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APRIL SIXTEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

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

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT RELEASED BY COURT IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY CITY” NOW ARRESTED FOR TWENTY CHILD SEX CRIMES. Democrats and their media outlets will never do stories about the victims but will do countless stories ennobling illegal immigrants (think convicted criminal Kilmar Abrego-Garcia) and demanding they stay. It’s still the Democrat Party against the rest of us.

MAN ARRESTED FOR SETTING FIRE TO PA GOV SHAPIRO’S RESIDENCE ON THE FIRST NIGHT OF PASSOVER IS A HAMAS SUPPORTER. Is anyone surprised?

TRUMP EFFECT: NVIDIA JOINS THE GROWING LIST OF COMPANIES THAT WILL BEGIN MANUFACTURING IN THE UNITED STATES AND WILL INVEST FIVE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS. More HERE. Even more jobs created with this, but anti-Trump fascists are still busy pretending they understand what tariffs are and how they work.

MORE TRUMP EFFECT: AMD TO NOW MANUFACTURE PROCESSING CHIPS IN THE U.S. FOR FIRST TIME EVER. Trump is the best president for the working class and the poor since Franklin Roosevelt. And as with Roosevelt, ugly forces attack his visionary moves.

POLL FROM APRIL TENTH TO FOURTEENTH: PRESIDENT TRUMP SOARS TO HIS HIGHEST APPROVAL RATING SINCE INAUGURATION. Looks like the “Tariff Madness” hysteria should join Reefer Madness in the bin of ineffective propaganda.

DEMOCRAT LETITIA “NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW” JAMES GETS REFERRED FOR CRIMINAL PROSECUTION FOR MORTGAGE FRAUD. Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

PRESIDENT TRUMP STILL FIGHTING TO SAVE AMERICAN RETAIL.

BOSTON’S DEMOCRAT MAYOR IN NEW SCANDAL OVER BEING FUNDED BY A CHINA INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVE. No surprise for a Democrat “sanctuary city.”

DEMOCRAT-RUN SCHOOL VIOLATED PARENTS’ OPT-OUT REQUEST IN SEX AND GENDER IDENTITY ACTIVITY. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FOUND GUILTY OF RAPING AND MURDERING MARYLAND MOTHER OF FIVE. Will he be the latest Democrat hero? Continue reading

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TAXIARCHOI (427-414 B.C.) ANCIENT GREEK COMEDY

TaxiarchoiBalladeer’s Blog presents another examination of an ancient Greek political satire.

TAXIARCHOI (Tax Collectors) – By Eupolis, who was one of the Big Three of Attic Old Comedy along with Aristophanes and Cratinus. Tax Day is the most appropriate day to examine this comedy because its premise serves as a pointed reminder of the inherent ugliness in all taxation – that the power to impose and collect taxes is, ultimately, backed up by the use of force. (If you doubt me go without paying your personal property taxes. Then we’ll discuss how much you truly “own” your home or your car.)  

In Taxiarchoi the god Dionysus is depicted joining the title military unit. Those Taxiarchoi units would periodically collect the “taxes” or – in its most honest form – “tribute” from the various regions, not only of Athens proper but of the Athenian subject states. Military units were necessary for such tasks for the reasons you would expect – attempted resistance on the part of those being taxed and/or attempted robbery by bands of thieves after the taxes had been collected.     Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: APRIL FOURTEENTH

 Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog does another current events roundup from an America where supporters of political corruption continue to hate President Donald Trump.

LATEST DEMOCRAT HERO: FBI SAYS ARRESTED WISCONSINER KILLED HIS PARENTS IN PURSUIT OF THE “FINANCIAL MEANS AND AUTONOMY” TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT TRUMP. Like Democrats’ beloved Luigi Mangione he’s charged with murder and more. 

