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ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS: MAY 28th

From the corrupt political cesspool called Joe Biden’s America it’s another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

biden crime family shirtBIDEN CRIME FAMILY: ASSOCIATE OF JOE BIDEN’S BROTHER JAMES PLEADS GUILTY IN DEFRAUDING MEDICARE OF FIFTY-ONE MILLION DOLLARS. White-collar criminals in action. Meanwhile the Biden Regime continues persecuting the opposition leader with kangaroo court trials. 

JOE BIDEN’S LATEST SCANDAL: WITNESS INTIMIDATION REGARDING HIS UNDERBOSS HUNTER BIDEN’S UPCOMING TRIAL. Tara Reade, Joe Biden’s rape accuser, was probably right to flee the country in fear for her life. The Biden Regime is criminal trash.

DEMOCRAT JAMES CARVILLE COURAGEOUSLY CALLS OUT THE PARTY’S GROTESQUE BEHAVIOR. A few excerpts – “The generational thievery that has occurred in this country is criminality of the first order. We keep wondering why these young people are not coming home to the Democrats. Why are blacks not coming home to the Democrats?”

          student loans biden And especially “Why are we forgiving student loans for people that go to Harvard? Which, according to Scott Galloway, quite accurately, is nothing but a hedge fund that has classrooms. Well, they got a $52 billion f*cking surplus. Why are taxpayers going to bail these people out? Why don’t you come out with a proposal to tax every university with an endowment of over $5 billion and use that money to give their former students relief?”     

           WOW! Those remarks make me miss the days when the Democrat Party was actually worth supporting. And Carville forgot to mention that the Supreme Court already ruled that Biden does NOT have the authority to forgive these debts, but he just keeps on doing it while the impotent Congressional Republicans do nothing.

behizyVOTERS OF COLOR PRAISE TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS AT THE BRONX RALLY. Video HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE. My favorite one was when the reporter tried to steer the Bronx resident into making an anti-Trump remark but she wouldn’t do it. Second favorite was the breakdown of how much better off the country and the world were with Trump in the White House.

           DEMOCRAT SNOBBERY TOWARD THOSE SUPPORTERS HERE and HERE and HERE    

MARINE WIDOW WARMLY RECALLS THE COMFORT THAT DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP GAVE HER SON AT HIS FATHER’S GRAVE IN 2017. Wasn’t it nice to have a president who actually understood what Memorial Day is about?   Continue reading

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MEDAL OF HONOR WINNERS FOR AMERICA’S INVOLVEMENT IN THE SECOND SAMOAN CIVIL WAR (1898-1899)

HAVE A RESPECTFUL MEMORIAL DAY, EVERYONE! I like to honor American veterans from some of our nation’s overlooked military actions since their service often seems forgotten. This year it’s the Second Samoan Civil War (1898-1899).

american samoaTHE CONFLICT – On August 22nd, 1898 Malietoa Laupepa passed away. He had been the ruling King of Samoa by agreements among the German Empire, Great Britain and the United States. With his passing, the U.S. and Great Britain supported the ascension of his son Malietoa Tanumafili to the throne. The Germans supported Mata’afa Iosefo, a former rival of the late king who returned from exile.

Neither side would yield, and the three nations began reinforcing their military positions in the Samoan Islands to fight the imminent war. By January of 1899 Malietoa Tanumafili had been driven into exile by the Germans and their Samoan allies. The German-Mata’afan forces began forcibly removing Americans and Europeans from their homes.   Continue reading

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NOVEMBER 2021: A LOOK BACK

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

freedom of expression is a human rightDEFENDING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY. Also covers Biden eliminating Trump’s Department of Education policy which tracked the outrageous number of sex crimes committed by teachers. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

DEMOCRATS ARE AGAIN ENCOURAGING RIOTS IF A JURY REACHES A VERDICT THEY DON’T LIKE. Only Democrat fascists would be so deranged that they would think the white Kyle Rittenhouse shooting other white people is somehow “White Supremacy.” Tulsi Gabbard and others weigh in, too.

