Tea at Trianon: Who Can Stop World War III?

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

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Who Can Stop World War III?

From Dr. Gorka:

Ideologically, they have made it all so clear, with their Jihadi creed: “First we come for the Saturday people, then we come for the Sunday people.” Functionally, it is just as clear: it is no accident the nation behind Hamas and Hizbollah is the theocratic dictatorship of Iran, a regime which labels Israel as the “small Satan” and America as the “great Satan.”
There is no denying the fact that this is a civilizational war between Judeo-Christian civilization and the dark forces of barbarism. There is no other way to understand what Hamas did that day, the slaughter of children, the rape and subsequent murder of young women. These victims weren’t “collateral damage” killed as a side-effect of an attack on military targets. They were the target. (Read more.)

A problem named Joe. From The Transom:

This is an awfully inconvenient truth for the Kamala Harris campaign, which has been noticeably struggling in recent weeks. The ebullient joy among Democratic partisans hasn’t transferred to the wider populace. The challenges of events both world- and weather-related has distracted from the culture war and generational shift narrative Team Harris wanted to be advancing at this point. And Tim Walz’s horrific performance in his vice-presidential debate represents at best a missed opportunity, at worst an embarrassment that helped JD Vance find his footing and couldn’t even dodge the mockery of the partisans at Saturday Night Live. (Read more.)