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JUNE 2020: LOOKING BACK

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

Leo TerrellCIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY LEO TERRELL ON WHY HE “STOPPED DRINKING THE DEMOCRAT KOOL-AID.” – Terrell “joined the chorus of voices coming from African Americans disgusted with the Democrats and their hypocrisy on racial issues.” … “Terrell, like so many others, has pointed out how de facto Third Party President Donald Trump has been better for African-Americans than any Democrat in decades, especially Joe Biden, noted for his draconian legal positions against African-Americans.   

        Terrell said “This is why I stopped drinking the Democrat Kool-Aid. I can’t take this hypocrisy anymore. It’s ridiculous.”

the black exit        “Joe Biden gave us the crime bill in 1994,” Terrell continued, “President Trump gave us the First Step.” CLICK HERE.

BRANDON STRAKA AND #WALKAWAY MARK TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY. CLICK HERE.

DEMOCRAT VOTE FRAUD SCANDALS IN NEW JERSEY AND WISCONSIN – And remember, this was months before the 2020 election was held. It’s just that there are always Democrat vote fraud scandals being exposed. (Republicans would presumably love to do it, too, but are too inept and lack enough media outlets to smother any resulting scandals.) CLICK HERE.

step aside yourTHE BLACK LIVES MERCILESSLY DESTROYED BY THE DEMOCRATS’ ANTIFA RIOTS IN 2020 – Remember the nauseating slogan of the rioters was “Every city, every town, burn the precinct to the ground.” and “Defund the police.” … “Privileged white Democrats have proven that their sympathies will ALWAYS lie with rioters and never with their victims. It’s the callous worldview of uncomprehending fools who romanticize looting and violence because they are always safely removed from the consequences.” CLICK HERE.

MORE BLACK VICTIMS OF THE DEMOCRATS’ RIOTERS SPEAK OUT – Heartbreaking accounts from the people that privileged white Democrats always ignore – the black victims of the riots that white politicians cheer on. CLICK HERE Continue reading

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ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS: JANUARY TWELFTH

raising bidenHere is the latest current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. As always, everyone is welcome here no matter who they vote for.

MORE AND MORE REVELATIONS ABOUT CORRUPTION IN DEMOCRAT PROSECUTOR FANI WILLIS’ ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL PURSUIT OF OPPOSITION LEADER TO THE BIDEN REGIME. More HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE. When the real corrupt ones run a prosecutor’s office.

biden the fascistBIDEN REGIME INVOLVEMENT IN PROSECUTING POLITICAL OPPOSITION. It’s life here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy. More HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.

JUDGE CALLS OUT WISCONSIN FOR ILLEGAL VOTING ACTIVITIES, THIS TIME FOR THE 2022 MIDTERM ELECTIONS. More from CBS HERE. Well, at least it’s a change of pace from all the revelations of vote fraud in 2020.

POLISH MEMBER OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CITES TRUMP AS AN INSPIRATION. Continue reading

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SEPTEMBER NINTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Here is the latest current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. As always, everyone is welcome here no matter who they vote for.

trump magazineTRUMP MAGAZINE, shown at left, was a 1957 publication that had absolutely nothing to do with Donald Trump. I posted it here because it’s fun when hysterical, irrational, uninformed, and emotionally unstable Trump-haters fall to pieces.

Anyway, in the news recently we’ve had Mark Ruffalo post fake photos of Trump at Epstein’s island, a person retract their lies about Trump sex tapes at that island and privileged white one percenter Stephen King, who looks NOTHING like a creep who would hang around playgrounds to prey on children, insisting that the economy is fine. And talking down about it to people who live on real world incomes. What a disgusting, snobbish plutocrat. 

epstein and bill clintonMEDIA TRY TO BURY THE NEW YORKER‘S 2019 REPORT IN WHICH SARAH RANSOME RETRACTED HER CLAIMS ABOUT TRUMP-EPSTEIN CONNECTION. More HERE. According to the New Yorker, which reported that Ransome admitted to having “invented the tapes to draw attention to Epstein’s behavior, and to make him believe that she had ‘evidence that would come out if he (Epstein) harmed me.’” (That was from a time when Epstein was still alive.)

democrat party platformJOE BIDEN CALLED OUT PUBLICLY AS HE LIES AGAIN ABOUT POLICE SUPPOSEDLY BEING KILLED ON JANUARY SIXTH, OUTRAGEOUSLY CLAIMING THAT HE AND JILL ATTENDED THEIR FUNERALS. But as we all know, Democrat media outlets will continue quoting Biden’s sick claims no matter how many times they are proven wrong.  

