With President’s Day coming up soon here’s the first of many seasonal posts.
John Adams called the Vice Presidency “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived.” A very old joke went “Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea and the other became Vice President. Neither was ever heard from again.”
In George S Kaufman’s and Morrie Ryskind’s classic stage work Of Thee I Sing one of the characters turns down an offer to be Vice President because he’s ashamed to have his mother know. He’s persuaded to accept the office when it’s pointed out that if he doesn’t tell her about it she’ll never find out.
The office has featured eminently forgettable figures as well as comic relief buffoons like Dan “The Global Village Idiot” Quayle and Joe “Koo Koo For Cocoa Puffs” Biden. In the light-hearted style of Balladeer’s Blog’s look at U.S. Presidents here’s a look at the men who got to hang around and see if the country’s Chief Executive wound up six feet under. I’m omitting VP’s who went on to actually become President, so no John Adams or Thomas Jefferson, etc.
AARON BURR
Served Under: Jefferson
Noted for: Shooting dead more Treasury Secretaries and hatching more plots to start his own country than any other Vice President. (So far, anyway.)
Best Burr Quote: “I’m still searching for the real killers of Alexander Hamilton.”
GEORGE CLINTON
Served Under: Jefferson and Madison
Noted for: P-Funk and Funkadelic Leading American Rebel forces against the British troops of his loyalist cousin Sir Henry Clinton during the Revolutionary War.
Best Clinton Quote: “Do fries go with that shake?”
ELBRIDGE GERRY
Served Under: Madison
Noted for: Pioneering the method of “Gerrymandering” political districts in a way that the modern day Democrats and Republicans have raised to a mainstay in the world of white collar crime which they inhabit.
Best Gerry Quote: “I’ll be immortalized as the man who invented Elbridge-mandering!”
DANIEL D TOMPKINS
Served Under: Monroe Continue reading
I’m still weighing and sifting everything from the explosive Memo that the nation is talking about. It looks very, very bad for Hillary, Obama and the rest of the anti-Trump cabal. 
President Donald Trump – America’s de facto Third Party President AND “the new Franklin Roosevelt” – delivered his first State of the Union address Tuesday Night to an approving citizenry … and to a dour-faced and hate-filled Democrat Gang. 
The Democrats are so far-gone on this issue- and have taken to rejecting ANY voices that tell them how callous they come across – that they refuse to even put on a public show of mourning the dead victims of their beloved illegal aliens. What a pack of unfeeling political robots. 
It’s the return of TRUMP CARDS, as America’s de facto Third Party President Donald Trump aka The New Franklin Roosevelt continues to rescue the working class and the poor from our hopelessly corrupt politicians and their media allies. 
*** Hillary “Bugsy” Clinton has been reduced to reading aloud from that National Enquirer-level book about President Trump to try to soothe her bitterness and humiliation from getting defeated by Trump in 2016. Hillary is extra-creepy when she tries to act funny. 
As I said awhile back, at this point even if I DIDN’T support President Trump (the new FDR) I would PRETEND that I did. The anti-Trump fascists are such humorless, pompous and indignant fools. Roughly sixty-three to sixty-four million voters DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE IN FEAR OF UPSETTING YOU FASCISTS JUST BECAUSE YOUR CROOKED CANDIDATE HILLARY LOST!
Balladeer’s Blog presents another edition of Transgress With Me. 
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS UBER ALLES – The Democrats very recently brought about a government shutdown on behalf of their beloved illegal immigrants from Mexico. Tone-deaf as ever, the members of DemCorp were stunned by how unpopular that move was and quickly surrendered. 
F.B.I. – FELONIOUS BARACK’S INQUISITORS – Every day more and more information emerges about the illegal way Obama’s politicized FBI functioned as a pro-Hillary sabotage operation during and after the 2016 presidential election. 
Such obsessed loons spend most of their time filing complaints or hitting the “report abuse” button every time someone beats them in an argument. Such people also try to play with every word that is written by people they don’t agree with, just so they can pretend that splitting hairs over an irrelevant choice of wording means that the other person is “lying” or “wrong.” 
Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog know that I’m an atheist but there is no denying that Islam – the religion founded by the blood-soaked child rapist named Muhammad – is the most homophobic, misogynistic and otherwise intolerant religion in the world right now.
The more that the forces of conformity try to browbeat all of us into pretending President Trump is not doing a wonderful job for the working class and the poor the more fun it is to see more and more people stop humoring them and begin pushing back. 
TRUMP CARD ONE: De facto Third Party President Donald Trump’s FAKE NEWS AWARDS were terrific! He is one man alone against America’s cesspool of corruption which INCLUDES the corporate media. 
TRUMP CARD FOUR: Republican trash like Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush and all the stuffy white males at National Review continue proving President Trump’s status as a de facto Third Party President. The Paul Ryans and Lindsey Grahams of the world apparently don’t like the way Trump attracts so many voters of color. I guess they want the Republicans to go back to being the party of Boring White Clowns In Suits. 
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