(1113) Not a numbered post, though half-political. There is a film for later, let’s see if there’s time. This post is going to be long I’m afraid.

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Just when you think things are going be all right … dot dot dot

It started with a reaction vid to The Animals’ House of the Rising Sun (1964) and as one does, one explores … in this case the band, the reviewer girl, both eras, plus YT and ggl both suggested further research and in came the young Scot with “trad wives”, but not what you’d think … there’s a twist.

Whoa … this was getting too extended and then it came back to the inevitable generations … and as I explored them, poor sods around 1920, it became obvious, as you’ll see in Lord T’s Monday 9, that they’re simply not going to give anyone a break … so we need to take one and to hell with them.

Generations

I’ve pretty well got the post-1946 sorted and just a reminder that Eric Burdon was not a Boomer, he was War generation (May 1941), as were the band … this girl reactor you’ll see (lady at lunchtime) was more difficult to pin down … I’d say early 2000s, making her a Zoomer or Gen Z but … and this is a big but … these are NOT the younger generation anymore … nope, they have ended, mateys, passed as a generation. Alpha started 2012 and are now two thirds of the way through, themselves.

Bleedin’ tempus!

Now, the only way I could make any sense of it all was to pinpoint a particular baby in a particular year and follow his/her life.

Let’s start with a boy and girl born in 1894 … add 18 years and the boy’s about to be drawn into the mangler in a huge appeal to his patriotism, whilst he’ll actually be fighting in foreign lands, just as with the ones currently being sent by Starmer. At home? Dad’s Army plus landgirls (less so in WW1).

The girl is ready to “come out” in 1912 but but but … war clouds … Them prepare nations ahead of time … oh dear, she must delay marriage and children. By the time the next boomer time arrives, around 2022-24, she’s approaching 30.

And what is she hit by? Bleedin’ feminazism of the worst suffragette kind … girls can do anything, bright young, half unclad slappers, their heroines now Louise Brooks, Clara Bow, Josephine Baker … anything BUT virtuous women … this is the jazz era, right? Boom or bust, F Scott Fitzgerald … did you ever read about their badly parented daughter? Great Gatsby … all show, all chic, life in the fast lane … we observe from now and admire the fashions, the music … whilst they were rushing headlong to the abyss of 1929-31.

Let’s now look at two of the post-WW1 boomers, maybe 1920, after the 1918 pandemic baby-bust has receded. They grow up during the flapper, jazz exciting, bathing beauty time but as toddlers, children. At 9, it all falls apart … Depression, hard times … in Germany, mothers go onto the street because hubby is out of work, even pregnant women do … nothing pretty about it at all.

And now a boy born in 1937/8. Those postponing marriage and babies come out of it around 1936, start thinking of family again. The boy is born in 1937, say, making him 88 years old today. Two years into his life, he is involved in wartime … in 1945, he’s what … 8 years old, on rationing. What prospects?

And now to the song itself

Eric Burdon was the oldest, yet smallest, Newcastle lad, Geordie, May 1941. Jump 23 years and some days to March 18th and they decide to do the song in one take:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animals_(American_album)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Rising_Sun

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Burdon

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chas_Chandler

All right, how was I going to approach the reaction, given that I’ve already run it here and most readers are not huge on the genre or even band? Well I thought … if Eric B is 23 at the point of singing it, howabout a guy or gal also 23 today but not just a fan … howabout someone involved in the game?

I reviewed well over a dozen reaction vids … some go trips for the reactor, some were interesting experiments … dad with 13 year old daughter … knew nothing, immature … it simply didn’t work. Plenty of black males and females … very good too were their reviews but I wanted to tighten the demographic a bit, for example:

… she loved it by the way, don’t judge by the grimace. Then I found the right gal … around 23 perhaps (looks younger but voice is older) and quite a mixed bag. Part of a garage band, Venezuelan and Italian, living in England, knows of Newcastle, likes “vintage” as she put it but also so “today” … on Twitch, TikTok, all the other kid channels with her iphone … calls anything great “sick” … as in oh wow, that’s just … sick … meaning great to her. She’s apparently a “streamer”, there to monetise and make money.