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY UNDERBOSS HUNTER BIDEN PROFITED FROM HIS FATHER JOE’S SUBMISSION TO CHINA. And remember how entangled Joe and Hunter’s finances are.

joe biden is so creepyJOE BIDEN: A FAILURE AND AN EMBARRASSMENT. Among other items, features more excerpts from Ashley Biden’s diary about her creepy, lecherous father Joe Biden – as in “Was I molested? I think so” and she also mentions taking “probably not appropriate” showers with her father when she was a child and incapable of consent.

BIDEN REGIME CORRUPTION AND SCANDAL ROUNDUP: NOVEMBER 23rd.

MORE ABOUT HUNTER’S ROLE IN BIDEN REGIME CORRUPTION. And more HERE.

steele dossierAUSTRALIAN NEWS IS ALSO COVERING THE DEBUNKING OF THE “RUSSIAN COLLUSION” LIES AGAINST TRUMP. Just as they will someday cover the debunking of the latest lies and lawfare against Trump.

JOE BIDEN DISASTERS PILE UP. Biden’s Afghanistan hostages, the impeachment articles introduced against the career criminal and more. Continue reading

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THE 1926 AERIAL BOMBING IN ILLINOIS … BY GANGSTERS

two seater biplaneGANGSTER WARFARE FROM THE SKIES – November 12th of 1926 saw the very first aerial bombing on United States soil. It was not a foreign power or terrorist group behind the attack, however.

The bombing was part of a gang war between two rival groups of bootleggers in Williamson County, located in southern Illinois. On one side was the Shelton Gang, led by Bernie, Carl and Earl Shelton. On the other was the Birger Gang, led by Charlie Birger.

birger gang at shady restThe two gangs were fighting it out for control of the bootleg whiskey racket in the area. Being so far away from Chicago and vicinity, the Shelton-Birger War was not well known to the rest of the United States. 

By some accounts, the falling out between the formerly allied gangs resulted over protection payments being made to them by suppliers of bootleg whiskey. When both gangs claimed some of the same bootleggers owed the protection money to them the rift occurred and the bullets flew.
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MAY 22nd ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

From an America whose corporate media will offer up the kind of gushingly reverent praise of a dead Iranian official responsible for the imprisonment and torture of untold numbers of people that they will NEVER offer up for any dead opposition party President or official, it’s another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

Stop Democrat ViolenceDEMOCRAT BIOLOGICAL AGENT ATTACK TARGETED AT TRUMP. I’m not even surprised at this point. Will the Democrats “denounce” this act the way they would demand that Trump denounce any similar action against his opponent? I doubt it.

ANTI-TRUMP PROPAGANDA FILM FABRICATES RAPE OF IVANA BY HER HUSBAND. IVANA PASSIONATELY SAID THAT NEVER HAPPENED. But anti-Trump fascists will use any lies that they want to try to destroy the opposition leader. And their ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable followers will believe – or pretend to believe – whatever The Party orders them to. 

fbi and doj mugging justicePRO-TRUMP WITNESS THROWN FROM COURTROOM IN MERCHAN’S KANGAROO COURT SPEAKS OUT ON THE DEVASTATING TESTIMONY THAT MERCHAN WANTS KEPT FROM THE JURORS.

VETERAN LEGAL SCHOLAR ALAN DERSHOWITZ AGAIN BLASTS MERCHAN’S OUTRAGEOUS PREJUDICIAL CONDUCT. Another legal scholar weighs in HERE.

OVER FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN CASH AND ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN GOLD BARS FOUND BY AUTHORITIES AT DEMOCRAT SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ’S HOME. Have I mentioned lately what career criminals America’s elected officials tend to be? Continue reading

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FOOL KILLER: THE BEGINNING

Fool Killer wardrobeOver five years ago Balladeer’s Blog began a detailed look at the neglected folklore surrounding the Fool Killer figure. It’s been a while since I left off and I’m about to dive back in. There are so many new readers here that I’m posting a recap of the very first Fool Killer item from the 1850s. Next time I’ll resume where I left off – in 1913. 

