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JAPAN’S HILARIOUSLY WEIRD 1861 LOOK AT AMERICAN HISTORY

My fellow fans of J-Horror know that Japan practically invented weirdness. What none of us knew is how far back they go with that mastery of entertaining madness.

John Adams fighting a giant snakeTheir view of American history is mind-boggling. This 1861 work of “J-History” if you will, features little-known events like JOHN ADAMS FACING A GIANT SNAKE (left) and George Washington fighting a tiger. It also corrects the mistaken assumption that Washington’s wife was named Martha when her real name was apparently “Carol.” (?)  

Balladeer’s Blog’s Presidential Action and Horror Films bit only WISHES it could be this mind-bending. Credit Nick Kapur with drawing attention to this item from the Waseda University Library.

My favorite part: the illustration of Benjamin Franklin casually HOLDING A CANNON IN HIS ARMS while firing it at a squadron of Red Coats! Now that’s badass. And begs for a movie – “The Rock IS Benjamin Franklin!” And he’d have to follow up blowing away the Brits with an action hero quip like “A penny saved is a penny earned, you bastards!”  

Every single page of this acid trip Continue reading

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JOE BIDEN ATROCITY ROUNDUP: AUGUST 13th

Senile Joe BidenJoe Biden has been part of every American policy which the rest of the world has disapproved of for nearly 50 years now. Joe Biden has utterly destroyed all the help given to the working class and the poor over the preceding 4 years. Joe Biden has wiped out untold numbers of jobs for Americans and destroyed America’s energy independence that was formed over the preceding 4 years.

While pretending to be “green” by slamming down U.S. oil production Biden is actually willing to keep the oil industry in other nations churning out even more oil to make up for what we are no longer producing. Joe Biden’s inflation is shrinking real income for American workers by the day. Joe Biden, a career criminal and accused rapist, allows bribes to flow into the Biden Crime Family via his pathetic son Hunter’s “art sales.”

Under Joe Biden, Washington DC corruption has returned in full force. After 4 preceding years of no new wars, conflicts are flaring all across the world thanks to Joe Biden’s ineptitude and/or corruption.      

DISASTROUS BIDEN ADMINISTRATION STILL PLANS TO DO NOTHING ABOUT THE FLOOD OF COVID-POSITIVE ILLEGALS INTO THE U.S.  MORE HERE. AND HERE. Continue reading

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ANDREW CUOMO’S EMMY AWARD WINNING RUN OF HARASSMENT AND KILLING THE ELDERLY COMES TO AN END

andrew cuomo fallsAl Capone had to be brought down over his taxes even though he was guilty of far worse. Democrat Andrew Cuomo had to be brought down over his sexual harassment of women after the Biden regime shut down investigations about Cuomo’s alleged role in the deaths of thousands of elderly people in New York nursing homes.

The Democrat media outlet CNN is facing questions about the way their newsreader Chris Cuomo – Andrew’s brother – was allowed to do tongue-bath, softball “interviews” with Andrew during his many scandals. The New York Attorney General’s office had made mentions of looking into Chris’ strategy sessions with Andrew, in which the governor had allegedly made Chris privy to sensitive information about his brother’s accusers.

Needless to say, career criminal and accused rapist Joe Biden idiotically claimed that Andrew Cuomo did ” a hell of a job.” Continue reading

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ANOTHER SHOUTOUT TO SOS-CUBA

cuban prisoners defendersBalladeer’s Blog once again gives a shoutout to Alvarez Galloso’s SOSCuba, one of the best Cuba Libre-themed tags. Among his latest:

Cuba reaches the figure of 272 more political prisoners in just 20 days

Message from the churches of Cuba.

Brutal treatment of two protesting sisters.

And on the U.S. end let me add: Continue reading

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AUGUST 10th, 2003: FIRST MAN MARRIED IN SPACE

wedding in spaceHow has a movie NOT been made about this event yet? On August 10th of 2003 Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, stationed on board the International Space Station, was married in a long-distance ceremony via satellite hookup to Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was physically at the Johnson Space Center in Texas.

