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SEPTEMBER TENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Here’s another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

*** NEW – FREQUENT DEMOCRAT TARGET CHARLIE KIRK SHOT AT SPEAKING EVENT IN A UTAH UNIVERSITY. As is my usual policy on such an incident I will comment on this after the initial fog of confusion clears up in a few days.

BIDEN REGIME EXPOSED FOR DISTORTING JOB FIGURES DURING THEIR TERM – IT TURNS OUT THE REGIME CREATED NINE HUNDRED ELEVEN THOUSAND FEWER JOBS THAN THEY TOOK CREDIT FOR. More HERE. Is anyone surprised? Related item HERE.

FORMER HAMAS HOSTAGE CREDITS PRESIDENT TRUMP WITH SAVING HIS LIFE.

CHICAGO MAN WHOSE DAUGHTER WAS KILLED BY AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT BLASTS DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR PRITZKER FOR OPPOSING ICE.

FURTHER PROOF THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FAILED IN ITS PURPOSE: TWELFTH GRADE READING AND MATH SCORES HIT TWENTY YEAR LOW. Administrative bloat and hiring activists instead of teachers let down all the students.

MORE DEMOCRATS EXPOSED AS HAVING ACTUALLY VISITED EPSTEIN’S ISLAND. Not just allegedly sending a birthday card back in 2003.

DEMOCRAT COMPLICITY IN THE IRYNA ZARUTSKA MURDER. They also tried to censor the part of the tape where the killer says “I got that white girl.”  NEW YORK TIMES SAYS ONLY “THE RIGHT” IS UPSET ABOUT THE MURDER.

DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS CAUGHT IN MORE LIES: THE ICE DETAINEES THEY CLAIMED WERE “FIREFIGHTERS” ARE REALLY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WITH EXTENSIVE CRIMINAL HISTORIES.

WHOLESALE INFLATION DROPPED IN AUGUST, DESPITE ANTI-TRUMPER PREDICTIONS THAT IT WOULD GO UP. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

MICHIGAN JUDGE CORRECTLY DISMISSES THE CHARGES AGAINST FIFTEEN PEOPLE FOR THE PERFECTLY LEGAL ACT OF SELECTING ALTERNATE ELECTORS YEARS AGO. More HERE. Imbecilic anti-Trumpers apparently don’t understand that separate slates of electors happen all the time. It doesn’t change which slate will be sent to certify the election results.

SENATOR WARNS OF THE ONGOING CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS CAUSED BY THE ILLEGITIMATE BIDEN PARDONS. Continue reading

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LYSISTRATA (c 411 B.C.) THE FIRST ANCIENT GREEK COMEDY I COVERED BACK IN 2011

Lysistrata

LYSISTRATA (c 411 B.C.) – When I first started examining ancient Greek comedies here at Balladeer’s Blog I jokingly stated that surely readers would want me to start with Aristophanes’ most notorious and bawdiest satire. 

Lysistrata was written by the Big A himself, Aristophanes, and this comedy always makes a perfect introductory play for newcomers to Ancient Greek Comedy. Part of its accessibility to modern audiences obviously comes from the risqué premise of the play, of course. For me the notion that we can understand and laugh at the same simplistic but brilliant story that Athenian audiences from over 2,400 years ago laughed at and appreciated embodies the value of these ancient works.  

THE PREMISE

By 411 BC the Peloponnesian War between Athens (and its allied city-states) and Sparta (and its allied city-states) had been raging for roughly 20 years. The war provides the backdrop for many of Aristophanes’ surviving comedies and is especially relevant where Lysistrata is concerned.   Weary of the long, drawn-out conflict the women of Athens, led by the title character Lysistrata (supposedly based on Lysimache, the Priestess of Athena in Athens at the time), join forces with the women of Sparta and decide to withhold sex from the men until they agree to bring an end to the war. 

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: SEPTEMBER EIGHTH

 Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog offers up another current events roundup.

A DEMOCRAT MAYOR IN NEW JERSEY IS THE LATEST TO LEAVE THAT INCREASINGLY UNHINGED POLITICAL PARTY. He’s become a Republican and endorsed one for governor.

A SECOND TEACHER AT A WISCONSIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHARGED WITH SEX WITH CHILDREN. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BIDEN-HARRIS REGIME’S BIGOTED OPPRESSION.

IN DEMOCRAT-RUN MINNESOTA, ICE HAS ARRESTED AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT WHO WAS EMPLOYED WITH MINNESOTA’S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Let me emphasize that for overseas readers – A CONVICTED SEXUAL ASSAILANT WHO IS ALSO IN THE U.S. ILLEGALLY WAS EMPLOYED BY DEMOCRAT-RUN MINNESOTA’S DEPARTMENT OF “EDUCATION.”

        So, did this Kenyan’s fellow employees know they were working alongside such a figure? Was he employed with full awareness of his past or did Democrat delusions that doing background checks is a “racist” activity mean that nobody even looked into his past or his immigration status?  

DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET CBS NEWS ANNOUNCES NEW POLICY AFTER GETTING NAILED FOR DECEPTIVELY EDITING THEIR INTERVIEW WITH DHS SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BUSTS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT SMUGGLING RING.

MARGOLIS ON THE WAY DEMOCRAT POLICIES ENDANGER PUBLIC SAFETY.

THE HORRIFIC CHARLOTTE STABBING BY ATTACKER WHO HAS BEEN ARRESTED OVER A DOZEN PREVIOUS TIMES. Continue reading

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ANYONE FOR A BUFORD PUSSER PLUS ED AND LORRAINE WARREN MOVIE MARATHON?

So, with Buford Pusser being exposed very recently and the Warrens being exposed long ago, yet movies still being made that depict the latter two figures in a positive light, watching any of the many movies about all of them seems in bad taste now.

Y’know?

Seriously, their movies individually are cringe-inducing these days.

I can’t imagine how it would feel watching multiple movies about any of the three.

What an ugly state of affairs this has turned into. Continue reading

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SEPTEMBER FIFTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Here’s a Friday current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

PRESIDENT TRUMP TOUTS HIS STRENGTHENING OF SOCIAL SECURITY. He’s the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime. 

ASKED BY NBC NEWS, JEFFREY EPSTEIN VICTIMS SAY “NO” TO QUESTION ABOUT TRUMP BEING INVOLVED IN THE SCANDAL

IN OHIO, CHINESE NATIONALS AND COMPANIES INDICTED FOR NARCOTICS AND MONEY LAUNDERING CHARGES. Joe Biden was in China’s pocket, so he allowed such rings to grow, but thankfully they are now being shut down under Trump.

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION MAKES LARGEST EVER SEIZURE OF METHAMPHETAMINE CHEMICALS. More HERE. It was headed from China to the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico. Any bets on when Democrat judges try blocking such crime fighting efforts?

BIDEN REGIME FBI NEW YORK HEAD EXPOSED FOR LEAKING INVESTIGATORY INFORMATION TO A CHINA COMPANY FUNNELING MONEY TO HUNTER BIDEN. The stain called the Biden Crime Family.

EVEN MORE DETAILS SURFACE ABOUT THE BIDEN REGIME’S AUTOPEN SCANDAL.

CRUZ ROASTS PRIVILEGED WHITE ILLINOIS GOVERNOR PRITZKER AS A “RACIST BIGOT” SHIELDING TRAFFICKERS

FIVE CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS JOIN DEMOCRATS IN BLOCKING CENSURE OF DEMOCRAT MEMBER FOR ATTACKING IMMIGRATION OFFICERS. Corrupt politicians from both parties still work to hinder the administration.

ASRA NOMANI COURAGEOUSLY COVERS THEFTS AND MORE BY DEMOCRAT WOMAN TIED TO SPANBERGER CAMPAIGN. Spanberger is running for VA governor on a promise to turn Virginia into a “Sanctuary State.”

AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-ONE SINALOA CARTEL OPERATIVES ARRESTED IN ONE WEEK IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” HUB NEW ENGLAND.

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: SEPTEMBER THIRD

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog serves up a mid-week current events roundup.

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DEMOCRAT COUNTY COMMISSIONER IN PENNSYLVANIA ARRESTED IN MAJOR DRUG BUST.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN ILHAN OMAR’S NET WORTH JUMPED FROM FIFTY-ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS TO THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS IN JUST ONE YEAR. More HERE. And HERE. Looks like she’s using the Pelosi Method of throwing a spouse into the mix. Remember all the uproar years ago about having Trump reveal several years’ worth of tax returns? How about such scrutiny regarding ALL elected officials?

CORRUPT AND BIASED ANTI-TRUMP “JUDGE” JAMES BOASBERG BLATANTLY RELEASES THE FIGURE ARRESTED FOR TRAVELING TO WASHINGTON DC TO – AS THEY BOASTED – KILL TRUMP. More HERE. Boasberg represents everything wrong with judicial prejudice and abuse.

TEACHER ARRESTED FOR CHILD SEXUAL CONTACT. Democrats, can you please leave the underaged alone?

MEALS ON WHEELS ORGANIZATION IS LEAVING PORTLAND BECAUSE THE DEMOCRAT-RUN CITY REFUSES TO KEEP THE STREETS SAFE. The group is unable to keep employees because of how dangerous Portland has become under Democrat leniency on crime.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN ANSARI CALLS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS HER “CONSTITUENTS.” Look, we all know Democrats have been letting illegal immigrants vote in violation of the law, but Ansari has provided a real “mask off” moment. Continue reading

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SEPTEMBER FIRST ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Here’s a Monday current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

CHICAGO’S DEMOCRAT MAYOR SIGNS ORDER TO PROTECT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN THE CITY AND OBSTRUCT ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAWS. “Illegal immigrants uber alles” is still the Democrat motto.

HUFFINGTON POST AMONG THE DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS WHO WERE CLAIMING PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS DEAD ONLY TO BE PROVEN WRONG BY HIS SATURDAY GOLF OUTING AND MORE. I will point out again that anti-Trump loons need professional help.

