Tea at Trianon: Prevent Chafing?

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 23, 2025

Prevent Chafing?

Young girls at a Woke school suffered outrages against their modesty. From Tierney's Real News:

I did a little research and the story is MUCH MORE disgusting than was reported by Fox News today.
Last December, several parents reached out to the local Kenosha newspaper and said this as reported by the newspaper last December:
A boy has been using the girls’ locker room to change at Westosha Central High School. He stares at the young girls while they change and that makes them feel very uncomfortable. Some of the girls began to use the stalls to change. When they would exit, the boy would be exposing his p*nis and rubbing himself with lotion. He claimed to the girls that the lotion was to “prevent chafing.”
The boy changes in the full nude, often exposing his p*nis and testicles. Many girls, some or most which are freshmen, approached the gym teacher, Miranda Hopkins. Hopkins told the girls that the boy “identifies” as a girl, so they have to let him have access.
There is a family locker room in the school that the girls starting using, but Hopkins told the girls they can’t use it and to stop “stirring up drama.” The girls then stopped changing in the locker room and went to gym class without the proper gym clothes on. The school punished them by marking down their grades and handing out “unexcused absences.”
One girl was allegedly assaulted by this boy as she told him to “put [his] d**k away,” and he pushed the girl. He was allegedly suspended for this violence and/or smashing a chromebook in a fit of rage against another student. Some students have told school staff that the boy has threatened to “sh**t up the school”, but they say the teachers laughed it off and told the students not to be “dramatic.”
This boy was also in constant trouble for violent behavior. One father told KCE “I find it unacceptable that a 14-year-old girl is required to change in front of a 16-year-old boy to complete a required class in school… I don’t feel like the district is taking this seriously.”
The Kenosha Unified School District just voted to allow boys in the girls locker rooms and sports and some wondered “what could go wrong?” Apparently this is what could go wrong.
(Read more.)

And it was another MAGA week of Trump's accomplishments. Also from Tierney's Real News:

1. Johnson & Johnson is planning a $55 billion investment to increase manufacturing in the US.

2. The UAE is investing $1.4 TRILLION in US industry and manufacturing after meeting with President Trump.

3. President Trump announced the next generation of American fighter jet. It is going to be called the F-47. It will be built at Boeing in St. Louis.

4. Taiwan signed a deal to invest in the Alaska natural gas pipeline and wants to buy natural gas from Alaska & Trump signed an EO for clean coal. Plus, for the first time since 2017, Alaska is projected to INCREASE its oil production.
5. The governor of Maine caved to President Trump and agreed to not allow men in women's sports after President Trump pulled her federal funding. (Read more.)