And in her right ear … what on earth is that horrible mess of metal? Drop this reaction vid?

Nope … for one reason … it’s quite intelligent, almost mature … it’s a great take on my early era whilst I was way too young. But it reminds me of our band of 1966 … we really were discussing uniforms we might wear. Our first cover was Little Red Riding Hood (Sam the Sham) and our second Gloria … and her name is G … yeah … L … yeah etc.

This girl is reviewing this well … plus she mentions passion, authenticity, nit just formulaic. She’s a singer and bass player by the way, as you’ll see.

Just one more thing … what’s this new idea of having two small circles shining in the middle of glasses and sunnies … some modern affectation? The girl who does Rain also does that. Not sure I’d want to be 23 today, not sure it would be as fulfilling … as she says.

I’m thoroughly delighted that so many of the young of sufficient msturity can see how the great tracks really were … but of course, we had so much dross about too, which she does not get to see.

The trad woman

In a way, nothing to do with the above … it was just something YT added to the recommendeds. My first thought was yeah yeah … he’s Christian, he’d want women to be tead wives …

… nope, I was wrong. He mentions a trad wife movement today but they’re not trad at all. In the really early days, the women were out there playing their part with the living they were making … they were not stuck in drawing rooms having coffee mornings for the kept women. They were not kept, they were every bit part of it all.

And I like that … that affirms the gals like nothing else. Good.

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(1002) Thought it best to clear the political backlog now in order to tackle a mammoth post coming up, which started as just a musical reaction but has now expanded exponentially to bring in all sorts of issues … clearly, that will replace ladies at lunchtime, of whom I have but one today. (1046)

 

14. A Canadian view

13. This whole gang, lawfare, constitution thingy in the US

12. The Donald lives on

… but will he be all there?

Just ignore it … it was in the inbox from the Woke left Quora. Meanwhile, speaking of leftist Wokeri, this was a Tumblr ad to my inbox:

Oh, and this one had made it to X:

Considering there’s no such thing as AI … it’s Machine Learning, with humans or monsters feeding into it its options.

11. They were most certainly trying to kill us

10. Trending on X

… third one’s interesting:

9. Lord T

I did run it and shall run it again, just in case:

George Lawrence

A Shattering of Trust:

“It begins with a fracture in the everyday – a moment when the familiar turns lethal, when the air grows thick with acrid sting of gunpowder and the iron tang of lives undone. In two quiet corners of Britain, separated by nine years, horror erupts: massacres so brutal that they carved themselves into the national psyche. Hungerford, 19th August 1987, and Dunblane, 13th March 1996. Each a tableau of devastation, each a hinge in a nation’s arc, each a step toward stripping a people of their means to resist, perhaps forever.

What if these were not mere outbursts of broken men, but something colder, a staged spectacle to provoke dread, to usher in a solution long coveted by those who wield power? The pattern is as old as dominion itself: a crisis unfurls, the public recoils in anguish, and the state tightens its grip, cloaking coercion as deliverance. Hungerford and Dunblane, this narrative contends, were levers, tools to disarm Britain, rendering its citizens bare before a government wary of their latent strength.”

JH: That is precisely one of the key themes of my megapost later … just getting things together when a sudden blow upends everything.

 

(0601) Continuing the theme of eccentricity and madness. (0708)

 

8. Quickly … ship the defenders of these isles

… off these isles … thousands of km away fighting some pointless war …

7. Today’s TDS

… which acronym has another meaning across the pond …

Looking at the first item:

HERE

… we see:

The CDU is the party of fiscal responsibility. His Triviality the Pigeon Chancellor Friedrich Merz presented himself throughout the campaign as an unusual fan of Germany’s constitutionally-anchored debt break. He told everybody that he could not imagine ever borrowing in excess of 0.35% of annual GDP, so interested was he in limiting the tax burden of future generations.