FANI WILLIS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY GOING AFTER TRUMP, ACCUSED OF PAYING $600,000 TO A MAN SHE WAS INVOLVED WITH ROMANTICALLY. Plus more about her connections with the Biden Regime HERE

eric adamsNEW YORK CITY MAYOR ERIC ADAMS BLAMES ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FOR THE CITY’S CRIME PROBLEM. It was easy for New York to be a “sanctuary city” when it was only cities in border states suffering the consequences of not securing our southern border. 

IT’S SO CUTE WHEN PEOPLE ACTUALLY THINK THAT THE CLUELESS, OUTDATED AND UTTERLY USELESS PEOPLE WHO RUN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING.

CONVICTION OVERTURNED IN CASE OF THE BIDEN REGIME PROSECUTING A CONGRESSMAN. The regime tried the defendant in a jurisdiction where they would be sure of a guilty verdict. Nobody venue-shops better than the Democrats. Continue reading

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MAY 2020: A LOOK BACK

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robert johnson and trumpMAN OF COURAGE ROBERT JOHNSON CALLS ON JOE BIDEN TO “APOLOGIZE TO EVERY BLACK PERSON HE MEETS” – This in reaction to lifelong racist Joe Biden’s pompous remark that if a black person doesn’t vote for him “Then you ain’t black.”

        black voices for trumpAn excerpt: Biden’s statement today represents the arrogant and out-of-touch attitude of a paternalistic white candidate who has the audacity to tell Black people, the descendants of slaves that they are not Black unless they vote for him. This proves unequivocally that the Democratic nominee believes that Black people owe him their vote without question; even though we as Black people know it is exactly the opposite. He should spend the rest of his campaign apologizing to every Black person he meets.”

        The item gets even more hard-hitting next – click HERE.

president trumpSATANIC PANIC 2: ANTI-TRUMP HYSTERIA – As ridiculous as the paranoid anti-Trump loons were back in 2020, they’ve gotten even more shrill and hysterical over the past four years. No lie about Trump is too absurd for the slobbering psychopaths who hate him to realize it’s not true. More HERE.

CHARGES AND A GUILTY PLEA BY DEMOCRATS IN EVEN MORE VOTE FRAUD SCANDALS – Yes, this was months before the 2020 election even happened, but Democrat vote fraud scandals have been covered here since around 2011.

          In Michigan a Democrat official was charged with altering ballots in the 2018 elections. In Philadelphia a Judge of Elections pleaded GUILTY to vote fraud on behalf of Democrat candidates. But hey, Democrats still like to pretend vote fraud doesn’t happen. It sure does, and their “Cheat by Mail” nonsense in 2020 took it to new heights. Click HERE, HERE and HERE.

unfit and pathetic bidenCLEARLY UNFIT JOE BIDEN EMERGES FROM HIDING FOR ANOTHER BOUT OF INCOHERENT GIBBERISH – The corrupt yet senile little man made with the stirring words“You know, one of the things, uh, every morning — this morning I didn’t — I get a brief from medical docs on the status, the status of where things are, and uh, you know, uh, the former head of the, uh, anyway.”  More HERE.

DEMOCRAT ATROCITY ROUNDUP: LATEST ADDITIONS – Sabotaging aid packages? Threatening Supreme Court Justices? Nothing is too low for the Democrat Party. Click HERE Continue reading

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JANUARY SIXTH-A-PALOOZA: 2024

biden bloodHere’s what will apparently be an annual post for as long as demagogues insist on pretending there was an “insurrection” (LMAO) on January 6th, 2021. Uh. Yeah. No guns, no police officers killed (despite Joe Biden’s absurd claims otherwise) and the Capitol building’s doors were OPENED for the trespassers by the authorities, as shown on film.

