Here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog I was intrigued by this video interview of a native Californian who lived in China for years and the experience made him feel that de facto Third Party President Donald Trump was right about China and other issues. The comments under the original video come from both pro and anti-Trump people.
How living in China changed my view on Trump and US politics: Californian native – YouTube
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
Balladeer’s Blog wishes a happy birthday to the USA! What happened in early July of 1776 certainly needs no rehashing so in keeping with my blog’s theme of addressing more out of the way subjects this post will examine various events that took place on other July 4ths throughout American history.
JULY 4TH, 1778 – George Rogers Clark led his rebel forces in taking the British stronghold of Kaskaskia, near the confluence of the Mississippi and Kaskaskia Rivers. Clark and his Rangers were on a mission for then-Virginia Governor Patrick Henry.
JULY 4TH, 1783 – The Massachusetts Supreme Court is finalizing its written decision holding that slavery has been illegal in the state since adoption of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights in 1780. Continue reading
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The 4th of July is coming up soon so why not do another seasonal post? The format of my recent look at some overlooked American victories from the Revolutionary War was pretty popular with readers, so in that same format here’s a look at some victories AND defeats from 1778.
MAY 15th, 1778 – George Rogers Clark and his troops seize the British base at Cahokia on the Mississippi River near what is now East Saint Louis, IL. This officially kicks off Clark’s campaign to take control of America’s northwest frontier (of the time) away from the British. The campaign was begun at the behest of Virginia’s Governor Patrick Henry.
MAY 30th, 1778 – British-educated Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant leads a combined force of 300 Iroquois and British Loyalists against 60 militiamen and Continental Soldiers who were defending Cobleskill, NY. Brant’s army wins, resulting in the looting and burning of Cobleskill.
JULY 3rd, 1778 – At what became called the Wyoming Valley Massacre in Northern Pennsylvania, British Loyalist Colonel John Butler leads 574 combined British Loyalists and Mohawk Indians against 360 Americans under Colonel Zebulon Butler. The Americans lose and the British Loyalists allow the Mohawks to torture to death surviving Americans who could not avoid capture. Roughly 340 of the original 360 men were killed, either in battle or by slow torture.
JULY 4th, 1778 – George Rogers Clark and his American army attack and capture the British post at Kaskaskia, IL at the confluence of the Kaskaskia and Mississippi Rivers. Continue reading
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With the 4th of July holiday fast approaching, here’s another seasonal post from Balladeer’s Blog. Since too many documentaries and books on the Revolutionary War focus on what seems like the same handful of battles I like focusing on a lot of the overlooked military clashes. This is another go-round.
NOVEMBER 19th, 1775 – Days earlier, British Loyalists in South Carolina seized large stores of gunpowder from the American Rebel forces. Starting a campaign to recover the gunpowder, roughly 560 men under Andrew Williamson established a fort at Savage’s Old Fields, near Ninety-Six, SC. The fort was surrounded by 1,900 British Loyalists under Patrick Cuningham and Joseph Robinson. A siege began.
NOVEMBER 21st, 1775 – After two days of fighting, the Loyalists agreed to withdraw from the area. The action of the 19th to 21st is known as the Siege of Savage’s Old Field or the First Siege of Ninety-Six.
DECEMBER 22nd, 1775 – A combined force of 1,300 South Carolina and North Carolina troops attacked over 500 British Loyalists at the Reedy River in the Battle of Great Cane Brake. The American Rebels won and, among other spoils, recovered the stolen gunpowder before the Loyalists could pass it along to Great Britain’s Cherokee allies. Continue reading
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WE NEED THIRD PARTIES. It’s no secret that Joe Biden (who comes from a slave-owning family) is a fascist, a longtime racist, a plagiarist, an accused rapist and the head of the Biden Crime Family. He recently made an unhinged threat to nuke American citizens who dare to dissent from his increasingly ugly and totalitarian policies. Biden allows unvaccinated illegal immigrants to flood into the U.S. while tightly restricting the activities of citizens, whether they’ve been vaccinated or not.
He’s also clearly senile, maybe even demented. Political power in the hands of a man like this has already wrought the kind of disasters that rational people would expect. Periodically, when Joe’s already proven corruption is finally sated with enough graft money and abuse of power, the white-collar criminals he surrounds himself with voraciously grab their share and abuse their power to whatever degree Biden lets them.
Joe Biden and his creepy accomplices defund the police, encourage violence against police, continue to wage war on the poor and the working class,
and continue a political purge of non-Democrats from the military. Claiming apolitical status won’t save you. Under Biden and his thugs members of the armed services must either pretend to enthusiastically embrace every divisive Democrat talking point or get targeted for reeducation/ “awareness and sensitivity training” until they ARE willing to so pretend.
Biden and company continue to dehumanize everyone who disagrees with them, especially targeting people of color, Latinos and gay people who dare to defy the Party. ONLY people of color, Latinos and gay people who unquestioningly support the Party are welcomed in public life and are permitted to hold public positions without getting persecuted and hounded from office and/ or public life.
