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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: JUNE 3rd

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

outlaw heroTHE “OUTLAW FOLK HERO” MEMES FOR TRUMP ARE IN FLIGHT! His enemies have made him an immortal symbol of resistance to their form of oppression and corruption.

* AND NEVER FORGET THAT THE ONLY REASON JOE BIDEN IS NOT A CONVICTED FELON IS BECAUSE HE’S BEEN DECLARED MENTALLY UNFIT TO STAND TRIAL FOR HIS CRIMES. *

biden tax returns(Oh, and never forget that anti-Trump fascists acted like forcing Trump to release years of his tax returns was so important, yet the returns revealed he had done nothing wrong. Our corrupt elected officials then declined to have any other politicians reveal several years of their tax returns. It has only – and ever – been about “getting” the outsider Trump.) 

SENATOR JOE MANCHIN LEAVES THE INCREASINGLY FASCISTIC DEMOCRAT PARTY TO BECOME AN INDEPENDENT. As a former Democrat who made that move long ago I’d say it’s about time Manchin joined the many, many other Democrat officeholders who have left that political party in recent years.

MORE REMINDERS OF HISTORICAL HEROES WHO WERE “CONVICTED FELONS” (LMAO) LIKE TRUMP, WALESA, MANDELA, GANDHI, ETC. Plus remember JFK, who was killed by many of the same forces opposing the populist Trump.

biden the fascistJOE BIDEN AND HIS REGIME’S FINGERPRINTS ARE ALL OVER THE POLITICAL SHOW TRIALS OF DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.

EL SALVADOR’S PRESIDENT BOASTS “WE DON’T JAIL THE OPPOSITION.” America USED TO BE like that, too. More HERE.

flushing justiceREAD THE LONG LISTS OF REASONS WHY LEGAL SCHOLARS SAY THE BOGUS TRUMP CONVICTION WILL BE OVERTURNED ONCE THE CASE IS OUT OF THE CORRUPT NEW YORK CESSPOOL. More HERE. And HERE

BIDEN REGIME SCREWS SENIOR CITIZENS WITH THE LARGEST MEDICARE PREMIUM INCREASE EVER. Can people stop pretending this is the same Democrat Party that it was under FDR and JFK?

OUTLAW” FOLK HERO AND POSSIBLE POLITICAL PRISONER PRESIDENT TRUMP GETS A HERO’S WELCOME AT UFC 302. More HERE. And HERE. CROWD CHANTS “F*CK JOE BIDEN!” HERE. Continue reading

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DECEMBER 2021: LOOKING BACK

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

biden derangedLIFELONG RACIST JOE BIDEN SAYS SCHOOLS IN IOWA DO BETTER THAN SCHOOLS IN WASHINGTON DC BECAUSE IOWA HAS A LOWER AFRICAN AMERICAN POPULATION. If we had a competent opposition party that understood media usage like Biden’s party does, this remark would still be getting quoted on a weekly basis, just like any such remark by an opposition party candidate would be endlessly quoted by the media-savvy Democrats. We need 3rd Parties, or maybe I should say an effective 2nd Party.   

JOURNALIST SHARYL ATTKISSON STILL IN COURT OVER THE WAY DEMOCRATS VIOLATED HER RIGHTS.

Trump ala Lech Walesa and Nelson MPRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP NAMED MAN OF THE YEAR.

DEMOCRAT POLLSTER: 67 PERCENT SAY BIDEN HAS MADE THE U.S. MORE DIVIDED THAN IT WAS UNDER TRUMP. And Biden was just getting started on dividing the country with his hatemongering.

JUSSIE SMOLLETT HATE HOAX AGAINST TRUMP SUPPORTERS EPITOMIZES ALL THE LIES PUSHED BY ANTI-TRUMP FASCISTS.

populism picESTABLISHMENT FEAR OF POPULISM FUELS THEIR HATRED OF TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS.

