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OCTOBER 2020: LOOKING BACK

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

biden crime family shirtJOE BIDEN’S TEXAS POLITICAL DIRECTOR NAMED IN ILLEGAL BALLOT HARVESTING SCAM AND MAIL-IN BALLOT FRAUD. More HERE and HERE. Yet another omen for how badly the Democrats were cheating in the 2020 election. At this point here in 2024 the only people who think that was a fair election are people who think some males menstruate and that men can naturally get pregnant.

DEMOCRAT GRIP ON SOCIAL MEDIA BEING USED TO CENSOR NEWS ABOUT THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY SCANDALS EXPOSED BY HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP. Even more HERE.

crow chairmanCROW INDIAN TRIBE PLUS CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS ENDORSE DONALD TRUMP OVER BIDEN. While Joe Biden was hiding in his bunker to prevent any more public incidents revealing how unfit for office he was, Trump was reeling in endorsement after endorsement.

        Excerpt from Crow Chairman Alvin Not Afraid Jr: “the “Trump administration has helped the Crow Tribe in amending the Tribal Employment Rights Ordinance” to let the tribe assign and grant permits on THEIR OWN mineral rights, unlike previous presidential administrations.”   

        maurice davisExcerpt from Democrat Maurice Davis: “Let me tell you something, the Democrats are full of hate. I have been a democrat all my life, 64 years. The last four years I voted for Hillary Clinton. This year I decided to go with President Trump. I am not a bootlicker, I am not an Uncle Tom.” (He had to add that because Democrats are such disgusting racists they always hurl abuse at voters of color who think for themselves.)

        william owens picExcerpt from Civil Rights Leader William Owens: “President Trump did something that few other politicians do,” Owens said. “He sought out the opinion of a variety of African American leaders and he listened to what we had to say … This is a president who believes in giving a hand-up, not a hand-out in order to help our community thrive.”

pic of donald trumpTRUMP BRINGS MIDEAST PEACE AND THE BIGGEST MANUFACTURING BOOM SINCE THE 1970s. More HERE and HERE.

(THEN) DEMOCRAT TULSI GABBARD COURAGEOUSLY POINTED OUT HOW DEMOCRATS COULD USE VOTE BY MAIL AS CHEAT BY MAIL FOR VOTE FRAUD PURPOSES. She tried introducing a bill to stop the vote by mail scams but her fellow Democrats blocked her.

bernadineDEMOCRAT BERNADINE KENNEDY KENT ENDORSED TRUMP. Some excerpts: “Kent said in her endorsement that her “values truly align with President Donald J. Trump’s willingness to work with those of differing opinions and perspectives more so than with Joe Biden’s divisive rhetoric, promotion of mass incarceration, and disrespectful, insensitive ideologies.” 

Trump never called racist til running against Democrats“A large part of this success is due to President Trump’s willingness to listen to the ideas of Senator Tim Scott and the concerns of invested citizens from diverse communities in economic distress. This effort produced a groundbreaking solution called ‘Opportunity Zones,’ a way to create jobs and spur investment in disadvantaged communities. We all recognize that gainful employment and economic development is the best deterrent against violence and social unrest, so I want to thank President Trump for his commitment to ensuring the success of the Black community in every way.”

        Kennedy-Kent also praised President Trump’s history-making support for HBCUs.  Continue reading

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FEBRUARY 14th NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP

mentailly unfHere’s the latest on current events from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. Tech trouble here. Forgive the crudity right now. Working on it.

New Devastating Testimony Reveals Joe Biden’s Involvement in Hunter’s Business.

mental declInflation Report Destroying Biden’s Claim That It’s ‘Falling’

Most Developed Countries Have Banned Mass Mail-in Voting. The United States Must Do the Same. Isn’t that the truth. The 2020 vote fraud was largely fueled by “cheat by mail”.

Donald Trump Is America’s ‘Most Respected’ Leader (By a Wide Margin)

What Was He THINKING?! Biden Posts Video of Himself Having Dinner With a Black Family and HOO BOY (Watch) Really, Joe? Fried chicken?

