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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: MAY SECOND

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog presents another current events roundup from an America where unhinged anti-Trumpers are pretending that he should have been able to fix everything that Joe Biden destroyed in just a few months. Hilarious!

HUD SECRETARY SCOTT TURNER PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP’S FIRST HUNDRED DAYS FOR THE WAY HE UNDID BIDEN’S POLICIES THAT “CRIPPLED OUR NATION.” He also pointed out how under his leadership HUD will return to its mission “to serve the most vulnerable population of our country, as it pertains to housing affordability, as it pertains to homelessness, disaster recovery, streamlining processes, and being efficient and effective.” (NOTE: Under Biden homelessness increased eighteen percent.)

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN NORTH CAROLINA CHARGED IN HOME INVASION AND KIDNAPPING OF A WOMAN AND HER ELEVEN-MONTH-OLD DAUGHTER. Are Democrats accomplices to this crime?

U.S. ADDED 177,000 NEW JOBS IN APRIL, HIGHER THAN PREDICTED.

STATE DEPARTMENT REVEALS THE BIDEN REGIME’S FILES TARGETING AMERICAN CRITICS OF THAT REGIME. Was any department NOT weaponized by Biden? This is at least as bad as the J. Edgar Hoover files that Democrats spent decades hyperventilating about. As usual, they feel when The Party does it, it’s okay.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN TEXAS CHARGED WITH MURDERING A MAN IN FRONT OF HIS FAMILY. Are Democrats accomplices to this crime?

KASH PATEL’S FBI ARRESTS TWO ON CHARGES OF OPERATING AN INTERNATIONAL CHILD TRAFFICKING ENTERPRISE. Democrats hardest hit, since they like to pretend that child trafficking doesn’t happen. 

ROBERT F. KENNEDY CALLS OUT JOE BIDEN’S HHS OVER HOW IT BECAME A “COLLABORATOR IN CHILD TRAFFICKING.”

SITE FOR TRACKING ALL THE INVESTMENTS AND MANUFACTURING PRESIDENT TRUMP IS BRINGING TO THE U.S.

FACULTY LOUNGE FASCIST: DEMOCRAT TEACHER CALLS FOR THE SECRET SERVICE TO KILL PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS. Among her hate-filled remarks “The Secret Service has the perfect opportunity, if they choose to step up and take it. You are the ones with power. Coordinate. Take out every single person who supports Trump’s illegal, immoral, unconstitutional acts.”

BODY-CAM FOOTAGE OF DEMOCRAT IDOL KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA DURING PULLOVER INVESTIGATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING. Democrats, aren’t there any suffering American citizens that you can find who deserve becoming a Cause Celebre instead of this illegal immigrant gangster?

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES TO DEPOLITICIZE THE FBI AND HAVE IT FOCUS ON FIGHTING CRIME RATHER THAN TARGETING POLITICAL DISSENT.

STEPHEN MILLER BLASTS THE PRIVILEGED ONE-PERCENTERS FROM DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS WHO SHILL FOR MS-13 AND TREN DE ARAGUA. Continue reading

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APRIL THIRTIETH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog. I’m coming to you from a country where the anti-Trump hysteria from the slobbering psychopaths who hate him gets more hilarious by the day. Every poll that Democrats try to cite against Trump STILL SHOWS HIM FAR ABOVE THEIR OWN APPROVAL RATINGS WHICH ARE STILL DOWN IN THE TWENTIES. Uh. Yeah. That’s showing him.

CONGRESSIONAL HEARING ON WHY DEMOCRAT-RUN CALIFORNIA TAKES DAYS TO COUNT VOTES EACH ELECTION. We all know why they do it, of course. NOTE: The entire nation of India gets its votes counted in one day.

WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT SUSPENDS DEMOCRAT JUDGE DUGAN FOR TRYING TO HELP VIOLENT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ESCAPE ICE. More HERE. She faces far worse as the investigation continues.

ANOTHER JUDGE – THIS ONE IN BOSTON – IN LEGAL TROUBLE OVER ALLEGEDLY LETTING AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT SLIP OUT A SIDE DOOR

DEMOCRATS ONCE AGAIN BLOCK MAKING TRAFFICKING OF MINORS A FELONY. The Party has very weird priorities.