JOE BIDEN CRIMES AND SCANDALS: DECEMBER 20th Continue reading

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DEMOCRATS PLAY THE SHORT GAME AGAIN: TRUMP VERDICT WILL OBVIOUSLY BE OVERTURNED ON APPEAL

political martyrsIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog recognizes that multiple titles could have applied to this blog post, so before I get into the meat of this item, let’s look at some of those potential alternate titles.

VERDICT MEANS JUST ONE THING: PEOPLE WHO HATED TRUMP YESTERDAY STILL HATE HIM TODAY AND PEOPLE WHO LIKED TRUMP YESTERDAY STILL LIKE HIM TODAY

rock star trumpDEMOCRAT FASCISTS FURTHER TRUMP’S MARTYRDOM IN PURSUIT OF A TALKING POINT THAT WILL ULTIMATELY GET OVERTURNED ANYWAY. (Just like all the frantic “Trump colluded with Russia” nonsense and “Trump was running a nuclear program at Mar-a-Lago” and all the other anti-Trump fables that have been spun out of whole cloth.) ALSO, REMEMBER, ALL OF THESE CHARGES ARE USUALLY MISDEMEANORS THAT WERE DISTORTED INTO FELONIES JUST TO “GET TRUMP,”

CLEARLY PARTISAN JUDGE AND JURY MAKE SURE TRUMP IS THE NEW NELSON MANDELA, MAHATMA GANDHI AND LECH WALESA, ALL OF WHOM WERE ALSO “CONVICTED FELONS” (LMAO) VIA THEIR COUNTRY’S CORRUPT AND SLANTED LEGAL SYSTEMS

mandela and trumpONLY FOOLS ARE ACTING LIKE WE DIDN’T ALL KNOW THIS WOULD BE THE INITIAL VERDICT FROM DAY ONE. THAT’S WHY THE APPEALS PROCESS EXISTS, BECAUSE OF FLAWED OUTCOMES LIKE THIS.

DONATIONS POUR IN FOR TRUMP CAMPAIGN FOLLOWING LATEST LEGAL TRAVESTY AGAINST HIM. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. Silicon Valley man donates $300,000 HERE.

reminder that trump neverOkay, for overseas readers, let me mention once again that EVEN IF TRUMP IS SENT TO PRISON, HE CAN STILL RUN FOR PRESIDENT JUST LIKE EUGENE DEBS DID. Hell, such a provision was made possible by recognition of the fact that any incumbent administration could well turn out to be as criminal and authoritarian as the Biden Regime has proven to be and would jail political opponents.  I never thought the hopelessly corrupt Democrat and Republican political establishment would allow Trump to win, anyway, and have said so in countless previous blog posts. I will still vote for him, though.  It looks like my comparison of these situations to the ending of the Robert Redford movie Brubaker years ago was accurate.  

trump won twiceAnd remember: “The evidence and testimony don’t matter, because the outcome was predetermined before the “trial” ever started. This is a political operation organized by the Democratic Party to punish Trump and, if possible, to prevent him from being elected president again.
Understand that 86% of voters in Manhattan voted for Joe Biden in 2020. There are no honest people on that jury. They know full well why they are there, and what is expected of them.”      Every word of that is true. Plus, in another of the Trump cases NY literally changed the Statute of Limitations to get Trump, remember that? They also broke ex post facto by trying Trump, for whom that statute of limitations had already passed

Now, on to my usual roundup of news, memes and political cartoons: 

ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST PARTISAN ANTI-TRUMP ZEALOT MERCHAN ALREADY FILED.

tulsi gabbard heroicTULSI GABBARD BRAVELY CALLS OUT BIDEN FOR “ABUSE OF POWER”.

LEGAL SCHOLARS DELUGE THE MEDIA TO POINT OUT THE MANY, MANY THINGS WRONG WITH THIS ABSURD TRUMP VERDICT. More HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE.

