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April 21, 2017 · 11:38 pm

DEMOCRATS INSIST TRUMP SUPPORTERS SHOULD BE DENIED ADMITTANCE TO HOSPTALS

“Oppressing people while posing as the oppressed.”

In keeping with their vow to “beat dissenters bloody to show how compassionate we are” the DemoKKKrats and their affiliated groups like BLM (Klansmen of Color) are demanding that hospitals who admit Trump supporters for treatment be burned to the ground.

When it was pointed out to the DemoKKKrats and BLM that innocent people would also suffer the two fascist groups officially replied “Hospitals which send the Trump supporters who need medical treatment out to us oppressed and vulnerable people will be spared destruction. Those Trump supporters that are turned over to us will suffer the People’s Vengeance for the way they made us feel unsafe.”

Career criminal Hillary Clinton, the President of California, tweeted her solidarity with the bloodthirsty mob and – unsurprisingly – was joined by Senator John McCain of Arizona. Continue reading →

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April 15, 2017 · 11:00 pm

TAXIARCHOI (427-415 B.C.) FOR TAX DAY

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

TAXIARCHOI (Tax Collectors) – By Eupolis. 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.

Sometimes a particular community might try to poor-mouth their circumstances and provide the taxiarchs with less money than had been assessed against them. In such cases the officer in charge was empowered to either seize portable property to make up the difference or to ransack the town and its vicinity to determine if the citizens were simply hiding their wealth. Continue reading →

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February 24, 2017 · 5:00 am

MERCHANT SHIPS (424-421 B.C.) BY ARISTOPHANES

With Boycott-mania sweeping the country what better time for this look at the fragmentary remains of this ancient Greek Comedy by Aristophanes?

Ancient Greek Merchant Ship

Balladeer’s Blog presents another examination of an ancient Greek political satire. In this case it is one of those works of Aristophanes which have survived only in very fragmentary condition.

MERCHANT SHIPS

Merchant Ships was written and publicly staged in approximately 424 B.C. to 421 B.C. according to the available data. It was another of Aristophanes’ comedies protesting the pointlessness of the Greek city-states warring among themselves instead of uniting against the encroachments of the Persian Empire.

I can’t help but view this particular comedy in light of my own country’s current plight of having the rival criminal gangs called the Democratic and Republican Parties pointlessly rob the country blind and run it into the ground while virtually ignoring external threats.

In this comedy the captains of two separate merchant ships – one from Athens and one from their foe Sparta – have grown weary of the pointless conflict and make a separate peace with each other. They and their crew members get to spend the play enjoying the food and drink from their cargoes and living out a metaphorical return to the prosperous days before the Peloponnesian War when peace reigned among the various Greek city-states.

Franchises aka Merchant Ships

For a modern-day adaptation (as opposed to a straight translation) the situation could be depicted by having a Chick Fil-A restaurant right next to a Starbucks coffee shop. The managers and employees of these stereotypically Republican (Chick Fil-A) and stereotypically Democratic (Starbucks) establishments could grow tired of the political feuding, especially since both political parties often call for boycotts of the opposing business. Continue reading →

MARIKAS (421 B.C.) – ANCIENT GREEK COMEDY

Balladeer’s Blog presents another look at an ancient Greek Comedy. This time around it’s one written by Eupolis who – along with Aristophanes and Cratinus – was one of the Big Three of Attic Old Comedy.

MARIKAS (c 421 B.C.) – This was the second comedy to emerge in the new subgenre of Attic Old Comedy called “the Demagogue Comedy”. Aristophanes led the way a few years earlier with The Knights, his comedy attacking the politician Cleon. The play Marikas finds Eupolis attacking the demagogue Hyperbolus, whose reputation for character assassination by way of overstatement lives on in our language by way of the word “hyperbole”.

As with most ancient Greek comedies Marikas has survived only in fragmentary form. Those fragments, along with contemporary references in surviving works, provide what is known about the play. Marikas, the title character, was used by Eupolis to represent the politician Hyperbolus the same way Aristophanes had used the Paphlagonian to represent Cleon in The Knights.

The ancient Greek comedies made a point of breaking the fourth wall on a regular basis (despite the way so many people have convinced themselves that that is a “postmodern” development) and Marikas opened up with a character assuring the audience that the play they were about to see was NOT just a rehashing of The Knights. Continue reading →

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October 28, 2016 · 9:36 pm

HILLARY CLINTON: THE QUEEN OF GRAFT, POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND VOTING FRAUD

Good old Mad Magazine came up with this hilarious look at a mock movie poster for Crooked Hillary Clinton, the bought and paid for demagogue.

hillary-clinton-girl-on-the-gravy-train

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May 5, 2016 · 9:56 pm

THE BIRDS (c 414/6 BC): ANCIENT GREEK COMEDY BY ARISTOPHANES

Balladeer’s Blog presents another examination of an ancient Greek political satire. This comedy by Aristophanes was one that I was planning on covering very soon when I started posting my reviews of Attic Old Comedy years ago. For various reasons it kept falling by the wayside.

