard continued. “I mean, he’s not a racist. He’s not a racist, fascist, white man. He supported Black people.”

DEMOCRAT OMERTA.

Trump never called racist til running against DemocratsTHE NUMBER OF JOBLESS CLAIMS JUMPS UP YET AGAIN. Joe Biden’s policies continue to crush the working class and the poor.

GEORGIA COURT OF APPEALS SMACKS DOWN PARTISAN ANTI-TRUMP PROSECUTOR

FINANCIERS BACKING A TEXAS-BASED STOCK EXCHANGE. The move of big money out of corrupt, partisan New York City after its political persecution of Donald Trump continues. More history in the making.

BIDEN REGIME ILLEGALLY GRANTS DE FACTO AMNESTY TO HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

UNFIT JOE BIDEN SOILS HIMSELF AGAIN DURING D-DAY CEREMONY AT NORMANDY. He also screwed up his speech and fell asleep, prompting his wife Jill to nudge him awake

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DEMOCRAT PARTY

ILLINOIS JUDGE RULES UN-CONSTITUTIONAL A DEMOCRAT-BACKED LAW WHICH WOULD HAVE PREVENTED REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FROM BEING ON THE BALLOTS IN NOVEMBER. The Democrats still prefer to try winning elections via unconstitutional means while pretending to care about “democracy.” #WALKAWAY from the fascistic party of the Democrats like so many of us already have.

ARIZONA JUDGE RULES THAT DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR HOBBS VIOLATED THE CONSTITUTION BY APPOINTING THIRTEEN DEPARTMENT HEADS WITHOUT STATE SENATE APPROVAL. Such constitutional checks and balances are nuisances to the criminally minded Democrats in office.

CONGRESSIONAL HEARING REVEALS ADDITIONAL ARGUMENTS FOR WHY POLITICAL PARTISAN JACK SMITH’S APPOINTMENT AS SPECIAL PROSECUTOR WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Continue reading

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O. HENRY’S TAKE ON THE FOOL KILLER

Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the many facets of Fool Killer lore. FOR PART ONE, INCLUDING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT, CLICK HERE

Matthew as the Fool Killer would be perfectPreviously I examined Joel Chandler Harris’ 1902 story Flingin’ Jim And His Fool-Killer, set in Georgia in October of 1872, plus Ridgway Hill’s Facts for the Fool-Killer, set in and around Buffalo, NY in 1909.

Now we back up a year for the great O. Henry’s story The Fool-Killer, published as part of The Voice of the City in 1908. In his younger years O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) had personally known Charles Napoleon Bonaparte Evans, the editor of the Milton Chronicle.

Evans was the man behind the earliest written examples of Fool Killer stories and published them as if they were letters from the “real” Fool Killer himself, who claimed Jesse Holmes was his actual name. O. Henry started his short story The Fool-Killer by recapping the fame of the folk-figure, claiming he was known “from Roanoke to the Rio Grande.” 

In apparent deference to his old friend Charles Evans, Porter kept Jesse Holmes as the Fool Killer’s “real” name but introduced some of his own innovations to Fool Killer lore.      Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: JUNE 3rd

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

outlaw heroTHE “OUTLAW FOLK HERO” MEMES FOR TRUMP ARE IN FLIGHT! His enemies have made him an immortal symbol of resistance to their form of oppression and corruption.

* AND NEVER FORGET THAT THE ONLY REASON JOE BIDEN IS NOT A CONVICTED FELON IS BECAUSE HE’S BEEN DECLARED MENTALLY UNFIT TO STAND TRIAL FOR HIS CRIMES. *

biden tax returns(Oh, and never forget that anti-Trump fascists acted like forcing Trump to release years of his tax returns was so important, yet the returns revealed he had done nothing wrong. Our corrupt elected officials then declined to have any other politicians reveal several years of their tax returns. It has only – and ever – been about “getting” the outsider Trump.) 

SENATOR JOE MANCHIN LEAVES THE INCREASINGLY FASCISTIC DEMOCRAT PARTY TO BECOME AN INDEPENDENT. As a former Democrat who made that move long ago I’d say it’s about time Manchin joined the many, many other Democrat officeholders who have left that political party in recent years.

MORE REMINDERS OF HISTORICAL HEROES WHO WERE “CONVICTED FELONS” (LMAO) LIKE TRUMP, WALESA, MANDELA, GANDHI, ETC. Plus remember JFK, who was killed by many of the same forces opposing the populist Trump.

biden the fascistJOE BIDEN AND HIS REGIME’S FINGERPRINTS ARE ALL OVER THE POLITICAL SHOW TRIALS OF DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.

EL SALVADOR’S PRESIDENT BOASTS “WE DON’T JAIL THE OPPOSITION.” America USED TO BE like that, too. More HERE.

flushing justiceREAD THE LONG LISTS OF REASONS WHY LEGAL SCHOLARS SAY THE BOGUS TRUMP CONVICTION WILL BE OVERTURNED ONCE THE CASE IS OUT OF THE CORRUPT NEW YORK CESSPOOL. More HERE. And HERE

BIDEN REGIME SCREWS SENIOR CITIZENS WITH THE LARGEST MEDICARE PREMIUM INCREASE EVER. Can people stop pretending this is the same Democrat Party that it was under FDR and JFK?