MOTHER JONES: TRUMP IS MANY HEROES IN ONE. Continue reading

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CODENAME: FOXFIRE (1985) FORGOTTEN TELEVISION

codename foxfireCODENAME: FOXFIRE (1985) – The often star-crossed career of Joanna Cassidy hit another bump with this short-lived imitation of Charlie’s Angels. Joanna’s attractiveness and wild laugh had been paying decreasing dividends ever since the demise of her 1970s cult series 240 Robert.     

This program, which lasted just one pilot movie and seven episodes, starred Cassidy as Elizabeth “Foxfire” Towne, a former intelligence agent fresh out of prison for a crime she didn’t commit. The president’s brother – eight years before Roger Clinton and four years after Billy Carter – recruits Foxfire to lead a special espionage team for Top Secret missions.

African American con-woman Maggie Bryan (Sheryl Lee Ralph) and tomboyish stunt driver “Danny” O’Toole (Robin Johnson) were the other two members of Elizabeth’s team. Henry Jones played their butler Phillips. THE Joel Schumacher co-created the series and also wrote a few episodes. Continue reading

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ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS: MAY 28th

From the corrupt political cesspool called Joe Biden’s America it’s another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

biden crime family shirtBIDEN CRIME FAMILY: ASSOCIATE OF JOE BIDEN’S BROTHER JAMES PLEADS GUILTY IN DEFRAUDING MEDICARE OF FIFTY-ONE MILLION DOLLARS. White-collar criminals in action. Meanwhile the Biden Regime continues persecuting the opposition leader with kangaroo court trials. 

JOE BIDEN’S LATEST SCANDAL: WITNESS INTIMIDATION REGARDING HIS UNDERBOSS HUNTER BIDEN’S UPCOMING TRIAL. Tara Reade, Joe Biden’s rape accuser, was probably right to flee the country in fear for her life. The Biden Regime is criminal trash.

DEMOCRAT JAMES CARVILLE COURAGEOUSLY CALLS OUT THE PARTY’S GROTESQUE BEHAVIOR. A few excerpts – “The generational thievery that has occurred in this country is criminality of the first order. We keep wondering why these young people are not coming home to the Democrats. Why are blacks not coming home to the Democrats?”

          student loans biden And especially “Why are we forgiving student loans for people that go to Harvard? Which, according to Scott Galloway, quite accurately, is nothing but a hedge fund that has classrooms. Well, they got a $52 billion f*cking surplus. Why are taxpayers going to bail these people out? Why don’t you come out with a proposal to tax every university with an endowment of over $5 billion and use that money to give their former students relief?”     

           WOW! Those remarks make me miss the days when the Democrat Party was actually worth supporting. And Carville forgot to mention that the Supreme Court already ruled that Biden does NOT have the authority to forgive these debts, but he just keeps on doing it while the impotent Congressional Republicans do nothing.

behizyVOTERS OF COLOR PRAISE TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS AT THE BRONX RALLY. Video HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE. My favorite one was when the reporter tried to steer the Bronx resident into making an anti-Trump remark but she wouldn’t do it. Second favorite was the breakdown of how much better off the country and the world were with Trump in the White House.

           DEMOCRAT SNOBBERY TOWARD THOSE SUPPORTERS HERE and HERE and HERE    

MARINE WIDOW WARMLY RECALLS THE COMFORT THAT DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP GAVE HER SON AT HIS FATHER’S GRAVE IN 2017. Wasn’t it nice to have a president who actually understood what Memorial Day is about?   Continue reading

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NOVEMBER 2021: A LOOK BACK

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

freedom of expression is a human rightDEFENDING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY. Also covers Biden eliminating Trump’s Department of Education policy which tracked the outrageous number of sex crimes committed by teachers. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

DEMOCRATS ARE AGAIN ENCOURAGING RIOTS IF A JURY REACHES A VERDICT THEY DON’T LIKE. Only Democrat fascists would be so deranged that they would think the white Kyle Rittenhouse shooting other white people is somehow “White Supremacy.” Tulsi Gabbard and others weigh in, too.

