Tea at Trianon: “Black Swan Event” in 2024

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, January 1, 2024

“Black Swan Event” in 2024

From Revolver:

Many Americans sense something brewing as we approach another national election. Remember the last time we had one? A so-called deadly “pandemic” emerged just in time to take out President Trump’s booming economy. It caused widespread chaos and led to a flood of sketchy mail-in ballots, which, ironically, seemed to favor the left. Now, with Trump back on the ballot, we’re bracing for the possibility of another significant event that will rock the world.

CBS reporter Catherine Herridge has the same feeling and shared a chilling and foreboding prediction of a “Black Swan” event in 2024. Wondering what that means? It’s a national security event of immense impact that’s totally unpredictable.
Catherine isn’t the only one talking about a looming “national security” event. Tucker Carlson is convinced the Deep State might resort to assassinating President Trump in a desperate attempt to keep him out of the White House.

The Vigilant Fox:

.@TuckerCarlson Issues Major Warning on What the Establishment Has in Store for Trump

“If you want to know what things are going to look like in the future, just chart out what has been happening recently and ask yourself, are things accelerating or decelerating? … just chart it out. And in the case of Trump, they started with protests, they moved to impeachment. Now they’re at indictment. None of it has worked. What’s next? What could possibly be next?” he asked.

That next step appears to be taking Trump off the ballot altogether. But Tucker suggested something much more sinister is looming.

“If you felt, and you really believed — and a lot of them do — that the worst thing that could happen to the country, and, more specifically, to you, in the professional class, is to have Donald Trump as president. And everything you have tried has failed. And they have been accelerating steps: protests, impeachment, indictment. How many more arrows do you have in your quiver? And what’s the next one? And, of course, it’s assassination.”
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