And remember, NOTHING THAT HAPPENED ON JANUARY SIXTH COULD HAVE PUT TRUMP BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE! Learn something about how your own government works, anti-Trump fascists! At any rate, here we go again: 

biden riots in dc

BIDEN CALLED THESE RIOTS MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS

The overwrought propaganda of Biden supporters on this date has me laughing VERY hard. They theatrically pretend that the mass trespassing incident of January 6th, 2021 was “worse than the Civil War and the 9-11 attacks.” What disingenuous garbage.

Their monumental and hilarious political hypocrisy is on full display in Washington DC as Democrats engage in political theater while pretending to revere the Capitol Building and its “symbolism.” (LMAO) Before I became an Independent Voter I spent most of my life as a Democrat and believe me, they feel contempt for the Capitol and its “symbolism”, even calling it one of the “institutions of imperialist rule” and “the seat of White Supremacy and systemic racism in America.”

Democrats also despise people who DO revere the Capitol and its symbolism, dismissing them as simple-minded patriotic rednecks.

Nancy Pelosi demagogueOn January 6th, 2021, a “mostly peaceful protest” (as Democrats described the MONTHS-LONG Antifa riots which terrorized the country) at the Capitol turned into a chaotic mass-trespassing incident with the Democrats of the Capitol Police even killing an unarmed woman. Suddenly, Democrat pretensions that they revered the Capitol poured from the mouths of the demagogues of the Democrat Party.

Hey, let’s rename it “the Demagogue Party”. After all, the Democrat Party is the country’s oldest existing institution which launched a Civil War and fought for slavery, so a name change for that political party is LONG overdue. Okay, so they won’t rename themselves the Demagogue Party, but they should rename it something to distance themselves from the Democrat Party’s horrifically racist past.

capitol bombing 1983Anyway, Democrats felt that their OWN storming of the Capitol was fine back on October 4th, 2018, even though THEY WERE INTERFERING WITH ONE OF THOSE GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS WHICH THEY NOW PRETEND SHOULD BE SACROSANCT. Democrats/ the left cheered on that activity. And let’s not forget the way the left literally set off a BOMB in the Capitol on November 7th, 1983. Also HERE. A million dollars (by 1983 standards, so much more today) in damage was done.

Most adults are above the fake tears and the fear-mongering which truly pathetic Democrat members of Congress are indulging in regarding January 6th. The Democrats will probably never lose their competitive edge in phoniness and manufactured emotion, so non-Democrats – as in Independents, Third Party Voters, Republicans and People Who Claim No Political Affiliation, in other words THE REST OF US – will always need to remain highly skeptical of any and all political theater from them. 

Kenosha democrat riotIn May 2020 when the White House was violently attacked for about 24 hours and many secret service agents were seriously injured, Biden and other Democrats said Trump “used tear gas against peaceful protestors” even though it’s been proven that he DIDN’T use tear gas on those “peaceful protestors.” Listen to those Democrat hypocrites today and the draconian measures they now recommend against civil disobedience!
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The night of May 31st, 2020 rioters set fires all over the capital of the United States. A mob of them gathered outside the White House and threatened to storm it. The president was said to have been moved to a bunker. Many Democrats laughed at him and supported the mob. Never mind that the safety of the president, as a symbol of America and self-governance, goes beyond individual or party and should never be a laughing matter, like Democrats are now sniveling about the Capitol.
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Who knows? Some day the January 6th protestors may be looked on as the victims of governmental authoritarianism, like the Bonus Marchers of long ago. Nobody knows how events will be viewed decades and centuries from now, no matter how much Democrats pretend that they do with their ridiculous “right side of history” nonsense.

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BEST OF AUGUST 2023

Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end of year retrospective continues with this look at August’s best.

theda as cleopatraTHEDA BARA: SILENT FILM STARLET – My examination of this big-screen femme fatale, her surviving films and what little is known about her movies that have not survived. A Fool There Was, Cleopatra, The Vixen, An Unchastened Woman, Sin, Madame Mystery and more.  Click HERE.

HEIMSKRINGLA! OR THE STONED ANGELS (1969) – Forgotten television dramatization of old Norse lore, presented in the experimental new “Videospace” format. Click HERE.

life in aLIFE IN A THOUSAND WORLDS (1905) – “Ancient” science fiction story about life on other planets in our solar system AND around distant stars. Click HERE.

