NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: APRIL TWENTY-EIGHTH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog does another current events roundup.

ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI REVEALS FURTHER DETAILS ABOUT THE TWO DEMOCRAT JUDGES ARRESTED OVER COLLUSION WITH VIOLENT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, EVEN EL TREN ARAGUA. More HERE. Maybe all of the other judges who always rule in favor of illegal immigrants need investigated after what these two were caught red-handed at.

HOW “JUDGE” HANNAH DUGAN PUT THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ABOVE HIS VICTIMS. Should Democrats be counted as accomplices to illegal immigrant crimes at this point? 

DEMOCRATS ABANDON THEIR “NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW” CHARADE TO DEFEND THE JUDGES ARRESTED FOR AIDING AND ABETTING ADDITIONAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMES. More HERE. One of their party’s judges threatens a “boycott” in support of the arrested Dugan. Democrats are the combined Mafia and Nazis of the 21st Century. (Since they love Nazi comparisons so much.)

CONGRESSWOMAN MARY MILLER OF ILLINOIS SPEAKS OUT ON HOW OTHER NATIONS’ TARIFFS HAVE GIVEN AMERICAN FARMERS AND OTHERS A RAW DEAL. Just as President Trump forced America’s corrupt establishment to finally face the illegal immigration disaster, hopefully he is waking people up to the damage that unfair tariffs continue to do to the U.S.

SHOCKING EXPOSURE OF HOW FEDERAL FUNDS WERE BEING DIVERTED TO DEMOCRAT NGOs. Another scandal that should be dominating the headlines but the Democrats are distracting from it with their latest pro-illegal immigration frenzy.

CLINTON-APPOINTED JUDGE BRIONES, WHO RULED AGAINST THE BORDER WALL IN TRUMP’S FIRST TERM, NOW RULES THAT THE ADMINISTRATION CANNOT DEPORT TREN DE ARAGUA CRIMINALS IN THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY. Corrupt judges apparently feel that a president has less power than a Chicago alderman. And Congressional Republicans are still nothing but talk when it comes to reining in judicial overreach. Plus, Trump was right about Tren de Aragua HERE.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN JEFFRIES BRAGS ABOUT THWARTING BILL TO MAKE SURE ONLY CITIZENS CAN VOTE. The Democrat love affair with illegal immigration is like one big RICO case all around.

LATEST LIE ABOUT TRUMP FROM DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS THAT SPENT YEARS LYING ABOUT JOE BIDEN’S UNFITNESS – THEY’RE PRETENDING HE’S THE ONLY HEAD OF STATE WHO WORE A BLUE SUIT AT PAPAL FUNERAL. Photos show others did as well. Meanwhile, the corrupt and doddering Biden committed a true faux pas with his immature selfies and buffoonish laughter. Continue reading

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ROCK STAR CHERI CURRIE FULLY EMBRACES TRUMP POLICES LIKE SO MANY OF US FORMER DEMOCRATS

Cheri Currie of Runaways fame unleashed a broadside on the pathetic, hatemongering, fascistic and intolerant Democrat Party of 2025. She courageously embraced the MAGA label, too. 

Among her comments: “F**k the Democratic Party! You clowns. Liars! Users. Destroyers! Mental case Cowards! We’ve HAD IT with you! Keep standing up for law breaking criminals, gang members, murderers, pedophiles, abusers, human traffickers, baby rapists, thieves!” she said. “You are so ridiculous and pathetic. Coming after our children was your biggest mistake, your demise. We will scorn you in history books …  We, the American people are DONE with you!”

“I simply can’t sit back anymore and let these lunatics continue to hurt people! They LIE! They keep their sheeple IN FEAR! Ruin their LIVES!! All to gain power! Not an ounce of integrity or respect! How DARE you scare ppl when you know they’re not in danger! That what is happening HAS TO HAPPEN! You hurt your own for YOUR BENEFIT??? You have NOTHING to offer the American people! Nothing! You have done yourselves in.” 

As for my take on this – Continue reading

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HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL (1958) ON THE TEXAS 27 FILM VAULT

Randy Clower and Richard Malmos of The Texas 27 Film Vault (both lower right) featured in a Movie Host article with Stella from Saturday Night Dead and Elvira.