Ekaterina was in a traditional wedding gown as she walked down the aisle to a life-sized cardboard cutout of Yuri adorned with a bow tie. In orbit, Malenchenko was wearing an identical bow tie on his space suit. A fellow ISS member served as Best Man and played the Wedding March on a keyboard. Continue reading

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BARACK OBAMA VOTED THE WORST PRESIDENT OF THE POST-WORLD WAR II ERA PLUS MORE …

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ON AUGUST 4th LET’S ALWAYS REMEMBER THE MANY DEAD CHILDREN KILLED BY OBAMA’S DRONE STRIKES. AND HIS OTHER VICTIMS.

Yes, given everything that has come out about this weak, inept and crooked little man over the years this seemed like a good time for this post about when Obama was voted the worst president of the post-World War II era in a CBS/ Quinnipiac Poll. (link below) The equally repulsive George W Bush came in 2nd place right behind Obama, so that’s enjoyably accurate, too.

And, of course, many go further, labeling Obama – and titling their bestselling book – The Worst President In History. (link below) That reading goes along with an African-American writer who called Barack the Commander in Failure. (link below) And let’s not forget the well-researched book The Scandalous Presidency of Barack Obama and nearly 20 more such books. And counting. (links below) 

hit the road barackEven a reporter from the Democrat outlet The Atlantic recognized and wrote a book about the way Obama and his cronies basically used, plundered and looted the Democrat Party, paving the way for Donald Trump’s election in 2016. (link below)

We could go on, of course. There’s the Boston journalist who pointed out how Obama Was the Most Unfit President Ever. (link below) There’s also the Newsweek columnist who expertly nailed Barack’s many, many failures and more. (link below) Continue reading

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DEMOCRAT ATROCITY ROUNDUP: AUGUST 2nd

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REMEMBER, DEMOCRAT THOUGHT POLICE INSIST THAT THE WORD “MOTHERS” IS “TOO GENDERED” AND THAT WE MUST SAY “BIRTHING PERSON” INSTEAD.

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes another look at the ongoing crimes and atrocities of the political party that I – like so many others – decided to #WALKAWAY from years ago, the party of the Democrats, which has become fascistic and intolerant. We desperately need Third Parties in America.

*** IN THE WAKE OF MULTIPLE NATIONWIDE RAPES COMMITTED AGAINST FEMALE PRISON INMATES BY MALE INMATES WHO “IDENTIFY” AS FEMALE, CALIFORNIA IS ISSUING BIRTH CONTROL MEASURES TO REAL FEMALE INMATES. Only 21st Century Democrats would be irrational enough to pretend this step isn’t an admission that their idiotic “political articles of faith” regarding the sexes are absurd.

              Remember, this self-proclaimed “party of science” also still pretends men can get periods and can get pregnant. I’m sure male inmates who “identify” as female can demand that they be given birth control medication, too, as part of the Democrats’ ever-increasing obsession with denying reality.

              And let’s remember, Democrats treat women like they MUST vote for their party or be “traitors to their gender.” Democrats have replaced the old sexist saying “Shut up and get back in the kitchen!” with “Shut up and vote for us Democrats!”   

Tiny hands Joe Biden

Corrupt, senile, tiny-handed Joe Biden

*** JOE BIDEN HITS NEW LOWS IN BOTH HIS DEMENTIA AND HIS CORRUPTION. More “incoherent gibberish” from the doddering crook. Australian news media once again covers the way Democrat news outlets try to cover for Creepy Sleepy Joe. AND Biden lies again, claiming he used to drive an 18 wheeler!

              Fresh off his humiliating “wiping himself” incident, Biden pleads for his “Mom” in another grim reminder of his condition. Also, Biden is still getting nasty with reporters, but, as always, the Democrats cover for him and the clueless Republicans still don’t have enough media outlets of their own to make the public aware of it.

*** BIDEN AGAIN PLEASES HIS CHINESE GOVERNMENT OWNERS BY DROPPING CHARGES AGAINST YET ANOTHER ACCUSED SPY. Did China get its money’s worth with the Biden Crime Family or what? Chinese collusion at its most blatant!

*** BIDEN REGIME CAUGHT PLACING UNTOLD NUMBERS OF COVID-INFECTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS INTO TEXAS COMMUNITIES WITHOUT NOTICE. But hey, the Democrats like to act as if they are concerned about public safety from Covid.

