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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: MARCH FIFTEENTH

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

PRESIDENT TRUMP HONORS HEROIC CANINES ON K-9 VETERANS DAY

TRUMP CALLS OUT THE BIDEN REGIME’S DOJ ABUSES AS MORE AND MORE IS LEARNED ABOUT THEM WEEKLY.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR.’s LIST OF DEMOCRAT FOLLIES FROM THE PAST WEEK.

CNN POLL: DEMOCRAT APPROVAL RATING DOWN TO TWENTY-NINE PERCENT. Yet they show no signs of recovering their sanity. 

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PLACES FIFTY MORE UNIVERSITIES UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR THEIR RACIST, SEXIST POLICIES OF DISCRIMINATION, EXCLUSION AND INTOLERANCE. More HERE.

TRUMP’S ONGOING EFFORTS TO ALLEVIATE TAX BURDENS ON THE MIDDLE CLASS.

677 WOULD-BE TYRANTS ON THE BENCH. I will say again this overreach has got to stop, and I know I’m not alone. Continue reading

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MARCH THIRTEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

EXPOSING THE LIES THAT TRUMP WILL CUT MEDICARE AND/OR SOCIAL SECURITY. He never did it in his 1st term, either. Trump is the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my entire lifetime.

JOB OPENINGS ARE ON THE RISE AS THE LABOR MARKET STABILIZES. The term “the Trump Effect” is being bandied about again.

ONCE AGAIN, TRUMP HAS A “BLUE-COLLAR BOOM” STARTING. Remarkable. 

JOE BIDEN’S FAKE OVAL OFFICE SET FOUND AND DISPLAYED. The one he often used but which Democrat media outlets claimed didn’t exist for some reason.

EGG PRICES ALREADY DROPPING UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP. And only Democrats are upset about it. CNN POLL: TRUMP’S APPROVAL RATING ON HANDLING THE ECONOMY IS ALREADY ELEVEN PERCENT HIGHER THAN JOE BIDEN’S.

SENATOR TOM COTTON TAKES UP JAMES CARVILLE’S SUGGESTION MONTHS AGO TO TAX “WOKE” UNIVERSITIES’ MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR ENDOWMENTS. Such taxes would more than pay for Biden’s unconstitutional cancellation of so much student loan debt. Hypocritical Democrats, who usually LOVE new taxes, will, of course, object to this. 

VETERANS AFFAIRS SECRETARY DOUG COLLINS SMACKS DOWN “REPORTER’S” LIES ABOUT DOGE LOOKING TO MAKE CUTS AT THAT DEPARTMENT. The lying corporate media in America needs to be called out like this more often.

IRELAND’S HEAD OF STATE PRAISES TRUMP’S PEACE PUSH BETWEEN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA.

ONTARIO BACKS DOWN ON THREAT TO OVERCHARGE THREE AMERICAN STATES FOR ELECTRICITY AFTER TRUMP FOUGHT BACK. Even the Democrats at NBC admit it HERE. And more HERE. And HERE.

YASSIN FAWAZ ON TRUMP’S ECONOMIC POLICIES AND HOW THEY COMBAT THE WAY OTHER NATIONS HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF AMERICA FOR DECADES. A similar view on tariffs, etc. HERE.

TRUMP’S ECONOMIC POLICIES ALREADY SLOWING INFLATION. More HERE. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: MARCH ELEVENTH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog offers up another current events roundup from an America where Democrats support sending money to Ukraine only because they’re STILL getting millions kicked back to them by their criminal cohort Zelensky.

STATELY MCDANIEL MANOR BLOG DOES ANOTHER SERIES THAT KNOCKS IT OUT OF THE PARK.

ARTICLE: TRUMP’S FIFTY DAYS AND FIFTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

PRESIDENT TRUMP GETS CMA CGM TO INVEST TWENTY BILLION DOLLARS IN THE U.S. When the crooked Joe Biden was in the White House it seemed like every major deal benefited him, his family or China, not the U.S.

DEMOCRAT MAYOR OF BOSTON ENDS POLICY OF ARRESTING DRUG DEALERS. Remember the chaos when the Democrats in California ended the prosecution of shoplifters based on a dollar amount? Boston has now outdone them. And I wonder if Boston’s mayor is so forgiving of people who “misgender” someone?

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CUTS DEMOCRAT STUDY OF MENSTRUAL CYCLES IN TRANS MEN. More HERE. And HERE. Democrats are enemies of science and rational thought.   

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DEMOCRAT DONOR WHO BASHES ELON MUSK PLEADS GUILTY IN INVESTMENT FRAUD SCHEME. Is anyone surprised?

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REVOLUTIONIZES DISASTER AID FOR THE BETTER.