Report Says Obama CIA Worked With International Spy Agencies to Get Trump. MORE HERE. Continue reading

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AFTER THE THIN MAN (1936) – Dashiell Hammett’s Screenplay vs the Movie

dashiell hammett picAFTER THE THIN MAN (1936) – Previously, Balladeer’s Blog covered the neglected Sam Spade short stories that Dashiell Hammett wrote HERE. This time around I will look at the story treatment that Hammett provided the studio with regarding After the Thin Man. I feel this treatment is better than the actual shooting script and wish he had released it first as a longish short story. 

It’s shorter and less prone to the silly diversions that stretched the film version to such an unnecessary length. As you would expect, there are other differences besides the running time.

HAMMETT’S TREATMENT: The story starts out the same way as the subsequent movie. It is New Year’s Eve as Nick and Nora Charles’ train arrives back in San Francisco a few days after their highly publicized investigation of the Wynant Murder aka “The Thin Man” case. We get familiar bantering and eccentric behavior between the tipsy married couple.  Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: FEBRUARY TWELFTH

From America, Joe “Too senile to pay for his crimes but not too senile to remain in the White House” Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy, here’s the latest from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

biden demented like his supportersAMERICA’S CAREER CRIMINALS IN OFFICE ADVANCE SIXTY BILLION DOLLARS MORE FOR UKRAINE (REALLY “KICKBACKS FOR AMERICAN POLITICIANS”) WHILE THE COUNTRY MARKS SUPERBOWL SUNDAY. Hey, who says the days of “bread and circuses” are over? More uniparty duplicity in the bill HERE.

DEMOCRATS RAMPING UP THEIR EFFORTS TO KEEP ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. OFF OF BALLOTS. Keeping one’s opponents off ballots embodies Democrats’ deranged version of “democracy.” Related: BIDEN REGIME STILL REFUSING TO GIVE RFK JR SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION.

biden ordered through the mailANOTHER DEMOCRAT CHARGED WITH ELECTION FRAUD. No matter how many of these cases come up, mindless Democrat voters still lie and say it never happens.

THE CENSORSHIP INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. More HERE.

DENVER’S DEMOCRAT MAYOR DEPRIVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF CITY SERVICES TO SPEND THE MONEY ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS INSTEAD.

NO SURPRISE: CORPORATE MEDIA OUTLETS ARE LYING ABOUT TRUMP’S NATO REMARK. More HERE. And the opposition party still fails to keep up with the Democrats in the media arms race.

ANOTHER DEMOCRAT TEACHER ARRESTED ON CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION CHARGES. I will mention once again that Democrat “teachers” (LMAO) have replaced Catholic Priests in the public’s mind when it comes to grooming and molesting children. Continue reading

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JOE BIDEN: AS UNFIT AND ILLEGIT AS EVER

is this the flatHere’s the latest from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog here in a nation that’s had a corrupt, senile career criminal named Joe Biden in the White House. With Joe Biden pronounced mentally unfit to stand trial for one of his crimes, speculation is on that this will be used to put Biden beyond the law on all of the enormous number of other crimes he and the Biden Crime Family are responsible for. More HERE.

But bear in mind, no legal process was carried out. The Special Prosecutor, themselves part of the murky cesspool called America’s political system, simply declared that Biden seems to have committed the crime in the classified documents case, but – just like with Hillary Clinton years ago – the decision to NOT pursue the case was made unilaterally. 

unfit joe bidenMeanwhile, the Republicans are quite rightly pointing out that if Joe’s condition is that bad, then Biden should step down or be removed and replaced under the 25th Amendment regarding presidential unfitness. They say that Biden should not have it both ways, as in be declared beyond the reach of the law because of how demented he is, but still be left in the office of the presidency.

breaking bidenWill the Republicans in office stick by this, or will they do what they always do and back down after pretending that they will actually do something? I don’t know. Plus, if Joe steps down, whoever the Democrats have replace him, whether it’s Michelle Obama or someone else, that may well mean the Democrats will win the presidential election in November.