ISIS SUSPECT ARRESTED FOR NEW YEAR’S DAY BOURBON STREET ATTACK. C’mon, Democrats. You KNOW you want to make a hero out of him.

TRUMP EFFECT: IBM INVESTING ONE HUNDRED FIFTY BILLION IN U.S. MANUFACTURING.

GREATEST HITS OF TRUMP’S FIRST HUNDRED DAYS (ROUND TWO).

ONE HUNDRED DAYS OF DEMOCRAT MELTDOWNS.

RASMUSSEN: SEVENTY-ONE PERCENT ABLE TO SEE THROUGH BIASED ANTI-TRUMP POLLS. There’s a reason the flawed approach is called “Garbage Polling” HERE. And HERE.

GRANDMOTHER REMINDS ANTI-TRUMP MSNBC REPORTER THAT BIDEN’S INFLATION WAS FAR WORSE THAN POTENTIAL RESULTS OF TRUMP’S TARIFFS.

PRESIDENT TRUMP HILARIOUSLY SMACKS DOWN ABC DEMOCRATIC MEDIA WORKER. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: APRIL TWENTY-EIGHTH

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

ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI REVEALS FURTHER DETAILS ABOUT THE TWO DEMOCRAT JUDGES ARRESTED OVER COLLUSION WITH VIOLENT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, EVEN EL TREN ARAGUA. More HERE. Maybe all of the other judges who always rule in favor of illegal immigrants need investigated after what these two were caught red-handed at.

HOW “JUDGE” HANNAH DUGAN PUT THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ABOVE HIS VICTIMS. Should Democrats be counted as accomplices to illegal immigrant crimes at this point? 

DEMOCRATS ABANDON THEIR “NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW” CHARADE TO DEFEND THE JUDGES ARRESTED FOR AIDING AND ABETTING ADDITIONAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMES. More HERE. One of their party’s judges threatens a “boycott” in support of the arrested Dugan. Democrats are the combined Mafia and Nazis of the 21st Century. (Since they love Nazi comparisons so much.)

CONGRESSWOMAN MARY MILLER OF ILLINOIS SPEAKS OUT ON HOW OTHER NATIONS’ TARIFFS HAVE GIVEN AMERICAN FARMERS AND OTHERS A RAW DEAL. Just as President Trump forced America’s corrupt establishment to finally face the illegal immigration disaster, hopefully he is waking people up to the damage that unfair tariffs continue to do to the U.S.

SHOCKING EXPOSURE OF HOW FEDERAL FUNDS WERE BEING DIVERTED TO DEMOCRAT NGOs. Another scandal that should be dominating the headlines but the Democrats are distracting from it with their latest pro-illegal immigration frenzy.

CLINTON-APPOINTED JUDGE BRIONES, WHO RULED AGAINST THE BORDER WALL IN TRUMP’S FIRST TERM, NOW RULES THAT THE ADMINISTRATION CANNOT DEPORT TREN DE ARAGUA CRIMINALS IN THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY. Corrupt judges apparently feel that a president has less power than a Chicago alderman. And Congressional Republicans are still nothing but talk when it comes to reining in judicial overreach. Plus, Trump was right about Tren de Aragua HERE.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN JEFFRIES BRAGS ABOUT THWARTING BILL TO MAKE SURE ONLY CITIZENS CAN VOTE. The Democrat love affair with illegal immigration is like one big RICO case all around.

LATEST LIE ABOUT TRUMP FROM DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS THAT SPENT YEARS LYING ABOUT JOE BIDEN’S UNFITNESS – THEY’RE PRETENDING HE’S THE ONLY HEAD OF STATE WHO WORE A BLUE SUIT AT PAPAL FUNERAL. Photos show others did as well. Meanwhile, the corrupt and doddering Biden committed a true faux pas with his immature selfies and buffoonish laughter. Continue reading

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ROCK STAR CHERI CURRIE FULLY EMBRACES TRUMP POLICES LIKE SO MANY OF US FORMER DEMOCRATS

Cheri Currie of Runaways fame unleashed a broadside on the pathetic, hatemongering, fascistic and intolerant Democrat Party of 2025. She courageously embraced the MAGA label, too. 

