APRIL 26th ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog presents another look at current events from Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy, where he and his regime victimize the poor and the working class. 

hamas to bidenDEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS CALLED OUT FOR IGNORING THE FACT THAT HAMAS STILL HOLDS AMERICAN HOSTAGES. All just to try protecting callous, uncaring and catastrophic Joe Biden.

BIDEN’S INFLATION ACCELERATES WHILE GDP SLOWS, CAUSING MORE STAGFLATION. But Joe Biden and his fellow one percenters are doing just fine.

ANOTHER OF BIDEN’S ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ASSAULTS MULTIPLE WOMEN, THIS TIME IN MICHIGAN.

mandela and trumpDEMOCRAT FASCISTS STILL REFUSING TO GIVE TRUMP THE RIGHT TO MOUNT A DEFENSE, PROVING ONCE AGAIN THAT THESE ARE JUST POLITICAL SHOW TRIALS

TRUMP PROSECUTORS HAPLESSLY PROVE THEIR OWN WITNESS IS A LIAR WHO FAKED EVIDENCE. But let’s face it, the judge and company decided Trump was guilty long ago.

biden is not legitDEMOCRATS AT GOOGLE VOW TO ONCE AGAIN BLOCK NEWS UNFAVORABLE TO BIDEN LIKE THEY DID IN 2020. And the Hunter Biden laptop revelations – which Big Tech pretended were “misinformation” – were just the tip of the iceberg. 

*** ATLANTIC CITY DEMOCRAT ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH ELECTION FRAUD. But no matter how many times this type of thing happens every year, Democrats pretend it doesn’t.

JOHNSON CALLS OUT THE BIDEN REGIME’S COORDINATED LAWFARE AGAINST OPPOSITION LEADER DONALD TRUMP. More HERE.

NEW YORK UNION LEADER: “MY MEMBERS SUPPORT TRUMP BY THREE TO ONE.” More HERE. And HERE. Union leadership sold out to corporate interests long ago, but the rank-and-file members love Trump. Trump was the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

obama kills childrenSUPREME COURT ARGUMENTS RAISE ISSUE REGARDING WHETHER BARACK OBAMA SHOULD BE TRIED FOR HIS CRIMES LIKE USING DRONES TO KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE INCLUDING CHILDREN. More HERE.

JUDICIARY COMMITTEE REPORT FOCUSES ON ANTI-TRUMP D.A. BRAGG’S POLITICAL PERSECUTION OF DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. More HERE. Continue reading

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L’INFERNO (1911) SILENT MOVIE

infernoL’INFERNO (1911) – This 71-minute movie was an adaptation of Dante’s epic poem Inferno, one-third of his Divine Comedy along with Purgatorio and Paradiso. It was also Italy’s first feature-length film, beating Cabiria to theaters by three years.   

Three directors collaborated on this production – Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro and Adolfo Padovan. Obviously, L’Inferno is a very condensed version of Dante’s work but the special effects are impressive for the time period.

Even if I wasn’t a silent film geek aspects of this movie would have stood out to me. First, it was made in Italy toward the end of the Belle Epoch, lending it a certain poignance as the global conflict was approaching an oblivious world. 

dante and virgilSecond, L’Inferno has a certain grandeur from being filmed in Italy itself, the home of Dante Alighieri and his guide through Hell, Virgil. And third, nearly all of the footage set in the realm of the damned was filmed amid extinct and semi-extinct volcanoes in Italy, adding immeasurably to the infernal atmosphere.  Continue reading

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A DEMIGOD (1886) – ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION

a demigodA DEMIGOD (1886) – Written by American author Edward Payson Jackson, this work preceded Philip Wylie’s Gladiator by more than 4 decades.

We readers are told that in the early 1600s physician Kenelm Vere decided that human beings were not living up to their potential. He established a remote laboratory in Greece, and purchased a female he deemed physically perfect. Dr. Vere mated with her and began a selective breeding program with their offspring, with their children and grandchildren enhanced by his own scientific tweaking over the decades.

In 1880s Greece, Kenelm’s sole surviving descendant Hector, now spelling the family surname as “Vyr”, is a human wonder. Hector has Adonis-like physical beauty, intelligence far ahead of his time, greater than human strength and amazing reflexes that allow him to dodge bullets fired at him. Continue reading

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THE VILLON LEGEND: PART FIVE

This is the fifth part of Balladeer’s Blog’s look at the swashbuckling legends that surround Francois Villon (1431-1463?), remembered as one of France’s greatest poets and a notorious outlaw.

ronald colman as villon againFRANCOIS VILLON PART FIVE – We left off last time with Villon on the run again, having fled Paris after the Navarre College job in which he and his fellows robbed a record amount of gold for the time period.

