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FORCE OF LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT: TWO LADIES WITH HOT TAKES

michelle and natalieMeet Michelle and Natalie, the two pop culture reviewers whose YT Channel is called Force of Light Entertainment. The ladies offer reviews and commentary on current day big movies and television shows, in contrast with Balladeer’s Blog’s examination of productions from the (often distant) past.

force of light entertainmentMichelle and Natalie try to stay positive when they can, and avoid the more sarcastic approach that I employ. When they do have to jump into cultural commentary depending on the item being reviewed, they push back against SJW idiocy and censorship. Below is a sample of the two sisters’ approach as they express their displeasure with an episode of The Book of Boba Fett.

To subscribe to the ladies’ channel (where their brother Michael sometimes drops by) click HERE.

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MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY MULTIPLE CHOICE QUIZ

martin-luther-kingA multiple choice quiz for the holiday.

WHY WAS MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY ESTABLISHED?

A. So that it could be politically exploited by out of touch White Democrats of Privilege who think that making a hobby out of the real-life suffering that African-Americans went through means they are qualified to speak on their behalf

B. To commemorate the life of a man who expressed a message of unity and non-violence Continue reading

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NINETEEN MARTIN LUTHER KING PEOPLE OF COURAGE

For this weekend here are nineteen Martin Luther King People of Courage in this seasonal favorite. Their bravery and fortitude in the face of all the racist hostility and threats they get from Democrats is very inspiring. 

lloyd-marcus-2LLOYD MARCUS – Balladeer’s Blog has previously showcased items by the courageous Lloyd Marcus. Here he is absolutely nailing it when it comes to the rot and sickness which have driven so many of us away from the Democrats. The link is below, but first some excerpts: Continue reading

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DEMOCRATS WANT A COUNTRY IN WHICH ONLY THEIR POLITICAL PARTY IS CONSIDERED LEGITIMATE

mascot donkey and republican headsAs we have all seen over the last several years many of America’s career criminals who hold office as Democrats have worked hard at making this a country in which more and more occupations and professional positions are realistically cut off for anyone who is not a Democrat or does not enthusiastically endorse AND work for Democrat-affiliated organizations. (Joe Biden is even overseeing a political purge of the military by declaring that insufficient zeal for Biden is “extremism.”)

One of the ways that Democrats have done this is by pretending that ONLY women, gay or trans people and people of color who adhere to Democrat talking points are the “authentic voices” of their “communities.”

Power-holding Democrats don’t really mean it when they say they want “diversity.” They really just want a country run by male, female, gay, trans and colored Democrats. No independent thinkers are welcome from among the marginalized groups that Democrats feel they “own.” (As they literally once did own the slaves on their plantations.)

While pretending to push for diversity Democrats have imposed de facto political litmus tests to enter and remain in certain professions via “sensitivity” classes which are more like struggle sessions. Democrat Party advocates pretending to be Diversity Officers don’t push for more people of color, etc to be hired – instead, through their “allies” in Human Resources they push for ONLY Democrats of color, etc to be hired. Continue reading

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BIDEN DOWN TO 35% APPROVAL RATING, PLUS MORE

biden x oIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes another look at the ongoing disasters of Joe Biden and his regime.

JOE BIDEN’S APPROVAL RATING DROPS EVEN LOWER TO JUST 35%.

FASCIST BIDEN REGIME HAS ITS BIG TECH CRONIES CENSOR SONG AND VIDEO CRITICIZING SENILE JOE’S AFGHANISTAN DEBACLE. More HERE. Biden as “Big Brother” must be protected at all costs they feel.

BIDEN POLICY WILL MAKE MONTHLY HEALTH CARE COSTS SKYROCKET

SHAREHOLDERS IN BIG TECH DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THEIR COLLUSION WITH THE BIDEN REGIME. Signs of pushback against the corporate fascist state.

biden x o 10 daysBIDEN’S POLITICAL PURGE OF THE MILITARY CONTINUES. Call it a “loyalty oath” to Democrat talking points.