CHINA SAYS IT’S READY FOR WAR WITH THE U.S. I would imagine that Democrats’ only reply is “if we go to war with China it better not affect sending money to Ukraine or we’ll blame Trump!” Continue reading

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CUBA’S SILENT MOVIES (1897-1907)

Balladeer’s Blog’s latest look at silent films covers Cuba’s early cinematic efforts.

FIRE DRILL aka Simulacro de Incendio (1897) – On January 24th of this year, Gabriel Veyre (at left) held the very first exhibition of silent film shorts in Cuban history at a theater in Havana.

Veyre was the Lumiere Film Company representative to Central America, and he parlayed the popular reaction to the Havana exhibition into financial support for Fire Drill, the first movie made in Cuba. That 1-minute film short from February 1897 was a documentary look at firefighting in Havana. Actual firefighters of the Central Fire Station of the City of Havana played themselves.

FILM COMMERCIAL FOR LA TROPICAL BEER aka the Missing Sorcerer (1898) – This was the very first film directed by a native Cuban – Jose Esteban Casasús, a noted pioneer of Cuban Cinema. Lasting just under a minute, this short advertised the brewery & product of La Tropical beer and was produced by Cinemataca de Cuba.

CONSTITUTIONAL ASSEMBLY (1901) – A film capturing the 1901 assembly, the equivalent of our Constitutional Convention. Following the defeat of Spain in the Spanish-American War, Cuba produced its first constitution a few years later. That document was openly based on the United States Constitution but had 115 articles instead of America’s 7.

        The three branches were Executive, Legislative (bicameral) and judicial. Cuban presidents were to be elected for terms of 4 years, while Senators were elected for an initial term of 8 years, following which they could run for additional terms of 4 years each. The lower house members were elected for an initial term of 4 years, following which they could run for additional terms of 2 years each.  Continue reading

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MARCH SEVENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog here in an America where the Democrats who get giddy about the Ukraine-Russia War would NEVER support their own country if it comes to war between the U.S. and China. (Or anyone else.)

DEMOCRAT AL GREEN WAS ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO PAID SEXUAL ASSAULT HUSH MONEY TO HIS ACCUSER FROM THE INFAMOUS CONGRESSIONAL SLUSH FUND OF TAXPAYER MONEY. That was all years ago and BOTH PARTIES had guilty members, but people often forget about this scandal just like they forget about the Congressional Bank scandal of years ago.

PRESIDENT TRUMP PROVIDES EVEN MORE HELP FOR CALIFORNIA FIRE VICTIMS BY EXTENDING THE MORATORIUM AGAINST FORECLOSING ON THEIR PROPERTIES. Yet Hollywood creatures didn’t even offer their $200,000 Academy Awards gift bags to the people who lost their homes. But they still pretend to be the “compassionate” ones.

THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD BRAIN CANCER SURVIVOR D.J. DANIEL CALLS OUT UNHINGED DEMOCRATS FOR ATTACKING TRUMP. He has more class than the entire Democrat roll call in Congress.

D.J. DANIEL’s FATHER TELLS RACIST DEMOCRAT HATEMONGER RACHEL MADDOW TO “SHUT HER MOUTH” IF SHE HAS NOTHING NICE TO SAY ABOUT HIS SON AND PRESIDENT TRUMP.

ALVAREZ GALLOSO: REALITY IN AMERICA. Brilliant piece!

COURAGEOUS FEMALE ROLE MODEL TULSI GABBARD ANNOUNCES THAT THE BIDEN REGIME RELEASED ROUGHLY ONE HUNDRED TERROR-LINKED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS INTO THE U.S. LAST YEAR.

CNN HAS TO ISSUE CORRECTION ACKNOWLEDGING THAT TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT DEMOCRATS FUNDING TRANSGENDER MICE EXPERIMENTS. More HERE. The main problem is that Democrat policies are so idiotic that they sound like they can’t possibly be real.

POLL: TRUMP’S GOLD CARD IDEA IS RIGHTFULLY DISAPPROVED OF. Is he forgetting what a “Caesar’s Wife” situation he and Elon are in? Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: MARCH FIFTH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog provides another current events roundup from an America where Democrats have made embracing war, transing children and advocating for political corruption their platform.

CBS NEWS/ YOUGOV POLL: SEVENTY-SIX PERCENT APPROVE OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SPEECH BEFORE CONGRESS. Yet Democrats still pretend it was “divisive.” (?)

        Over three-quarters of viewers also approved of Speaker Mike Johnson ordering the Sergeant at Arms to eject the unstable Rep. Al Green (D-TX) for his deranged behavior and for disrupting the president’s speech despite warnings. (Remember when Democrats pretended that simply calling Obama a liar during a Congressional address was unacceptable?) More HERE.

TRUMP HEARTWARMINGLY MAKES YOUNGSTER WITH BRAIN CANCER AN HONORARY SECRET SERVICE AGENT. Democrats refused to stand for the child. I guess they were too busy telling each other how “compassionate” they consider themselves to be.