Fool Killer illustrationBalladeer’s Blog kicks off a multi-part examination of the neglected 1800s folk figure called the Fool Killer. I will cover the various stories featuring the Fool Killer and the different ways the character was used by the authors. If I ever examine the related character called the Rascal Whaler it will be in a separate series of blog posts.

NOTE: FOOL KILLER LORE IS STRICTLY FOR ADULTS. IT IS NOT FOR THOSE WHO ARE SIMPLE-MINDEDLY OFFENDED BY ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING. 

The Fool Killer stories began in 1850s North Carolina. Charles Napoleon Bonaparte Evans, editor of the newspaper called The Milton Chronicle, introduced the character around 1851 (some sources say as early as the late 1840s). If Evans had been a political cartoonist he might have used the Fool Killer as his mascot, like the figure Punch over in England or Puck here in the U.S.

Skull walking stick 3However, since Evans was all about the written word, he used the Fool Killer as a much more active figure. Evans’ Fool Killer – claiming Jesse Holmes as his real name – roamed North Carolina and Virginia (which at the time still consisted of what would become West Virginia) looking for fools to kill with a club/ walking stick he always carried with him. The character would then send letters to Editor Evans explaining why he had chosen victims, defending his actions with puckish commentary.

I’ve always been struck by the similarity with the way real-life serial killers would correspond with newspapers, explaining and/or defending their deeds. In the case of Charles Evans’ Fool Killer, it was Evans himself writing the letters as if they were pieces of correspondence that “Jesse Holmes” sent to him.

The killings never happened, of course, and were simply Evans’ way of using political commentary in an entertaining way. Instead of high-brow social criticism, the Fool Killer Letters were very dark satire in which the mock author of the letters bashed the life out of corrupt politicians and other malefactors. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: MAY TWENTIETH

From Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog it’s another current events roundup here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.

tim scottPRO-TRUMP SENATOR TIM SCOTT IS THE LATEST TO REMIND THE PUBLIC ABOUT JOE BIDEN’S CLOSE TIES TO KU KLUX KLAN MEMBER & DEMOCRAT SENATOR ROBERT BYRD. Biden even eulogized Byrd, whom Hillary Clinton called a “mentor.” 

COURAGEOUS MOREHOUSE COLLEGE GRADUATES TURN THEIR BACKS ON THE EXECRABLE JOE BIDEN DURING HIS SPEECH. More HERE.

BIDEN REGIME ESTABLISHES SANCTUARIES FOR RUSSIAN FORCES ATTACKING UKRAINE. Well, after all, Putin’s accomplice Joe Biden also told war criminal Putin before the war that a small incursion would be fine.

VETERAN LEGAL SCHOLAR ALAN DERSHOWITZ EVISCERATES “JUDGE” MERCHAN’S OPENLY PREJUDICIAL CONDUCT IN TRUMP POLITICAL TRIAL/ TRAVESTY. Democrats have given us a country in which the biases of judges overrule justice.

ashley biden diary quoteTHE DEMOCRATS AT SNOPES FINALLY GET AROUND TO NOTING AS “TRUE” THE ITEM ABOUT JOE BIDEN’S DAUGHTER ASHLEY’S DIARY. THE ONE IN WHICH SHE WROTE ABOUT HER PREDATORY FATHER JOE TAKING “INAPPROPRIATE” SHOWERS WITH HER WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD. AND STATED THAT SHE HAD “PROBABLY” BEEN ABUSED. AND STARTED SHOWERING AT ODD TIMES TO AVOID LECHEROUS JOE.

CALIFORNIA COLLEGE HOLDS FIVE SEGREGATED GRADUATIONS. Bigoted Democrats bring back segregation. Continue reading

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OCTOBER 2021: LOOKING BACK

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

EVERYBODY BELIEVES THEY ARE ON “THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY.” Ridiculing the absurd Democrat belief that they know how the people of the future will view the events of the present. 

unfit and pathetic bidenNEW YORK TIMES: BIDEN’S INFLATION CONTINUES TO CRUSH THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR. All that plus more.

