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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: JULY SECOND

Another current events roundup courtesy of Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, from the land where the political prosecution of the opposition leader proved why the Presidential Immunity concept is necessary. Our career politicians are too corrupt not to abuse the court system.  

trump smilingTRUMP-HATERS ACT STUNNED BY WHAT WE ALL KNEW WAS COMING IN TRUMP’S PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY CASE. More HERE. They need to relax, though. For the aspects sent back to the lower court the anti-Trump bias there means they will pretend virtually nothing he did was an “official act.”

ANTI-TRUMP HYSTERIA CONTINUES AS IGNORANT, UNINFORMED AND EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE DEMOCRATS PRETEND TRUMP CAN SEND THE NAVY SEALS AFTER THEM. Can these people ever state rational opinions instead of being drama queens?

democrats are the real racistsDEMOCRAT RACISM STILL FUELING THEIR DESIRE TO BYPASS VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS IF THEY REPLACE BIDEN. How much do Democrats hate black people for them to tell the public that Kamala is worse than the senile little graft-grabber Joe Biden?

CLUELESS JOE BIDEN STILL HYPING THE NON-EXISTENT “INSURRECTION” (LMAO) OF JANUARY 6th, 2021. The imbecile even read “end of quote” off his teleprompter. He also forgot the Supreme Court recently ruled that the Democrat prosecutors were wrong in HUNDREDS of cases regarding their political prisoners who were merely protesting that day, so THEIR sentences will be getting lightened, too.

biden derangedMSNBC’S WALLACE PRETENDS THAT SHE’LL BE TARGETED AND “PEOPLE WILL FLEE THE COUNTRY.” But she forgot about the way Joe Biden’s rape accuser Tara Reade REALLY DID have to flee the country to be safe from the Biden Regime. 

SUPREME COURT’S OTHER RECENT DECISION ELIMINATED THE “INSURRECTION” (LMAO) NARRATIVE. Well, for people who care about facts. Anti-Trump loons will still pretend it was an insurrection even though NOTHING THAT HAPPENED THAT DAY COULD POSSIBLY HAVE RETURNED TRUMP TO THE WHITE HOUSE. Continue reading

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ANOTHER RUM MAKES THE LIST JUST IN TIME FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY

Squeezing in at nearly the eleventh hour is one last new rum for the 2024 list of Balladeer’s Blog’s Favorite Rums for the Independence Day holiday.

blackheart rumBLACKHEART RUM – Made in America, this rum product is described by the distillers as “rich in flavor and edgy to the core.” Blackheart Rum comes in at 93 proof. 

TASTING NOTES

Nose – Mix of cinnamon, fennel, caramel and licorice.

Palate – Spicy and flavorful, with notes of cherry, cream and molasses.

Finish – Finishes with a tantalizing taste and a tinge of spice.

LORE – With my oddball sense of humor I thoroughly enjoyed the elaborate, tongue-in-cheek backstory that Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc. came up with for this rum’s mascot. Ready for it?  Continue reading

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BIDEN DIDN’T JUST BECOME THIS WAY, WE KNEW IN 2020

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JOE BIDEN IN 2021, ALREADY LOOKING AS FAR GONE AND PATHETIC AS HE LOOKED IN THURSDAY NIGHT’S DEBATE. THIS IS NOTHING NEW.

Here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, I’ve been deluged with remarks, emails, text messages, etc. ever since Thursday night when Joe Biden once again behaved as unfit for office as he’s been since 2020. Some were surprised that I hadn’t immediately posted a crowing account of how – even with the host network’s accommodations for his unfitness that NO sitting president should ever be given – Biden once again behaved as poorly as we have all seen him do in countless video clips from recent years.   

unfit and pathetic bidenRather than just focus on how idiotically Old Soils Himself behaved Thursday night I will first offer some reminders about how the Democrat Party, the Bidens themselves and ESPECIALLY Democrat media outlets have been running cover for Biden’s unfitness for the past four years. Remember how the Democrats were most recently pretending video footage of Biden’s imbecility were “deep fakes” or “taken out of context.”

Legitimate questions were ignored regarding the Media Wall of Protection around Biden that has been lying to the voters for years now. The Party kept claiming Biden was sharp-minded and alert and that his “just a few hours and done for the day” conduct was just opposition party propaganda and not proof of his unfit condition.

biden embarrassingOne of the benefits of my series of blog posts looking back on the national scene under President Donald Trump and then following the installation of Joe Biden has been seeing how short the public memory is. Every week those posts produced “Hey, yeah, I forgot all about that” reactions from people.

