Tea at Trianon: The “Toxic Thing” Inside Them

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

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

The “Toxic Thing” Inside Them

From Life News:

Whoopi Goldberg referred to unborn babies as “toxic things” last week during an interview with former CNN host Chris Cuomo, who was fired last year. Live Action News reports the two were discussing the U.S. Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, which overturned Roe v. Wade, when Goldberg made the derogatory comment.

“People make their decisions about why they hate your guts. People hate my guts. They say, ‘You’re always talking about the negative aspect of stuff,’” she said. Goldberg said she believes the Supreme Court did a “negative” thing by overturning Roe, which she wrongly described as “a law.” The 1973 ruling forced states to legalize abortion on demand and led to the deaths of 63 million unborn babies and hundreds, perhaps thousands, of mothers.
“Well you know, I think it is negative that you changed a law that’s 50 years old that you didn’t do enough homework about to see what the consequences were gonna be for women — not Black women, or Asian women or Hispanic women, just women in general,” she said.

Goldberg continued: “You changed the law without even saying, without even having the information of what that means for someone who has a difficulty in the pregnancy that requires that they not keep this toxic thing in. And you think because there’s a heartbeat — you think there’s a heartbeat — you’re not thinking about, is the child viable? Does this child have a brain, and hands and arms? You’re not thinking about any of that.” (Read more.)