Before MST3K we had The Texas 27 Film Vault! Balladeer’s Blog continues its FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY YEAR look at this neglected cult show that debuted February 9th, 1985.

ORIGINAL BROADCAST DATE: Saturday September 7th, 1985 from 10:30pm to 1:00am. Broadcast throughout Texas and Oklahoma.

SERIAL: Before the movie our Film Vault Technicians First Class showed and mocked a chapter of Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940).

FILM VAULT LORE: Randy Clower at E-Gor’s site on Texas 27 Film Vault groupies: “We were a bit wild during that time and having a cult show on late at night opened a few doors around the Dallas area which we were all more than willing to go through and explore.”

High School Confidential

THE MOVIE: High School Confidential has a well-deserved reputation as one of the campiest Juvenile Delinquency films of the 50s and 60s. Some of the fun comes from the hilariously heavy-handed anti-marijuana messages sprinkled throughout the movie, most of them delivered by some of the stiffest adults imaginable. Seriously, the grown-ups in this movie are so uptight they make Dragnet‘s Joe Friday seem like Elvis Presley.

Jerry Lee Lewis performs the opening song on the back of a flat-bed truck. Even if you’ve never watched this film you have probably seen the footage of this iconic performance by Lewis. Continue reading

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GOLDEN GIRL AND CAPTAIN AMERICA: 1940s ADVENTURES

This weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero post here at Balladeer’s Blog will look at the late 1940s stories with Captain America teamed up with Golden Girl, who replaced Bucky after he was seriously injured.

GOLDEN GIRL 

Secret Identity: Betsy Ross

First Appearance: As Betsy Ross – Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941) As Golden Girl – Captain America Comics #66 (April 1948) Her final Golden Age appearance came in July of 1949.

Origin: After years of working off and on with Captain America in her capacity as a federal agent, Betsy Ross adopted the costumed identity of Golden Girl in 1948 to serve as Cap’s new partner when Bucky was out of commission after suffering injuries at the hands of the supervillainess called Lavender.

Powers: Golden Girl was in peak physical condition and excelled at unarmed combat. She was more agile than an acrobat and wore a bulletproof cape which she could wrap around herself or innocent bystanders as needed. Continue reading

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APRIL TWENTY-FIFTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Here’s a roundup of current events from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog. I’m coming to you from an America where the media outlets who lied every day by saying that corrupt and demented Joe Biden was “sharp as a tack” and that everything was fine are back to lying about every single thing President Donald Trump says and does.

*** NEW! WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE ARRESTED TODAY FOR TRYING TO HELP ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FACING THREE BATTERY CHARGES ESCAPE ICE AGENTS. The agents then had to chase down the subject and did indeed apprehend him. As I said before, one wonders if some of the judges who repeatedly rule in favor of illegals engage in this or similar acts. More HERE. And HERE.

A LOOK AT THE OFFENSES OF ALL THE TREN DE ARAGUA GANG MEMBERS THAT DEMOCRATS AND THEIR “JUDGES” ARE FIGHTING TO KEEP IN THE COUNTRY. Democrat heroes, every one of them, apparently.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED IN CALIFORNIA WITH RAPING AND MURDERING A THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL. Are Democrats accomplices? They support “Sanctuary Cities” and refuse to cooperate with ICE. “If it saves one single life” Democrats must stop enabling illegal immigrant crime.

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ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT MS-13 MEMBER IN TENNESSEE FOUND GUILTY OF KIDNAPPING AND TORTURING A WITNESS SET TO TESTIFY AGAINST THE GANG. Are Democrats accomplices? Their loud support for MS-13 is pretty damning.

EVEN THIS ANALYST AT DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET CNN IS DEBUNKING THE SHRILL ANTI-TRUMP NARRATIVES. He’s encouraging the Democrats to be more rational in their approach, but it’s doubtful they’re capable of that.

TWO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN MARYLAND CHARGED IN KILLING OF A MOTHER OF TWO. More HERE. Are Democrats accomplices? At least Senator Chris Van Hollen seems to be. They should not have been in the U.S.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN IL FREED BY DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” POLICIES DESPITE MURDER CHARGE. Democrat refusal to cooperate with ICE strikes again. Are Democrats accomplices after the fact in this murder? 