Rather than just dump them all in one long blog post, I will recap the most crucial items in the days ahead. Even if the Democrats drop Biden I will still be making these posts because the monumental dishonesty of the Democrat Party and their media outlets as they forced the pathetic little crook Joe Biden on us NEEDS more attention than the topic has gotten so far.

Joe Biden dem in dementiaFirst, there was this satirical depiction of Joe Biden’s unfitness and inability to truly campaign in 2020 as he hid away from the public as much as possible. It’s a hilarious video: WEEKEND AT BIDEN’S. It could still be rerun here in 2024 because Biden’s unfitness is still apparent to everyone except people who refuse to ever read or watch media outlets that don’t play to their own biases and preconceived notions.

Lastly for this time is THIS 2021 ITEM FROM THE U.K. – yes, 2021 – and the reporter correctly points out how clear Biden’s unfitness already was, AND how clearly the media had failed to properly cover Biden’s inadequacies, AND how it was still going on as even then Democrat “reporters” were helping Biden through his public appearances. The whole item is HERE, but first, some excerpts reminding us that Joe Biden didn’t just suddenly become what he was Thursday night. From 2021:

     “(the) reason why too few realised what the world was going to get from a Biden presidency is that the US media simply didn’t ask the questions it needed to ask. Before the election a near entirety of the American media gave up covering it and simply campaigned for the Democrat nominee.” (NOTE FROM BALLADEER: And so did the near entirety of the British media and other European media.)

“Instead, they just hung on his every incoherent sentence and accepted his pronouncements (generally beginning with “Look”) as if they had any more idea than he did about whatever point he was forever struggling to make.”

“Until you see it up close you just cannot believe the cravenness of most of the American media. Last month the CNN presenter Don Lemon was selected to quiz Biden at a “town hall” event before the cameras. Biden was, as usual, meandering and unfocused as though lost in the fog of his own sentences. But Lemon would not press him properly … It wasn’t journalism. It wasn’t even kindness. He was rooting for the president.” Continue reading

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JUNE 27th ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

From the land of career criminal Joe “not competent to stand trial” Biden it’s time for another current events roundup courtesy of Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

biden is not legitCONGRESS: THE CIA INTERFERED WITH THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND AIDED THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN. Tell us something we didn’t already know.

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION RECORDS REVEAL THAT THE DEMOCRAT NATIONAL COMMITTEE HAS FUNNELED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO LAW FIRMS INVOLVED IN PERSECUTING OPPOSITION LEADER TRUMP. We have become the kind of country so many of our grandparents fled from.

jack smith picANTI-TRUMP PERSECUTOR JACK SMITH ADMITS TO EVEN MORE GOVERNMENT TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE AT MAR-A-LAGO. Jack Smith, looking nothing at all like a stalker and rapist, leads what may be the most corrupt and tainted “prosecution” in history. 

BIPARTISAN LEGAL ADVISORY GROUP DECLARES THE WITCH-HUNTING JANUARY SIXTH COMMITTEE WAS ILLEGITIMATE AND SO WERE ANY SUBPOENAS IT ISSUED.

CNN IMPLEMENTING A 1-2 MINUTE DELAY FOR TONIGHT’S PRESIDENTIAL “DEBATE.” An additional way for them to prop up Joe Biden by deciding what President Trump is allowed to say.

CNN’S PRESIDENTIAL “DEBATE” HOSTS FOR TONIGHT HAVE HISTORY OF COMPARING TRUMP TO HITLER, PLUS MORE. More HERE. I have no idea why President Trump and his people were stupid enough to okay the conditions Biden demanded for this. These days presidential debates – even in more sedate times – have become virtually meaningless. No matter what happens, both sides claim that their candidate won and that the other side lied. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: JUNE 25th

It’s time for another current events roundup courtesy of Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, coming to you from the land of career criminal Joe “not competent to stand trial” Biden.

paul ryanTHE REPULSIVE REPUBLICAN PAUL RYAN AND EVEN MORE REASONS WHY HE DESERVES TO BE DESPISED.

MARYLAND DEMOCRAT PARTY OFFICIAL CAUGHT ON VIDEO IN STING OF PEDOPHILE RING. Democrats, can you please leave children alone? Remember this every time you hear M.A.P. – Minor Attracted Persons – the Democrat euphemism for child molestation and grooming. 

ARTICLE EXAMINING WHY THE OUTSIDER TRUMP IS SO SAVAGELY TARGETED BY THE CESSPOOL OF CORRUPTION THAT THE DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENTS HAVE MADE OF OUR GOVERNMENT.

nancy pelosi is garbagePRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER DEMOCRAT NANCY “ASK HER ABOUT HER INSIDER TRADING SCANDALS” PELOSI ENDANGERS DEMOCRACY BY CLAIMING THE SUPREME COURT HAS “GONE ROGUE.” I couldn’t resist the reference to endangering democracy since that’s what shrill Democrats forever snivel about anything and everything they disagree with.