*** WASHINGTON DC (DEMOCRAT MAYOR) HAS A MURDER RATE NEARLY 3 TIMES THE NUMBER OF COVID DEATHS. How about Democrats paying as much attention to that as they do Covid “measures?”

*** EVEN MORE DEMOCRAT MAYORS WHO SUPPORT DEFUNDING THEIR POLICE DEPARTMENTS EXPOSED FOR HIRING EXPENSIVE SECURITY DETAILS FOR THEMSELVES. Democrats continue to regard the rest of us as their subjects, not their constituents. And continue to endanger all of us with their pretense that Defunding the Police is not irrational and dangerous. Public congressional idiot AOC commits the same hypocrisy.

*** CHICAGO (DEMOCRAT MAYOR AND SOME OF THE TOUGHEST GUN LAWS IN THE COUNTRY) – OVER 1,000 SHOOTING VICTIMS AND JUST 2 CONVICTIONS. Democrat-run cities have become virtually dystopian. Continue reading

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DEMOCRATS OKAY WITH “STORMING” THE CAPITOL THE WHITE HOUSE AND EVEN SETTING OFF EXPLOSIVES WHEN IT’S THEM DOING IT

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BIDEN CALLED THESE RIOTS MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS

Monumental and hilarious political hypocrisy has been on full display in Washington DC this week as Democrats engage in political theater while pretending to revere the Capitol Building and its “symbolism.” (LMAO) Before I became an Independent Voter I spent most of my life as a Democrat and believe me, they feel contempt for the Capitol and its “symbolism”, even calling it one of the “institutions of imperialist rule” and “the seat of White Supremacy and systemic racism in America.”

Nancy Pelosi demagogueBack in January a “mostly peaceful protest” (as Democrats described the MONTHS-LONG Antifa riots which terrorized the country) at the Capitol turned into a chaotic mass-trespassing incident with the Democrats of the Capitol Police even killing an unarmed woman. Suddenly, Democrat pretensions that they revered the Capitol poured from the mouths of the demagogues of the Democrat Party.

Hey, let’s rename it “the Demagogue Party”. After all, the Democrat Party is the country’s oldest existing institution which launched a Civil War and fought for slavery, so a name change for that political party is LONG overdue. Okay, so they won’t rename themselves the Demagogue Party, but they should rename it something to distance themselves from the Democrat Party’s horrifically racist past.

capitol bombing 1983Anyway, Democrats felt that their OWN storming of the Capitol was fine back on October 4th, 2018, even though THEY WERE INTERFERING WITH ONE OF THOSE GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS WHICH THEY NOW PRETEND SHOULD BE SACROSANCT. Democrats/ the left cheered on that activity. And let’s not forget the way the left literally set off a BOMB in the Capitol on November 7th, 1983. Also HERE. A million dollars (by 1983 standards, so much more today) in damage was done.

Most adults are above the fake tears and the fear-mongering which truly pathetic Democrat members of Congress are indulging in regarding January 6th. The Democrats will probably never lose their competitive edge in phoniness and manufactured emotion, so non-Democrats – as in Independents, Third Party Voters, Republicans and People Who Claim No Political Affiliation, in other words THE REST OF US – will always need to remain highly skeptical of any and all political theater from them.  Continue reading

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DEMOCRAT UGLINESS IN ITS MANY FORMS

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog presents the sequel to my previous piece regarding Republican Ugliness in its Many Forms. Twenty-First Century Democrats embody everything they used to pretend to oppose and basically oppress people while posing as the oppressed.

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NO DEMOCRAT WOULD ALLOW THIS SIGN IN A CLASSROOM OR OFFICE.

AT PRESENT, DEMOCRATS PUSH DIVISIVENESS EVERYWHERE – Democrats, despite the fact that their political party was behind so many atrocities in America’s past, presume to lecture the rest of us. Hell, the senile and corrupt Joe Biden eulogized an actual Ku Klux Klan official, fellow Democrat Senator Robert Byrd. Biden’s 1994 legislation has long been called out for its draconian punishments which fell mostly on African-Americans. Joe Biden and his son Hunter have been caught repeatedly in racist comments and using racial slurs, yet the pathetic Biden tries lecturing THE REST OF US about “racism” and “White Supremacy.” You know … the kind of White Supremacy pushed by the Ku Klux Klan, founded by Democrats and which Biden’s eulogized buddy Robert Byrd held a leadership position in.