Formerly, despite his criminal career most of the notoriety Francois had earned was for his scandalous, irreverent poetry regarding The Powers That Be in France of his era. The December 20th, 1456 Navarre caper changed that. 

villon the life dissoluteFrom early 1457 and for a few years more, Villon continued his outlaw existence in and around the French province of Anjou and the Loire River Valley. Depending on the source, Francois either officially became a member of the criminal fraternity called the Coquillards at this time or was already a member and deepened his ties to them.

Falling in with a gang of highwaymen, Villon helped prey on the carriage trade, which enhanced his underdog/ quasi-Robin Hood reputation because only the wealthy and the high-born traveled by carriage in that era. No one else could afford to.  Continue reading

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ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS: APRIL 23rd

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

biden bloodBIDEN REGIME HANDS OVER ONE HUNDRED TEN MILLION DOLLAR MILITARY BASE TO THE JUNTA IN NIGER – WHICH THEN TURNS IT OVER TO PUTIN’S RUSSIA. Joe Biden is a disaster all day every day and this action further demonstrates the idiocy of people who pretend Trump is pro-Putin.

OBAMA SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR ARRESTED FOR CHILD SEX CRIMES. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

SCATHING PIECE TITLED “ILLEGAL ALIENS UNDERSTAND NONE OF THE RULES APPLY TO THEM“. A better title would have pointed out how none of the LAWS apply to them.

DEMOCRAT STATE SENATOR ARRESTED FOR FIRST-DEGREE BURGLARY. Democrats’ latest innovation – branching out from white-collar crime to a more hands-on approach.

mark zuckerbergBIG TECH FASCIST MARK ZUCKERBERG PROCEEDING WITH ELECTION INTERFERENCE BY BANNING TRUMP FROM SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS.

ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS AT MCKENZIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND WILMETTE PUBLIC LIBRARY HOSTING SEMINAR FOR CHILDREN CONSIDERING SEX-CHANGE SURGERY. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

BIDEN REGIME’S BORDER DISASTER FREES YET ANOTHER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CONVICTED KILLER INTO THE U.S

SUPREME COURT STOPS DEMOCRAT ATTEMPT TO EXPAND THEIR VOTE BY MAIL/ CHEAT BY MAIL SCAM. Wasn’t vote by mail (which is NOT the same as absentee ballots) supposed to go away after covid? Another lie from career politicians.  Continue reading

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TEXAS 27 FILM VAULT: THE MAN WHO SAW TOMORROW (1981)

Randy (right) and Richard way down on Level 31 hosting The Texas 27 Film VaultBefore MST3K there was … The Texas 27 Film Vault (1985-1987)! Before Joel and Mike, lovers of bad movies had Randy and Richard (at right)! Before Pearl and Kinga there was Laurie Savino! Before Devil Dogs, Observers and Deep 13 there came Cellumites, giant rats and Level 31!

In the middle 1980s/ Way down on Level 31 Randy Clower and Richard Malmos, machine-gun toting Film Vault Technicians First Class hosted this often-neglected cult show. Balladeer’s Blog features plenty of posts about The Texas 27 Film Vault and even an exclusive interview with Randy Clower.

the man who saw tomorrow 1981THE MAN WHO SAW TOMORROW (1981) 

ORIGINAL BROADCAST DATE: Saturday November 9th, 1985 from 10:30pm to 1:00am.

SERIAL: None. This time around the pre-movie offering was the 1953 short titled Nostradamus Says So.

HOST SEGMENTS: At one point Randy and Richard read aloud some ridiculously bizarre predictions made in tabloids by “psychics” of the time period.

masc graveyard smallerTHE MOVIE: The Man Who Saw Tomorrow was a hilariously melodramatic and irrational documentary playing along with the silly notion that the 16th Century “seer” Nostradamus’ vague and noncommital quatrains predicted major future events. Orson Welles, in his “anything for money” phase, narrated the film.

This movie was up there with the campy UFO and Bigfoot documentaries of the 1970s and 1980s. Welles, who has to hurriedly pluck his cigar from his mouth at one point so that he can be understood, seems on the verge of laughter most of the time. As usual in anything about Nostradamus meanings are forced into his centuries-old poems that make them seem like he was a “prophet” who foresaw the rise of Napoleon, World War Two, the John F Kennedy assassination and just about anything else that true-believers want to read into the man’s vague scribblings. Continue reading

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WOMEN’S COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS FROM BALLADEER’S BLOG

mascot chair and bottle picReaders let me know a few years back that they were bored with college baseball so I discontinued my coverage. Let’s give Women’s College Football a shot. Once again, it’s up to you readers if I continue covering this sport, which is Flag Football.

         Right now, Flag Football is an accredited sport only in the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) and NJCAA (National Junior College Athletic Association) as well as a few NCAA colleges. More will launch Flag Football beginning in 2025 and the Olympics are adding it in 2028. 

