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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ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: THE MILLTILLIONAIRE (1895)

utopian literatureTHE MILLTILLIONAIRE (1895) – This novel was written by American author Albert Waldo Howard under the pen name M. Auburre Hovorre. A second edition came out in 1898.

The concepts and storyline are all over the place in this minor utopian work from the 1890s. Howard often treats mutually exclusive concepts as if they are interchangeable. He does do a deep dive into the advanced technology of the future as well as the political changes, so that is a positive factor. 

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At some point in the far future, the entire Earth is under one government – the Bardic State. Howard seems at times to be using the reference to bards as if they are his version of Plato’s Philosopher Kings, and at other times as if the term means simply “rulers.” 

A twenty-six-member council called the Alphabets seem to fill a parliamentary role. Sometimes. It’s that kind of book. Half the twenty-six must be male and the other half female. They each hold the title Bard. 

A Bard Regent handles many administrative tasks for the figure above them – the “True Bard” or the “Positive Poet.” The wealthiest person in the world – our title Milltillionaire – is above the Bard Regent and serves as the True Bard.
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TRANSGRESS WITH ME: APRIL 18th

orwell on the party and truthIt’s been a while, so here’s Balladeer’s Blog’s latest installment of Transgress with Me. As usual, it’s only for the courageous and mixes old with new.  As I’ve often mentioned in the past, I used to be a Democrat before their increasing intolerance and fascism drove me to leave the party and become an Independent Voter.

*** Increasingly deranged Democrats sanctimoniously pretend they are THE moral models for everyone else, yet that attitude is what they used to bash the religious right for.

*** PEOPLE WITH CLOSED MINDS MISTAKE SUCCESSFUL CENSORSHIP FOR “BEING IN THE RIGHT.” 

*** People who say that teaching is a political act should never be trusted with authority over vulnerable young minds.

*** Reasonable people believe that voters of color are capable of making up their own minds about which political candidates they support, but Democrat fascists insist any voters of color who don’t support their party are “race traitors” and harass them even to the point of violence.

*** JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING IS COUNTER-INTUITIVE IT DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY MEAN IT IS “DEEP” OR “INTELLECTUAL.”

freedom of expression is a human right*** Authoritarian Democrats are only content in environments where they have a captive audience, like in schools or wherever they can use the full force of the government or other higher “authorities” to impose silence on those who disagree with them.

*** Democrats are neither liberal nor progressive and are interested only in furthering the interests of The Party. 

*** THE SUPPOSEDLY “INTOLERANT” DEAD WHITE MALES OF THE PAST RECOGNIZED WHAT THE FASCISTIC POLITICAL LEFT DENIES – THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS SHOULD HAVE THE FREEDOM TO AMEND THE LAWS ACCORDING TO EVOLVING PHILOSOPHIES AND ATTITUDES. INSTEAD THE LEFT INSISTS THEY HAVE “THE ONE TRUE WORLD VIEW” AND THAT THEIR NARROW-MINDED VALUES ARE ENTIRELY AND ETERNALLY “RIGHT.” NOW AND FOREVER. 

*** Democrats demonize and dehumanize anyone who does not support their every opinion, yet they pretend to be models of “tolerance”. Continue reading →

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LIST OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS FOR 2024

With the 2023-2024 college basketball season well behind us, here’s one last shoutout to this year’s champions in the 13 divisions covered here. 

freed hardeman university lionsNAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) 

National Champions – FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY LIONS

Runners-Up – Langston University Lions

2023 Champions – College of Idaho Coyotes

cedarville yellow jacketsNCCAA (National Christian College Athletic Association) DIVISION ONE

National Champions – CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY YELLOW JACKETS

Runners-Up – Wayland Baptist University Pioneers

2023 Champions – Bethel (IN) University Pilots (riverboat pilots)  Continue reading →

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THE VILLON LEGEND PART FOUR

francois villon movie poster 1945This is the fourth 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.

FRANCOIS VILLON PART FOUR – We left off last time with Villon back in Paris, where, in December of 1456, he gathered nine criminal colleagues for one of the most well-known thefts of his life.

Among those in Francois’ ad hoc gang were the usual names like Guy Tabary and Colin de Cayeux as well as a new name, Father Nicolas, the inside man for this robbery. Continue reading →

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SARAH BERNHARDT: HER SILENT FILMS

Here are the silent films of the iconic and world-famous actress Sarah Bernhardt. This revered stage thespian was born in 1844 and died in 1923. She was practically royalty when she deigned to appear in a few silent films.   

duel in hamletLE DUEL D’HAMLET (1900) – In this roughly 2-minute short, the 56-year-old Bernhardt gave cinema a gender-flipped Hamlet as she fenced with Pierre Magnier as Laertes in the climactic duel.

“The Divine Sarah” as she came to be called, was spryer and more athletic than women half her age. This brief moment of history was the first time ANY scene from Hamlet had been presented on film. 

sarah in toscaTOSCA (1908, 1912) – Bernhardt portrayed Floria Tosca in this adaptation of the Puccini opera. (Yes, it’s a silent movie version of an opera.) The entire story was condensed into just 40 minutes and Sarah was so appalled with the production that she insisted that it not be released and, in fact, wanted it destroyed!

Luckily for cinema history, it was merely shelved for 4 years and wound up getting released to cash in on the success that Sarah’s silent movie about Queen Elizabeth the First was enjoying in 1912. Continue reading →

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: APRIL 15th

From Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog comes another look at the ongoing disasters here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy. 

bloody hands of joe bidenBIDEN OKAYED IRAN’S ASSAULT ON ISRAEL “WITHIN CERTAIN LIMITS.” Remember when Biden said that it would be acceptable if Vlad Putin made a “small incursion” into Ukraine? He and his regime don’t comprehend the forces they unleash when it comes to military actions. More HERE. And HERE.

DENVER’S DEMOCRAT MAYOR DIVERTS MONEY FOR POLICE AND FIRE SERVICES TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. The Democrat slogan remains “Illegal immigrants uber alles!”

SENATOR BILL HAGERTY IS THE LATEST VOICE CALLING OUT HOW DEMOCRATS COUNT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TOWARD CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATION. If only the country had a competent opposition party, but we don’t.

rfk jr at micROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. DISCUSSES THE DERANGED ANTI-TRUMP MENTALITY AT DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS LIKE CNN. 

BIDEN REGIME’S DISASTER AT THE BORDER HAS BROUGHT MEXICAN DRUG CARTEL SHOOTOUTS TO SAN DIEGO. This was predicted long ago.

UCONN BASKETBALL PLAYER BASHES BIDEN FOR HIS MENTAL UNFITNESS DURING THE TEAM’S VISIT. Continue reading →

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NJCAA DIVISION ONE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

NJCAA DIVISION ONE

barton college cougarsNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – Closing out Balladeer’s Blog’s 2024 college basketball season was this game between the top seeded BARTON COLLEGE COUGARS and the 7 seeds – the TRITON COLLEGE TROJANS. Continue reading →

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