The Democrats remain far out in front of the clueless Republican Party establishment in the media arms race and would likely succeed at getting voters to think that they are trying ” a fresh start” by voting for whoever has a (D) after their name, even though any Democrat will follow the same destructive policies that Biden followed. Continue reading

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TRUMBO (2015) DEMOCRAT HYPOCRISY IS HILARIOUS

The political intolerance of the shallow, uninformed and emotionally unstable fools who call themselves Democrats knows no bounds. They unabashedly call for the personal and professional destruction of everyone who votes differently than they do while ignoring the fact that they are practicing their own – far more fanatical – form of McCarthyism. And they’ve destroyed far more lives. 

This movie is further proof that American Liberals are the biggest hypocrites in history.

This movie is further proof that American Democrats are the biggest hypocrites in history.

TRUMBO (2015) – How about “Are you now or have you ever been a racist or imperialist or transphobic or privileged?” Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog know how sick I am of the increasingly meaningless “Liberals vs Conservatives” paradigm. It’s just that right now American leftists are far more pompous and hubristic and in need of being cut down to size.

Case in point: the movie Trumbo. Only American Democrats could be so lacking in self-awareness that they would – in the age of non-stop harassment of Trump supporters, Wokeness Police and SJW persecutors – trot out (for the millionth time) the story of Dalton Trumbo and some of the other figures who were black-listed during the Communist Witch Hunt of decades ago.

For the past few decades Democrat Archie Bunkers have been the ones black-listing and inflicting draconian punishments on people who dare to hold different political opinions than they do.

We are still suffering under the “White Supremacist” and “Privilege” Witch Hunts that American Democrats continue to pursue with the same sickeningly judgmental attitude and spurious statistics that Joe McCarthy was accused of. How many careers (and therefore lives) have we all seen ruined by the cold, merciless asses of the political left? Often over simple remarks or organizations the victims belonged to or political contributions they made YEARS earlier. Plus Democrats accuse people of being racists as a scare tactic the way accusations of being a Communist were used back then. Continue reading

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GINA CARANO: ROLES SHE WOULD BE GREAT IN

gina leaningGina Carano has proven how impressive she can be in action roles, and that got me thinking about various roles I’d like to see her in.

queen of the black coast smallerBELIT, THE QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST – For people who aren’t fans of Robert E. Howard I’ll mention that the female pirate captain was the great love in the life of Conan the Barbarian. Queen of the Black Coast (1934) is one of the greatest Conan stories ever, but it’s a challenge casting a woman who could plausibly bring Belit (pronounced bay-LEET) to life. Enter Gina Carano, who would seem perfectly natural swinging her sword, kicking butt and barking out orders to her crew. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: FEBRUARY 6th

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes its latest look at current events.

democrat-vote-fraudATLANTIC CITY DEMOCRAT OPERATIVE CHARGED WITH ELECTION FRAUD REGARDING ABSENTEE BALLOTS. No matter how many stories like this arise every year, Democrats still like to pretend that such fraud does not happen. 

BIDEN REGIME AND CORPORATE MEDIA CALLED OUT FOR LYING ABOUT THE JANUARY JOBS REPORT. Typical of authoritarian regimes and their media lackeys.

AND, ON A RELATED NOTE, DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS CALLING FOR GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES TO SUSTAIN THEM. Uh. Yeah. As if media outlets who depend on federal funds will properly cover stories unflattering to the regime.

BIDEN REGIME STILL USING TAXPAYER FUNDS FOR PROPAGANDA AND CENSORSHIP AGAINST POLITICAL OPPONENTS

biden sniffing zuckerbergZUCKERBERG-LINKED OUTFITS PROMISING EVEN MORE ELECTION INTERFERENCE IN 2024 AFTER THEIR 2020 CENSORSHIP HELPED BIDEN SO MUCH.