ANOTHER DEMOCRAT HERO: THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD PENNSYLVANIA MAN ARRESTED FOR THREATS TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT TRUMP AND CALLS TO KILL ALL HIS APPOINTEES. More HERE. Democrats always tell us that “silence is consent” so unless they condemn all this it means they consent to it by their own standards.

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DEMOCRAT JASMINE CROCKETT UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISING VIOLATIONS. Maybe she feels suddenly becoming loudly anti-Trump will see her through this scandal.

BOSTON DEMOCRAT CITY COUNCIL MEMBER AGREES TO PLEAD GUILTY ON CORRUPTION CHARGES. More HERE. Have I mentioned lately that America’s politicians tend to be white-collar criminals?

ALSO IN MASSACHUSETTS, DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN CHARGED WITH FIVE COUNTS OF WIRE FRAUD AND FALSIFICATION OF RECORDS. See above item.

HHS SECRETARY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. CALLS OUT THE DEEP STATE AND CALLS THE FDA A “SOCK PUPPET” FOR THE PHARMA COMPANIES IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE REGULATING. More about Kennedy and the forces opposed to him HERE.

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION STRIPS FUNDS THAT JOE BIDEN GRANTED TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ON THE TERROR WATCH LIST. More HERE. “Illegal immigrants uber alles” becomes “illegal immigrants on the terror watch list uber alles” as the Democrat motto.  Continue reading

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FROM THE ALVAREZ GALLOSO BLOG – “LETTER TO THE DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS; ANONYMOUS”

A terrific item cited by lifelong freedom fighter Roberto Alvarez Galloso.

“To whomever wrote this- Well said!!
When millions of illegals were ushered in through the southern border, you said nothing!
When they abandoned millions of dollars worth of military equipment in Afghanistan, you said nothing!
When they flaunted a two tier justice system, one for them and one for everyone else, you said nothing!
When they covered up the Hunter Biden laptop, you said nothing!

READ THE REST HERE.

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APRIL ELEVENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog. The monumental clash between anti-corruption President Donald Trump and the cesspool which masquerades as America’s political establishment continues.

DANIELLE CARTER-WALTERS BRAVELY BASHES DEMOCRATS FOR “LIVING IN GATED COMMUNITIES” SAFELY PROTECTED FROM THEIR OWN DISASTROUS POLICIES UNDER WHICH THEIR CONSTITUENTS SUFFER. Exactly! 2025 Democrats make the callous French aristocracy before their Revolution look in touch with the citizens by comparison.

TRUMP POLICIES RESULT IN INFLATION DROPPING FOR SECOND MONTH IN A ROW. And he’s only been back in office for less than three months! 

NEW SWISS INVESTMENT OF TWENTY-THREE BILLION DOLLARS IN THE U.S. ANNOUNCED. Again, reasonable people have known that Trump’s tariff maneuvers were meant to bring people to the negotiating table and they have.

SENATOR KENNEDY PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR THE WAY HE HAS ATTRACTED SO MANY NATIONS TO MAKE DEALS.

ECONOMIST/ YOUGOV POLL: ONLY THIRTY-ONE PERCENT HAVE A FAVORABLE VIEW OF THE DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS.

TRUMP HAS DHS SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM REOPEN OFFICE FOR CITIZEN VICTIMS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIME. Families whose loved ones have suffered were on hand for the move. Joe Biden had shut down that office.

PRESIDENT TRUMP TAKES FOUR ACTIONS TO BOLSTER AMERICA’S COAL INDUSTRY. Mine workers cheer the measures taken by hero of the working class Trump.

TRUMP SECURES RELEASE OF BALLERINA WRONGFULLY JAILED BY UNHINGED WAR CRIMINAL VLAD PUTIN.

