Tea at Trianon: Trump’s Proven Record and Bold Vision

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, January 9, 2025

Trump’s Proven Record and Bold Vision

From Amuse on X:

Imagine an America no longer shackled by runaway deficits or beholden to foreign energy markets. An America where the gas flowing from our shores not only fuels European freedom but also funds domestic prosperity. President-elect Trump has before him an unprecedented opportunity: to harness the untapped potential of America’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry and transform it into a $2 trillion engine of growth, balancing budgets and revitalizing our economy. This column explores why Trump must unleash LNG production and how it stands as a rebuke to the stifling policies of his predecessors, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
The Obama administration’s approach to LNG was tepid at best and obstructionist at worst. Despite America’s burgeoning natural gas reserves, permits for LNG terminals were doled out like rationed bread. The first major LNG export terminal, Sabine Pass, didn’t get approval until 2011—years into Obama’s presidency. By 2016, only a handful of terminals had been approved, hampered by bureaucratic red tape and environmentalist opposition.
Enter “Sleepy Joe” Biden, whose administration took Obama’s sluggishness and ground it to a halt. In January 2024, Biden’s Department of Energy announced a moratorium on new LNG export approvals to non-free trade agreement (non-FTA) countries, citing outdated environmental reviews. While this pause was later blocked by a federal court, the administration’s next move revealed its true intentions. (Read more.)