Tea at Trianon: Follow the Money

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

Sunday, March 9, 2025

Follow the Money

From Tierney's Real News:

So, our taxpayer money isn't just being laundered by the CIA and USAID through NGOs and guys like Soros & Koch for election fraud, false flags and campaign contributions. It's also being laundered by individual Senators and Representatives for their own personal grift. They don't just make extra money by "insider trading" - they are outright stealing it from us.
Trump and the DOGE team are going to make significant progress towards balancing our federal budget. Our budget deficit is $2 trillion per year, $1 trillion of which is interest on the $36 trillion in debt. The DOGE crew is finding hundreds of billions of $$$ in waste and fraud - which is very important.
But, even though DOGE is doing great work in cost-cutting, Musk apparently attacked Rubio in a recent Cabinet meeting on staffing, and President Trump let it play out and then sided with Rubio. It appears that Elon may overstep his authority at times and Trump is quick to rein him in. Good! Elon has a big platform on X (with over 200 MILLION followers) that he can use to present his side of an argument to the public - many cabinet members don’t have the same luxury. In the end, Musk gave out his cell phone number to others on Team Trump and asked them to call him if there are ever problems. All of this was confirmed by GROK. (Read more.)