Tea at Trianon: Trump and the Beauty Queens

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Saturday, October 15, 2016

Trump and the Beauty Queens

What the mainstream media does not report. From LifeZette:

Melissa Young, Miss Wisconsin 2005, who competed in the Miss USA pageant in 2005: 'Trump Gave Me the Best Gift You Can Give a Mother'

Young, who has an eight-year-old son, is dying. She is battling autonomic failure, which leads to the shutdown of the nervous system. Doctors have said her heart resembles that of a 90-year-old. She is fighting for every last day of life; just two days ago, she had a blood clot removed from her chest.

She endorsed Trump for president in April. "He saved me in so many ways and changed my world ... When I leave this world, I won't be here to watch my son grow, but I'll know that he will grow up in a country that is safe," she said back then.

She became ill years after her pageant experience and said Trump frequently came to her aid. On Friday night, she said on "Hannity" on Fox News: "I am fighting for each and every day ... [After] a priest had come and read me my last rites [in the hospital], that day an envelope was delivered to my room. It was a handwritten note from Mr. Trump, that said, 'To the bravest woman I know.' He wanted me to keep fighting. And in that moment ... it sparked something in me. He really sparked such a wonderful [fighting attitude]." (Read more.)