MARVEL’S JANUARY OF 1975 ISSUES – Iron Fist vs Batroc, Hulk vs Zzzax, the Avengers vs Kang the Conqueror for the Celestial Madonna and more HERE.

LONG HENRY THOMPSON – Neglected gunslinger. Click HERE.

peter pan 1976PETER PAN (1976) – My review of this forgotten musical version of the Peter Pan story, starring Mia Farrow as Peter, Danny Kaye as Captain Hook and Paula Kelly as Princess Tiger Lily. Click HERE.

BARACK OBAMA’S BROTHER ENDORSES TRUMP AGAIN – Plus more HERE.

COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAMS – Western Texas College HERE, Luna College HERE, Quincy College HERE.

denver doll dime novelsDENVER DOLL DIME NOVELS – My look at the four Dime Novels starring the fictional female gunslinger the Denver Doll during the 1880s. Click HERE.   

JUSTICE SOCIETY: 1949 STORIES – The JSA takes on the X-Criminals, Mr. Alpha, the Fire People, and the Invisible Band HERE

THE FOURTH REICH (1990) – Movie about the true story of a South African agent working to thwart a Nazi attempt to assassinate South Africa’s national leader. Click HERE. Continue reading

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APRIL 2020: LOOKING BACK

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

joe biden is so creepySENILE JOE BIDEN BLITHERS AGAIN – Even Bernie Bros were disgusted with the creepy Joe Biden, who embodied the corruption of career politicians in the U.S. Click HERE.

vernon jones picDEMOCRAT BIGOTS ATTACK COURAGEOUS MAN OF COLOR VERNON JONES FOR REFUSING TO OBEY THEM. Among Jones’ remarks: “A generation of African American families have been devastated by draconian policies that Joe Biden supported and voted for when he served in the U.S. Senate,” Jones said in a statement to CBS 46. “A change was needed and President Trump took action.” “Turn the lights off, I have left the plantation.” Click HERE.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PAYROLL PROTECTION PROGRAM IS HIS LATEST POLICY HELPING THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR – Trump was the best president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime. Click HERE.

trump is fdrMORE DEMOCRATS REBEL AGAINST PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE-PERCENTERS LIKE NANCY PELOSI AND CHUCK SCHUMER’S ATTACKS ON PRESIDENT TRUMP’S FDR-STYLE PAYROLL PROTECTION PROGRAM. Can we stop acting like this is the same Democrat Party that it was long ago? Click HERE.

THE GUARDIAN’S MELANIE PHILIPS: “WHY I LEFT THE LEFT” – Not just in America, but also in the U.K. the political left has become everything it used to pretend to oppose. Click HERE.

karen wCOURAGEOUS DEMOCRAT KAREN WHITSETT PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP – It’s HERE.

LAUGHING AT JOE BIDEN’S IDIOCY IS THE BEST MEDICINE – More video fun regarding Joe Biden’s obvious unfitness – and he has more than lived up to that unfitness. Click HERE.

TWENTY WRY QUOTES – Some needed comic relief. Click HERE. Continue reading

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BEST OF JULY 2023

Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end of year retrospective continues with this look at July’s best.

riverboat coverRIVERBOAT (1959-1961) – My review of this neglected television series about Darren McGavin and a young Burt Reynolds as partners who run a riverboat along the Mississippi and its tributaries during the 1830s and 1840s. Burt and Darren help Texas rebels fight Mexican tyrants, assist historical figures like Zachary Taylor and Abe Lincoln, and clash with river pirates, gunrunners and fugitives. Click HERE.

A MODERN MUSKETEER (1917) – Douglas Fairbanks’ silent action-comedy about a quixotic 20th Century man who longs for the age of chivalrous adventuring. Click HERE

thomasine and bushrod posterTHOMASINE & BUSHROD (1974) – A western about a pair of fictional outlaws who become folk heroes from 1911-1915 as the Wild West is fading away. Vonetta McGee plays Thomasine, a female bounty hunter who winds up robbing banks alongside her true love J.P. Bushrod (Max Julien). The pair give away most of their illegal proceeds to the poor of all colors. This movie is like The Wild Bunch crossed with Bonnie & Clyde, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid and more. Click HERE

NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUPS – July 3rd HERE, July 6th HERE.

black bolt and inhumansJANUARY 1972 MARVEL PUBLICATIONS – Black Bolt and the Inhumans take on Magneto, Spider-Man fights Kraven the Hunter in the Savage Land, Daredevil and the Black Widow face MK-9, Conan the Barbarian meets Omm the Spider-God and much more. Click HERE.