Among her comments: “F**k the Democratic Party! You clowns. Liars! Users. Destroyers! Mental case Cowards! We’ve HAD IT with you! Keep standing up for law breaking criminals, gang members, murderers, pedophiles, abusers, human traffickers, baby rapists, thieves!” she said. “You are so ridiculous and pathetic. Coming after our children was your biggest mistake, your demise. We will scorn you in history books …  We, the American people are DONE with you!”

“I simply can’t sit back anymore and let these lunatics continue to hurt people! They LIE! They keep their sheeple IN FEAR! Ruin their LIVES!! All to gain power! Not an ounce of integrity or respect! How DARE you scare ppl when you know they’re not in danger! That what is happening HAS TO HAPPEN! You hurt your own for YOUR BENEFIT??? You have NOTHING to offer the American people! Nothing! You have done yourselves in.” 

As for my take on this – Continue reading

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APRIL TWENTY-FIFTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Here’s a roundup of current events from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog. I’m coming to you from an America where the media outlets who lied every day by saying that corrupt and demented Joe Biden was “sharp as a tack” and that everything was fine are back to lying about every single thing President Donald Trump says and does.

*** NEW! WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE ARRESTED TODAY FOR TRYING TO HELP ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FACING THREE BATTERY CHARGES ESCAPE ICE AGENTS. The agents then had to chase down the subject and did indeed apprehend him. As I said before, one wonders if some of the judges who repeatedly rule in favor of illegals engage in this or similar acts. More HERE. And HERE.

A LOOK AT THE OFFENSES OF ALL THE TREN DE ARAGUA GANG MEMBERS THAT DEMOCRATS AND THEIR “JUDGES” ARE FIGHTING TO KEEP IN THE COUNTRY. Democrat heroes, every one of them, apparently.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED IN CALIFORNIA WITH RAPING AND MURDERING A THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL. Are Democrats accomplices? They support “Sanctuary Cities” and refuse to cooperate with ICE. “If it saves one single life” Democrats must stop enabling illegal immigrant crime.

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ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT MS-13 MEMBER IN TENNESSEE FOUND GUILTY OF KIDNAPPING AND TORTURING A WITNESS SET TO TESTIFY AGAINST THE GANG. Are Democrats accomplices? Their loud support for MS-13 is pretty damning.

EVEN THIS ANALYST AT DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET CNN IS DEBUNKING THE SHRILL ANTI-TRUMP NARRATIVES. He’s encouraging the Democrats to be more rational in their approach, but it’s doubtful they’re capable of that.

TWO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN MARYLAND CHARGED IN KILLING OF A MOTHER OF TWO. More HERE. Are Democrats accomplices? At least Senator Chris Van Hollen seems to be. They should not have been in the U.S.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN IL FREED BY DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” POLICIES DESPITE MURDER CHARGE. Democrat refusal to cooperate with ICE strikes again. Are Democrats accomplices after the fact in this murder? 

TRUMP’S POLICIES CAUSE 9.2 PERCENT INCREASE IN PURCHASES OF DURABLE MANUFACTURED GOODS. Ever fretful economists had predicted a mere 1.4 percent increase. It’s like our corrupt establishment is still rooting against Trump and the people or something.  RUNNING TALLY OF NEW INVESTMENTS AND JOBS TRUMP HAS BROUGHT TO THE U.S. DURING HIS SECOND TERM.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN FLORIDA WHO WAS RELEASED BY THE BIDEN REGIME NOW ARRESTED FOR RAPING A THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD-BOY. Are Democrats accomplices? Their “sanctuary” policies never protect the victims of these crimes, just the perpetrators. 

HISPANIC AMERICAN WOMAN ON 2WAY.TV CRUSHES THE DEMOCRATS FOR THEIR INSULTING CANONIZATION OF KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA. Among her remarks: “I am a legal citizen, and I am disgusted.” … “I don’t understand what they’re trying to say to the Hispanic community. Like, are they trying to get votes?,” she said. “Because that’s not doing it, especially for people like us, that we obey the law.”

DEMOCRAT JUDGE IN NM WHO RESIGNED AFTER A TREN DE ARAGUA GANG MEMBER WAS ARRESTED IN HIS HOME HAS HIMSELF BEEN ARRESTED OVER HARBORING FUGITIVES AND POSSIBLY MORE. Makes you wonder how many of the Democrat “judges” who keep ruling in favor of illegal immigrants also have such ties.

