Tea at Trianon: Trying to Destroy Trump

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

Sunday, June 11, 2017

Trying to Destroy Trump

From Matt Walsh:

In fact, the situation is even more disastrous for Democrats. Comey did actually provide evidence of obstruction of justice — but it was of Loretta Lynch’s obstruction, not Trump’s. Comey testified that Lynch, as Attorney General, instructed him to stop calling the investigation into Hillary Clinton an investigation, and instead call it a “matter.” Comey said that Lynch clearly wanted the FBI to align its narrative with the Clinton campaign narrative. So, the hearing that was meant to crucify Trump only managed to indict the Obama Administration. A true debacle for the Democrats. They threw a grenade, it bounced off the wall and blew their own arms off.

But none of this matters, of course. Those who’ve spent months crafting this fiction of Trump the Russian Agent will either continue pushing it or pretend they never did push it. The truth doesn’t matter to anyone anymore. All that matters is drawing blood. But, once again, the Democrats have only managed to draw their own. (Read more.)