FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.
“THE PARTY” VS THE REST OF US – Around 100,000 more non-citizens were found on the voter rolls, this time in Pennsylvania during an attempt to combat vote fraud. AND REMEMBER, this was in June 2018. Also, privileged white one-percenter Nancy Pelosi defended MS13, whose motto is “Kill, Rape, Control.” (MS13’s motto, not The Party’s.) All that and more HERE.
BRAD PARSCALE ON HOW THE DEMOCRATS DROVE THE WORKING CLASS INTO TRUMP’S ARMS – Excerpt: “”Trump fights for the worker who showers after work not just those that shower before work. The democrats have given up on the working class.” Click HERE. Another excerpt from that item: “I recognized Trump was reaching Americans who had tuned out politicians who seemed — and were — polished, predictable and programmed. They were voters who cared less about old labels of left and right and more about finding someone who would address issues important to their lives.”
WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL REGARDING TRUMP’S APPEAL TO THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR – It’s HERE.
TRANSGRESS WITH ME: JUNE 15th, 2018 – Included sayings like “THE AMERICAN LEFT HAS BECOME SO PRETENTIOUS THAT MANY OF THEM WHO ARE WORKING CLASS LIKE TO TELL THEMSELVES THAT THEY’RE NOT IN THE WORKING CLASS. Sorry, but if you can’t afford to quit your job right now and never work again you’re part of the working class whether you admit it or not.” Full item HERE.
A REMINDER THAT “FAMILY SEPARATIONS” AND “KIDS IN CAGES” STARTED UNDER GEORGE W. BUSH AND BARACK OBAMA – Click HERE for this item from June 2018.
ANTI-TRUMP FANATICS: ARE THEY INSANE OR ONLY PRETENDING TO BE? Click HERE.
JOURNALIST SHARYL ATTKISSON, THE 21st CENTURY IDA TARBELL, WROTE THIS 2018 PIECE REGARDING THE FBI’s ALREADY-EXPOSED MISDEEDS – It’s HERE. Many, many more of the FBI’s scandals have come to light since then.
A JUNE 2018 LOOK AT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S FOREIGN POLICY SUCCESSES UP TO THAT DATE – It’s HERE.
A TAKE OF MINE THAT UPSET SOME MEMBERS OF BOTH MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES – Excerpt: “The Watergate and Vietnam War era forced some of the political right in America to face up to the flaws in their vision AND in their heroes. The political left in America are perpetual children who STILL refuse to ever face up to the flaws in THEIR vision and THEIR heroes.” And that’s even more relevant here in 2023. HERE.
PER THE DEMOCRATS AT SNOPES – The Obama Administration placed illegal immigrant children with a human trafficking ring. Snopes verified this, ON JUNE 20th 2018 and reminded the public about the 2014-2015 investigation and criminal indictment related to this grotesque tragedy. Click HERE for the Snopes item and HERE for the larger story. Continue reading
Here at Frontierado international headquarters things are as hectic as you would imagine with the Frontierado holiday coming up on Friday, August 4th. As always, Frontierado celebrates the myth of the old west, not the grinding reality. Balladeer’s Blog is not affiliated with any of the following brands.
LARCENY BOURBON – Making its debut on the Bourbon Breakdown for Frontierado is this Kentucky Bourbon which meets my usual standard of letting you blow flies out of the air after a swig. 
IRON SMOKE BOURBON – Hunker down with some Iron Smoke Bourbon to help you and yours celebrate Frontierado. 
For this weekend’s light-hearted, escapist blog post about superheroes, Balladeer’s Blog goes back to the Justice Society of America, this country’s very first superteam. 
ALL STAR COMICS Vol 1 #33 (February 1947) 
CALIFORNIA JIM – The Frontierado Holiday is coming up on Friday, August 4th, so here is another blog post in honor of the season. California Jim was also known as Six-Shooter Jim Smith and Six-Shooter Bill, but on his deathbed, he claimed that his real name was John Henry Hankins (some sources say Jankins or Hawkins). 
Jim lingered in Dodge City, Kansas for a time, committing various crimes. On August 17th, 1878 Deputy Marshal Bat Masterson himself arrested California Jim for stealing a horse. 
Okay, as always here at 
ONE: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED THAT DAY WOULD HAVE SOMEHOW MADE DONALD TRUMP THE WINNER OF THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. This is crucial. It doesn’t matter if you support Trump or hate him, NOTHING that might have happened in Congress on January 6th could have “overturned the 2020 election.” 
THREE: THERE IS NO WAY TRUMP COULD HAVE JUST REFUSED TO LEAVE OFFICE. The many, many staff members needed to keep a presidential administration running had already tendered their resignations, as is customary. 
Balladeer’s Blog gives a shoutout to yet another cool-named sports team:
A MODERN MUSKETEER (1917) – This 68-minute film was released on December 30th, 1917, when Douglas Fairbanks was known for his comedies rather than for his later success as cinema’s first swashbuckling superstar. 
I’m not exaggerating when I say that that opening segment provides almost as many thrills and spectacular stunts as the entirety of Doug’s 1921 serious turn as D’Artagnan in 
HURRICANE NELL, THE GIRL DEAD-SHOT (1877) – Written by Edward L. Wheeler. This blog post is dedicated to the prolific author and fellow blogger 
That brings us back to Hurricane Nell, the Girl Dead-Shot, also known as Hurricane Nell, the Queen of the Saddle and Lasso, and, in a misleading re-titling, as Bob Woolf, the Border Ruffian. (NOT three separate books.) Though published in May of 1877, Nell’s adventures were set earlier in the 1800s than most of the other big-name heroines of Dime Novels, so I am starting with her and will move on to the others in the next few weeks. 
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