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ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

A look at some of the latest from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

gets hisHUNTER BIDEN PAID FOR $300 PER MONTH INTERNATIONAL PHONE FOR JOE BIDEN. How convenient. Joe’s conversations with Hunter’s “business” partners overseas (LMAO) were on a phone not in Joe’s name. It’s life in the Biden Crime Family’s corporate fascist kleptocracy. 

BURISMA WHISTLEBLOWER FOUND DEAD. How convenient for the Biden Crime Family.

biden bribery scandalBIDENS RECEIVED OVER FIVE MILLION DOLLARS WITHIN DAYS OF THE NOTORIOUS APP MESSAGE. Just a coincidence, right?

CELEBRATED DEMOCRAT LEGISLATOR FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE ARRESTED ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

BIDEN’S DOJ BLOCKED ATTEMPTS TO PROSECUTE HUNTER BIDEN. More HERE. But prosecutors abusing their positions by going after Joe Biden’s political enemies go unchecked.

biden screwupsTHE DEMOCRATS CALL ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. “A THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY” FOR CHALLENGING THE UNFIT JOE BIDEN. See? They will say that about ANYBODY who doesn’t toe The Party line. But for four years fools bought into it when The Party said it about Trump.

DEMOCRATS AT THE NEW YORK TIMES CLAIM ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. IS A “RUSSIAN PUPPET.” The Party is still trying the old “Russia, Russia, Russia!” nonsense.

COURAGEOUS DEMOCRAT CALLS FOR RETAKING THE PARTY FROM THE INTOLERANT FASCISTS WHO NOW RUN IT Continue reading

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FEBRUARY 2018

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

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OVERLOOKED NEWS STORIES FROM THAT MONTH – Another scandal from the Obama Administration saw Obama’s top attorney for I.C.E. plead guilty to wire fraud and to forging documents in order to open credit card and bank accounts under stolen identities. The court case had been dragging on for years, as so many do here in the U.S.

        All that plus 100,000 more non-citizens were found on the voter rolls, this time in Pennsylvania. Funny how it’s only Democrats who keep claiming such vote fraud isn’t a problem.

lying adam schiffSEX, LIES AND POLITICS – This February 2018 item dealt with the disgraced Congressman Adam Schiff actually falling for a scam in which he thought pranksters could provide him with compromising photos of Trump! Plus, Hillary Clinton on marriage.

STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS: 2018 – The nation was flying high.

FISA-GATE CONTINUED – F.B.I. = S.C.U.M.

MOCK HEADLINES ARE BACK – The comedy bit was back with mock headlines like “CNN CLAIMS NO CHILD’S PETS WOULD EVER DIE IF NOT FOR TRUMP” Continue reading

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BALLADEER’S BLOG HAS TURNED THIRTEEN YEARS OLD!

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Balladeer’s Blog

THANK YOU once again to all of you readers for making Balladeer’s Blog so enjoyable to write. As I always say, the unusual and controversial items I sometimes churn out here mean that readers have to be open-minded and very secure in their own beliefs not to just take offense and leave.

Here are some of my most popular blog posts from the past 12 months.

kong islandBAD MOVIES: There was Kong Island (1968), Invasion from Inner Earth (1974), Raiders of Atlantis (1983), Murdercycle (1999), 365 Days (2020), Films with William Shatner’s Wife, Jungle Jim Movies, An American Hippie in Israel (1972), Kommissar X Movies, Andromeda Nebula (1967), The Keep (1983), Hitler – Dead or Alive (1942), My Top H.G. Lewis Movies,  

A MERCILESS EXAMINATION OF THE 2022 MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS: One of my most read items of the past 12 months HERE.

mars revealed picANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: I reviewed The Artificial Mother (1894), A.D. 2000 (1890), The Sickle of Fire (1896), The Warstock (1898), Bellona’s Husband (1887), Mars Revealed (1880), The Emperor of the Air (1910), The Captivity of the Professor (1901), End of an Epoch (1901).

MORE FOOL KILLER LORE FROM OVER A CENTURY AGO: April 1913, May 1913, July 1913 

blazing saddlesCOMEDIES: MODERN PARODY HALL OF FAME: The full breakdown HERE.

POLITICAL CARTOONS, MEMES AND NEWS ROUNDUPS: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.   

PONY EXPRESS RIDERS: Pony Bob, The Man Called Boston, Irish Tommy  

THE PEOPLE VS JOE BIDEN: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE.     

CONAN THE BARBARIAN: Queen of the Black Coast and Amra, and Curse of the Conjurer 

buckskin paintingNEGLECTED GUNSLINGERS: Dutch Henry, and Buckskin Frank 

MEXICO’S MST3K: I reviewed it HERE. There’s also Dark Jungle Theater HERE.

