Tea at Trianon: How DEI Turned Intel Agencies into a Circus

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

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

How DEI Turned Intel Agencies into a Circus

From Amuse on X:

But therein lies the problem—these people feel untouchable. They are untouchable. They know they can engage in this insanity, day in and day out, with no consequences. Because the modern federal bureaucracy, rotted through with DEI-driven ideological enforcement, no longer exists to serve the nation. It exists to serve itself. It is a taxpayer-funded sinecure where personal gratification trumps mission readiness, and where accountability is an alien concept.
Imagine for a moment if an employee at a Fortune 500 company—let’s say Boeing or Lockheed Martin—spent hours every workday in internal chatrooms detailing the intimate mechanics of their sex lives, debating “it/its” pronouns, and swapping tips on chemical castration. How long would they last? A day? An hour? Private sector companies, even those leaning woke, have at least the baseline expectation that employees are there to work. But in the halls of our most sensitive intelligence agencies, where clear-headed judgment is literally a matter of life and death, such behavior is apparently tolerated—if not outright encouraged. (Read more.)