TRUMP’S POLICIES CAUSE 9.2 PERCENT INCREASE IN PURCHASES OF DURABLE MANUFACTURED GOODS. Ever fretful economists had predicted a mere 1.4 percent increase. It’s like our corrupt establishment is still rooting against Trump and the people or something.  RUNNING TALLY OF NEW INVESTMENTS AND JOBS TRUMP HAS BROUGHT TO THE U.S. DURING HIS SECOND TERM.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN FLORIDA WHO WAS RELEASED BY THE BIDEN REGIME NOW ARRESTED FOR RAPING A THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD-BOY. Are Democrats accomplices? Their “sanctuary” policies never protect the victims of these crimes, just the perpetrators. 

HISPANIC AMERICAN WOMAN ON 2WAY.TV CRUSHES THE DEMOCRATS FOR THEIR INSULTING CANONIZATION OF KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA. Among her remarks: “I am a legal citizen, and I am disgusted.” … “I don’t understand what they’re trying to say to the Hispanic community. Like, are they trying to get votes?,” she said. “Because that’s not doing it, especially for people like us, that we obey the law.”

DEMOCRAT JUDGE IN NM WHO RESIGNED AFTER A TREN DE ARAGUA GANG MEMBER WAS ARRESTED IN HIS HOME HAS HIMSELF BEEN ARRESTED OVER HARBORING FUGITIVES AND POSSIBLY MORE. Makes you wonder how many of the Democrat “judges” who keep ruling in favor of illegal immigrants also have such ties.

BOSTON DEMOCRAT FOUND GUILTY ON CORRUPTION AND KICKBACK CHARGES. Have I mentioned lately that most American politicians are white-collar criminals?

MINNESOTA’S DEMOCRAT ATTORNEY GENERAL TRYING TO HIDE TIES TO SOMALI CHARITY FRAUD. See above. Continue reading

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THE DEATHMASTER (1972) BAD MOVIE REVIEW

Death MasterTHE DEATHMASTER (1972) – In between his pair of movies as the vampire named Count Yorga the one and only Robert Quarry starred as a vampiric Charles Manson wannabe in this film. The Deathmaster starts out with a great bit that wouldn’t look out of place in a Jean Rollin horror flick from France: the huge, hulking Barbado (Le Sesne Hilton) plays eerie flute music, seemingly luring ashore a sea-tossed coffin. This casket holds our “Deathmaster” – a vampire called Khorda.

Unfortunately it’s all downhill from there unless you’re like me and you really enjoy bad movies. Khorda eschews the usual vampire shtick of being a suave ladies’ man. His approach is to dress like early 1970s hippies do and model his coiffure and facial hair after Charles Manson. The filmmakers even admitted that was indeed the look they were going for.

Khorda feeds on assorted Californians while spending his spare time gathering around him a collection of 1960s losers and retreads plus some biker gang members just for good measure. Our undead heavy becomes their guru, spouting the type of generic, faddish spiritual nonsense that is always a good way to sound deep while not really saying anything at all.     Continue reading

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NO, THE CONTESSA’S HAIR IS NOT A TULSI GABBARD JOKE

Just a light-hearted post about a non-serious topic but one which I’m seeing both sides of the political aisle making silly talking points about. In the new Marvel movie Thunderbolts Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays the character Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.

Because of the prominent streak of white in her hair anti-Gabbard people are wasting their time pretending it’s making fun of Tulsi while pro-Gabbard people are wasting their time getting upset at the notion that it’s making fun of Tulsi.

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In truth, Valentina was introduced in 1967 in the comic books and has had the streak of white in her hair for SEVERAL DECADES. So, everybody on both sides can calm down. The white streak is simply a trademark of the character as much as Nick Fury’s eyepatch is. (And she had been Fury’s romantic partner for decades, by the way.)