CASIMIR PULASKI: REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO: I took a look at his career HERE Continue reading

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COKE ENNYDAY: DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS’ 1916 PARODY OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

mystery of the leaping fishTHE MYSTERY OF THE LEAPING FISH (1916) – Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog may remember that I’m a geek for Silent Movies. Last week’s look at Douglas Fairbanks’ swashbuckler films from the silent era was so well received that I decided to post a review of Doug’s often overlooked “drug comedy.”

In this roughly 25-minute comedy short, Fairbanks played a detective named Coke Ennyday as a reference to Sherlock Holmes’ addiction to injections of cocaine in his original stories. Yes, I’m serious.

coke ennydayThe short’s comedic approach to cocaine, opium and more demonstrates the “anything goes” attitude before film codes were implemented to ban certain content from the big screen. In the pre-internet years, The Mystery of the Leaping Fish was a film that people refused to believe existed until you had them sit down and watch it with you.

The notion of a theatrical comedy about drug use in 1916 seemed utterly impossible to them, and you could win a fair amount of bets with skeptics who insisted there is no way such a film would have been allowed to be made. The fact that it was written by THE Tod Browning shocked them, too. 

THE STORY: Continue reading

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BEST EVER NEWS, MEME AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: JUNE TWENTIETH

burisma bribingso ironicTHE DON’T MISS EDITION, as Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at some of the latest:

biden fam corrEVEN MORE ABOUT THE TEN MILLION DOLLARS THAT WAS SUSPICIOUSLY FUNNELED INTO BIDEN’S BANK ACCOUNT. It’s life here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.

AUDIO OF BIDEN TELLING POROSHENKO NOT TO WORRY ABOUT THE FBI. And I think we all know why.

BEYOND A BANANA REPUBLIC. “Either you see what’s happening to Trump as being about Trump or you see it being about a weaponized government planning to make any opposition a crime. Only one of those views is correct. You don’t have to be a Trump fan to see it’s the latter.”

STABBING: ANOTHER REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL STAFFER PHYSICALLY ATTACKED. Democrat media outlets yawn. Republican fools STILL lack sufficient media outlets.

witchfinder generalTHE POLITICAL PERSECUTION TEAM HOUNDING TRUMP GETS CALLED OUT FOR PREVIOUS ILLEGAL ACTS INCLUDING WIRETAPPING. And a witness payoff scheme HERE. Have I mentioned lately that America’s political system is a cesspool of corruption which masquerades as a government?

now do you seeINTERESTING PIECE TITLED “OUR BROKEN SYSTEM NEEDS DISRUPTION AND TRUMP IS THE DISRUPTOR”.

DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS TARGET COURAGEOUS DEMOCRAT ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. TO PROTECT THE UNFIT JOE BIDEN. “The Party” will do to RFK Jr. what it did to Tulsi Gabbard in 2020. They’ll do it to Third Party candidates, too HERE.

burisma execs whoREPUBLICAN PARTY PUNDITS STILL SNIVELING ABOUT UNFAIR MEDIA TREATMENT RATHER THAN TAKING STEPS TO EXPAND THEIR MEDIA REACH. There is no defense for this ongoing Republican failure at this point.

AND YET ANOTHER MEDIA LIE ABOUT TRUMP GOES DOWN IN FLAMES. The petty spitefulness of the American media is unreal. Continue reading

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2023 JUNETEENTH – MARKING THE DAY DEMOCRATS LOST THEIR SLAVES

Democrats KKKIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog wishes you a happy Juneteenth, commemorating the day Democrats lost their slaves. (Only Democrats owned slaves.) African-Americans continue fighting for their freedom from the Democrats, who today treat people of color like they still own them and that they MUST vote for Democrats and ONLY Democrats. Democrat Joe Biden, embodying the grotesque hypocrisy of that detestable political party, EULOGIZED A KLANSMAN – DEMOCRAT SENATOR ROBERT BYRD – yet Biden thinks he’s fit to give finger-wagging lectures to the rest of us.

And y’know what? I’ve managed to go my whole life without ever knowing a Klansman let alone praising them after their death. But a piece of garbage like Joe Biden – whose racial slurs and other incidents of racist behavior are legion – presumes to elevate himself above the nation at large as if he’s some sort of High Priest of Racial Awareness. I’m neither a Democrat nor a Republican, so I’m not being partisan when I point out that Joe Biden is the herpes sore on the Body Politic.

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Hillary Clinton with the Klansman she called one of her “mentors” – fellow Democrat Robert Byrd.

