Tea at Trianon: Trump Vows To Deport Haitian Migrants

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

Saturday, October 5, 2024

Trump Vows To Deport Haitian Migrants

From The Daily Wire:

Former President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration would “absolutely” revoke the temporary protected status for Haitian migrants living in Springfield, Ohio, and deport them back “to their own country.”

Around 20,000 Haitian migrants have settled in Springfield in recent years, a spike in population that Trump said has caused the town of around 58,000 residents to be “overrun.” The Ohio town, located between Dayton and Columbus, has become the center of national media coverage after both Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), cited unconfirmed reports of Haitian migrants stealing and eating residents’ pets.

“It has nothing to do with Haiti or anything else. You have to remove the people, and you have to bring them back to their own country,” Trump told NewsNation reporter Ali Bradley.

“Springfield is such a beautiful place. Have you seen what’s happened to it? It’s been overrun. You can’t do that to people. … I’d revoke (the protected status), and I’d bring (the migrants) back to their country,” the former president added. (Read more.)