Tea at Trianon: FEMA’s Betrayal of US Citizens

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, November 2, 2024

FEMA’s Betrayal of US Citizens

From The Rand Paul Review:

Politicians like Rand Paul have constantly been warning the DNC about how we need to get our southern border under control. The failure of Kamala Harris, the Border Czar, has had a variety of spillover effects on the US population.
One recent shock that the United States has faced has been FEMA’s failure to provide sufficient support for hurricane victims. FEMA was too distracted with the ongoing issue at our southern border and left many people in an uncomfortable situation.
To make matters worse, FEMA’s director recently stated that it may run out of financial resources soon. So many people are fed up with the government funding illegal immigrants and foreign militaries while failing to provide for the lower and middle-class population.

Hopefully, this will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. It is time for politicians to take an America-first approach, and ensure that agencies like FEMA have the resources they need to avoid embarrassing failures like this. (Read more.)