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NEWS, POLITICAL CARTOONS AND MEMES ROUNDUP: MARCH EIGHTH

biden ownedToo many developments news-wise for Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog not to take another look.

EVEN SWING-STATE DEMOCRATS COURAGEOUSLY CALL OUT JOE BIDEN FOR “HARMING AMERICAN WORKERS” WITH HIS TARIFF WAIVERS FOR CHINA. As is frequently noted, buying Joe Biden was the best investment ever made by China’s government.

democrat lies on j6EVIDENCE THAT THE DEMOCRATS REFUSED TO REVEAL FURTHER PROVES THAT THERE WAS NO “INSURRECTION” (LMAO) ON JANUARY SIXTH. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. Only far-gone political zealots were ever foolish enough to believe it.

democrat j6 muskREPUBLICAN ADAM KINZINGER BLASTED FOR HIS LIES. Utterly shamed as he blusters and sputters.

CNN EXPOSED FOR DISPUTING THE COVID LAB LEAK THEORY IN 2020 JUST BECAUSE TRUMP WAS AMONG THOSE CITING IT. More HERE. Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. Continue reading

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POLITICAL CARTOON AND MEME ROUNDUP: FEBRUARY 24th

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at some of the latest political cartoons and memes, many about Joe Biden, the man who keeps decreasing your 401k.

Up first is this reminder that for years before Joe Biden gave war criminal Vlad Putin the okay for “a minor incursion” into Ukraine, the Bidens were being investigated for their family’s corruption in Ukraine.

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A PRESIDENTS DAY POST

trump group photoIn the past, Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog has posted items regarding all the presidents, all the vice presidents, overlooked secretaries of state, etc. This year I’m going with something different, because there is always something so intriguing about contemporary coverage of presidents.

Take a trip back to the election of 2016. In the immediate aftermath, the Democrats were actually beginning to do some necessary introspection over their alienation of the working class and the poor. Unfortunately, unhinged Hillary Clinton supporters derailed that in place of their ridiculous “Russian Collusion” nonsense which has been disproven over and over and over again.

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Trump never called racist til running against DemocratsBERNIE SANDERS SUPPORTERS WHO ARE VOTING FOR TRUMP.

SANDERS SUPPORTERS CALL OUT THE MEDIA’S LIE ABOUT WHAT TRUMP SAID ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.

THE HYPOCRISY OF TRUMP-HATERS.

BERNIE SANDERS PRAISES TRUMP’S APPEAL TO THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR.

PROS AND CONS OF TRUMP’S ELECTION.

DEMOCRAT JIM WEBB CALLS OUT THE DEMOCRATS FOR LOSING THE WORKING CLASS TO TRUMP.

JEREMY PETERS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS OUT DEMOCRAT CLUELESSNESS ABOUT TRUMP’S VICTORY.

BERNIE SANDERS LOOKS AT HOW TRUMP GOT THE WORKING CLASS VOTE. Continue reading

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PRESIDENTS AND PRESIDENTS DAY

Presidents Day weekend is fast approaching, so here are several articles about America’s executive branch. 

democrat republican otherAMERICAN PRESIDENTS FROM EISENHOWER TO TRUMP – Be forewarned that my takes on U.S. Presidents can offend members of both major parties since I’m an Independent Voter. Anyway, don’t try accusing me of belonging to either party. I go after both sides’ presidents. Click HERE

U.S. PRESIDENTS FROM WASHINGTON ONWARD – If you want takes on our presidents from the very beginning this is the post for you. Click HERE.

VICE PRESIDENTS: JOKES ABOUT THESE ULTIMATE SECOND BANANAS – Prefer to see jokes about America’s various Vice Presidents instead? Click HERE.

THE FOUR MOST INCOMPETENT PRESIDENTS IN HISTORY – There are two Republicans and two Democrats on the list. Click HERE.

1912: BATTLE OF THE THREE PRESIDENTS – My take on the 1912 election, which pitted Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft against each other. Click HERE.