This is like when The Dark Knight Rises movie came out long ago and people unfamiliar with comic books made a similar mistake. Some Republicans were upset that the character Bane was supposedly a joking insult about Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital and some Democrats were laughing because they too thought the name was a satirical poke at Bain Capital. Continue reading

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EMPIRE (1962-1963) FORGOTTEN TELEVISION

EMPIRE (1962-1963) – Ryan O’Neal, Charles Bronson, Richard Egan and Terry Moore starred in this modern-day (1960s) drama about a family ranch in New Mexico.

Kathleen Hite created the hour-long series which was not a soap opera but was instead a straightforward tale about the travails of ranching deep into the 20th Century.

RICHARD EGAN starred as Jim Redigo, the brawny ranch manager with an MBA. That was an intriguing idea, and this character helped capture the new complexities of operating a ranch in the modern era while retaining the raw machismo that 1960s viewers would have expected from a ranch manager. 

ANNE SEYMOUR portrayed Lucia Garret, the widowed owner of the Garret Ranch. The ranch had been built up over the years by Lucia, her late husband and Jim Redigo. She and Redigo sometimes clashed over what was best and most profitable for the Garret Ranch while weathering the challenges they faced.

RYAN O’NEAL played Tal Garret, Lucia’s son who was being groomed to take over the family ranch one day. His relationship with Redigo went from being like an uncle and nephew to more like a father and son but Tal struggled for the respect that he felt the older man was not giving him. Neither as a young man nor a rancher. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: APRIL TWENTY-THIRD

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog serves up another current events roundup from a world where the brand of Yellow “Journalism” being used against President Donald Trump would make William Randolph Hearst green with envy.

DNI TULSI GABBARD EXPOSES EVEN MORE BIDEN-HARRIS REGIME USE OF INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES AGAINST AMERICAN CITIZENS VIA ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE AND MORE. These revelations go beyond even the 1970s Congressional hearings about the rampant abuses by the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. which is presumably why Anti-Trump media outlets are so desperate to distract from them with shrill propaganda pieces. 

        More effort needs put forth to make these revelations heard through the droning of “illegal immigrants uber alles” from Democrats and their media outlets. The 1970s Colby revelations were amateur hour compared to what the Biden-Harris Regime was guilty of. Even people who called in to suicide hotlines were put on government lists for increased surveillance.

        We’re back to my old observation that the Democrats use the media much, much more effectively than their opposing political party. If these intel scandals implicated Trump they would be as widely discussed as the mania surrounding the Democrats’ pet issues of the moment.

MARLOW CUTS TO THE HEART OF DEMOCRAT WORSHIP OF WIFE-BEATING, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, MS-13 MEMBER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

MORE FOOTAGE OF DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET INSISTING JOE BIDEN WAS PERFECTLY FIT FOR OFFICE. Speaking of scandals that would be dominating the news cycle if the opposing party had kept up with Democrats in the Media Arms Race. 

THE LATEST DEMOCRAT LIE ABOUT KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA IS THAT HE IS A “TEEN”. Unreal.

THERE ARE STILL IMBECILES WHO THINK TRUMP TOLD PEOPLE TO INJECT THEMSELVES WITH BLEACH

TRUMP’S POLICIES CONTINUE TO ATTRACT INVESTMENTS IN THE U.S. – ROCHE TO INVEST FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS AND ADD OVER TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND NEW JOBS IN THE U.S.

INDIA JOINS THE LIST OF NATIONS FOLLOWING TRUMP’S LEAD ON PLACING STEEL TARIFFS ON CHINA. Continue reading

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CAPTAIN MORS THE AIR PIRATE (1908-1911) STORIES ELEVEN TO FIFTEEN

For Balladeer’s Blog’s overview of the entire Kapitan Mors der Luftpirat series click HERE. For my look at the first five stories in the weekly text series click HERE.

THE AIRSHIP IN A WHIRLWIND – As the early pulp adventures of Kapitan Mors continue, his Luftschiff (Air Ship) is still incredibly damaged in the aftermath of his first clash with Ned Gully, his archenemy. That battle happened in the previous installment.

Gully himself turns out to have survived, after all, and he finds allies to help him try to stop Mors from repairing the Luftschiff piecemeal in a running battle from France to Italy across the Mediterranean and culminating over the Red Sea. A “high tech” (for 1908) inflatable raft is used at one point. Continue reading

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