STOCKS SOAR FOLLOWING BOND ACTION AND TARIFF NEGOTIATIONS. Trump hailed for outmaneuvering despotic China and the plutocratic Wall Street vultures. Democrats ignore Chinese slavery, concentration camps and sweatshops HERE

DOGE EXPOSES MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS MILKING MEDICAID. MANY MORE ON VOTING ROLLS AND ILLEGALLY VOTING. Have I mentioned lately how corrupt America’s political establishment is? Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: APRIL NINTH

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

PARTISAN HACK JAMES BOASBERG SMACKED DOWN BY THE SUPREME COURT, WHICH RULED – AS WE ALL KNEW – THAT AS A MERE DISTRICT JUDGE HE DID NOT HAVE JURISDICTION TO BLOCK TRUMP ACTIONS.

           Remember several days ago when I mentioned that the higher courts would once again overrule the unconstitutional overreach by showboating anti-Trump judges?

Here are some more of the newest instances – HERE, and HERE, and HERE, and HERE, and HERE, and HERE, and HERE, and HERE, and HERE. Yet anti-Trump loons are still celebrating what they thought were wins because they lack the attention spans to follow these cases all the way through.  

SENATOR SCHMITT CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION REGARDING THE CORRUPTION INVOLVED IN BOASBERG’S OBSCENE ANTICS. Such biased “judges” need reined in for the sake of whoever is president from whichever political party.

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THREE MORE DEMOCRAT OFFICIALS IN PENNSYLVANIA PLEAD GUILTY TO ELECTION FRAUD IN YEARS-OLD CASE. The fight against election fraud is crucial and must continue so that hopefully a fraudulent election like 2020’s cannot happen again.

TWO MEN PRETENDING TO BE WOMEN PLAY FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP IN A WOMEN’S COMPETITION. Democrats should just cut to the chase and make “May the best man win” the official motto of all women’s athletics and other competitions.

PRO-TRUMP CONGRESSMAN JOHN JAMES ANNOUNCES RUN TO BECOME MICHIGAN’S GOVERNOR.

TRUMP SAYS HE’S PROUD TO BE THE PRESIDENT FOR WORKERS AND THE MIDDLE CLASS. He’s been the best president for them during my lifetime.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S APPROVAL RATING RISES YET AGAIN DESPITE THE USUAL PERFORMATIVE OUTRAGE FROM HIS IRRATIONAL HATERS Continue reading

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MEMORABLE QUOTES

Mascot sword and pistolA change of pace blog post for Tuesday. 

“Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.” – Nicolas Chamfort 

“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” – Albert Camus

“Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.” – Norman Douglas

“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.” – George Santayana

“A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.” – Logan Pearsall Smith

“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.” – Honore de Balzac Continue reading

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APRIL SEVENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Kicking off the week with a current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog, as anti-Trump hysteria moves from “Russia, Russia, Russia” to “tariffs, tariffs, tariffs” and from “Trump’s going to start World War Three” to “Trump’s going to start a Depression.”

DEMOCRATS AT THE AP UPSET THAT THE MARCH JOBS REPORT WAS SUCH A SPECTACULAR TRUMP SUCCESS. Democrats still root against the working class and the poor apparently.

AGRICULTURE SECRETARY BROOKE ROLLINS SKILLFULLY CORRECTS CNN REGARDING TARIFFS. The strong, intelligent woman exposed weak, uninformed Jake Tapper’s spin. More HERE. More on tariffs HERE. And HERE

OVER FIFTY NATIONS HAVE ALREADY SOUGHT OUT NEW DEALS WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP TO STOP GOUGING THE U.S. WITH THEIR OUTRAGEOUS TARIFFS. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. Getting nations to come to the table for talks was obviously the goal and such talks are taking place. NOTE: I wish various news outlets would stop wording headlines on this to mean that other countries are “caving” or “bending the knee.” Such wording is counterproductive at best.

COURAGEOUS ROLE MODEL TULSI GABBARD MOVING TO REVEAL ALL OF THE BIDEN REGIME’S AUTHORITARIAN DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE AND CENSORSHIP PROGRAMS.