*** EVEN OBAMA’S ETHICS CHIEF BLASTS JOE BIDEN AND THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY’S BLATANT CORRUPTION.
*** BIDEN SHOWS EVEN MORE INSTABILITY WITH CREEPY AND DERANGED WHISPERING AT PODIUM. Creepy Joe whispers like a child molester saying to his victim “Remember – not a word to your parents about what I did to you.”
*** HUNTER BIDEN SLURRED AND REJECTED ASIAN WOMEN AS POTENTIAL PARTNERS.
*** AUSTRALIAN NEWS MOCKS THE DEMOCRAT MEDIA’S PROPAGANDISTIC COVERAGE OF THE DISASTROUS BIDEN.
*** DR NAOMI WOLF BLASTS THE “UNHOLY MARRIAGE” OF THE BIDEN REGIME, BIG TECH AND THE DEMOCRATS. Continue reading
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It has been shown over and over again that there are few things more true than something that anti-Trump fascists claimed was a “Trump lie.” Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog has already covered well over one hundred such items and now we have another blog post for that ever-rising pile. If someone tells you “Trump lied about ____” don’t bother believing them at this point.
In 2018 de facto Third Party President Donald Trump suggested plans to California for reducing the chances for the repeated forest fires which devastate that state but, in their usual childish “we MUST disagree with everything Trump says” attitude, Democrats and their media outlets accused Trump of lying and ridiculed his suggestion. NOW THEY ARE FOLLOWING TRUMP’S ADVICE AFTER RIDICULING HIM AND ACCUSING HIM OF LYING IN 2018. (link below)
This is just another reminder that if anything was categorized as a “Trump lie” the odds are that the slobbering fanatics who spend their every waking moment hating Trump are REALLY the ones lying. Anti-Trumpers have forfeited all benefit of the doubt. They have been proven to be liars over and over again, not him. Continue reading
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Here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog Juneteenth continues with this look at the continuing struggle faced by people of color when it comes to freeing themselves from pompous white Democrats and their notions that they still “own” black people. For the present see this courageous and heroic man in the video below. For the Ghost of Juneteenth Past see the rest of this blog post showcasing some of last year’s Juneteenth items.
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Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog wishes you a happy Juneteenth, commemorating the day Democrats lost their 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.
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 .
The hypocritical Democrats love to COMMIT the atrocities that they then go on to blame THE REST OF US FOR! They love to act like THEY can just move on and forget their role in slavery, Japanese internment, the Trail of Tears and so much else, but the rest of the country bears some absurd collective guilt over those things for the rest of eternity. For example … Continue reading
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Previously Balladeer’s Blog has examined Garrison Tales From Tonquin (Tonkin), the 1895 collection of short stories by James O’Neill, an American who served in the French Foreign Legion in Algeria and Vietnam during the 1880s and 1890s. I’ve also covered the Legion at Camerone and during the Great Syrian Revolt of the 1920s.
SECOND MADAGASCAR AFFAIR – This time around I’ll take a look at the French Foreign Legion during the 2nd Madagascar Conflict/ Expedition. The fighting went on from December 11th of 1894 to September 30th of 1895. This entire affair was so mishandled by French politicians in Reunion, by the War Minister and by General Jacques Duchesne that they basically killed thousands more of their own troops than were killed by the opposing forces.
TAKING IT FROM THE TOP – Typically for my French Foreign Legion posts, I’m not on their side in the war that the French government sent them to fight. It was the usual colonial nonsense, in this case exploiting unrest in the targeted country to use as an excuse for intervening and making Madagascar a French Protectorate. Regular readers know I don’t write sentiments like that to please politically correct fools, it’s just how I sincerely feel. If I felt any other way I wouldn’t hesitate to say so.
DECEMBER 1894 – On December 11th France declared war on Madagascar after its rulers refused to willingly become a French Protectorate. Though the French Army would be running this military campaign, the French Navy and their Marines kicked off the action by bombarding and then seizing Toamasina/ Tamatave on the eastern coast of Madagascar.
Though that location would have been ideal for a fairly quick march on the capital city of Tananarive/ Antananarivo, the French Army had beat out the French Navy for control of this war by UNDERCUTTING THEIR BID. (!) To stay within the lower costs the War Ministry had allocated, the army’s General Duchesne instead insisted on starting their campaign at Majunga/ Mahajanga on the northwestern coast of Madagascar, nearly doubling the amount of territory to be fought through.
JANUARY 1895 – In a relative feeling of “Team Spirit” the French Navy cooperated by now taking the area designated by the army for their landing site. On January 15th Majunga/ Mahajanga was bombarded and seized, fortress and all. Soon, however, the cosmic unsuitability of this location became apparent. Continue reading
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With Hunter Biden introducing six-figure “buys” of his “artwork” as the latest innovation in political bribery, Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog notes another item from Australian news that deals with the disastrous Joe Biden and his team.
‘The world needs more Trumps and fewer Bidens’: Alan Jones – YouTube
And more about Joe Biden, the crooked, yet doltish clown who brought back monumental political corruption and who can be relied upon to be bribed, bought and bullied by world leaders. Biden is a catastrophe for the working class and the poor. Continue reading
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