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hesston college larks“SHOW US YOUR LARK!” – This weekend the HESSTON COLLEGE LARKS – who were the runners-up in last year’s National Championship game – won a pair of games on the road. First up, the Larks delivered a 20-7 smackdown to the BRYANT & STRATTON COLLEGE (WI) BOBCATS. 

        The second win came against the FORT SCOTT COLLEGE GREYHOUNDS. Hesston College’s women won this game by an even bigger margin. The final tally in this Flag Football clash was 21-6. Continue reading

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JUNE 2021: LOOKING BACK

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

biden the fascistTHE PEOPLE VS JOE BIDEN. And the long list of abuses by this grotesque little man named Biden has grown considerably since this June of 2021 blog post.

JOE BIDEN CLOSES THE OFFICE WHICH TRUMP HAD ESTABLISHED TO HELP THE VICTIMS OF ADDITIONAL CRIMES BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. The early months of the Biden Regime’s policy “Illegal immigrants uber alles!” 

populismESTABLISHMENT FEAR OF POPULISM. From Eugene Debs to Donald Trump, America’s political establishment really hates it when the people push back on their misrule.

democrats vote fraudOVERSEAS READERS REQUESTED CLARIFICATION OF THE ISSUES OVER THE TAINTED AND CORRUPT 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. I went into great detail and also looked at America’s tainted and corrupt 1876 and 2000 presidential elections as well. Joe Biden, George W. Bush and Rutherford B. Hayes were “selected, not elected.” Too many Americans pretend “it can’t happen here.” Input from others HERE. 

… AND YET ANOTHER ITEM THAT TRUMP WAS ACCUSED OF “LYING” ABOUT HAS ENDED WITH HIM BEING PROVEN RIGHT. And this pattern has continued to repeat itself to this very day as the country’s corrupt political establishment continues to persecute him. Continue reading

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SPIDER-MAN: HIS FIRST 1960s STORIES

This weekend’s escapist and light-hearted superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog will look at the earliest adventures of Spider-Man.

am fan 15AMAZING FANTASY Vol 1 #15 (August 1962)

Title: Spider-Man!

Villain: The Burglar

Synopsis: This hero’s origin is well-known by now. Student Peter Parker gets bitten by a spider that was exposed to radiation and, in typical comic book nonsense, he gains the proportionate strength of a spider, wall-crawling ability, spider-sense and more.

Peter, nerdy and bullied at school, lets himself become an obnoxious jerk in his Spider-Man identity as he cashes in on his powers to become a celebrity. His cocky attitude allows a robber to escape when Spider-Man could have easily stopped him. When that same man burglarizes Peter’s home and kills his Uncle Ben our hero is conscience stricken and realizes what a responsibility his powers are. He catches the burglar for the police.  Continue reading

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APRIL NINETEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

political persecution of trumpFrom the corporate fascist kleptocracy run by career criminal Joe Biden comes another current events roundup by Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. And remember, Biden continues to flout a Supreme Court ruling against him.

tim scottSENATOR TIM SCOTT BLASTS THE KANGAROO TRIALS AND COURTROOM TRAVESTIES AGAINST OPPOSITION LEADER DONALD TRUMP. He also cites how the obvious bias of the judges has helped drive people to Trump. More HERE.

JUDGE IN THE LATEST SHAM TRIAL OF TRUMP IN NEW YORK TAGGED AS A JOE BIDEN DONOR. An honest judge would have recused themselves, but this hack prefers to keep Biden’s opponent Trump off the campaign trail and in a courtroom. He refuses to even let Trump attend his son’s graduation.

        As I’ve often mentioned, America’s political establishment is a cesspool of corruption, and its members will not let the voters select their own candidates and they don’t care how blatant they have to be about it.

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND OFFICIAL JOINS THOSE POINTING OUT THAT JOE BIDEN’S OPEN-BORDER POLICY HURTS AMERICAN CITIZENS’ WAGES. But Joe and his fellow one percenters are doing just fine.

the system is evilBIDEN REGIME SURRENDERS TO REASON AND REINSTATES TRUMP’S SANCTIONS. Childishly opposing every action taken by Trump just because it was taken by him has wasted so much time, energy and money. Anti-Trump loons need to grow up.  

HARLEM AUDIENCE CHEERS ON DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DURING A PERSONAL APPEARANCE. Democrat media outlets will still tell you to ignore the evidence of your own eyes and instead listen to their demonization of Trump.

NEW YORK DEMOCRAT COUNCIL MEMBER ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH FAKING SIGNATURES OF DEAD PEOPLE ON ELECTION PETITION. That’s Democrats – bringing fraud to every aspect of elections, both general and primary!

VOTERS OF COLOR IN PENNSYLVANIA MOCK BIDEN WITH SIGNS SAYING “DONALD TRUMP IS WHO WE WANT.” Video HERE and HERE. “We need Trump back.”

LEGAL SCHOLAR MIKE DAVIS SLAMS UNCONSTITUTIONAL GAG ORDER ON TRUMP. Continue reading

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