Tea at Trianon: A Nobel Prize for 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

Saturday, April 28, 2018

A Nobel Prize for Trump?

If Trump does not receive it, then no one should. From New York Magazine:

Senator Lindsey Graham, not one of Trump’s biggest fans in the upper chamber, agrees. “It’s the biggest change since the end of the hostilities,” Graham said on Fox News Friday. “What happened? Donald Trump convinced North Korea and China he was serious about bringing about change.”

“We’re not there yet, but if this happens, President Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize,” he said.

Some of Trump’s biggest boosters have removed the caveat. They’re ready to give him the Nobel now. “Unlike Obama, he actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize,” Fox News host Laura Ingraham tweeted. Carl Higbie, a former Trump administration official..., is ready for the Nobel committee to act now. And Bill Mitchell is eager to find out if the heads of liberals will “explode” when Trump gets the award. (Read more.)

All that Trump has done for human rights should win him the prize as well. From the Artsci Blog:

So, while the liberal media keep repeating the same “bash Trump” programming relentlessly to their base, people like me have moved on and have been researching what he’s actually doing, I can guarantee you, no Democrat has even read this far. But look at me. I’m a liberal, and this ^ is what I’m working with.

While liberal media thinks Trump saying “shit-hole” is newsworthy, I’m sitting here wondering how they missed an actual DECLARATION OF A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE UNITED STATES enacted to deal with corruption, crimes such as rape ⇨which was specifically named⇦ and human trafficking, including a monumentally sweeping law which allows the United States Treasury, empowered by President Donald Trump, to revoke the property and profits of anyone, anywhere involved in trafficking and corruption. (Read more.)