JOE BIDEN’S INFLATION CAUSES WORKER WAGES TO FALL EVEN FURTHER BEHIND THE COST OF LIVING. The Biden Regime’s war on the working class and the poor continues.

BLACK-WHITE UNEMPLOYMENT GAP SOARS UNDER BIDEN’S POLICIES. Biden’s predecessor had policies which brought record high black employment, but Biden has destroyed all that.

THE DEMOCRATS AT THE WASHINGTON POST DELETE A TWEET CRITICAL OF BIDEN AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE COMPLAINS. Even more reason not to trust the biased Post. 

BIDEN REGIME STILL HAS NO OUTPATIENT COVID PLAN. Political messaging is more important to them than the public’s health.

#BARESHELVESBIDEN TRENDS AS STORE SHELVES ARE EMPTY AGAIN UNDER THE BIDEN REGIME. More HERE.

UNFIT BIDEN DOES FAR FEWER PRESS CONFERENCES, ETC THAN THE PAST FIVE OTHER PRESIDENTS. Joe’s need to hide away to cover his mental inadequacies was previewed during his non-campaign in 2020. Continue reading

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DEMOCRATS MAKE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP EVEN MORE OF A HERO TO THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR THAN HE ALREADY WAS

democrat republican otherHere at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog I always point out that America’s CAREER politicians are white-collar criminals who run the country like a Mafia bust-out operation, enriching themselves and their cronies while plundering the public treasury. BOTH MAJOR PARTIES are guilty of this, which is why I always hope to see the Democrats and Republicans splinter into multiple smaller parties for a time.

The power players in both parties try to maintain the exclusivity of their criminal caste, barring outsiders from their ranks. As in all things political, the Democrats are much more effective than the Republicans. In 2016, outsider Donald Trump became a populist hero in the mold of Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt, Eugene Debs and John F Kennedy by taking advantage of the perpetual disorganization of the Republicans to commandeer their political party for his presidential campaign.

Trump never called racist til running against DemocratsTrump became the best president for the working class and the poor of all colors in my lifetime. He was also the first president in DECADES to keep America out of any new wars, which caused our military-industrial complex to hate him as much as they hated John F Kennedy. America’s hopelessly corrupt cesspool of an establishment was at war with President Trump before he even took office. He had to fight BOTH political parties and still does. He so thoroughly frightens the corrupt filth of Washington DC that they remain obsessed with him. Over the years their lies about Russian Collusion (LMAO) and now “insurrection” (LMAO) have fallen flat and they have utterly failed to understand why Trump is still supported by the working class and the poor. 

Not for several long decades had America had a non-career politician as president – not since Eisenhower. American career politicians are career criminals who spend their time in office just one step ahead of criminal indictments. They are a very closed circle of fascist authoritarians who were happy with the corrupt way things were run before de facto Third Party President Donald Trump crashed their party and spoke truth to power.

trump rosa parks and muhammad aliIt was a once in a century gift to have someone like the Donald who is wealthy enough to not be bought by America’s cesspool called a government AND who is thick-skinned enough to endure the non-stop attacks that the Democrats and Republicans and their media outlets will unleash on anyone who tries GENUINE reform like Trump has done.

The fascists in both parties proved how terrified they are of Trump and his millions of supporters by the way they have absurdly overblown the events of January 6th, 2021. See my article HERE regarding the hilarious hypocrisy from Democrats who usually never see a protest or a riot they don’t encourage.

It is remarkable how much this man STILL strikes fear into the hearts of America’s hate-filled, divisive and totalitarian political and media establishment. I repeat, he is NOT a career politician and that’s why he has always been worth rooting for. He’s the kind of reformer that the left used to PRETEND they wanted.

trump is fdrTrump, more than anyone since Theodore Roosevelt or maybe since Democrat Franklin Roosevelt and Republican Wendell Wilkie contemplated starting a Third Party in the 1940s, could completely upend the two-party system, something that is long overdue. 