ANOTHER REMINDER ABOUT THE SHOWBOATING ANTI-TRUMP JUDGES WHO OVERSTEP THEIR AUTHORITY.

LABOR DAY 2025 OBSERVED UNDER DONALD TRUMP, THE GREATEST PRESIDENT FOR THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR DURING MY LIFETIME. More HERE.

UNDER TRUMP’S POLICIES, LABOR DAY WEEKEND GAS PRICES ARE AT THEIR LOWEST POINT IN FIVE YEARS.

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: AUGUST TWENTY-NINTH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog does another current events roundup.

ICE ARRESTS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT PEDOPHILE FOUND LIVING INSIDE A CHILDREN’S DAYCARE CENTER IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” STATE CALIFORNIA. As usual, perpetrators get “sanctuary” but not the public. More HERE.

MEXICO’S PRESIDENT POINTS OUT THAT BILL CLINTON DEPORTED MORE MEXICANS THAN TRUMP HAS. If so, that’s because Clinton didn’t have pathetic District Judges overstepping their authority by trying to block his every move and requiring months-long appeals to higher courts.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES CAUSE THE ECONOMY TO SOAR HIGHER THAN EXPECTATIONS. More HERE.

CONSUMER PRICES FALL AND INFLATION STYMIED.

MINNEAPOLIS POLICE CHIEF: MANY PARENTS AND TEACHERS WANT POLICE OFFICERS BACK IN SCHOOLS. He also says a day doesn’t go by that they don’t need outside help HERE. It’s like Democrats with their defunding and other attacks on police plus no-cash bail have left the cities they run in dire straits.

DHS HEAD KRISTI NOEM: OVER FIVE THOUSAND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CAUGHT IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” CITY LOS ANGELES.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN JOHN LARSON CALLS FOR “UPRISING” AGAINST ICE ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAWS. Even now, it is STILL “Illegal immigrants uber alles” with Democrats.

WINSOME SEARS’ PRIVILEGED WHITE DEMOCRAT OPPONENT ABIGAIL SPANBERGER VOWS TO TURN VIRGINIA INTO A SANCTUARY STATE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. More HERE.

DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM STILL IGNORING LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY STANDARDS FOR TRUCK DRIVERS. See above. How many more have to die, Gavin? Continue reading

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SWASHBUCKLER MOVIE: GIANT OF THE EVIL ISLAND (1965)

GIANT OF THE EVIL ISLAND (1965) – Also released as The Mystery of the Evil Island, this film starred Mission: Impossible‘s Peter Lupus going by the name Rock Stevens. After mild success in a few Italian peplums, Lupus got his one and only swashbuckler movie with this little honey.

Peter stars as Captain Pedro Valverde, a Spanish Empire naval officer who is out to bust up the evil pirate Captain Moloch and the various crews that prey on shipping while using Moloch’s fortress on the Evil Island as a base. That being said, Pirates of Evil Island would have been a more fitting title, but what can ya do?

Pedro’s predecessor as captain of his ship has retired after a career of fruitlessly trying to nab the pirate Moloch. Newly arrived Captain Valverde meets cute with the local governor’s daughter Bianca (Dina DeSantis) and the two fall in “love.” 

Our hero soon goes undercover – well, he wears black clothing instead of his uniform and tilts his hat slightly over one eye – in the nearest town. Pedro ends up in a swordfight to help a beautiful young lady named Alma (Halina Zalewska) in a violent dispute over her jewelry. Continue reading

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AUGUST TWENTY-SEVENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Typical anti-Trump fundamentalist

Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog here in an America where anti-Trump fascists continue with their daily unhinged headlines that are on the order of TRUMP HAS INCREASED THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN HE EATS ON A DAILY BASIS! and DEMOCRATS VOW TO MAKE 24/7 HYSTERIA THEIR STRATEGY FROM NOW ON!

Anyway, the ignorance shown by so many Trump-haters is why I want to remind them that they should ask themselves a few questions before they mindlessly go along with The Party’s daily dose of panic – 

Can they name at least 7 or 8 previous presidents and their political party affiliation without looking online? Can they trace the process through which a bill becomes a law? Can they name the sources where the general public can look up political contributions? Can they use their own words to explain their political opinions – if “political opinions” isn’t too strong a term for their childish “Trump is evil” babbling. 

Can they even name their state’s Senators or House reps or Governors? Grow up, anti-Trump fundamentalists. Learning the routine, mundane details of politics may give you less of a rush than apocalyptic ravings, but they can certainly help to calm you down and stop frothing at the mouth.  

VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS TRY BLAMING BLACK REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE WINSOME SEARS FOR THE RACIST SIGN A WHITE DEMOCRAT WAVED AT HER.

GORKA ON ABBEY GATE AND PRESIDENT TRUMP. Related HERE.

ZOHRAN MAMDANI FAILS AT HIS WEIGHTLIFTING APPEARANCE.

TEN FBI WHISTLEBLOWERS AGAINST THE BIDEN REGIME’S POLITICIZING OF THE BUREAU GET VINDICATION. Continue reading

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