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY UNDERBOSS HUNTER BIDEN PROFITED FROM HIS FATHER JOE’S SUBMISSION TO CHINA. And remember how entangled Joe and Hunter’s finances are.

joe biden is so creepyJOE BIDEN: A FAILURE AND AN EMBARRASSMENT. Among other items, features more excerpts from Ashley Biden’s diary about her creepy, lecherous father Joe Biden – as in “Was I molested? I think so” and she also mentions taking “probably not appropriate” showers with her father when she was a child and incapable of consent.

BIDEN REGIME CORRUPTION AND SCANDAL ROUNDUP: NOVEMBER 23rd.

MORE ABOUT HUNTER’S ROLE IN BIDEN REGIME CORRUPTION. And more HERE.

steele dossierAUSTRALIAN NEWS IS ALSO COVERING THE DEBUNKING OF THE “RUSSIAN COLLUSION” LIES AGAINST TRUMP. Just as they will someday cover the debunking of the latest lies and lawfare against Trump.

JOE BIDEN DISASTERS PILE UP. Biden’s Afghanistan hostages, the impeachment articles introduced against the career criminal and more. Continue reading

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MAY 22nd ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

From an America whose corporate media will offer up the kind of gushingly reverent praise of a dead Iranian official responsible for the imprisonment and torture of untold numbers of people that they will NEVER offer up for any dead opposition party President or official, it’s another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

Stop Democrat ViolenceDEMOCRAT BIOLOGICAL AGENT ATTACK TARGETED AT TRUMP. I’m not even surprised at this point. Will the Democrats “denounce” this act the way they would demand that Trump denounce any similar action against his opponent? I doubt it.

ANTI-TRUMP PROPAGANDA FILM FABRICATES RAPE OF IVANA BY HER HUSBAND. IVANA PASSIONATELY SAID THAT NEVER HAPPENED. But anti-Trump fascists will use any lies that they want to try to destroy the opposition leader. And their ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable followers will believe – or pretend to believe – whatever The Party orders them to. 

fbi and doj mugging justicePRO-TRUMP WITNESS THROWN FROM COURTROOM IN MERCHAN’S KANGAROO COURT SPEAKS OUT ON THE DEVASTATING TESTIMONY THAT MERCHAN WANTS KEPT FROM THE JURORS.

VETERAN LEGAL SCHOLAR ALAN DERSHOWITZ AGAIN BLASTS MERCHAN’S OUTRAGEOUS PREJUDICIAL CONDUCT. Another legal scholar weighs in HERE.

OVER FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN CASH AND ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN GOLD BARS FOUND BY AUTHORITIES AT DEMOCRAT SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ’S HOME. Have I mentioned lately what career criminals America’s elected officials tend to be? Continue reading

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FOOL KILLER: THE BEGINNING

Fool Killer wardrobeOver five years ago Balladeer’s Blog began a detailed look at the neglected folklore surrounding the Fool Killer figure. It’s been a while since I left off and I’m about to dive back in. There are so many new readers here that I’m posting a recap of the very first Fool Killer item from the 1850s. Next time I’ll resume where I left off – in 1913. 

Fool Killer illustrationBalladeer’s Blog kicks off a multi-part examination of the neglected 1800s folk figure called the Fool Killer. I will cover the various stories featuring the Fool Killer and the different ways the character was used by the authors. If I ever examine the related character called the Rascal Whaler it will be in a separate series of blog posts.

NOTE: FOOL KILLER LORE IS STRICTLY FOR ADULTS. IT IS NOT FOR THOSE WHO ARE SIMPLE-MINDEDLY OFFENDED BY ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING. 

The Fool Killer stories began in 1850s North Carolina. Charles Napoleon Bonaparte Evans, editor of the newspaper called The Milton Chronicle, introduced the character around 1851 (some sources say as early as the late 1840s). If Evans had been a political cartoonist he might have used the Fool Killer as his mascot, like the figure Punch over in England or Puck here in the U.S.