BIDEN REGIME’S LATEST HATEMONGER CAUGHT SCRUBBING THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA HISTORY TO TRY HIDING THEIR BIGOTRY.

LANDMARK ELECTION VALIDITY LAWSUIT IN PENNSYLVANIA.

flushing justiceEVEN DEMOCRAT ANDREW CUOMO COURAGEOUSLY DENOUNCES THE BLATANT POLITICAL PERSECUTION OF OPPOSITION LEADER DONALD TRUMP VIA LAWFARE. Chelsea Handler most affected. More HERE.

DEMOCRATS EXPLOIT WELFARE OFFICES IN FORTY-NINE STATES BY HANDING OUT VOTER REGISTRATION FORMS TO NON-CITIZENS. This political party is the lowest of the low.  Continue reading

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FEBRUARY 2022: LOOKING BACK

FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.

ukraine flagPOLL: SIXTY-TWO PERCENT OF VOTERS SAY PUTIN WOULD NOT HAVE INVADED UKRAINE IF TRUMP WAS STILL IN THE WHITE HOUSE. And that was in February of 2022. The number may be much higher now.

DEMOCRATS IN VERMONT FOLLOW NEW YORK’S LEAD IN OPENING UP VOTING TO FOREIGN NATIONALS. Coming soon to a location near you if Democrats get their way. 

biden is a weird little man

Weird little man

JOE BIDEN’S INFLATION STILL DRIVING RENTS SKY-HIGH. The Biden Regime’s war on the poor and the working class continues.

DEMOCRATS WHO RUN SCHOOL DISTRICT ALLOW MALES WHO GO BY “NON-MALE PRONOUNS” TO SLEEP IN FIFTH GRADE GIRLS’ CABINS ON THREE DAY TRIP. What is it with Democrats and children? Very creepy.

educa smallerFACULTY LOUNGE FASCIST ROUNDUP: FEBRUARY 6th.

BIDEN’S POLICIES DRIVING BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT LEVELS HIGHER AND HIGHER. Under his predecessor’s policies black unemployment was at a record low.

COURTS CONTINUE INVALIDATING THE DEMOCRATS’ CHANGES TO VOTING PROCEDURES WHICH ENABLED THEIR “CHEAT BY MAIL” AND OTHER SCAMS IN 2020. More HERE.

AND ANOTHER COURT RULES THAT THE CHEAT BY MAIL CHANGES MADE IN 2020 WERE UNCONSTITUTIONAL. And even more have ruled the same way since February of 2022. But Democrats knew the court cases would take until long after the election was over. Continue reading

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BALLADEER’S BLOG IS FOURTEEN YEARS OLD

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Balladeer’s Blog

THANK YOU once again to all of you readers for making Balladeer’s Blog so enjoyable to write. As I always say, the unusual and controversial items I sometimes churn out here mean that readers have to be open-minded and very secure in their own beliefs not to just take offense and leave. You folks are the greatest!

Here are some of my most popular blog posts from the past 12 months.

riverboat coverFORGOTTEN TELEVISION – Burt Reynolds and Darren McGavin’s western series RIVERBOAT (1959-1961), Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s Five Tomorrows (1970) and Between Time and Timbuktu (1972), Heimskringla! (1969), Peter Pan (1976), Thirteen Against Fate (1966), The Man Hunter (1973), City Beneath the Sea (1962) and Secret Beneath the Sea (1963), Shirley Temple’s Storybook (1958-1961), Desert Crusader (1968), Frightmare Theater (2015-2022).   

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – Neglected battles of: Late 1781, March 1776, PLUS Thaddeus Kosciuszko.   

FORGOTTEN GUNSLINGERS – Comanche Jack, Jim Leavy, California Jim, Ferd the Dandy, Long Henry, and Temple Houston – Sam Houston’s Son.   

a fool there wasSILENT MOVIES – Since last year I reviewed: Theda Bara’s Movies, The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Metropolis (1927), Conrad Veidt: Silent Horror Film Star, Douglas Fairbanks’ 1916 drug comedy about “Coke Ennyday,” The Man from Painted Post (1917), A Modern Musketeer (1917), Alfred Hitchcock’s Silent Movies, Harry Houdini’s Silent Movies, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, Teddy the Great Dane, and Dick Turpin (1925).   

ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION – Life in a Thousand Worlds (1905), The Monster Maker (1897), Land of the Changing Sun (1894), An Automatic Enigma (1872, 1878), and Another World (1873).

SPAIN’S HOMEMADE SUPERHEROES – A look at the incredible characters and storylines from Iberia, Inc. in the 1990s. Click HERE.

14 amazonsQUALITY MOVIES – The 14 Amazons (1972), The Elusive Avengers (1967), The White Reindeer (1952), The Fourth Reich (1990).      

THE BLACK WESTERN THOMASINE & BUSHROD (1974) – Click HERE.

FOOL KILLER: THE KLARENC WADE MAK VERSION (1917-1918) – Click HERE.

THE ABSOLUTE BEST EVER NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP FROM JUNE OF 2023 – Click HERE. Continue reading

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JUNE TWENTIETH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

From the land of career criminal Joe “not competent to stand trial” Biden, it’s time for another current events roundup courtesy of Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

allison hOBAMA’S ALLISON HUYNH SWITCHES TO SUPPORTING TRUMP AND PRAISES HIS POLICIES OVER THE DISASTROUS POLICIES OF THE DEMOCRATS’ BIDEN REGIME. Some excerpts:

“He (Trump) was light and funny and intelligent.”“I was happy with how knowledgeable Trump is about what is going on with the country and the economy,” she continued. “He had the information. He is all there with the things that matter” 

        “I am all for hardworking immigrants, but not for open admission of immigrants. We have to differentiate between legal immigrants who come here and work hard and illegal immigrants who come here and commit crimes,” she said.

cori bushDEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN CORI BUSH MAKES THE DERANGED CLAIM THAT GOD GAVE HER POWERS TO CURE CANCER AND TREAT TUMORS THROUGH MIRACLES. And yes, this REALLY happened. Had a member of the opposition party made this remark the story would rightfully be everywhere and would be brought up in every subsequent news story about them because the Democrats understand how to use their media outlets. The Republicans are so inept with their own media outlets that this incident will be all but forgotten soon.

BIDEN REGIME’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL (PER THE SUPREME COURT) ELIMINATION OF STUDENT LOAN DEBT FOR SELECT DEMOCRATS PRODUCES ANOTHER APPALLING REPORT. Biden still ignoring the Supreme Court’s decision. Impeachments have been launched over far less. Continue reading

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2024 JUNETEENTH – MARKING THE DAY DEMOCRATS LOST THEIR SLAVES

democrats kkkIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog wishes you a happy Juneteenth, marking the day Democrats lost their slaves. (Democrats owned slaves, not Republicans.) 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.

That political party, which I’m ashamed to say I used to belong to years ago, even distorts the Juneteenth holiday. They try fundamentally transforming it into a day when Democrats – the only extant political party which supported slavery and even fought a Civil War over it – can act like they are above reproach while THE REST OF THE COUNTRY shares a guilt The Party pretends to be free from. 

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. (If this post upsets you, tell the Democrats to stop politicizing Juneteenth by pretending they had nothing to do with slavery, or the Ku Klux Klan, or Jim Crow, etc.) Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: JUNE SEVENTEENTH

It’s time for another current events roundup from the land of Joe “not competent to stand trial” Biden, courtesy of Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

blue stateANOTHER ONE OF JOE BIDEN’S ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED – THIS TIME IN MARYLAND – FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF A MOTHER OF FIVE. Maryland sheriff rightfully calls out Biden’s disastrous immigration policies. More HERE

blue city trumpBLACK DETROIT PASTOR BASHES BIDEN AND OBAMA BUT THANKS TRUMP FOR COMING TO THE “HOOD”. More HERE. And HERE

BLACK ICONS PROUDLY SPEAK OF THEIR SUPPORT FOR DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP – “PEOPLE ARE HOPING HE COMES BACK.”

CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS FIGHT BUSINESS OWNERS AND POLICE ABOUT TACKLING SKYROCKETING RETAIL CRIME. More HERE. No surprise there. Many Democrats still push to “defund the police.”

joeylynn mesarosYOUNG WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP SUMMIT: BIDEN REGIME STILL PERSECUTING FREE SPEECH HEROINE JOEYLYNN MESAROS YEARS LATER. More HERE. She committed the “blasphemy” of displaying her Trump flags next to the Biden campaign bus. She and her family have been drained of money by the need to employ lawyers against Biden’s lawfare. Joe Biden and his thugs are fascists.   

SENATOR REMINDS THE PUBLIC THAT WAR CRIMINAL VLAD PUTIN ONLY DOES HIS LAND GRABS WHEN DEMOCRATS ARE PRESIDENT. Continue reading

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