Tea at Trianon: Whistleblower Warning

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

Monday, December 19, 2022

Whistleblower Warning

From American Greatness:

Despite these and other victories, Trump’s most significant achievement could be his accomplishments as a whistleblower. He called out the FBI for the attempt to take down a duly elected president and called for draining the Washington swamp. He ripped fake news, partisan witch hunts, and a lot more.

For that, Twitter de-platformed the president. Elon Musk, who does have some money, thought that wasn’t right. He bought Twitter and began revealing the way the platform became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democrats, the deep state, and the Biden Junta. By calling out deep state frauds like Fauci, Musk becomes the nation’s chief whistleblower. In that role he should expect the same treatment as Trump, a full-on attack from all sides.

As Chuck Schumer observed, the intelligence community has “six ways from Sunday of getting back at you.” So as Teddy Lewis (Mickey Rourke) told Ned Racine (William Hurt) in “Body Heat,” “you better watch your step.” Musk should also be on the lookout for FBI moles still embedded in his company. The Biden Junta’s private Gestapo will try to insert new people.

A key question on the Twitter application should be something like, “Did Josef Stalin, Xi Jinping, Fidel Castro, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Peter Strzok or Anthony Fauci ever do anything with which you disagreed?” Musk should also expect lawsuits, regulatory harassment, and even violent attacks in the style of 2020. The FBI will doubtless look the other way, and the Biden Junta will call it a “peaceful protest.”

Nothing will be off the table, but Musk should not hold back. The Twitter boss is off to a good start and knows how to pick his targets. Responses to the “prosecute Fauci” tweet have been revelatory. (Read more.)