As I’ve said before, even if Trump really was all the things his deranged detractors accused him of being, he would STILL not be as bad as the existing politicians who have been running the U.S. for decades and made us such a hated country. (Democrats especially love to dwell on how hated the U.S. is by certain countries, which is why it was so funny to see them feign outrage over the possibility of an “insurrection.” Hey, only DEMOCRATS are allowed to call for uprisings and insurrections!)

trump is a lot like jfkGee, Democrats, those concerned Trump supporters “stormed” the citadel of America’s white supremacist system that you’re always talking about. They stormed the citadel of all that privilege and systemic bigotry that you decry. Since when do Democrats of all people revere the Capitol as a Holy Site? Continue reading

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JANUARY 6th-A-PALOOZA

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BIDEN CALLED THESE RIOTS MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS

I know today is only the 5th but the overwrought propaganda of the Democrats this week has had me laughing VERY hard. They theatrically pretend that the mass trespassing incident of January 6th, 2021 was “worse than the Civil War and the 9-11 attacks.” What disingenuous garbage.

Their monumental and hilarious political hypocrisy has been on full display in Washington DC this week as Democrats engage in political theater while pretending to revere the Capitol Building and its “symbolism.” (LMAO) Before I became an Independent Voter I spent most of my life as a Democrat and believe me, they feel contempt for the Capitol and its “symbolism”, even calling it one of the “institutions of imperialist rule” and “the seat of White Supremacy and systemic racism in America.”

Democrats also despise people who DO revere the Capitol and its symbolism, dismissing them as simple-minded patriotic rednecks.

Nancy Pelosi demagogueLast January a “mostly peaceful protest” (as Democrats described the MONTHS-LONG Antifa riots which terrorized the country) at the Capitol turned into a chaotic mass-trespassing incident with the Democrats of the Capitol Police even killing an unarmed woman. Suddenly, Democrat pretensions that they revered the Capitol poured from the mouths of the demagogues of the Democrat Party.

Hey, let’s rename it “the Demagogue Party”. After all, the Democrat Party is the country’s oldest existing institution which launched a Civil War and fought for slavery, so a name change for that political party is LONG overdue. Okay, so they won’t rename themselves the Demagogue Party, but they should rename it something to distance themselves from the Democrat Party’s horrifically racist past.

capitol bombing 1983Anyway, Democrats felt that their OWN storming of the Capitol was fine back on October 4th, 2018, even though THEY WERE INTERFERING WITH ONE OF THOSE GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS WHICH THEY NOW PRETEND SHOULD BE SACROSANCT. Democrats/ the left cheered on that activity. And let’s not forget the way the left literally set off a BOMB in the Capitol on November 7th, 1983. Also HERE. A million dollars (by 1983 standards, so much more today) in damage was done.

Most adults are above the fake tears and the fear-mongering which truly pathetic Democrat members of Congress are indulging in regarding January 6th. The Democrats will probably never lose their competitive edge in phoniness and manufactured emotion, so non-Democrats – as in Independents, Third Party Voters, Republicans and People Who Claim No Political Affiliation, in other words THE REST OF US – will always need to remain highly skeptical of any and all political theater from them. 

Kenosha democrat riotIn May 2020 when the White House was violently attacked for about 24 hours and many secret service agents were seriously injured, Biden and other Democrats said Trump “used tear gas against peaceful protestors” even though it’s been proven that he DIDN’T use tear gas on those “peaceful protestors.” Listen to those Democrat hypocrites today and the draconian measures they now recommend against civil disobedience!
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The night of May 31st, 2020 rioters set fires all over the capital of the United States. A mob of them gathered outside the White House and threatened to storm it. The president was said to have been moved to a bunker. Many Democrats laughed at him and supported the mob. Never mind that the safety of the president, as a symbol of America and self-governance, goes beyond individual or party and should never be a laughing matter, like Democrats are now sniveling about the Capitol.
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Who knows? Some day the January 6th protestors may be looked on as the victims of governmental authoritarianism, like the Bonus Marchers of long ago. Nobody knows how events will be viewed decades and centuries from now, no matter how much Democrats pretend that they do.
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Anti-Trump fascists have sunk lower than ever over the past year. In 2020 we had MONTHS of Democrat mobs rioting and starting fires and causing literally BILLIONS of dollars of damage and the loss of lives while the media and Democrat political figures cheered them on. Biden’s organization as well as several celebrities even PAID BAIL to get their fascist rioters back out on the streets for more mayhem. (Kamala Harris and 13 Biden staffers even donated money to a bail fund for rioters in Minneapolis and encouraged other people to do so, ballooning the fund up into the millions.)