And JOE BIDEN COMES FROM A SLAVE-OWNING FAMILY and he STILL HAS KIDS IN CAGES. But Democrats never cared about those kids, they just used them as a political stick. You won’t see Democrats at “protests” over Biden’s Kids in Cages, even though he has more Kids in Cages than either Trump or Obama did.

              It is DEMOCRATS who keep pushing “transition” drugs on increasingly young children, yet too many people shy away from pointing this out. It is DEMOCRATS who keep pushing to defund the police. It is DEMOCRATS who have this bizarre obsession with sexualizing children.

It is DEMOCRATS who insist just about everything makes them feel “unsafe”. It is DEMOCRATS who insist on pushing “trans” issues into virtually every piece of entertainment and increasing elements of the “educational system” (LMAO). It is DEMOCRATS who push the hatemongering gibberish of CRT. It is DEMOCRATS who have politicized every single aspect of life to the point where they feel they can just “file complaints” with higher authority to sic those authorities on people who express the slightest disagreement with them.

You can’t fight oppressors if you aren’t willing to name those oppressors and too many people shy away from bluntly pointing out the common characteristic of today’s totalitarians: they are all Democrats. They are NOT liberals because they are illiberal. They are NOT progressives because they are regressive. Anyone still referring to Democrats as liberal or progressive is playing a losing game.   

DEMOCRATS USE DISCRIMINATORY HIRING AND FIRING PRACTICES – Democrats are the overwhelming majority of administrators and “educators” (LMAO) from kindergarten through college. Democrats are the overwhelming majority of “news” media broadcasters. Democrats are the overwhelming majority of workers in the entertainment industry. Those things don’t happen by accident.

              democrat platform hatredHell, Democrats even act like THEY are the official judges of who is an “authentic” voice for women and non-whites and LGBT people. Women, non-whites and LGBT people who express disagreement with Democrat Party talking points are as unlikely to be hired – and VERY likely to be fired – as any white people would be in Democrat dominated professions.

              Democrats have successfully financed virtual Democrat Party Whips in most businesses in the form of “Diversity” administrators. Uh. Yeah. “Diversity” ONLY as defined by Democrats. And Democrats are the overwhelming majority of people in Human Resources positions.

              More and more people are not hired or are decreed to be “unqualified” in more and more occupations because of the increasingly absurd requirements to undergo “training” which pushes Democrat talking points that fewer and fewer reasonable adults are willing to submit to. And the “instructors” in those training courses? Democrats, of course.

When “educators” (LMAO) who are overwhelmingly Democrats churn out their typically biased lists “Ranking the Presidents” they pretend that their elevation of Democrat presidents at the expense of Republican presidents is somehow “proof” that Democrat presidents are better. Demand to see the exact numbers and political affiliation of each “academic” (LMAO) contributing to those lists. 

And we need Third Parties because the alleged opposition party to the Democrats is run by some of the most clueless and/or easily bought pieces of garbage in political history. They sit by and do nothing to combat this discrimination.    Continue reading

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FOOL KILLER FIFTY-SEVEN: JULY OF 1912

Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the many facets of Fool Killer lore. FOR PART ONE, INCLUDING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT IN THE 1850s, CLICK HERE  

Fool Killer garbPART 57 – Some of the Fool Killer’s targets in the July 1912 edition of James Larkin Pearson’s version of The Fool-Killer. As I always point out, Pearson was difficult to categorize, which makes things interesting because he combines what we think of as left-wing and right-wing attitudes.

*** As an example of what might be labeled a left-wing viewpoint, Pearson and his Fool Killer targeted One Percenters like today’s Bush Family, Biden Family, Big Tech Fascists, etc. His 1912 way of putting it was to point out the difference between the Ninety-Nine Percent, or “the ninety and nine” among the working class and the poor, and “the one” or One Percenters who exploit the ninety and nine.

*** As an example of what might be labeled a right-wing viewpoint, Pearson and his Fool Killer pushed the virtues of religion and sticking to the teachings of Jesus.

*** The Fool Killer targeted traveling snake-oil salesmen, who in 1912 still roamed the country with their rip-off “medicines” of dubious content. Continue reading

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