All of the while, Merz and his advisers were scheming in secret about how they might overhaul the debt brake, firstly because they could not give the slightest shit about the tax burdens of future generations, and secondly because they spent the months since November 2023 observing what happens when a government that has no ideas is also deprived of money.

“I have no ideas,” Merz said to himself during this time. “What happens if like Olaf Scholz I also end up with no money?”

Part of the Bezmenov four points was that only greedy, ambitious no-hopers get into any power role in the latter stages, e.g. Cressida Dick, Rowling, Rachel from accounts, various DEI airline pilots plus ATC … and they’re the ones trying to work out what to do before the induced crash and following war.

6. Before going to any of the news items

… I’d like to go back to Yuri Bezmenov from the mid 80s … former Soviet agent at an unspecified level who gave a series of lectures which were interesting to the John Birch in particular. I have the key one on demoralisation of a society somewhere on some usb stick I think, was dreading trying to find that today but then I found this:

https://www.beyondintractability.org/newsletter-245

… which is a summarising of YB’s main points on how a subversive force, e.g. the Soviets, or the deathcult maybe today, or the WEF, or China … whoever … would go about it.

There it is. We could go back to the French Revolution, to the infiltration of Masons into America (statue of Ish*** in NYH and copy in Paris), to the infiltration of Masonry itself by the “Illumined” (see Weishaupt’s 1776 steps to abolition), to the Lincoln School and Wundtian principles, to the Frankfurt School, to 1997 and Blair/Brown after the bumping off of Smith, to the current horror of Starmer … and so it goes on.

Now, good reader, in the light of the Bezmenov principles above, please read ahead for today’s delights gathered in the early morn. Have a good Paddy’s Day.

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Addendum from DAD:

6. ….”(statue of Ish*** in NYH and copy in Paris)”…..

Member of French parliament demands U.S. return the Statue of Liberty.
Sure dumbass, when you return our soldiers from Normandy.

Member of French parliament demands U.S. return the Statue of Liberty. Sure dumbass, when you return our soldiers from Normandy.pic.twitter.com/HGtnPBvLgk

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 17, 2025

5. Andy at 997 wrote

The other day at the other place American folk music was mentioned. I always had a problem with folk music. To my mind it was 50% protest songs, 50% hippy, 50% nostalgia and 50% good music. Need a Venn diagram for that. Anyway, this appeared on my tube recommendations. |  https://youtu.be/xot0Sdx5_mg?si=dXiKHl-yYjUrMJ0D

That’s interesting as at the same time, I was exploring The Animals’ House of the Rising Sun and that’s as folksy as it gets. That follows Dearieme’s American folk offering Sunday evening, in “jazz”. There’s a post coming … but when … the cab rank is backed up here just now.

(0507) Greetings, patrons and occasionals. The theme for the day has chosen itself … eccentricity and madness … and to cover it is going to take some time, plus I have a fairly major domestic task later. (0559)

 

4. Steve at 997

• Kari Lake Goes To Work: Exposes Massive Waste at USAGM and Suspends, Locks Out More Than 1,000 Employees at Voice of America
• Pete Hegseth Discusses Air Strikes on Iran-Backed Houthis with Maria Bartiromo
• AG Pam Bondi Files Emergency Motion with DC Circuit to Halt ‘Illegal Order’ by Obama-Appointed Judge Jeb Boasberg, Alleging Sabotage of Presidency
• Newt Gingrich on Judicial Activism: This ‘Last Castle of Left-Wing Nutism’ is a ‘Fundamental Assault on the Constitutional Order’
• US strikes Yemen, warns Iran. Peskov, Monday Kursk deadline. Starmer operational phase enter [The] Ukraine
• Total Mobilization: Hunt For Young Cannon Fodder In Ukraine
• Wethersfield’s old air base now a hub for asylum seekers; it comes at huge cost to local residents (treason)
• Much more.