PRESIDENT TRUMP READS LETTER FROM LITTLE MAN ZELENSKY, WHO SIMPERINGLY BEGS FOR A CHANCE TO SIGN THE DEAL HE COULD HAVE SIGNED A FEW DAYS AGO. People can support Ukraine but not support the sleazy toad Zelensky, y’know. No one man is synonymous with a nation.

STEPHEN A. SMITH SKILLFULLY DEFENDS TRUMP FROM IGNORANT JOY BEHAR.

MARTINA NAVRATILOVA BLASTS CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS FOR VOTING TO KEEP MEN WHO PRETEND TO BE WOMEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS.

DEMOCRAT SENATOR MARK WARNER COURAGEOUSLY PRAISES  THE “GREAT, GREAT PROGRESS” MADE BY PRESIDENT TRUMP.

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE PRESIDENT SPEAKS OUT ON HOW DEMOCRATS WERE FUNNELING USAID MONEY TO THEIR OWN CAMPAIGN COFFERS. Monumental scandal continues to be exposed. Continue reading

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MARCH THIRD ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

UKRAINIAN MP JOINS THE VOICES AGAINST ZELENSKYY AND CALLS FOR HIS IMPEACHMENT. How many times now has Zelenskyy blown opportunities for peace? And yes, Vlad Putin is a barbaric, unstable war criminal but that does not give Zelenskyy a pass for all of his corruption, his ending of elections and opposition parties, his press gangs using ever-younger Ukrainians as cannon fodder to feed his own ego, etc. More HERE. Trump also extended the sanctions against Putin HERE but anti-Trump loons ignore that.

*** NEW! ZELENSKYY CAUGHT LYING TO THE U.S. Is anyone all that surprised?

REMEMBER: EVEN JOE BIDEN LOST HIS TEMPER WITH THE UNGRATEFUL, WARMONGERING TROLL ZELENSKYY. Plus, HANSON ON ZELENSKYY’S CRAVENNESS AND INGRATITUDE.

AND ANOTHER UKRAINIAN MP BLASTS ZELENSKYY FOR HIS “ABSOLUTE IDIOCY.” More HERE. Plus remember, Trump was ELECTED, unlike Zelenskyy who canceled elections in his country. 

HEGSETH REMINDS HILLARY CLINTON OF HER ABSURD, GROVELING “RESET” BUTTON WITH PUTIN WHEN SHE WAS SECRETARY OF STATE. Plus there’s always Hillary’s uranium scandal when she funneled it to Putin AND her collusion with Russia to slander and libel Trump.

EVEN THIS ANTI-TRUMP REPORTER ADMITS THAT ZELENSKYY WAS AT FAULT IN THE MEETING WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP. It’s obvious if you watch all 50 minutes of the meeting, but of course most anti-Trump propagandists prefer to push their shrill, hysterical narrative. And look, I stated Trump was foolish for the whole “51st State” bit with Canada and for his bizarre Greenland remarks, but it’s not Trump’s fault that Zelenskyy – whom American taxpayers should all list as a “dependent” on their tax returns – proved once again what a corrupt, self-aggrandizing little toad he is.

MIKE WALZ ON ZELENSKYY’S UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND FOR CAMPAIGNING WITH DEMOCRATS LAST ELECTION SEASON.

STARMER’S PATHETIC “AREN’T WE BUTCH” ALLIANCE INCLUDES WORDING THAT “NOBODY GOES WITHOUT THE U.S. BACKING US.” HILARIOUS! They’ll talk tough about “defending Ukraine” but it’s still only talk.

SOME UNIVERSITIES ARE REFUSING TO END THEIR RACIST AND DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES. The Democrats who run those institutions still push their Discrimination, Exclusion and Intolerance (DEI) approach.  Continue reading

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

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

DEMOCRAT PARTY RELEASES FAKED A.I. RECORDING USING THE VOICE OF TRUMP’S SON MAKING INFLAMMATORY REMARKS. Atrocious. Maybe next time they’ll try it with President Trump himself. And anti-Trump loons will believe every word of it given how ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable they’ve proven themselves to be.

MAYWEATHER PRAISES DONALD TRUMP AS THE “BEST PRESIDENT WE EVER HAD.”

CORRUPT FBI EMPLOYEES CONTINUE TO FIGHT ATTORNEY GENERAL BONDI BY REFUSING TO RELEASE MORE EPSTEIN FILES. Kash Patel steps in HERE. More HERE. And HERE.

MORE COVERUPS AT THE FBI (FUGGEDA BOUT INTEGRITY).

DEMOCRATS PERSECUTING TEEN GIRL WHO REFUSED TO PLAY AGAINST A TRANS OPPONENT.

FBI STILL HINDERING INVESTIGATION OF THE PA ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON TRUMP. America’s 3-letter agencies continue to be riddled with garbage. 