PRIVILEGED WHITE DEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN (AND BILLIONAIRE) MOVES TO DEFUND DOGE, UNAWARE THAT DOGE DOESN’T GET ANY MONEY. Shouldn’t a member of Congress be able to understand such things? Even one from California?  

ALLEGED “JUDGE” BOASBERG CAUGHT IN TRANSCRIPT OVER CONSPIRACY AGAINST TRUMP AND THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH. Honest judges recuse themselves when they are this biased. But I wonder if anyone has ever accused James Boasberg of being an honest judge. 

PARTISAN HACK JAMES “JEB” BOASBERG’S BROTHER WAS INVOLVED IN HIRING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

FASCIST DEMOCRAT MOBS SWARM BORDER CHIEF TOM HOMAN’S RESIDENCE

CORPORATE FASCIST BILL GATES’ ORGANIZATION MAY LOSE TAX-EXEMPT STATUS OVER RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ACCUSATIONS. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: APRIL FOURTH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog serves up another current events roundup from a world where anti-Trump loons who never even heard of the word “tariff” a few weeks ago are joining the latest pile-on panic. Seriously, the best way to silence anti-Trumpers with the TikTok mentality is to ask them to explain their understanding of how tariffs work. You’ve never seen conversations end so quickly.

COURAGEOUS BATYA UNGAR-SARGON DEFENDS PRESIDENT TRUMP AND POINTS OUT HOW MUCH HE HAS ALWAYS HELPED THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR. Like me, she calls him a new FDR HERE.

SENATOR BERNIE MORENO SMACKS DOWN REPUBLICAN MIKE PENCE AND DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET’S ANTI-TRUMP TARIFFS HYSTERIA. Pence was typically clueless, outdated and useless.

ECONOMOST E.J. ANTONI POINTS OUT THAT TRUMP’S TARIFFS WILL STILL BE MUCH LOWER THAN THE TARIFFS OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE HAD ON THE U.S. FOR DECADES. More HERE. Trump fighting the unfairness is not him “unleashing a trade war.”

NEW YORK CITY MAYOR ERIC ADAMS LEAVES THE CORRUPT AND FASCISTIC DEMOCRAT PARTY TO SEEK REELECTION AS AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE.

PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER DEMOCRAT NANCY PELOSI SUPPORTED THE KIND OF TARIFFS TRUMP IS PURSUING … WHEN IT WASN’T TRUMP PURSUING THEM. Anti-Trump hysteria is pathetic.

EVEN THE DEMOCRATS AT THE NEW YORK TIMES ADMIT ONCE AGAIN THAT TRUMP’S POLICIES REGARDING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION WILL BOOST WAGES FOR THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS.

LENARD MCKELVEY CALLS FOR DEMOCRATS CHUCK SCHUMER AND HAKEEM JEFFRIES TO BE PRIMARIED AND THROWN OUT OF OFFICE.

EYESOVER ANALYSIS SHOWS TRUMP’S SUPPORT CONTINUES TO GROW. More HERE.

TRUMP ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL TAX RELIEF FOR SENIOR CITIZENS AND THE MIDDLE CLASS.

TRUMP ECONOMY FAR EXCEEDS ECONOMIST PREDICTIONS BY ADDING 228,000 NEW JOBS IN MARCH. Fretful economists predicted just 140,000 new jobs. Continue reading

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VAL KILMER: RIP – TOP SECRET (1984)

With the passing of the one and only Val Kilmer here’s a look at his debut movie, Top Secret

TOP SECRET (1984)

Directed and written by the Zucker Brothers and Jim Abrahams, Top Secret is the Citizen Kane of movies which simultaneously parody spy movies and Elvis Presley flicks.

Val Kilmer, in the years before he took himself way too seriously, could truly do it all and masterfully stars as rock music idol Nick Rivers. Nick gets caught up in an anachronistic World War Two-style spy movie which also incorporates elements of Elvis’ Harum Scarum but with Nazi stereotypes instead of Arab stereotypes.    Continue reading

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