BOSTON DEMOCRAT FOUND GUILTY ON CORRUPTION AND KICKBACK CHARGES. Have I mentioned lately that most American politicians are white-collar criminals?

MINNESOTA’S DEMOCRAT ATTORNEY GENERAL TRYING TO HIDE TIES TO SOMALI CHARITY FRAUD. See above. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: APRIL TWENTY-THIRD

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog serves up another current events roundup from a world where the brand of Yellow “Journalism” being used against President Donald Trump would make William Randolph Hearst green with envy.

DNI TULSI GABBARD EXPOSES EVEN MORE BIDEN-HARRIS REGIME USE OF INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES AGAINST AMERICAN CITIZENS VIA ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE AND MORE. These revelations go beyond even the 1970s Congressional hearings about the rampant abuses by the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. which is presumably why Anti-Trump media outlets are so desperate to distract from them with shrill propaganda pieces. 

        More effort needs put forth to make these revelations heard through the droning of “illegal immigrants uber alles” from Democrats and their media outlets. The 1970s Colby revelations were amateur hour compared to what the Biden-Harris Regime was guilty of. Even people who called in to suicide hotlines were put on government lists for increased surveillance.

        We’re back to my old observation that the Democrats use the media much, much more effectively than their opposing political party. If these intel scandals implicated Trump they would be as widely discussed as the mania surrounding the Democrats’ pet issues of the moment.

MARLOW CUTS TO THE HEART OF DEMOCRAT WORSHIP OF WIFE-BEATING, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, MS-13 MEMBER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

MORE FOOTAGE OF DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET INSISTING JOE BIDEN WAS PERFECTLY FIT FOR OFFICE. Speaking of scandals that would be dominating the news cycle if the opposing party had kept up with Democrats in the Media Arms Race. 

THE LATEST DEMOCRAT LIE ABOUT KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA IS THAT HE IS A “TEEN”. Unreal.

THERE ARE STILL IMBECILES WHO THINK TRUMP TOLD PEOPLE TO INJECT THEMSELVES WITH BLEACH

TRUMP’S POLICIES CONTINUE TO ATTRACT INVESTMENTS IN THE U.S. – ROCHE TO INVEST FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS AND ADD OVER TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND NEW JOBS IN THE U.S.

INDIA JOINS THE LIST OF NATIONS FOLLOWING TRUMP’S LEAD ON PLACING STEEL TARIFFS ON CHINA. Continue reading

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AIHEC: COOL TEAM NAMES AND COOL LOGOS

For years now, Balladeer’s Blog has included the American Indian Higher Education Consortium college basketball teams in my sports coverage. New readers expressed interest, having never been exposed to them before. Here’s a look at some of their coolest team names and/or coolest logos.

Institution: FORT PECK COLLEGE

Team Name: BUFFALO CHASERS

Location: Poplar, MT

Year Established: 1969

Institution: TURTLE MOUNTAIN COLLEGE

Team Name: MIGHTY MIKINOCKS

Location: Belcourt, ND

Year Established: 1972 Continue reading

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APRIL TWENTY-FIRST ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

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

DEMOCRAT JUDGE RESIGNS AFTER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT – AND TREN DE ARAGUA MEMBER – ARRESTED BY ICE IN THE JUDGE’S HOME. Yes, a Democrat judge’s home. Corruption among judges becomes worse all the time.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ARRESTED IN TENNESSEE ADMITS TO RAPING AND IMPREGNATING AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL. Democrats like Senator Chris Van Hollen have a new hero. Tell Chris his next photo op is ready.

EMMER REMINDS THE PUBLIC THAT ELECTED DEMOCRATS DO FAR MORE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS THAN FOR THEIR OWN CONSTITUENTS. Chris Van Hollen, the Senator from MS-13, comes to mind.

PRESIDENT TRUMP REINFORCES HIS LEGACY OF LOWERING HEALTHCARE COSTS (LIKE HE DID IN HIS FIRST TERM, TOO) WITH HEALTHCARE PRICE TRANSPARENCY RULE. Trump is the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime. 

APPEALS COURT RULES AGAINST ANTI-TRUMP “JUDGE” BOASBERG OVER HIS CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT.