EXCELLENT PIECE ON THE REPULSIVE WAY DEMOCRATS ARE ABUSING THE COURT SYSTEM AGAINST THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS. And we lack a competent opposition party to fight this. 

j d vanceJ.D. VANCE BLASTS DEMOCRAT LAWFARE AGAINST DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT TRUMP. No word on why Vance was foolish enough to go on Stephanopoulis’ show in the first place. More about the consequences of Democrats’ Trump Derangement Syndrome HERE.

NEW YORK CITY PROVIDING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WITH OVER FIFTY-THREE MILLION DOLLARS IN PREPAID DEBIT CARDS. More HERE

THE STATE OF WASHINGTON EXPOSED FOR DIVERTING THREE HUNDRED FORTY MILLION DOLLARS IN COVID AID TO INSTEAD SUBSIDIZING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. More HERE. Continue reading

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VILLA VYBES VINYL: PERPETUATING THE SOUNDS OF VINYL RECORDS IN ALL GENRES

z bear groovingZ-Bear, her husband and their children are a family in Hawaii who deejay the terrific YT channel Villa Vybes Vinyl. Z-Bear and her hubby are professionals and periodically let their kids take center stage for some of the DJ chores. It adds considerably to the charm of this eclectic channel.

z bear hubbyNo matter how good digital is, many people still thrill to the sound of a needle pressing down on an actual vinyl record and the slight whispering and popping before the music begins to play. Z-Bear and company don’t waste the time of listeners/ viewers with DJ patter, they just let their audience see them going through all the vinyl DJ activities!

z bear familyThe VVV folks lovingly select, clean and otherwise care for the musical artifacts they proceed to play. They have an incredible setup with multiple turntables and other equipment that many will envy. Multiple camera angles are provided, plus Z-Bear and her family change up those angles over time.
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SEPTEMBER 2020: A LOOK BACK

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

democrats oppressing people whileDEMOCRATS AND CORPORATE FASCISM – Some excerpts: “Let’s start with the basics – long ago corporate fascists and other bloated rich pigs tended to gravitate toward the Republicans. However, the clueless Republican leadership understands nothing but money, while the Democrats understand power and its use.”

          “Money follows power, so corporate fascists therefore naturally gravitated more and more to the Democrats, who not only get the corporate fascists what they want but manage to make them look civic-minded in the process. Conversely, if rich pigs don’t play ball with the Democrat fascists the Democrats use their media outlets to smear those rich pigs to the point of ruin.”

          “(T)he Democrats’ reasoning goes, “if we can work hand-in-hand with corporate fascists to ensure you won’t even be allowed to make a living if you express disagreement with us, then we think you’ll realize it’s in your own best interest to stop resisting and pretend you go along with even our most ridiculous positions.”  For the full article CLICK HERE.

clarence hendersonCIVIL RIGHTS ICON CLARENCE HENDERSON SAYS TRUMP “HAS DONE MORE FOR BLACK AMERICANS IN FOUR YEARS THAN BIDEN HAS IN FIFTY” – Excerpt: “These achievements demonstrate that Donald Trump truly cares about black lives. His policies show his heart.” CLICK HERE

AUSTRALIAN NEWS ON JOE BIDEN’S SENILE, INCOHERENT BABBLINGS – And this was back in 2020! Biden is far worse now! CLICK HERE.

president trumpDEMOCRAT MAYORS ENDORSING TRUMP OVER HIS HELP FOR THE WORKING CLASS – Some excerpts: “… politicians like Joe Biden did nothing to help the working class. We lost thousands of jobs, and generations of young people have left the Iron Range in order to provide for their families with good-paying jobs elsewhere.”

          “Today, we don’t recognize the Democratic Party. It has been moved so far to the left it can no longer claim to be advocates of the working class. The hard-working Minnesotans that built their lives and supported their families here on the Range have been abandoned by radical Democrats.” CLICK HERE.

SERBIA AND KOSOVO NAME BORDER LAKE AFTER PRESIDENT TRUMP. CLICK HERE. Continue reading

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