Tea at Trianon: The Color of Patriotism

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, January 12, 2020

The Color of Patriotism

From Allen West:

We have all seen and heard the abjectly disturbing, disconcerting, deranged, and delusional responses from the progressive socialist left over the drone strike that killed the leader of the designated Islamic terrorist organization, the Quds Force, General Qasem Soleimani. Some of the assertions are truly telling about the left, the same ones who did a cover shot on Rolling Stone of the Boston Marathon Islamic jihadist, Dzokhar Tsarnaev. Referring to Soleimani as a foreign official, esteemed and revered General, military strategist, and sadly, a dashingly handsome man should anger true Americans.

I have met several of our warriors who lost limbs due to the explosive force penetrators (EFPs) that Soleimani had a hand in producing and exporting to Islamic jihadists, terrorists, in Iraq. The fact that we have leftists, the same ones supporting the impeachment of President Trump as a national security threat, feigning anger over not being “consulted” in the matter of this strike is ludicrous. These same useful idiots said and did nothing when Barack Obama was launching over 500 drones, and left Americans to die in an Islamic terrorist attack in Benghazi. For CNN’s Wolf Blitzer to have the disgraced Susan Rice on to discuss President Trump’s response by killing Soleimani, after his orchestrating the attack on our Embassy in Baghdad is utterly laughable. (Read more.)

julygirl said...: Their blind hatred for anything Trump has caused them to dig themselves deeper and deeper into a cesspool of twisted praise for anti-American factions. They need to repeat this phrase to themselves over and over again...Free Speech vs Political Propaganda, and try to decipher the difference. They consider President Trump a danger to America, but in truth he is a danger to THEIR agenda for America, which has nothing to do with what the 'Founding Fathers' had in mind.; January 12, 2020 at 9:45:00 AM EST
elena maria vidal said...: True!; January 12, 2020 at 5:23:00 PM EST