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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

Monarchists

Monarchists

(Source: idlepaddy)

Politicians Are a Good Argument for Monarchy

thecounterrevolutionary:

Another timely and relevant post from the Mad Monarchist.  He is, without a doubt, one of the best thinkers on the subject of monarchy on the net.

(via thecounterrevolutionary-deactiv)

canadianrightist: thesalorepublic: dergutekamerad: instahlgewittern: Russian officer in 1917 displaying the white flower of loyalty and honour: Many such young and idealistic men fought heroically in the White armies. Here’s to Denikin, Wrangel, Kolchak, Yudenich, and the countless Japanese, Chinese, French, Czechoslovak, American, British, and even Germans who fought for a White Russia. And Canucks!  Don’t forget the Canucks…

canadianrightist:

thesalorepublic:

dergutekamerad:

instahlgewittern:

Russian officer in 1917 displaying the white flower of loyalty and honour: Many such young and idealistic men fought heroically in the White armies.

Here’s to Denikin, Wrangel, Kolchak, Yudenich, and the countless Japanese, Chinese, French, Czechoslovak, American, British, and even Germans who fought for a White Russia.

And Canucks!  Don’t forget the Canucks…

my-ear-trumpet: (Alexander Makovsky’s portrait of Konstantin Pobedonostsev)The Mad Monarchist | Monarchist Profile: Konstantin Pobedonostsev “Elections are merely an art with its own strategy and tactics, like the art of war. The crowd listens to whoever shouts loudest and who is best at pretending through banality and flattery to suit the concepts and inclinations popular in the masses. In theory, the voter gives his vote to the candidate because he knows him and trusts him, whereas in practice…he does not know him at all, but the voter is told about him in speeches and shouts from the interested party.”

my-ear-trumpet:

(Alexander Makovsky’s portrait of Konstantin Pobedonostsev)

The Mad Monarchist | Monarchist Profile: Konstantin Pobedonostsev

“Elections are merely an art with its own strategy and tactics, like the art of war. The crowd listens to whoever shouts loudest and who is best at pretending through banality and flattery to suit the concepts and inclinations popular in the masses. In theory, the voter gives his vote to the candidate because he knows him and trusts him, whereas in practice…he does not know him at all, but the voter is told about him in speeches and shouts from the interested party.”

(Source: madmonarchist.blogspot.com.au, via )

From a Czech monarchist group (via Wilson Revolution Unplugged)

From a Czech monarchist group (via Wilson Revolution Unplugged)

"[A] king is a king, not because he is rich and powerful, not because he is a successful politician, not because he belongs to a particular creed or to a national group. He is King because he is born. And in choosing to leave the selection of their head of state to this most common denominator in the world - the accident of birth - Canadians implicitly proclaim their faith in human equality; their hope for the triumph of nature over political manoeuvre, over social and financial interest; for the victory of the human person."

— Jacques Monet, Canadian historian (via western-aristocracy)

"(Europe’s monarchs are) all there to listen to the voice of the people and, without influencing politics, to protect the nation. Their example gives some credibility to those who think that restoration of King Michael of Romania might help heal recent wounds. Does the monarchy have a future? It’s a very definite reality in today’s Europe, and without it Europe would be a very different place."

— Jean-Yves Masson, Eurostar Magazine, Autumn 2000 (via western-aristocracy)