Tea at Trianon: They Lied to Us About Everything Else

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

Thursday, July 4, 2024

They Lied to Us About Everything Else

From Dr. Zmirak at The Stream:

What else can we do but pray, as Western leaders from the British Tory party to the GOP establishment tap dance in the nuclear minefield that is Ukraine, holding all of our lives in their shaky gamblers’ hands? Anyone, such as Nigel Farage, Tucker Carlson, or Donald Trump, who questions the absolute necessity of risking nuclear war with Russia and fighting to the last Ukrainian man, woman, and child over who controls a few godforsaken provinces on the Dnieper, is demonized and labeled a puppet or a traitor.

In case you still have some faint suspicion that there might be some grain of truth in the Official Line put out by our liberal establishment, just remember how recently and how flagrantly they lied to us about:

The need to lock down our countries to slow the spread of a mostly nondeadly virus, which they were spreading among the most vulnerable in nursing homes by dumping COVID patients there.
The need for mail-in balloting to keep Americans safe and secure a fair election.
Donald Trump engaging in collusion with Russia to steal the 2016 election.
Hunter Biden’s laptop being fake “Russian disinformation.”
The COVID vax being carefully tested, safe, and essential to save millions of lives.

Shall I go on? I could, you know. (Read more.)