Tea at Trianon: The Day Has Come

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

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

The Day Has Come

From The Gateway Pundit:

The Biden gang’s relationship with the CCP included colluding with the CCP on a strategy to beat President Trump in the 2020 election. Hunter Biden dropped off his laptop at a PC repairman more than a year ago for repairs. Hunter’s laptop eventually became the property of the PC repairman due to Hunter’s inability to return and pick up his computer. Per the agreement signed by Hunter and the repairman, if Hunter didn’t pick up his laptop, the laptop became the property of the PC repairman. Hunter never picked up his laptop. (Read more.)

From The Federalist:

In just a few short weeks I’ve seen the results of all the efforts I’ve ever attempted to uphold my tiny little corner of the world crash into a million pieces. I can never trust a single elected official again. How can I when public officials should have but have not been falling all over themselves to ferret out every single way public trust was violated during this presidential election, knowing that without fair and secure elections in this country, nothing else matters?

Without the assurance of fair and secure elections, the people are not represented. A government of the people, by the people, and for the people cannot be legitimate if the people can’t be sure their representatives were elected in accord with duly passed and equally enforced laws. How is it in the best interest of any state to simply “move on” from an election that has been fraught with as many questions, concerns, and outright unconstitutionalities as this one?

I’m angry because I’ve been playing by the “rules”: paying my taxes, being civil and tolerant of my neighbor, accepting without protest the election of past presidents I didn’t support, and never threatening physical violence, using name-calling, canceling careers, using government goons to unlawfully spy to invent reasons for impeachment, or using media to misreport, misrepresent or otherwise create dissension and anger. Yet the other side has carte blanche to do all this and more without condemnation, conviction, or retribution of any kind.

Yes, the world will continue to turn if this election goes to Joe Biden. Yes, Jesus is still on His throne. In my view, however, God blessed us with a nation unlike any other ever on this planet that was created to allow individuals more freedom to speak, worship, and live than in any other.

Our Constitution reserves nearly all power to the people and very little to the government, yet we’ve continually chosen government over freedom in our individual lives to the point we’re now standing at the edge of a very deep precipice from which we may not return. It’s hard not to be angry when confronted with this earth-shattering truth.

On Jan. 6, I will try one more time. That day I will stand with fellow Americans on the Mall in Washington DC, where I will once again petition Heaven, where I will again hope to see results before I quit for good. (Read more.)

From The American Spectator:

Ironically, the state legislatures of all five of these states were weeks ago provided with ample evidence to justify convening the special sessions recommended by these Senators. They heard sworn testimony from dozens of eyewitnesses, saw documentation verifying obvious breaches of statutory ballot counting procedures, and viewed damning security camera videos that should have eliminated any doubt that enough ballot fraud occurred in crucial precincts to change the outcome of the election. The U.S. Constitution provides these state legislatures the power to unilaterally call special sessions under such circumstances. The constitutional verbiage of Article II, Section 1 is by no means ambiguous on this point.
You will note that no other state official is mentioned in this constitutional provision. That omission of the governor or the secretary of state is no oversight. If the legislature in one or more of the above-noted states wishes to convene a special session for purposes of determining whether their electors were unlawfully certified, the Constitution does not require the legislators to obtain the permission of the very officials who issued the certification under investigation. Nor do these legislatures require the governor or the secretary of state to sign off on a new slate of electors if an investigation reveals that the initial certification issued by these officials was tainted by documented violations of state or federal election laws. (Read more.)