CALIFORNIA JIM – Real-life gunslinger and his forgotten saga. Click HERE.

THADDEUS KOSCIUSZKO: REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO – A brief look. Click HERE.

hurricane nellHURRICANE NELL – One of the first Dime Novel heroines created by Edward L. Wheeler in 1877. This tale follows the daring young lady sharpshooter on her revenge quest against a gang of outlaws. Click HERE.

KINGSBOROUGH COLLEGE – Cool named sports team. Click HERE.

THE LAND OF THE CHANGING SUN (1894) – “Ancient” science fiction about a futuristic underground civilization. Click HERE. Continue reading

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DECEMBER 28th ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Here is the latest current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. As always, everyone is welcome here no matter who they vote for.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN HENRY CUELLAR SAYS “WE’RE GOING TO LOSE A LOT OF DEMOCRATS BECAUSE BIDEN IGNORED THE BORDER.” Oh, there’s all kinds of reasons that so many of us former Democrats have left the Party to become Independent Voters.  

jack smith picILLEGITIMATE FUNCTIONARY JACK SMITH, LOOKING NOTHING AT ALL LIKE A STALKER AND RAPIST, DEMANDS THAT THE BIDEN REGIME’S TARGET DONALD TRUMP BE PREVENTED FROM CITING EVIDENCE. More HERE. The latest in the Regime’s travesties, fresh off Smith’s latest defeat on expediting the immunity ruling.

YET ANOTHER REPORT INDICATES THE BIDEN REGIME IS DIVERTING VETERANS ADMINISTRATION FUNDS TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Not since Warren G. Harding and the Ohio Gang has the country been victimized by such blatant criminals as Joe Biden and his ilk. Continue reading

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BEST OF MAY 2023

Here’s a look at May’s best as Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end of year retrospective continues.

cassandra crossing posterTHE CASSANDRA CROSSING (1976) – My review of this hilariously bad disaster movie starring Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Martin Sheen and O.J. Simpson. Passengers on a train are exposed to a deadly virus because of terrorists. Click HERE.

FIVE HUNDRED YEARS HENCE (1818) – This work of “ancient” science fiction presented a look at the United States, England, Canada and Mexico in the year 2318. Covers the social, political and economic state of the world as well as scientific advances like space travel. Click HERE.

BOOK OF THE DUN COW PART TEN – The final part of my review of this treasure trove of Celtic myths with both pagan and Christian material. Features accounts of the deaths of five major Irish heroes as well as many myths about the legendary figure Mongan. Click HERE.

grips on coverGRIPS: ONE OF THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL SUPERHEROES EVER – From 1986-1992 Grips, a combination of Wolverine and the Punisher, had ultra-violent and otherwise adult adventures in Kris Silver’s independent publications. Only Faust exceeded Grips in the 80s and 90s, and artist Tim Vigil worked on both series. Must be read to be believed. Click HERE.   

SIXTEEN MEDAL OF HONOR WINNERS FROM THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR (1898) – A Memorial Day look at several white and black honorees from that long-ago conflict. Click HERE.

eve in avmpA VERY MISSING PERSON (1972) – Eve Arden starred as amateur sleuth Hildegarde Withers from a series of mystery novels. Hildegarde solves a murder involving high-level figures in New York City. Also includes my review of the 1930s movies about the character. Click HERE.

AN ABSOLUTE CESSPOOL OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION – It’s all HERE.

PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS – J.M. Barrie’s often forgotten, ORIGINAL version of the Peter Pan character from 1902. Peter is younger and an enchanted version of Kensington Gardens serves as his “Neverland”. Click HERE

esther and jean marshMOMMA THE DETECTIVE (1981) – A Mother’s Day look at this made for tv movie about Esther Rolle as an amateur detective who solves a high society murder. Think of shows like McMillan and Wife, The Snoop Sisters, etc. Click HERE. Continue reading

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