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FEBRUARY SEVENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

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

THE SCANDAL OVER THE WAY DEMOCRATS USED USAID TO COVERTLY FINANCE DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS, TARGET DEMOCRAT ENEMIES AND PUSH GROTESQUE SIDE PROJECTS CONTINUES TO GROW. More HERE. And HERE. This will join the Teapot Dome Scandal, the Credit Mobilier Scandal and other monumental scandals in American history. Even more HERE. And HERE.

PRESIDENT TRUMP AND SENATOR TUBERVILLE PURSUING LEGISLATION TO END THE TAXING OF SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS. Another campaign promise is addressed.

TRUMP ONCE AGAIN IMPROVING THINGS FOR THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR, LIKE HE DID IN HIS FIRST TERM, TOO. He has been and still is the best president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

FEMALE ATHLETES PRAISE PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR KEEPING MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS. Videos HERE. And HERE. And HERE.

DEMOCRAT OBSESSION WITH MUTILATING THE GENITALS OF CHILDREN CONTINUES. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

TRUMP CLEANUP OF THE SEWER AT THE CIA IS IN THE SPIRIT OF JFK’s LONG-AGO PLAN TO CURB THAT AGENCY’S COUNTLESS ABUSES. Let’s hope President Trump keeps himself safe.

TREN DE ARAGUA GANG MEMBERS STILL BEING ARRESTED IN AURORA, CO. Remember when Democrats tried pretending that the gang wasn’t even in Colorado and that Trump was making it up?. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: FEB FIFTH

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

FURTHER CONFIRMATION THAT FORMER CIA HEAD JOHN BRENNAN AND HIS ILK LIED ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP BEING RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION JUST TO PROVIDE JOE BIDEN WITH A “GOTCHA” MOMENT IN THAT 2020 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE WITH TRUMP. Outright election interference to cover up the Biden Crime Family Scandals in the 2020 election. The thugs of the “intelligence community” are as disgusting as ever and need cleaning up. 

REMEMBER HOW DEMOCRAT SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER GLOATED IN JANUARY OF 2017 ABOUT HOW THE THREE-LETTER AGENCIES WOULD GET BACK AT TRUMP “SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY” FOR DARING TO CALL OUT THEIR FAILURES LIKE JOHN F. KENNEDY DID. Back then I was one of the people pointing out how repulsive it was to have a senator grovelingly and complacently admit to imminent illegal revenge tactics from the scum of the CIA and others.

VIDEO: PRESIDENT TRUMP PRESENTS THE MOTHERS OF VICTIMS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT VIOLENCE RESPONDING TO SELENA GOMEZ. More HERE.

TRUMP MAKES DISASTROUS COMMITMENT TO CONTROLLING GAZA. In my opinion his proposal cannot work and should not even be attempted. It’s the kind of mistake he avoided in his first term.

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY: EVEN ZELENSKY ADMITS THAT NEARLY ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS IN UKRAINE AID IS MISSING. More HERE. As rational people could tell all along the funds seemed to be diverted for use as a slush fund for corrupt politicians in the U.S. and Ukraine (including Zelensky). Joe Biden’s Regime embodied everything wrong with America’s political establishment.

BIDEN REGIME EXPOSED FOR OBSTRUCTING INVESTIGATIONS INTO TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS LAST YEAR. At one time such information would dominate the headlines but in 2025 it gets lost in the flood of other Biden Regime Scandals.

TRUMP INSPIRES MEXICO TO FINALLY ARREST REGIONAL LEADER OF DRUG CARTEL. Remember, obviously such action could have been taken before now, but the political will was lacking. Continue reading

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FEBRUARY THIRD ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

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

PILOTS HAD BEEN COMPLAINING TO THE BIDEN REGIME FOR YEARS ABOUT HOW DANGEROUS THE AIRSPACE OVER WASHINGTON D.C. HAD GOTTEN.

LAWSUIT EXPOSES HOW THE FAA – WHICH COMPLAINS NOW ABOUT UNDERSTAFFING – HAD TURNED AWAY OVER ONE THOUSAND QUALIFIED APPLICANTS BECAUSE OF DEI POLICIES. DEI is bigoted against white and Asian applicants. Democrat hatemongers even call Asians “white-adjacent.”

      And let’s be clear – DEI isn’t designed to help all people of color, only those people of color who show sufficient fealty to Democrat attitudes via their “studies” or “activism” as reflected on their job applications. Democrats weren’t hiring Thomas Sowells or Joy Villas or Clarence Thomases. It was similar to the way any applicant refraining from filling in their preferred pronouns would have been a red flag for Democrat Human Resources workers. 