JOE BIDEN ATROCITY ROUNDUP: OCTOBER 25th. – Biden disasters and scandals.

stalin vote quotePOLL: FIFTY-SIX PERCENT BELIEVE CHEATING AFFECTED THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL RESULTS – And this was back in November of 2021. The percentage has gone up since then as more and more comes to light.

MORE JOE BIDEN SCANDALS AND MORE EXPOSES ABOUT THE TAINTED 2020 ELECTION. Continue reading

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MAY SEVENTEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog brings you another current events roundup from Joe Biden’s dung heap of corporate fascism.

unfit joe bidenBIDEN REGIME STILL FIGHTING THE RELEASE OF THE TRANSCRIPT OF HIS QUESTIONING REGARDING THE INVESTIGATIONS INTO ILLEGAL BEHAVIOR. I don’t know why they bother since Slow Joe has already been declared mentally unfit to stand trial. Remember that from a while back?

joe biden is aBIDEN CRIME FAMILY: EVEN MORE SECRET BANK ACCOUNTS EXPOSED. More HERE. Life in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.

MICHAEL COHEN’S LIES GET EXPOSED AS HE TAKES THE STAND IN THE POLITICAL SHOW TRIAL AGAINST TRUMP. More HERE, and HERE, and HERE. Also, HERE.

president trumpYET ANOTHER LOOK AT HOW DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S POLICIES AIDED THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR. He was the greatest president of my lifetime for the working class and the poor. The Democrats abandoned them long ago.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CAUGHT TRYING TO BREAK INTO U.S. MILITARY BASE. Life in Joe Biden’s America.

AN INTERESTING PIECE ABOUT THE UNRELENTING WAY THAT DEMOCRATS TRY TO DICTATE EVERY ACTION THAT PEOPLE CAN AND CANNOT DO. Thank their shrill, hysterical pretense that people having the freedom to disagree with them on ANY issue is a threat that must be crushed by the government. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: MAY 14th

From corrupt authoritarian Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy, Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog brings you another current events roundup.

kangaroo courtPARALEGAL TESTIFIES THAT TRUMP PERSECUTOR ALVIN BRAGG’S OFFICE TAMPERED WITH EVIDENCE, DELETED RECORDS FROM THE TRUMP CASE FILES. More HERE. Democrats continue to make a martyr out of de facto Third Party President Donald Trump.

EVEN DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET EMPLOYEE FAREED ZAKARIA OF CNN ADMITS THE TRUMP CASE IS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED. Joe Biden made America the kind of country where political opposition leaders get prosecuted. Zakaria’s other remarks insulting Biden HERE.

lawrence taylor endorses trumpNEW YORK’S LAWRENCE TAYLOR ENDORSES DONALD TRUMP AMID HIS TARGETING BY AMERICA’S CORRUPT POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT. More HERE. Taylor even said “I’ve always been a Democrat until I met this man (President Donald Trump) right here.” 

THE BIDEN REGIME’S NIGER MILITARY DEBACLE STILL ONGOING. How many American hostages will be taken this time?

Slovenly judge

An arrested drunk? Nope, it’s the alleged judge.

NEW CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS AGAINST ANTI-TRUMP POLITICAL HACK ARTHUR ENGORON. Engoron is one of the reasons people consider elected judges to be unfit from the start.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT DEPORTED UNDER TRUMP GETS LET BACK IN UNDER BIDEN, NOW CHARGED IN THE DEATH OF A THREE-MONTH OLD. Career criminal Joe Biden has so much to answer for.

PAUL KRUGMAN, AUTHOR OF JOE BIDEN FAN-FICTION, GETS HILARIOUSLY ROASTED BY MATT TAIBBI. Krugman is wrong over and over, but remains pompous about it. Continue reading

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