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FEBRUARY 2018

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

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OVERLOOKED NEWS STORIES FROM THAT MONTH – Another scandal from the Obama Administration saw Obama’s top attorney for I.C.E. plead guilty to wire fraud and to forging documents in order to open credit card and bank accounts under stolen identities. The court case had been dragging on for years, as so many do here in the U.S.

        All that plus 100,000 more non-citizens were found on the voter rolls, this time in Pennsylvania. Funny how it’s only Democrats who keep claiming such vote fraud isn’t a problem.

lying adam schiffSEX, LIES AND POLITICS – This February 2018 item dealt with the disgraced Congressman Adam Schiff actually falling for a scam in which he thought pranksters could provide him with compromising photos of Trump! Plus, Hillary Clinton on marriage.

STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS: 2018 – The nation was flying high.

FISA-GATE CONTINUED – F.B.I. = S.C.U.M.

MOCK HEADLINES ARE BACK – The comedy bit was back with mock headlines like “CNN CLAIMS NO CHILD’S PETS WOULD EVER DIE IF NOT FOR TRUMP” Continue reading

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MARCH 1776: NEGLECTED REVOLUTIONARY WAR MILITARY ACTION

With the 4th of July holiday fast approaching, Balladeer’s Blog offers readers another seasonal post regarding overlooked military actions, this time from March of 1776.

american rebel soldiersMARCH 1st – British troops led by Major John Maitland landed and took Cockspur Island at the mouth of the Savannah River in Georgia. The Redcoats clashed with American Militiamen and drove them off. Both sides were left with wounded men following the exchange of gunfire, but no fatalities are known.

MARCH 2nd and 3rd – The Battle of the Rice Boats, aka the Battle of Yamacraw Bluff, took place along the Savannah River and the border between Georgia and South Carolina. Six hundred men of America’s 1st Georgia Regiment under Colonel Lachlan McIntosh coordinated actions with 500 members of the South Carolina militia.

        american rebelsFour British warships, along with multiple smaller vessels, launched a joint land and sea effort to seize American rice ships in the area in order to feed the British forces. Over 300 British infantrymen took part in commandeering the rice boats by surprise overnight.

        Morning of March 3rd saw the American forces position their four artillery pieces at Yamacraw Bluff and open fire on the British vessels. Land forces of both nations fought it out in a battle that lasted over 4 hours. Continue reading

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BEST EVER NEWS, MEME AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: JUNE TWENTIETH

burisma bribingso ironicTHE DON’T MISS EDITION, as Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at some of the latest:

biden fam corrEVEN MORE ABOUT THE TEN MILLION DOLLARS THAT WAS SUSPICIOUSLY FUNNELED INTO BIDEN’S BANK ACCOUNT. It’s life here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.

AUDIO OF BIDEN TELLING POROSHENKO NOT TO WORRY ABOUT THE FBI. And I think we all know why.

BEYOND A BANANA REPUBLIC. “Either you see what’s happening to Trump as being about Trump or you see it being about a weaponized government planning to make any opposition a crime. Only one of those views is correct. You don’t have to be a Trump fan to see it’s the latter.”

STABBING: ANOTHER REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL STAFFER PHYSICALLY ATTACKED. Democrat media outlets yawn. Republican fools STILL lack sufficient media outlets.

witchfinder generalTHE POLITICAL PERSECUTION TEAM HOUNDING TRUMP GETS CALLED OUT FOR PREVIOUS ILLEGAL ACTS INCLUDING WIRETAPPING. And a witness payoff scheme HERE. Have I mentioned lately that America’s political system is a cesspool of corruption which masquerades as a government?

now do you seeINTERESTING PIECE TITLED “OUR BROKEN SYSTEM NEEDS DISRUPTION AND TRUMP IS THE DISRUPTOR”.

DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS TARGET COURAGEOUS DEMOCRAT ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. TO PROTECT THE UNFIT JOE BIDEN. “The Party” will do to RFK Jr. what it did to Tulsi Gabbard in 2020. They’ll do it to Third Party candidates, too HERE.

burisma execs whoREPUBLICAN PARTY PUNDITS STILL SNIVELING ABOUT UNFAIR MEDIA TREATMENT RATHER THAN TAKING STEPS TO EXPAND THEIR MEDIA REACH. There is no defense for this ongoing Republican failure at this point.