TRUMP GETS AMERICANS FREED FROM VENEZUELA

CIA ADMITS PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT A LAB LEAK BEING THE MOST LIKELY CAUSE OF THE COVID PANDEMIC. But Democrats hysterically insisted that notion was wrong just because Trump said it, remember?

MS13 GANG LEADER – WHO SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN IN THE COUNTRY IN THE FIRST PLACE – SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON OVER SIX MURDERS THAT JOE BIDEN PERMITTED HIM TO COMMIT.

FENTANYL-DEALING TREN DE ARAGUA GANG MEMBERS IN THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY ARRESTED IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Obviously, the Biden-Harris Regime could have been making these arrests all along, but callously chose not to.

WASHINGTON POST: QUINNIPIAC POLL SHOWS DEMOCRATS HAVE FIFTY-SEVEN PERCENT NEGATIVE RATING FROM THE PUBLIC AND ONLY A THIRTY-ONE PERCENT FAVORABLE RATING.  

PANAMA CAVES TO TRUMP BY AGREEING TO EXIT THEIR DEAL WITH CHINA. Yet, anti-Trumpers STILL fail to comprehend that in negotiations a hard opening position can get wheeled and dealed down from there. Instead, they keep pretending Trump’s trying to dictate to other countries with his opening offers. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: JAN THIRTY-FIRST

 Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog gives you another current events roundup from an America where, with the inevitable difficulties arising, we’ll see if the Congressional Republicans are their usual gutless selves and will turn on de facto Third Party President Donald Trump.

BRILLIANT DEBUNKING OF SOME OF THE BIGGEST LIES ABOUT TRUMP FROM DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS SO FAR IN HIS SECOND TERM. More HERE. And HERE.

PATIENTS FIRST GROUP SIDES WITH ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. WHILE DEMOCRATS SIDE WITH BIG PHARMA

NEW YORK MAGAZINE EXPOSED FOR CROPPING PHOTO TO PRETEND NO BLACK PEOPLE WERE AT TRUMP EVENT.

DEMOCRAT ELIZABETH WARREN, LONG DISGRACED OVER HER FRAUDULENT CLAIM TO BE NATIVE AMERICAN IN ORDER TO EXPLOIT HIRING PRACTICES, CALLED OUT FOR BEING IN BIG PHARMA’S POCKETS.

FURTHER FALLOUT FROM THE DISGUSTING BISHOP AND HER USE OF A RELIGIOUS SERVICE AS HER PERSONAL SOAPBOX. Democrats gutlessly love to hijack situations where they have a captive audience to lecture people they disagree with. Usually it’s funerals, but this time it was the inaugural prayer address. They pollute everything with their deceptive and divisive political whining.

DEMOCRATS TRY BLAMING TRUMP FOR AIR COLLISION EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE BEEN DELAYING THE CONFIRMATION OF HIS FAA NOMINEE JUST TO PLAY POLITICAL GAMES. More HERE. And HERE. Trump has only been in office again for 11 days and Democrats haven’t even let a new FAA head be confirmed, so rational people know this is not Trump’s fault.

EVEN THE NEW YORK TIMES POINTS OUT THAT CONGRESS WAS WARNED ABOUT THE AIR TRAFFIC OVER DC LONG BEFORE TRUMP WAS REELECTED IN NOVEMBER. Continue reading

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MABEL NORMAND: HER SILENT FILMS (1910-1915)

MABEL NORMAND – Born Amabel Ethelreid Normand on November 9th, 1893 in New York, this silent film comedienne blazed trails for countless subsequent actresses as well as female directors and screenwriters. Like so many silent film stars Normand is largely neglected today except for my fellow silent movie geeks and I.

Though known as a comic genius, Mabel’s big break came from a role in an 18-minute dramatic short titled Her Awakening (1911). Her performance caught the eye of up-and-coming film giant Mack Sennett, who hired her for his comedies. The two started a romantic relationship embellished decades later in the Broadway musical Mack & Mabel (1974).

A SELECTION OF MABEL NORMAND FILMS (1910-1915) – During her career, Normand starred in over 220 films, so I’m dividing her movies into time periods.

INDISCRETION OF BETTY (1910) – Mabel had her first starring role in this short drama but had appeared in an unknown number of previous films in smaller roles. Mabel played Betty, the wife in the marriage of a social-climbing couple.

Her husband’s income does not yet support the airs they try to put on, leading to some bitter lessons for the pair about life and marital finances.

HER AWAKENING (1911) – The above-mentioned short in which Mabel caught the eye of Mack Sennett, who then signed her for comedy collaborations. In this short drama, Normand played a young lady trying to snare a successful husband.

