2025 January Weirdness
And a playlist with some really good new music to help you out!
As Hunter S. Thompson said: “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
We all have to be professionals for at least this year. We gotta hold on.
One month of this year behind us and I wanted to let you know that there is a playlist here too. Besides talking about the weirdness of the month, I will now present you with some music hitting my ears and some new albums to have a listen to this month.
5 Albums Worth Investigating This Month
Rose City Band-Sol Y Sambra- Sun and Shadow….more amazing Cosmic Americana from the Weat Coast of the US of A.
Stylianos Ou And The Cortisol Cows-Fucked Forever-Think The Silver Jews via Greece. Some lo-fi beauty.
Early James-Medium Raw-34 year old singer/songwriter produced by Dan Auerbach. Never heard of him until I was this many years old. You should educate yer self too!
Warren Hayes-Million Voices Whisper-Jamey Johnson, Lukas Nelson and the baddest slide player in the world, Derek Trucks light up these beautiful tunes. This may be Hayes best solo record leaning into Allman territory….and more.
Brown Spirits-Cosmic Seeds-BS are from Melbourne, Australia and they lay down some cosmic/kraut rock/psychedelic dosed tracks. Think Cream and/or Hendrix and you may get an idea of where this trio is mining their rock and roll from.
Meanwhile, let’s continue with the weird news of January.
Weird. My choice of a descriptive word for this year we are in. Yeah, this was not such a far-fetched adjective to come up with.
Before the fireworks smoke could clear in the evening air we had a Tesla Truck blowing up outside a Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. We also had a terror attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. This was all on the 1st Day Of 2025.
We move a week into 2025 and Southern California has been hit hard by the katabatic Santa Ana winds. You have all seen the dramatic pictures of a California many of us know from first hand visits or from a million TV shows and movies.
My heart aches for the thousands now homeless and the people who lost their lives.
The President-Elect at that time soon turned it into a political football. And as you can see from 2020, the Orange Pyscho always had a firm grasp on forest management.
The Orange Psycho said you could get water from trees and there was a large faucet that California needed to turn on that they failed to turn on. Those damn California, climate change believers, water conservationists, and even some of the people released from mental institutions and sent to America were all responsible for the fire. You might want to check some of those facts with the Trump team.
Meanwhile, in Pakistan this was posted as an ad for Pakistan International Flights to Paris. Someone knows nothing about history…
Back to America and Trump has appointed Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone to be his Ambassadors to Hollywood.
“They will serve as Special Envoys to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK—BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE! These three very talented people will be my eyes and ears, and I will get done what they suggest. It will again be, like The United States of America itself, The Golden Age of Hollywood!”-Orange Pyscho
Of course, 3 old white dudes with possible grey matter issues, I am sure they will have their finger on the pulse of what needs to be done in Hollywood. There is no DEI here. There is no DEI in America any longer. Most Americans have now forgotten what DEI is and believe everyone has equal opportunities. If you are a white man, of course.
We get to the 20th of January and the Inauguration has been moved inside. Trump operates well in an Arena so the ceremony was at The Capitol and then off to some sporting arena where he could sign Executive Orders on stage and be praised by his cult. Unfortunately, if you were a simple MAGA Cult member you could not get into see your leader. He left you all out in the cold unless you had a cold million.
Meanwhile, the richest men in the world, a bevy of technocrats from Musk to Bezos, Ellison to Zuckerturd were given the best seats. Sorry, they bought the best seats with their donations to the autocracy.
We had George Bush looking stoned and all the other ex-VP’s and Presidents who called the Orange Psycho HIITLER or WORSE in attendance. Shittttt, that don’t smell like resistance to me. That smells like sucking up to a system then should all be trying to break apart at the seams. This was not the time to bow down to tradition, it was time to flip the Trump dude the bird. Jesus. But they just all rolled in looking like it was just another day at The Capitol. So weird…
And then we have a list of Executive Orders longer than Jeffrey Epstein and Diddy’s guest lists for their self style Freak Off’s.
I think Jeffrey called it something else, like rape, as Diddy owned the Freak Off title.
Bring your own lube.
I won’t list the Executive Orders but they are all their to build the Autocratic Rule of the Orange Psycho. Rip out DEI, make life harder for women, the LGBTQI+ Community, and stop the government from assisting any group that disagrees with Numero 47. America, were you waking up, were you woke, fuckyou, go back to sleep. Take these pills, from Bobby Kennedy Jr.