Where am I going with this? For Aristophanes’ line “In Cloud-Cuckooland things become what they are called rather than being called what they are” make it “In Ivory Towerland things become what they are called rather than being called what they are.” But I’m getting ahead of myself.

The Birds is Aristophanes’ lengthiest surviving comedy and also the most analyzed (some would say over-analyzed). So much has already been written about this particular work that I’ve decided to forego my usual intensive examination of every scene. Instead I’ll go with a brief synopsis followed by a way I feel The Birds could be adapted (as opposed to translated) for the present day.

SYNOPSIS

More than 2,300 years before George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984, Aristophanes was dealing with some of the same political themes.

Pisthetaerus and Euelpides, Athenians feeling alienated by the increasingly restrictive laws and lawsuits of their home city have left Athens behind to start over with a new society. Part of the comedy centers around the ages-old theme of how those who seek to overthrow oppression often wind up becoming the new oppressors themselves. (Think of the 1960s generation of American liberals who became just as oppressive as they claimed previous generations had been)

Another Orwellian theme finds Aristophanes satirizing the way in which the ruling class in any society uses and corrupts language to strengthen the subjugation of the populace. The Birds even features the importance of religious and historical myths in any culture as the leaders of the new civilization conjure up an all-new cosmology with “the birds” at the center to justify their own rule. Continue reading →

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February 20, 2016 · 6:25 pm

MILO YIANNOPOULOS PUTS THE “K-Y” IN PLUCKY

Milo Yiannopoulos, in my view, is the 21st Century Oscar Wilde.

I don’t like either Liberals OR Conservatives but who doesn’t like Milo Yiannopoulos? Well, besides hate-filled, close-minded leftists and the emotional cripples who pretend to be college students here in the 21st Century. Milo is gay, so the fact that he loves ridiculing Political Correctness and all that goes with it positively INFURIATES the barely human political robots of American Liberalism.

To flaunt how indifferent he is to the kinds of things that cause weak- minded left-wing nut-jobs to slink away to their “Safe Spaces” (LMAO) Milo is calling his speaking tour of U.S. college campuses “The Dangerous Faggot Tour.” Milo is always gloriously irreverent to the self-serious asses of the “academic” (LOL) world and his biting comments practically make him the Second Coming of Oscar Wilde.

Milo – just like Yours Truly – loves pointing out the spineless hypocrisy of the political left around the world, especially when it comes to Muslim fascism. Needless to say, just about every stop on Milo’s tour has been met with oppressive “shut up” tactics from those aforementioned barely human political robots of Liberalism.

Trying their tiresome “heckler’s veto” tactics they scream, blow air-horns and otherwise try to disrupt Milo’s speeches because … well because Liberals long ago abandoned freedom of expression. Students at Rutgers are SO emotionally crippled they actually needed COUNSELING after the “trauma” of knowing that somewhere on the campus someone was – (GASP) – SAYING THINGS THEY DISAGREED WITH! Continue reading →

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February 16, 2016 · 1:08 am

OBAMA: THE BALLADEER’S BLOG INTERVIEW

Recently I had the chance to interview the weak, inept and crooked little man named Barack Obama. It was pretty easy to set up the interview. I claimed to be a Muslim family who would be happy to go on television and pretend America is an Islamophobic death-trap run by Jewish conspirators. Less than a half-hour later Obama and a film crew arrived at my place by helicopter. ***

BALLADEER’S BLOG: Let’s start off with a recent development – the Supreme Court vacancy left by Antonin Scalia’s death. You are the ONLY U.S. President who, as a Senator, had voted to filibuster A SUPREME COURT NOMINEE. Given that fact, how do you justify insisting the Senate needs to act quickly on your nominee before you move on to your next criminal enterprise?

BARACK OBAMA: Most people will never even hear about how hypocritical I am about this. I can count on the Democratic Party’s media outlets to avoid mentioning it and nobody will believe any of the Republican Party outlets when they talk about it.

BB: But even Democrat Chuck Schumer has publicly stated that an outgoing president should NOT get to pick the next Supreme Court nominee. And long ago the Democratic Party had backed a move to avoid considering SCOTUS appointments in an election year.

BO: Do you really think American morons even know who Chuck Schumer is? Or know about something that happened decades ago? Remember, these are people who get their political views from television shows and celebrities. Continue reading →

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