FIVE MOST UNQUALIFIED PRESIDENTS IN HISTORY – This post does not go by how these presidents performed in office, just their levels of experience before the presidency. Click HERE. Continue reading

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POLITICAL CARTOON AND MEME ROUNDUP: FEBRUARY 15th

democrat republican or awakeIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at some of the most recent political cartoons. We need independent parties.

This first one is a reminder of how Joe Biden invited the Russian invasion of Ukraine with his public remark that a “minor incursion” by Russia into Ukraine would be acceptable. So much blood on this man’s hands.

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The Washington Jeff Bezos Post is ribbed in the item below about how monumentally wrong they have been with so many stories on their front page while burying corrections in the back pages.

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Up next is this reminder that under Biden’s predecessor inflation was only at 1.4%. Joe Biden’s disastrous policies caused the skyrocketing inflation. 

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Below is a terrific depiction of political hypocrisy. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: FEBRUARY 13th

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at some of the latest news, etc.

james carvilleDEMOCRATS STILL POMPOUSLY SNOBBISH AS JAMES CARVILLE CLAIMS “THE LEVEL OF WHITE TRASHDOM IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS STAGGERING.” Anyone who has ever heard Carville speak knows that he sounds (and looks) like the most stereotypical in-bred hick imaginable. For the umpteenth time I will point out that one of the reasons so many of us have left the Democrat Party is because they have become such pompous snobs, cowardly hypocrites and hilariously pretentious fools, just like James Carville.

JOE BIDEN’S WAR ON THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR CONTINUES AS HIS DISASTROUS POLICIES LEAVE AVERAGE AMERICANS STRUGGLING TO MAKE THEIR MONTHLY PAYMENTS.

eric adamsDEMOCRAT ERIC ADAMS COURAGEOUSLY CALLS OUT THE INTOLERANT EXTREMISTS WHO HAVE “HIJACKED” THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.

NEW JERSEY MAYOR AND TOWNSHIP COUNCIL LEAVE THE DEMOCRATS TO BECOME REPUBLICANS. I would have preferred that they become Independents instead, but leaving the increasingly fascistic Democrats is a good move. “Municipal leaders have a responsibility to best represent their constituents, and it is our belief this change of party is in the best interest of the community,” said Mayor Pannullo.

biden owned by china againHORRIBLE JANUARY JOBS REPORT REFLECTS FURTHER FAILURE ON JOE BIDEN’S PART.

BIDENFLATION ACCELERATED IN JANUARY. Biden’s war on the working class and the poor rolls along.

COURAGEOUS FEMALE ROLE MODEL TULSI GABBARD CUTS BLOATED REPUBLICAN RICH PIG MITT ROMNEY DOWN TO SIZE.

SIXTY-EIGHT PERCENT OF THE ACTIVE U.S. MILITARY CALLS OUT THE BIDEN REGIME’S POLITICIZATION OF THE ARMED FORCES. Political litmus tests from the Democrats invade all spheres of American life now.

fascist antifaINTERNATIONAL HATE GROUP ANTIFA MEMBERS ARRESTED AFTER BEATING A MAN IN BUDAPEST. They’re really KLANtifa.

DOZENS MORE FBI AGENTS COME FORWARD TO BLOW THE WHISTLE ON THE BUREAU’S POLITICIZATION BY DEMOCRATS.

EVEN MORE EVIDENCE COMES OUT ABOUT HOW THE BIDEN REGIME ARRANGED THE POINTLESS MAR-A-LAGO RAID TO SOFTEN UP THE PUBLIC FOR BIDEN’S SOON TO BE REVEALED CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS SCANDAL. Continue reading

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NON-DILLINGER – QUICK TAKES ON OTHER GANGSTERS OF HIS ERA

With John Dillinger folklore given WAY too much attention, Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at some of the legends versus the ugly reality regarding some of his contemporary gangsters. 