She is ashamed of her poor home and her elderly, handicapped mother and prevents her beaus from meeting the mother. The situation results in the tragic death of her mother.

THROUGH HIS WIFE’S PICTURE (1911) – Mabel Normand’s first film short with Mack Sennett. He directed and had a supporting role in this 9-minute comedy about a misunderstanding that threatens a marriage.

Mabel as the wife attends a costume party where she thinks she will catch her loyal husband trying to start an affair with another woman. The costumed pirate she mistakenly thinks is her husband is actually an unmarried friend of the husband. The “pirate’s” flirtatious conduct toward a young lady makes Normand furious. Continue reading

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THE MAN IN THE BLACK CLOAK (1886) – NEGLECTED ARCHETYPE

man-in-the-black-cloak-4THE MAN IN THE BLACK CLOAK (1886) by P.T. Raymond (Francis W Doughty). Before Batman there was the Shadow. Before the Shadow there was Judex. And before Judex there was the Man in the Black Cloak, or simply the Black Cloak as I’ll call him for short. And ironically, four years before The Man in the Black Cloak was published there was simply The Man in Black, a story I will examine another time.

Our present tale first appeared in serialized form in Boys of New York in July and August of 1886. The title figure is a neglected forerunner of dark-attired vigilantes like Judex and the Shadow, plus his paranormal abilities mark him as a very early proto-superhero.  

I need to start right at the top with a certain amount of spoilers to make it clear the kind of place the Black Cloak should occupy when tracing early influences on Pulps and superhero stories.  

Our title character at first appears to be a somewhat sinister figure as he effortlessly makes his furtive way around 1880s New York City, often glimpsed by young salesman Bob Leeming. Bob is increasingly disturbed, both by the way this man follows him around and by the man’s bright, burning eyes and chalky-white complexion, glimpsed just above his pulled-up coat collar and bandit kerchief.    Continue reading

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JANUARY TWENTY-EIGHTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

It’s time for another current events roundup, courtesy of Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

*** As usual with developing, complex situations, I will cover what is happening at the border between Mexican drug cartels and the U.S. Border Patrol in a few days when the inevitable information fog clears.

ORANGE COUNTY DEMOCRAT TREASURY OFFICIAL ARRESTED ON CHILD PORN CHARGES AND WITH TRYING TO MEET UP WITH A NINE-YEAR-OLD. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

“INTELLIGENCE” (LMAO) OFFICER LISA YATES FORGETS TO REMOVE HER NAME FROM A POST SHE SENT OUT TO COLLEAGUES COACHING THEM ON HOW TO SABOTAGE PRESIDENT TRUMP “AND LEAVE NO TRACE”. Hey, Lisa, accidentally leaving your name on the post ruins that whole “leave no trace” aspect of your treasonous instructions. Deep State functionaries still hate President Trump and his efforts to reform America’s hopelessly corrupt intelligence agencies. 

FOR DEMOCRATS WHO TRY MINIMIZING THE NATURE OF YATES’ ACTIONS, HERE’S A REMINDER THAT THE REASON THE CIVIL SERVICE REPLACED THE DEMOCRATS’ FORMER SPOILS SYSTEM WAS TO PREVENT NAKEDLY PARTISAN ACTIVITIES BY FEDERAL EMPLOYEES. In other words, it was meant to prevent the kinds of things that Deep State functionaries like this just admitted to doing.

        AMONG CINDY CALLAND’S POINTS ABOUT HOW DAMAGING IS YATES’ TREACHERY: “Civil servants are supposed to be apolitical. Their job is to implement the policy of the executive. Due to their apolitical nature, they are shielded by the firing and hiring that occurs with political appointees for each new administration.”

         “If they are not going to do their jobs in an apolitical manner and they are not going to work hard to implement the policies of the executive, regardless of who the executive is, they should be treated like political appointees and forfeit the protections of the civil service.”

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“RAISING AWARENESS” ABOUT DEMOCRAT UGLINESS AND HYPOCRISY

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America’s Democrats persist in pretending that they are THE moral models for the rest of us, so here’s a blog post from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog “raising awareness” (to use one of the Democrats’ favorite nauseating cliches) about some of their loathsome conduct. 

*** Last week Democrats resumed their grotesque peddling of cheap exploitation via sad stories from illegal immigrants and their devotees. Let’s remember one of their most disgusting displays of hypocrisy on this sort of thing:   

Previously the perpetual children who call themselves Democrats tried to make cheap political capital out of a supposed note that the child of an illegal immigrant addressed to their parents. The child (if they actually wrote the note) was sad about the possibility of immigration authorities catching the family and sending them home. Democrats acted like this letter was proof of how supposedly “evil” it is for countries to have immigration laws.