TWENTY ITEMS ABOUT FBI CORRUPTION.

TRUMP GETS UNPRECEDENTED INVITATION FOR A SECOND STATE VISIT TO THE U.K. After all, his first state visit there was marred by Meghan Markle sowing hostility toward Trump among the Royal Family.

DEMOCRATS GET CALLED OUT FOR LYING THAT MEDICAID WAS BEING CUT. Fear-mongering is all they have right now. Continue reading

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FEB TWENTY-SIXTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

It is time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

REVEALED: FOUR AGENCIES BEGAN INVESTIGATIONS OF THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY WHILE JOE WAS IN OFFICE BUT WERE TOLD TO STAND DOWN. Joe Biden and his ilk embody everything people despise about America’s white-collar criminals in the political establishment.

MARLOW DISCUSSES THE THREE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS THAT THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY RECEIVED FROM RUSSIA WHILE PRETENDING TRUMP WAS GUILTY OF “RUSSIAN COLLUSION.” Yet unhinged anti-Trumpers still try their “Russia, Russia, Russia” lies.

BANK OF AMERICA FINALLY LISTENS TO PRESIDENT TRUMP AND AGREES TO STOP ITS RACIST POLICIES AND DISCRIMINATORY HIRING PRACTICES.

EXPOSED: PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER DEMOCRAT NANCY PELOSI’S “VINEYARD” RECEIVED FOURTEEN MILLION DOLLARS FROM USAID. Still wondering how lifelong office-holders like Pelosi acquire hundreds of millions of dollars in net worth despite only making six-figure salaries? Plus there are Nancy’s insider trading scandals and her husband’s “government contracts.” 

FBI WHISTLEBLOWER REVEALS THAT SOME AGENTS ARE DESTROYING EVIDENCE OF THEIR WRONGDOING UNDER THE BIDEN REGIME. What once would have been a bombshell headline is now just part of even larger stories of government corruption. Other reports indicate agents have been destroying JFK files HERE.

INVESTIGATION OPENED INTO THE WAY THE BIDEN REGIME ABANDONED UNTOLD NUMBERS OF MIGRANT CHILDREN TO HUMAN TRAFFICKERS. Maybe the children lacked bribe money for Biden and his thugs or something.

ANOTHER REPORT ON HOW THE BIDEN REGIME AND ITS ALLIES FUNNELED MONEY INTO A SLUSH FUND. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: FEB TWENTY-FOURTH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is back with another current events roundup for all you ladies and gentlemen!

Watching President Trump cleaning up the cesspool of corruption in our political establishment reminds me of a much larger version of the cleanup in New York City’s police department in the 1970s following Frank Serpico’s revelations.

And those revelations were just the tip of the iceberg as you can read in the non-fiction book Prince of the City (NOT the fictional film based on it). The corruption was so pervasive that some were even contemplating bringing in the National Guard to replace the New York City police so that hiring could start from scratch once all the incriminated parties were rooted out.

For another comparison remember the real-life efforts of prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino as they tried to end organized crime’s control of Sicily’s governmental figures. They were eventually assassinated after years of having the entire corrupt system against them. The non-fiction book Excellent Cadavers is a great way to familiarize yourself with them.

Long years ago, when I first read that book (full title Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic) I thought at the time that any real attempt in America to clean up our institutionalized political corruption would resemble that situation. Obviously on a much larger scale, of course. 

The Establishment Sewer is fighting back, and the outcome of this first dedicated pushback against America’s bought and paid for officeholders and bureaucrats is still uncertain. Our repulsive “intelligence agencies” may try anything and “By Any Means Necessary” has long been the motto of America’s fascist Democrat Party.

Even worse, Trump has made some unforced errors and lapsed into foolish distractions like the whole “51st State” nonsense with Canada. He’s still a de facto Third Party President and given the unreliability of A LOT of Congressional Republicans massive betrayal could come at any time.

The most likely danger may not be that dramatic, however, and may instead manifest in the form of the general public’s tendency to pretend “the good guys won” after a major event and go back to ignoring politics while the rot resumes spreading. Interesting times ahead.

ALLEN WEST COURAGEOUSLY POINTS OUT SEVERAL ATROCITIES FROM DEMOCRAT PARTY HISTORY.

SURVEY: MORE AMERICANS TRUST TRUMP THAN TRUST THE ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA FOR FAIR, FULL AND ACCURATE FACTS. And no wonder.

DEMOCRAT POLLSTER FINDS DEMOCRATS NOW DOWN TO 35% APPROVAL, WHILE TRUMP IS AT 57% APPROVAL.

WISCONSIN’S DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR SUPPORTS BILL TO CHANGE THE WORD “MOTHER” TO “INSEMINATED PERSON” IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PARTY’S TRANS RELIGION. Continue reading

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