OUTLAW” FOLK HERO AND POSSIBLE POLITICAL PRISONER PRESIDENT TRUMP GETS A HERO’S WELCOME AT UFC 302. More HERE. And HERE. CROWD CHANTS “F*CK JOE BIDEN!” HERE. Continue reading

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DECEMBER 2021: LOOKING BACK

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

biden derangedLIFELONG RACIST JOE BIDEN SAYS SCHOOLS IN IOWA DO BETTER THAN SCHOOLS IN WASHINGTON DC BECAUSE IOWA HAS A LOWER AFRICAN AMERICAN POPULATION. If we had a competent opposition party that understood media usage like Biden’s party does, this remark would still be getting quoted on a weekly basis, just like any such remark by an opposition party candidate would be endlessly quoted by the media-savvy Democrats. We need 3rd Parties, or maybe I should say an effective 2nd Party.   

JOURNALIST SHARYL ATTKISSON STILL IN COURT OVER THE WAY DEMOCRATS VIOLATED HER RIGHTS.

Trump ala Lech Walesa and Nelson MPRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP NAMED MAN OF THE YEAR.

DEMOCRAT POLLSTER: 67 PERCENT SAY BIDEN HAS MADE THE U.S. MORE DIVIDED THAN IT WAS UNDER TRUMP. And Biden was just getting started on dividing the country with his hatemongering.

JUSSIE SMOLLETT HATE HOAX AGAINST TRUMP SUPPORTERS EPITOMIZES ALL THE LIES PUSHED BY ANTI-TRUMP FASCISTS.

populism picESTABLISHMENT FEAR OF POPULISM FUELS THEIR HATRED OF TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS.

JOE BIDEN CRIMES AND SCANDALS: DECEMBER 20th Continue reading

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DEMOCRATS PLAY THE SHORT GAME AGAIN: TRUMP VERDICT WILL OBVIOUSLY BE OVERTURNED ON APPEAL

political martyrsIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog recognizes that multiple titles could have applied to this blog post, so before I get into the meat of this item, let’s look at some of those potential alternate titles.

VERDICT MEANS JUST ONE THING: PEOPLE WHO HATED TRUMP YESTERDAY STILL HATE HIM TODAY AND PEOPLE WHO LIKED TRUMP YESTERDAY STILL LIKE HIM TODAY

rock star trumpDEMOCRAT FASCISTS FURTHER TRUMP’S MARTYRDOM IN PURSUIT OF A TALKING POINT THAT WILL ULTIMATELY GET OVERTURNED ANYWAY. (Just like all the frantic “Trump colluded with Russia” nonsense and “Trump was running a nuclear program at Mar-a-Lago” and all the other anti-Trump fables that have been spun out of whole cloth.) ALSO, REMEMBER, ALL OF THESE CHARGES ARE USUALLY MISDEMEANORS THAT WERE DISTORTED INTO FELONIES JUST TO “GET TRUMP,”

CLEARLY PARTISAN JUDGE AND JURY MAKE SURE TRUMP IS THE NEW NELSON MANDELA, MAHATMA GANDHI AND LECH WALESA, ALL OF WHOM WERE ALSO “CONVICTED FELONS” (LMAO) VIA THEIR COUNTRY’S CORRUPT AND SLANTED LEGAL SYSTEMS

mandela and trumpONLY FOOLS ARE ACTING LIKE WE DIDN’T ALL KNOW THIS WOULD BE THE INITIAL VERDICT FROM DAY ONE. THAT’S WHY THE APPEALS PROCESS EXISTS, BECAUSE OF FLAWED OUTCOMES LIKE THIS.

DONATIONS POUR IN FOR TRUMP CAMPAIGN FOLLOWING LATEST LEGAL TRAVESTY AGAINST HIM. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. Silicon Valley man donates $300,000 HERE.

reminder that trump neverOkay, for overseas readers, let me mention once again that EVEN IF TRUMP IS SENT TO PRISON, HE CAN STILL RUN FOR PRESIDENT JUST LIKE EUGENE DEBS DID. Hell, such a provision was made possible by recognition of the fact that any incumbent administration could well turn out to be as criminal and authoritarian as the Biden Regime has proven to be and would jail political opponents.  I never thought the hopelessly corrupt Democrat and Republican political establishment would allow Trump to win, anyway, and have said so in countless previous blog posts. I will still vote for him, though.  It looks like my comparison of these situations to the ending of the Robert Redford movie Brubaker years ago was accurate.  

trump won twiceAnd remember: “The evidence and testimony don’t matter, because the outcome was predetermined before the “trial” ever started. This is a political operation organized by the Democratic Party to punish Trump and, if possible, to prevent him from being elected president again.
Understand that 86% of voters in Manhattan voted for Joe Biden in 2020. There are no honest people on that jury. They know full well why they are there, and what is expected of them.”      Every word of that is true. Plus, in another of the Trump cases NY literally changed the Statute of Limitations to get Trump, remember that? They also broke ex post facto by trying Trump, for whom that statute of limitations had already passed

Now, on to my usual roundup of news, memes and political cartoons: 

ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST PARTISAN ANTI-TRUMP ZEALOT MERCHAN ALREADY FILED.

tulsi gabbard heroicTULSI GABBARD BRAVELY CALLS OUT BIDEN FOR “ABUSE OF POWER”.

LEGAL SCHOLARS DELUGE THE MEDIA TO POINT OUT THE MANY, MANY THINGS WRONG WITH THIS ABSURD TRUMP VERDICT. More HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE.

MOTHER JONES: TRUMP IS MANY HEROES IN ONE. Continue reading

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