To counter that here’s a letter written to Heaven by the child of a law enforcement officer killed by an illegal immigrant. It’s just as sad, Democrats. Do you immature drama queens STILL think that heart-breaking letters written by children should form the basis of a country’s immigration policy? Or have you decided to finally grow up?

Oh, I know, Democrats. Only touching letters that further your political goals count. If the letter below helped push your politics the letter and the little girl who wrote it would be world-famous.

Below is that letter written by a little girl whose father will never be coming home because of an illegal immigrant. Try to remember, Democrats, emotion can cut both ways.  Continue reading

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THE MAGICAL WORLD OF ANIA: LIKE DAVID LYNCH’S TWIN PEAKS SET IN POLAND

David Lynch’s recent passing has had me thinking about an online production in the spirit of his series Twin Peaks

Magical World of Ania picBalladeer’s Blog’s love of quality horror ARGs (Alternate Reality Games) has been well established. In the past I’ve examined productions like Local 58, Claridryl and Jack Torrance (NOT the character from The Shining.)

This time around I’m taking a look at what I call Poland’s answer to Twin PeaksMAGICZNY SWIAT ANI or MAGICAL WORLD OF ANIA. Like Local 58, this ARG is still going, so if you’re interested in pitting your wits against the producer’s, the various mysteries remain unresolved as of this writing.

NOTE: BE SURE TO USE THE CLOSED CAPTIONING FOR TRANSLATION FROM THE POLISH LANGUAGE.

Magical World of Ania pic 2The eerie storyline revolves around the disappearance of a beautiful young Polish woman named Ania Slowinska and the dark, seemingly supernatural forces behind it. As the tale unfolds it becomes apparent other women have fallen victim to the same forces, with one having had all her teeth removed after being murdered.

Among the many suspects and supporting characters in the drama are Ania’s mother Kristina, who seems to be morbidly enjoying the attention her daughter’s disappearance has brought her. Others include Ania’s birth-father – whom she never knew – plus her step-father, an infatuated stalker, a jealous female friend and a faith healer with a very strange band of disciples.

WARNING: If you don’t like off-kilter horror don’t click “continue reading.” Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: JAN TWENTY-FOURTH

Courtesy of Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog, it’s time for another current events roundup.

JOE BIDEN PROTECTED HIS CRIME FAMILY AND MALEFACTORS LIKE ANTHONY FAUCI AS HE SLITHERED AWAY. Crimes going all the way back to 2014 covered. Crooked Joe made Carter (D) look competent and Harding (R) look less corrupt. More HERE. And HERE.

DEMOCRAT POLITICIZING OF THE CIVIL SERVICE MADE IT AS BAD AS THE OLD SPOILS SYSTEM.

FAUCI CONVENIENTLY FORGETS HE ADMITTED TO HIS CRIME.

BIDEN FOREVER SOILS THE PRESIDENCY WITH HIS “PREEMPTIVE PARDONS” CONCEPT. Just like he soiled his pants that time during his meeting with the pope. Expert points out that Joe Biden was America’s most self-serving and corrupt president.

REPORTERS REVEAL EVEN MORE ACCOUNTS OF POLITICO SMOTHERING STORIES ABOUT BIDEN SCANDALS.

HEEDING PRESIDENT TRUMP, WAR CRIMINAL VLAD PUTIN WANTS TO TALK PEACE WITH UKRAINE. Never forget that Putin invaded Ukraine in the first place after Joe Biden said a “minor incursion” would be acceptable. 

HEEDING TRUMP, FRANCE’S MACRON URGES THE E.U. TO INCREASE SPENDING ON NATO AND DEFENSE IN GENERAL. Remember when the foolish “harrumph, harrumph” Republicans at National Review freaked out over Trump even raising this issue?

TRUMP BRINGS EVEN MORE AUTO INDUSTRY JOBS BACK TO THE U.S. Trump has been the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

DEMOCRAT RACE HATRED PHILOSOPHIES NOW CLAIM MATH CLASSES CAUSE “INTELLECTUAL TRAUMA” IN MINORITY STUDENTS. “Mathematical violence” (LMAO) is another ridiculous term pushed by the hatemongers behind this.

        The team of bigots further stated “As a culture, whiteness is toxic in society and in education. More specifically, in society, whiteness presents through norms including—but not limited to—perfectionism, a sense of urgency, individualism, and objectivity.”   Have I mentioned lately that Democrats have transformed America’s colleges and universities into churches of irrational thought and political intolerance?   Continue reading

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