AND YET ANOTHER MEDIA LIE ABOUT TRUMP GOES DOWN IN FLAMES. The petty spitefulness of the American media is unreal. Continue reading

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2023 JUNETEENTH – MARKING THE DAY DEMOCRATS LOST THEIR SLAVES

Democrats KKKIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog wishes you a happy Juneteenth, commemorating the day Democrats lost their slaves. (Only Democrats owned slaves.) African-Americans continue fighting for their freedom from the Democrats, who today treat people of color like they still own them and that they MUST vote for Democrats and ONLY Democrats. Democrat Joe Biden, embodying the grotesque hypocrisy of that detestable political party, EULOGIZED A KLANSMAN – DEMOCRAT SENATOR ROBERT BYRD – yet Biden thinks he’s fit to give finger-wagging lectures to the rest of us.

And y’know what? I’ve managed to go my whole life without ever knowing a Klansman let alone praising them after their death. But a piece of garbage like Joe Biden – whose racial slurs and other incidents of racist behavior are legion – presumes to elevate himself above the nation at large as if he’s some sort of High Priest of Racial Awareness. I’m neither a Democrat nor a Republican, so I’m not being partisan when I point out that Joe Biden is the herpes sore on the Body Politic.

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Hillary Clinton with the Klansman she called one of her “mentors” – fellow Democrat Robert Byrd.

In further commemoration of Juneteenth here’s some more reminders about Democrats: the party of slavery, Dred Scott, the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow and so much more. None of us choose the skin color we were born with or what country we were born in but we can certainly choose what political party we are or are not associated with. Do you still choose to belong to the party of the Democrats after all their crimes against humanity? #WALKAWAY and become an Independent Voter . Continue reading

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HAPPY BLOOM’S DAY 2023!

jamesjoyceYes, it’s the 16th of June, better known to James Joyce geeks like me as Bloom’s Day. The day is named in honor of Leopold Bloom, the advertising sales rep and Freemason who is one of the major characters in Joyce’s novel Ulysses. The novel also brings along Stephen Dedalus, the protagonist of his earlier novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

For those unfamiliar with this work, Ulysses is Joyce’s stream-of-consciousness novel in which he metaphorically features the events from the Odyssey in a single day – June 16th, 1904, in Dublin. (The day he met Nora Barnacle, the woman he would eventually marry after living together for decades)

Bloom represents Ulysses/Odysseus, Stephen represents Telemachus and Leopold’s wife, Molly Bloom, represents Penelope. Continue reading

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JANUARY 2018

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trump over media biasDON SURBER ON TRUMP’S FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE

FACEBOOK IS FAKEBOOK. Even in 2018 Facebook’s facade was crumbling.

TRANSGRESS WITH ME: JANUARY 29th. Are you brave enough for this?

g men mock cover“THE PARTY’S” ATROCITY ROUNDUP. Back in 2018 the FBI’s fake Russian Collusion nonsense had already been exposed. Plus vote fraud and more.

BLOCKBUSTER DEVELOPMENTS. A CBS poll showed President Trump’s support among African-American voters more than doubling since he took office. And in the election of 2016 he got more of the African-American vote than any Republican in decades. All that and more.

ONE MAN ALONE AGAINST BOTH CORRUPT POLITICAL PARTIES. Republican trash like Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Chris Christie and all the stuffy white males at National Review continue proving President Trump’s status as a de facto Third Party President. Continue reading

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AMERICAN REVOLUTION: JANUARY 8th to 28th, 1776

With the July 4th holiday fast approaching, Balladeer’s Blog offers readers another seasonal post regarding overlooked military actions.

america rebelsJANUARY 8th, 1776 – In Charlestown, Massachusetts, British troops and American Tories were attending a performance of General John Burgoyne’s play The Blockade of Boston. The play was a farce ridiculing the supposed inadequacies of the American rebels. An unknown number of American soldiers carried out a raid on the town, panicking the theater audience, capturing 5 British soldiers and destroying 8 Tory buildings.