STANLEY PARRISH OF “NO FILTER” AND HIS EXCELLENT WALKAWAY VIDEO AS HE JOINS SO MANY OF US IN WALKING AWAY FROM THE INTOLERANT AND HATEMONGERING DEMOCRAT PARTY.

DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA VETOES BILL TO HAVE POLICE COOPERATE WITH ICE. Even now the Democrat motto is “Illegal immigrants uber alles.” More HERE.

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: APRIL EIGHTEENTH

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

NOTE: Anti-Donald Trump fascists are so dishonest and propagandistic they’ve been lying about illegal immigrant and MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Democrats and their media outlets have been pretending he was just a “Maryland father” who was scooped up by ICE for no reason. Taking their lies to the next level, anti-Trump loons have even been hysterically pretending that Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s situation meant Trump might “disappear” people at will. More HERE.

These grotesque lies have been proven to be as wrong as the previous claims that Trump put a bounty on the heads of U.S. soldiers in the field or was preparing a nuclear program at Mar-a-Lago or plotted to kidnap Michigan’s Governor Whitmer or any of the other deranged bits of propaganda that anti-Trump people here and abroad are foolish enough to fall for EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.   2025 Democrats are garbage who are trying their hardest to provoke violence and more just because of their hatred for one man.   

EVERYTHING THAT DEMOCRAT FASCISTS DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT THE CRIMINAL KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA. Democrats and other anti-Trumpers are such lying filth. More HERE. And HERE. Is there ANY point at which anti-Trump imbeciles will learn to question the bizarre propaganda that gets spread against him?   

MORE LIES EXPOSED ABOUT DEMOCRATS’ FAVORITE GANG MEMBER. More HERE. And HERE.  

MOTHERS OF SLAIN VICTIMS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS BLAST DEMOCRAT CHRIS VAN HOLLEN FOR HIS CRUSADE FOR KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA. But they’re wasting their time if they think any Democrat will give a damn about dead victims of illegal immigrants – who are STILL the only people Democrats work for. Illegals are Democrats’ sole reason for being at this point. Insane.

By the way, I know Democrats are talking about impeaching Trump over this illegal immigrant situation for “ignoring a court’s orders.” Yet Joe Biden repeatedly ignored multiple SUPREME COURT rulings that presidents do not have the authority to make the taxpayers pay off other people’s student loans. The Republicans weren’t capable of the insane behavior that Democrats are, so they didn’t raise that to the level of impeachment proceedings.

DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS IGNORE MOTHER SPEAKING ABOUT HER CHILD’S HORRIFIC DEATH AT THE HANDS OF AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT.  (Or “Democrat in training” I guess we should call them.) She begged them to start covering illegal immigrant crimes

DNI TULSI GABBARD DECLASSIFIES AND EXPOSES JOE BIDEN’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL PROGRAM FOR AUTHORITARIAN TREATMENT OF AMERICAN CITIZENS. Hey anti-Trump lunatics in other countries, how about covering this with the same breathless anxiety you bring to every disproven rumor about Trump’s conduct?  Continue reading

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WINK MARTINDALE: RIP – HE DID MORE THAN JUST GAME SHOWS

Wink Martindale passed away yesterday at the age of 91. Most tributes are acknowledging his career as a game show icon so Balladeer’s Blog will look at his roles outside of that sphere.

MARS PATROL (1953-1955) – At age 19 – and already smiling like somebody just broke his jaw – the go-getting Winston Conrad “Wink” Martindale was the star of 514 episodes of Memphis’ weekday show Mars Patrol. (Ignore the incorrect IMDb entry which lists him as the star of just 1 episode. Memphis newspapers and Martindale himself recount how he starred in the entire series.) 

Wink starred as Mars Patrol Captain Martindale and with six Mars Guard children aged 6 to 10 he would blast off in his cheap-looking spaceship. After he and the kids did their live ad for Bosco, that is.

Martindale and the diminutive Mars Guard members wielded ray-guns in their adventures and also hosted episodes of old Flash Gordon and other space serials of the past, making Wink a kind of movie host variant as well. The young fans of Mars Patrol could write in and join the show’s Star Dodgers Club, complete with Captain Martindale photos and other merchandise. Continue reading

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