Stop Democrat Violence

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FIREPOWER (1979) SOPHIA LOREN, JAMES COBURN AND ELI WALLACH

firepowerFIREPOWER (1979) – Sophia Loren, James Coburn, Tony Franciosa, Billy Barty and O.J. “Alec Baldwin Times Two” Simpson star in this late 70s combination of an espionage tale and a caper flick. Throw in Eli Wallach, Jake LaMotta and Victor Mature and you’ve got what may sound like the cast of a disaster movie but actually Firepower is a very good film from Lew Grade.

Sophia Loren, looking fantastic but a bit too thin, stars as Adele Tasca, widow of Dr Ivo Tasca, who was killed by the underlings of international tycoon and fugitive Karl Stegner. In a nod to the times, Stegner is a composite of the likes of Robert Vesco with sprinklings of Aristotle Onassis, Howard Hughes and Stavros Niarchos. For a modern version of a bloated rich pig figure wanted in certain countries and reviled around the world think of George Soros. 

At any rate, Adele’s husband was bumped off because he was about to deliver evidence and testimony against the reclusive Karl Stegner tying him to untold numbers of deaths from tainted pharmaceuticals. Continue reading

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22 NEWS ITEMS FOR EARLY 2022

biden wants fearTOP GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS VIOLATORS IN 2021 LISTED.

BIDEN CALLED OUT AS THE “WORST PRESIDENT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.” 

DUCK DUCK GO, RIVAL TO GOOGLE, GREW 46% IN 2021. And no wonder.

PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRAT COMMISIONER CHARGED WITH RAPING FIFTEEN YEAR OLD BOY.

CONSTITUTIONAL EXPERT CALLS OUT THE BIDEN REGIME’S USE OF THE FBI AS A POLITICAL TOOL.

DEMOCRAT TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS MOVING TO ELIMINATE GRADES IN THE NAME OF “EQUITY.” Getting rid of grades will also cover up how thoroughly American schools fail at teaching.

SPEAKING OF WHICH, DEMOCRAT TEACHERS UNION LETTER RIDDLED WITH FUNDAMENTAL ERRORS. And these are the alleged “educators?”. Continue reading

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BLOODHOUNDS OF BROADWAY (1989) – A HAPPY NEW YEAR MOVIE REVIEW

bloodhounds of broadwayThis review is dedicated to my beloved nephew Donny, who first introduced me to this movie years ago.

BLOODHOUNDS OF BROADWAY (1989) – Randy Quaid and Madonna as a romantic couple? Rutger Hauer as a pastiche of crime lord Arnold Rothstein? THE William S. Burroughs as a butler? Ethan “Neelix” Phillips as a wannabe gangster?

Yes, all that and more in this all but forgotten 1989 flop which deserved to be much better than it is and with work it could have become a New Year’s Eve viewing staple.

Bh on brFour Damon Runyon stories were blended into a 93 minute movie that was released to just one theater … missing a reel. PBS Playhouse gave this romantic comedy its widest exposure before it fell down the memory hole. As of this writing it has only 8 reviews at IMDb.   

Significantly, the film is set on December 31st of 1928, which was the last big New Year’s Eve bacchanalia of the Roaring Twenties but nobody knew it at the time. Before another year went by the Stock Market Crash would help usher in the Great Depression, making that 1928 New Year’s Eve blowout a figurative Mardi Gras before the austerity of Lent. The December 31st, 1929 celebrations were considerably subdued by comparison.

If you’re a Guys & Dolls fan, Mindy’s Restaurant is one of the settings for Bloodhounds of Broadway, just like in that much better known work based on Damon Runyon stories. At any rate, the four tales combined to form this rom-com are:    Continue reading

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