In further commemoration of Juneteenth here’s some more reminders about Democrats: the party of slavery, Dred Scott, the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow and so much more. None of us choose the skin color we were born with or what country we were born in but we can certainly choose what political party we are or are not associated with. Do you still choose to belong to the party of the Democrats after all their crimes against humanity? #WALKAWAY and become an Independent Voter . Continue reading

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JANUARY 2018

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

trump over media biasDON SURBER ON TRUMP’S FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE

FACEBOOK IS FAKEBOOK. Even in 2018 Facebook’s facade was crumbling.

TRANSGRESS WITH ME: JANUARY 29th. Are you brave enough for this?

g men mock cover“THE PARTY’S” ATROCITY ROUNDUP. Back in 2018 the FBI’s fake Russian Collusion nonsense had already been exposed. Plus vote fraud and more.

BLOCKBUSTER DEVELOPMENTS. A CBS poll showed President Trump’s support among African-American voters more than doubling since he took office. And in the election of 2016 he got more of the African-American vote than any Republican in decades. All that and more.

ONE MAN ALONE AGAINST BOTH CORRUPT POLITICAL PARTIES. Republican trash like Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Chris Christie and all the stuffy white males at National Review continue proving President Trump’s status as a de facto Third Party President. Continue reading

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TOP DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS MOVIES

Last week’s look at some posters from the silent movie era inspired me to go ahead with this list of what I consider to be the top Douglas Fairbanks films prior to sound. (Talkies are just a fad, I’m tellin’ ya!)

mark of zorroTHE MARK OF ZORRO (1920) – Douglas Fairbanks digs into his comedic AND acrobatic skills in this first screen adaptation of Johnston McCully’s masked hero of 1820s California (The Curse of Capistrano had just been published the year before and Fairbanks bought the film rights for United Artists.)

In my opinion no actor has ever done a better job of drawing such a pronounced distinction between the foppish and timid Don Diego de Vega and his dashing alter ego, the swordsman Zorro. This movie showed all subsequent swashbuckler movies how it’s done and proved that its star could do more than just comedy.

fairbanks as zorroExcellent fight choreography, heroic opposition to tyranny and the rousing, marathon chase and fight scene near the film’s finale make The Mark of Zorro an absolute must-see for anyone curious about silent movies. Nearly every frame of the film is a portrait.

Marguerite De La Motte played the love interest Lolita Pulido, Tote Du Crow portrayed Don Diego’s mute manservant Bernardo, Robert McKim was the villainous Captain Ramon and Walt “Not the Poet” Whitman played Fray Felipe to round out the core characters from the many Zorro tales. Continue reading

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JUNE 13th NEWS, POLITICAL CARTOONS AND MEMES

trump was presAs always, Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at some current events. 

COURAGEOUS TULSI GABBARD SPEAKS OUT ON HOW THE WAR ON TRUMP ENDANGERS DEMOCRACY.

EVEN MORE EXPLOSIVE REVELATIONS ABOUT JOE BIDEN’S BRIBERY SCANDAL AND THE FBI COVERUP. It’s life here in Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.

JOE BIDEN’S SECRETARY OF ENERGY ADMITS LYING UNDER OATH, BUT NO CONSEQUENCES. More HERE. Meanwhile, the Democrats pursue convictions on the slightest pretext.

INFLATION OUTRACES WAGES FOR THE TWENTY-SIXTH MONTH IN A ROW UNDER JOE BIDEN’S DISASTROUS ECONOMIC POLICIES. Biden’s war on the working class and the poor continues.

biden unleashed theTHE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY’S TWENTY SHELL COMPANIES.

JIM JORDAN’S PASSIONATE DEFENSE OF TRUMP

VENTRY: ANOTHER SCAM INDICTMENT AGAINST TRUMP.

IT’S BIDEN’S GOONS, NOT TRUMP, VIOLATING CONSTITUTIONAL NORMS.

DEMOCRAT FASCISM ROLLS ALONG.

ANOTHER ITEM ON THE DEMOCRATS ABANDONING THE WORKING CLASS. Continue reading

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THE TIRED REFRAIN OF ANTI-TRUMP FASCISTS

biden bribery scandalHere at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog I’ve written about the rival gangs of white-collar criminals called Democrats and Republicans since long before de facto Third-Party President Donald Trump announced his candidacy in 2015.

Since then, the mere existence of a viable candidate who was NOT a made member of the criminal cabals called the Democrat and Republican parties has fueled hysterical anti-Trump panic from the two major parties and their media outlets.

biden tax returnsWhether you like or hate Donald Trump is irrelevant – it became clear long ago that the cesspool of corruption which masquerades as America’s political system is targeting Trump to make a public example of any non-career politician who dares to oppose the establishment.

So, we once again see the corporate fascist Biden regime hurling another meaningless, unfounded indictment against Donald Trump, this time on the same day that the latest evidence of the Joe Biden bribery scandal was produced. Not exactly subtle.
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