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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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JANUARY 13th IN HISTORY

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Today is January 13th, which also happens to be a Friday. On past instances of Friday the 13th, Balladeer’s Blog has done posts about the 1907 novel Friday the 13th, about the PRE-Jason Voorhees Friday the 13th horror movie, about one of the 50 Shades of Grey movies hitting theaters on Friday the 13th, and about the airing of Friday the 13th Part 3D on an old movie host show in the 1980s.

For today, I’ll take a look at noteworthy events on other January 13ths, most of which were not Fridays, but what the hell?

888 A.D. – Charles the Fat’s successor, Count Odo of Paris assumes the throne as King of West Francia.

1404 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Multipliers, making it illegal for alchemists to use their abilities to transmute lesser substances into precious metals. The outdated and buffoonish Paul Krugman probably believes that such legislation is still necessary.

1605 – The satirical comedy Eastward Ho!, by Ben Jonson and two co-authors, offends England’s King James, who has two of the authors imprisoned. Here in 2023 it is mostly emotional cripples on social media that want people imprisoned or worse for offending them.    Continue reading →

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS: JANUARY 11th

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at some of the latest in current events.

biden regime dumpster fireKARMIC JUSTICE: UNFIT JOE BIDEN BESIEGED BY HIS OWN CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS SCANDAL – ONE THAT IS ACTUALLY REAL AND IS FAR WORSE THAN THE ONE HIS CORRUPT FBI TRIED TO PIN ON TRUMP. Hilarious! More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And HERE.

And remember, even the Democrats at the Jeff Bezos Post were forced to admit Trump was cleared of any wrongdoing in the atrocious Mar-a-Lago raid.

biden ordered through the mailBUNGLING BIDEN LEFT CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS WITH HIS “THINK TANK” THAT RECEIVED FIFTY-FOUR POINT SIX MILLION DOLLARS IN “CONTRIBUTIONS” (yeah, right) FROM CHINA.

BIDEN REGIME CALLED OUT OVER COVERING UP THIS CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS SCANDAL UNTIL AFTER THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS. Joe Biden is unfit, illegit and entirely corrupt.

Biden clownCONGRESS TO FINALLY RELEASE 14,000 HOURS OF JANUARY 6th FOOTAGE THAT DEMOCRATS HAVE KEPT HIDDEN. So, expect additional exculpatory evidence to be forthcoming.

OHIO BECOMES THE LATEST STATE TO TAKE FURTHER MEASURES AGAINST VOTE FRAUD. Here’s hoping that the corrupt voting antics from the forever-tainted 2020 election never happen again if more states take action like this. Continue reading →

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NEWS ROUNDUP: DECEMBER 26th

Christmas is a great time to take a break from the harsh realities of the daily headlines, but today Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog dives back into current events with this latest news roundup.

biden gestapoFURTHER REVELATIONS ABOUT HOW THE FBI (Fuggedda Bout Integrity), the CIA AND OTHER GESTAPO-LIKE ORGANIZATIONS USED SOCIAL MEDIA TO CENSOR THE REST OF US. More HERE. And HERE.

SEVEN OF JOE BIDEN’S BIGGEST LIES OF 2022.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COUNSELOR SENTENCED TO TWENTY-FIVE YEARS FOR EXPLOITING UNDERAGE GIRLS. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

SURVEY: MAJORITY OF AMERICANS FEEL THAT BIDEN’S DISASTROUS ECONOMY IS GETTING EVEN WORSE . Continue reading →

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WASHINGTON DC’s CESSPOOL OF CORRUPTION ROLLS ALONG …

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With the end of 2022 fast approaching, Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog notes just a few of the latest acts of destruction inflicted on the rest of us by the career white-collar criminals who hold office via the Democrat and Republican Parties.

*** NEW – AND YET ANOTHER STATE SUPREME COURT – DELAWARE THIS TIME – STRIKES DOWN VOTE BY MAIL (Cheat by Mail). Also strikes down election day registration. (And remember, Vote by Mail is NOT the same thing as absentee voting.) At any rate, even more of those unconstitutional mail in ballots should never have been counted.

intelligence community thugsBIDENGATE CONTINUES AS THE LATEST TWITTER EXPOSURE REVEALS THE FBI ACTED AS A VIRTUAL INTELLIGENCE ASSET FOR THE BIDENS. More on the latest Twitter files HERE. And HERE.

REPUBLICAN SENATOR “COCAINE MITCH” MCCONNELL, OWNED BY CHINA, BLUNTLY TELLS AMERICANS THAT HE AND HIS COLLEAGUES CARE NOTHING ABOUT THEIR CONSTITUENTS. 

biden fbi electionsTWITTER FILES REVEAL THAT THE PREVIOUS REGIME AT TWITTER COOPERATED WITH THE U.S. MILITARY ON PSYOPS AND OTHER EFFORTS. Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy and its functionaries are the worst of the worst. The election interference was just the tip of the iceberg.

FRESHLY EXPOSED EMAILS FURTHER DEMONSTRATE PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER NANCY PELOSI’S INCOMPETENCE. More HERE. And HERE. Typical of Nancy, she failed, then blamed everyone else. 

EVEN MORE INFORMATION COMES OUT ABOUT BIG TECH AND ITS PARTISAN ALLIES INTERFERING IN THE 2020 ELECTION. As I’ve long said, the 2020 presidential election was at least as corrupt and tainted as the 1876 and year 2000 presidential elections.

THE FASCISTS WHO RUN AMERICA’S “INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES” WAGE WAR ON POLITICAL OPPONENTS. One of the reasons I used to be a Democrat before becoming an Independent Voter was because the Democrats USED TO be openly critical of the abuses of America’s thuggish CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. Not anymore. Now Democrats are fine with using those agencies against all dissenting opinions. More HERE.

BRITISH NEWS OUTLET COVERS THE CIA AND FBI INFESTATION AT SOCIAL MEDIA AND OTHER BIG TECH GIANTS. The worst such abuses since the 1970s. Continue reading →

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