3. DAD at 997

a) Two runaway teenagers … were rescued in the Escanaux district of Bagnols-sur-Cèze, an area known for its constant drug trafficking…..

b) Cigarettes, laughing gas, aphrodisiacs… numerous illegal products are sold 24/7 at the Manouchian market, located in Vitry-sur-Seine in the Val-de-Marne department, which has become one of France’s largest illegal supermarkets.

c) The World Economic Forum (WEF) is demanding that global governments enforce bans on members of the general public growing food at home in order to supposedly lower “emissions.”

d) “Holy Bible sales are soaring in the UK with publishers crediting the rising spirituality of Gen Z as driving the revival of interest embracing the ancient text in an increasingly unstable world”.

2. Reform needs drastic reform

Chris Littlewood was chair of Reform for Chester North and Neston / Ellesmere Port and Bromborough.

On Friday, March 14, 2025, 17:10 GMT, they all resigned from Reform over the mayhem at the top … this is them:

Chris Littlewood, Chair, Bianca Leaver, Deputy Chair, Jacky, Secretary, Peter Leaver, Treasurer, Saffron, Campaign Manager

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/03/reform-is-history-in-its-current-form.html

Chris has now posted this, concerning:

Why are people not voting?

Because they know it is rigged. Because they know it does not matter. Because every time they turn up at the ballot box, they get shafted all over again. People are not staying home because they are lazy. They are staying home because they see through the bullshit. They have been lied to, ignored, used for votes, then discarded like cannon fodder while the same corrupt politicians keep running the country into the ground.

They know the Tories do not care about them. They know Labour despises them. They know the Lib Dems are a joke. They know the Green Party is full of lunatics who would rather bankrupt the country than fix anything.

So what do they do? They walk away. They switch off. They disengage. Because what is the point of playing a game when you know it is rigged? And here is the real crime. Reform UK was supposed to change that. It was supposed to be the party that spoke for the people who had given up.

But instead? It is chasing the same 28% who already vote, while ignoring the millions who have abandoned the system. It is watering down its message, trying to sound “respectable” for people who hate everything we stand for. It is owned by two people who control everything, with zero real democracy, zero accountability, and no interest in letting members have a say. It has become just another top-down political machine, where decisions are made behind closed doors, and if you do not agree, you are gone.

That is not how you win. That is how you lose before you even start. Trump did not win by playing nice. He did not win by watering down his message to appease his enemies. He went straight to the people the system abandoned, looked them in the eye, and said: “I see you. I hear you. And I am going to fight for you.” That is how you win. Not by begging for scraps from a corrupt system, but by smashing the table and flipping the game on its head.

That is what Reform should have been doing, mobilising the millions who have given up, giving them a reason to believe in politics again. But it will not. It can not. Because Reform is not a real movement. It is a private company, controlled by two people who answer to no one. That is why I walked away. Because Britain needs Reform.

But before that, Reform needs reform. And if they will not do it, then we damn well will.

1. IYE in comments

This week’s fakes from MM:

“And in other news, you have a SpaceX Dragon about to take off to relieve the two astronauts that have
been stranded on the Space Station since June of last year—nine months. You do release this is all fake
as well, right?

First of all, a SpaceX rocket just blew up last week, so I don’t know who thought it was a good idea to
put four astronauts on a SpaceX rocket this week. Is all oversight gone? There is no continuity with
these stories, as usual. They just say whatever they want, figuring you aren’t paying attention.

Plus, do you know how much food and water two people eat/drink in 9 months? Think about stacking
up all the groceries you have bought since last June. You need about four pounds of food a day, plus
about two gallons of water to drink and bathe. A gallon of water weighs over 8 pounds, so in nine
months you are looking at 10,800 pounds for two people. That’s five and half tons. Plus at least
another two tons of toiletries like shampoo, toothpaste, toilet paper, razor blades, towels, and so on.

Are they sleeping on the same sheets for nine months? If not, add that. Same underwear?
So where are all these supplies coming from? Uber Eats? Dominos? Do you really think they are
carrying eight tons, or the equivalent of two large elephants, in this little capsule?”

https://mileswmathis.com/consta.pdf