Probably the weirdest Executive Action and Memo was freezing funds/grants to many organisations. Chaos and panic ensued across the board. There was a very big list of grants that were being looked at published by the Psycho’s administration. A litte later on the White House blamed the media for the confusion. And just awhile after that announcement, the administration put out a one lime memo rescinding the freeze.
Nice try. Thankfully, some people are paying attention. We all need to pay attention in this weirdness.
Think that was all beyond weird? To top it off we got Pete Hegseth confirmed to head the Department Of Defense. He has gone from superbly unqualified to having the nuclear codes. Give that man a drink. Word has it he likes his beverages hard! And allegedly he likes to abuse women. He paid one woman 50 thousand dollars to be quiet. Guess it was well beyond flowers and a fruit platter.
More weirdness with bird flu outbreaks spreading, drug prices rising, egg prices going up, a TB outbreak in Kansas, and the stockmarket tumbling due to China developing an ultra cheap AI App called Deep Seek.
I am thinking the techno bros just bought up big as the AI stocks tanked in the US. Deep Seek could just be some type of deep stock market fake to make more money for the people who already have it. We shall see where the chips fall. (Sorry about that).
Has America become GREAT yet?
Just a little bit more weirdness, I know you are feeling worn out as so much of it is coming from Washington, DC. I am sure more countries will give us some weirdness soon enough? Please, Denmark, you got something besides Greenland?
We did have these very unsuccessful arsonists here in Australia. Stupid, maybe not so weird.
The First White House Press Conference took place this week.
Let’s get real, it is a Propaganda Conference.
Karoline Leavitt the 27 year old Press Secretary looked in control on her debut, but as the hour went on their were cracks in her orange veneer. She also said that inluencers, podcasters and other ‘new’ media channels can apply for White House Press credentials. We want new voices I think she said. Actually, they don’t want new voices they just want ones that sing from the same hymn book.
And these words from this young cult member, Ms. Leavitt:
“I commit to telling the truth from this podium every single day. I commit to speaking on behalf of the president of the United States. That is my job.
And I will say it’s very easy to speak truth from this podium when you have a president who is implementing policies that are wildly popular with the American people, and that’s exactly what this administration is doing. It’s correcting the lies and the wrongs of the past four years, many of the lies that have been told to your faces in this very briefing room. I will not do that.
I vow to provide the truth from this podium, we ask that all of you in this room hold yourselves to that same standard. We know for a fact there have been lies that have been pushed by many legacy media outlets in this country about this president, about his family, and we will not accept that. We will call you out when we feel that your reporting is wrong or there is misinformation about this White House. So, yes, I will hold myself to the truth, and I expect everyone in this room to do the same.”
Penn Gillette, the entertainer said this about the Orange One:
"He bullshits, which is worse, he has made no attempt to find out what's true and then negate it. He just says whatever he wants. That is much more dangerous. Once you've thrown out the idea there is an agreeable truth, I think we're done.”
So, I assume whatever Karoline will be getting from the Orange Horse mouth will be his truth only…..not THE TRUTH. Like the truth of the 50 million dollars worth of condoms that were being sent to Gaza? I dont have time for that bullshit. I do like that one Fox News jerk-off said Hamas were using them as balloons to move munitions. Oh my….if you say it, it is TRUE!
Yes, I am exhausted by the weirdness that is being normalised. Please remind the White House they are speaking the truth when you hear their BS.
Robert Kennedy Jr. another man highly unqualified for his cabinet appointment as Health Secretary facing some hard questions. Those hard questions only come from one side of the bench. Meanwhile, Bobby Jr. sits there chewing on bear bitong and whale blubber to get him through the hearings.
As we move into 2025, you might want to keep an eye on this Substack Page which will list all the trouble the Orange Psycho is causing in America. Or you might just want to go lie on a beach somewhere and enjoy the sunshine and waves.
And farewell Jim Acosta. Acosta accosted Trump numerous times and he held his ground as the Orange Psycho lied and called him fake news. Acosta was being relegated to the midnight shift as CNN Management have kotowed to the New Orange Psycho leader. Books will be burnt soon….if we don’t pay attention.
See ya next month….I hope. And maybe one of the weirdest things I saw this week is Elon Musk doing a Nazi salute….and there are actually people saying he was NOT doing that….how weird, huh?