Two Gun Crowley biggerTWO-GUN CROWLEY

Real Name: Francis Crowley

Birth – Death: October 31st, 1912 – January 21st, 1932

Lore: Crowley was supposedly born out of wedlock to a German-American woman and a New York police officer who refused to marry Crowley’s mother. This supposedly accounts for his intense hatred of the police.

Reality: Such shallow, Pulp Magazine thinking doesn’t seem likely. The young man was adopted by a family in which Francis grew up alongside a cop-killing older brother named John Crowley. John himself would be killed in a battle with police.

This background seems a more likely explanation for Francis’ issues than some mythical hatred of an unknown father who abandoned him and his mother. 

Two Gun Crowley in bedCriminal Career: By age 19, Crowley had a reputation as a competent holdup man and hit & run armed robber who never slipped up enough for a conviction. He might have escaped suspicion entirely if not for his excessively belligerent attitude when questioned by authorities.     

On February 21st, 1931 Crowley, packing the omnipresent pair of hand-guns that earned him his nickname, crashed an American Legion dance in the Bronx. Two-Gun was accompanied by a pair of male accomplices, one of whom was believed to be frequent associate Rudolph “Fats” Durringer.

When the Legionnaires attempted to expel the uninvited trio Crowley whipped out his pair of firearms and opened fire, wounding at least two innocent men before fleeing. With charges of attempted murder now hanging over his head, Two-Gun was about to enter the busiest period of his career. Continue reading

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JAMES JOYCE!

jamesjoyceHAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JAMES JOYCE! His works got me hooked in my teens when I really related to his character Stephen Dedalus as he rejected his religion and indulged what I call his “young and pretentious side” in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). I wore out my copy of Joyce’s novel Ulysses (1922) and continue to mark Bloom’s Day to this very day.

Over the years Finnegans Wake (1939) replaced Ulysses as my favorite Joyce novel and I’m fonder than many people are of his play Exiles (1918). Continue reading

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ARIZONA’S RED GHOST (1883-1893)

red gh of arizonaARIZONA’S RED GHOST – From 1883 to 1893 Arizona was the home to multiple sightings of a monstrous four-legged creature with red fur ridden by a skeletal man or ghost. Unlike most legends that center around ghosts or cryptids, this one ends with physical remains and a rational explanation grounded in history.

Let’s start with the first documented encounter with the Red Ghost aka Fantasia Colorado in the spring of 1883. Near Eagle’s Ridge, AZ a pair of men left their ranch house to check on their cattle. Their wives and children were together in one house for safety while they were gone.

One of the wives went out to get water from a nearby spring and soon a blood-curdling scream was heard as well as sounds of physical violence. The second wife looked out a window and saw “a huge, reddish colored beast” ridden by “a devilish looking creature.” She ran outside and found the first wife’s body dead, trampled nearly flat and surrounded by several prints left by what seemed to be cloven hooves.

masc graveyard smallerWhen the two husbands returned, they saw the woman’s remains and followed the tracks until they petered out, finding red fur in bushes and tree branches along the path of whatever had killed the unfortunate wife. The Mohave County Miner newspaper stated that the coroner’s report found that the death had happened by “some manner unknown”.

Mere days later, the beast and its ghastly rider were responsible for rampaging through a miner’s camp late one night. Once again, odd footprints that were too large for a horse and tufts of red fur were left behind. Already, the human tendency toward embellishment was creeping in, as the miners claimed the Red Ghost was thirty feet tall. Continue reading

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NINETEEN MARTIN LUTHER KING PEOPLE OF COURAGE

For this holiday weekend here are nineteen Martin Luther King People of Courage in this seasonal favorite. Their bravery and fortitude in the face of all the racist hostility and threats they get from Democrats is very inspiring. 

lloyd-marcus-2LLOYD MARCUS – Balladeer’s Blog has previously showcased items by the courageous Lloyd Marcus. Here he is absolutely nailing it when it comes to the rot and sickness which have driven so many of us away from the Democrats. The link is below, but first some excerpts: Continue reading

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