JANUARY 12th – At Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, the HMS Glasgow and HMS Sloop Swan landed 250 British soldiers and Marines. The Brits clashed with approximately 50 American men of Richmond’s Regiment and forced them to retreat. Throughout the night the Redcoats pillaged supplies, stole livestock away to the two ships and burned down homes and barns.

JANUARY 13th – After daybreak, Captain William Barton led 60 men from Richmond’s Regiment in an attack on the British. Gunfire was exchanged for over 3 hours, with several men from other Rhode Island units crossing the bay to reinforce their fellow rebels. Ultimately, the Brits were forced to end their pillaging and burning and to retreat to the two warships, having suffered at least 14 dead and an unknown number of injured. Continue reading

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JUNE 13th NEWS, POLITICAL CARTOONS AND MEMES

trump was presAs always, Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at some current events. 

COURAGEOUS TULSI GABBARD SPEAKS OUT ON HOW THE WAR ON TRUMP ENDANGERS DEMOCRACY.

EVEN MORE EXPLOSIVE REVELATIONS ABOUT JOE BIDEN’S BRIBERY SCANDAL AND THE FBI COVERUP. It’s life here in Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.

JOE BIDEN’S SECRETARY OF ENERGY ADMITS LYING UNDER OATH, BUT NO CONSEQUENCES. More HERE. Meanwhile, the Democrats pursue convictions on the slightest pretext.

INFLATION OUTRACES WAGES FOR THE TWENTY-SIXTH MONTH IN A ROW UNDER JOE BIDEN’S DISASTROUS ECONOMIC POLICIES. Biden’s war on the working class and the poor continues.

biden unleashed theTHE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY’S TWENTY SHELL COMPANIES.

JIM JORDAN’S PASSIONATE DEFENSE OF TRUMP

VENTRY: ANOTHER SCAM INDICTMENT AGAINST TRUMP.

IT’S BIDEN’S GOONS, NOT TRUMP, VIOLATING CONSTITUTIONAL NORMS.

DEMOCRAT FASCISM ROLLS ALONG.

ANOTHER ITEM ON THE DEMOCRATS ABANDONING THE WORKING CLASS. Continue reading

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THE TIRED REFRAIN OF ANTI-TRUMP FASCISTS

biden bribery scandalHere at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog I’ve written about the rival gangs of white-collar criminals called Democrats and Republicans since long before de facto Third-Party President Donald Trump announced his candidacy in 2015.

Since then, the mere existence of a viable candidate who was NOT a made member of the criminal cabals called the Democrat and Republican parties has fueled hysterical anti-Trump panic from the two major parties and their media outlets.

biden tax returnsWhether you like or hate Donald Trump is irrelevant – it became clear long ago that the cesspool of corruption which masquerades as America’s political system is targeting Trump to make a public example of any non-career politician who dares to oppose the establishment.

So, we once again see the corporate fascist Biden regime hurling another meaningless, unfounded indictment against Donald Trump, this time on the same day that the latest evidence of the Joe Biden bribery scandal was produced. Not exactly subtle.
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DECEMBER 2017

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corinne brown and hillary clintonCORINNE BROWN, DEMOCRAT CONGRESSIONAL REP FROM FLORIDA, SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR RUNNING A FAKE CHARITY AND SPENDING THE MONEY IT RAISED ON HERSELF AND ASSOCIATES. Have I mentioned lately that American political figures are career white-collar criminals?

BRIAN ROSS OF ABC NEWS SUSPENDED FOR FOUR WEEKS WITHOUT PAY OVER HIS FAKE NEWS REPORT ABOUT TRUMP. AND JOY BEHAR FORCED TO WALK BACK HER REMARKS CLAIMING THE NEWS WAS TRUE! Yes, in 2017 the hysterical anti-Trump media outlets still had a shred of integrity left, so some consequences were paid when they lied. Since then, even that shred evaporated.

elizabeth warren paysPRESIDENT TRUMP RESTORES MEALTIME CHOICES TO STUDENTS. And more news …

IN 2017 THE KATE STEINLE CASE GAVE THE COUNTRY A SMALL TASTE OF THE CRIMES THAT DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY CITIES” WOULD UNLEASH ON US. Continue reading

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