Skull walking stick 3However, since Evans was all about the written word, he used the Fool Killer as a much more active figure. Evans’ Fool Killer – claiming Jesse Holmes as his real name – roamed North Carolina and Virginia (which at the time still consisted of what would become West Virginia) looking for fools to kill with a club/ walking stick he always carried with him. The character would then send letters to Editor Evans explaining why he had chosen victims, defending his actions with puckish commentary.

I’ve always been struck by the similarity with the way real-life serial killers would correspond with newspapers, explaining and/or defending their deeds. In the case of Charles Evans’ Fool Killer, it was Evans himself writing the letters as if they were pieces of correspondence that “Jesse Holmes” sent to him.

The killings never happened, of course, and were simply Evans’ way of using political commentary in an entertaining way. Instead of high-brow social criticism, the Fool Killer Letters were very dark satire in which the mock author of the letters bashed the life out of corrupt politicians and other malefactors. Continue reading

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BLAME CANADA: NEGLECTED MOVIES AND TELEVISION SHOWS FROM THE GREAT WHITE NORTH

This blog post combines my recurring Forgotten Television segments with my reviews of neglected movies. These items are all from Canada.

range ryder and the calgary kidRANGE RYDER AND THE CALGARY KID (1977) – (Also known as The Adventure of the Dinosaur Badlands.) A 14-year-old MIKE MYERS co-starred in this Canadian children’s program that was also aired in the early 1980s on Nickelodeon. (Hey, Nick even showed episodes of The Uncle Floyd Show in its early years.) Myers (in headband) played the Calgary Kid, sidekick to David Ferry’s Range Ryder.

This program was an odd mix of Land of the Lost and The Valley of Gwangi. Range Ryder and the Calgary Kid were cowboy heroes in Canada’s Old West who discovered a hidden valley in which dinosaurs still lived. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: MAY TWENTIETH

From Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog it’s another current events roundup here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.

tim scottPRO-TRUMP SENATOR TIM SCOTT IS THE LATEST TO REMIND THE PUBLIC ABOUT JOE BIDEN’S CLOSE TIES TO KU KLUX KLAN MEMBER & DEMOCRAT SENATOR ROBERT BYRD. Biden even eulogized Byrd, whom Hillary Clinton called a “mentor.” 

COURAGEOUS MOREHOUSE COLLEGE GRADUATES TURN THEIR BACKS ON THE EXECRABLE JOE BIDEN DURING HIS SPEECH. More HERE.

BIDEN REGIME ESTABLISHES SANCTUARIES FOR RUSSIAN FORCES ATTACKING UKRAINE. Well, after all, Putin’s accomplice Joe Biden also told war criminal Putin before the war that a small incursion would be fine.

VETERAN LEGAL SCHOLAR ALAN DERSHOWITZ EVISCERATES “JUDGE” MERCHAN’S OPENLY PREJUDICIAL CONDUCT IN TRUMP POLITICAL TRIAL/ TRAVESTY. Democrats have given us a country in which the biases of judges overrule justice.

ashley biden diary quoteTHE DEMOCRATS AT SNOPES FINALLY GET AROUND TO NOTING AS “TRUE” THE ITEM ABOUT JOE BIDEN’S DAUGHTER ASHLEY’S DIARY. THE ONE IN WHICH SHE WROTE ABOUT HER PREDATORY FATHER JOE TAKING “INAPPROPRIATE” SHOWERS WITH HER WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD. AND STATED THAT SHE HAD “PROBABLY” BEEN ABUSED. AND STARTED SHOWERING AT ODD TIMES TO AVOID LECHEROUS JOE.

CALIFORNIA COLLEGE HOLDS FIVE SEGREGATED GRADUATIONS. Bigoted Democrats bring back segregation. Continue reading

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