Tea at Trianon: Tangled Web

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

Monday, March 3, 2025

Tangled Web

From Tierney's Real News:

Epstein was a big and beloved Democrat donor. He flew around in jets and owned islands and vast estates and had a monstrous taste for little girls. Epstein was caught for having sex islands and flights filled with minors and really really big names. Epstein pled guilty in 2008 to soliciting sex from a minor but only served 13 months of an 18 month sentence. Even though dozens of witnesses shared their horror stories about Epstein, he skated through the US justice system.
James Patterson, a novelist and neighbor of Epstein in Florida, exposed him in a way that no one had before. Bill Clinton took 26 confirmed trips on Epstein’s plane called the Lolita Express between 2001 and 2003. These are all confirmed. Trump ended up kicking Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago and banished him because he was evil.
Epstein had multiple passports implying he was an agent of several intelligence agencies around the world. He was protected and powerful. He had dirt on everyone. He was running a global blackmail operation and was likely being blackmailed himself. He put wealthy men in situations where they engaged in sex with underage girls (or maybe boys too) and filmed them.
Epstein’s client list was never released and after he was arrested, his guards fell asleep and the cameras glitched when he allegedly hung himself in a maximum security prison. Epstein had just reached out to his lawyers and was allegedly in good spirits and ready to squeal. The New York field office of the FBI was running the scene.
As a result of Epstein's death, all charges against him were dismissed. Instead, his partner in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell, was arrested and indicted in July 2020 and convicted on five sex trafficking-related counts in 2021.”
The SDNY and New York Field Office of the FBI have relentlessly pursued Trump for years and are considered the most corrupt “team” in the nation. They work together and both are based in Manhattan. Comey’s daughter works there. Comey has been a fixer for the Clintons for 25 years. (Read more.)

From Immutable Truth:

Donald Trump was sued on Friday by the Democratic Party over a recent executive order it says violates federal election law by giving him too much power over the independent Federal Election Commission. The lawsuit filed in the Washington, D.C. federal court by three national Democratic committees is the party's first against Trump during the Republican's second White House term. Other defendants include Attorney General Pam Bondi, the election commission and three commissioners. The plaintiffs include the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. I have been exposing the nationwide election fraud RICO enterprise for quite some time. (Read more.)

From Creative Destruction Media:

Here's how it goes:

The European globalists (communists) work for Xi Jinping, just as Joe Biden did. China wants control of the Pacific (and more) and wants to weaken the United States. So to please their CCP masters, the globalist leaders must keep the U.S. tied up in a war in Ukraine. This reduces our weapons stockpiles, wastes our resources, bankrupts us, and strengthens China, while they bide their time and steal our technology. The best result for the CCP would be to involve U.S. forces directly in a war with Russia on Ukrainian soil, even more than the mercenary-led proxy war we have now. Europe is well on its way to communism and totalitarianism, CCP style.

Trump gets it, and is refocusing on the Pacific and China.

Putin's Russia is not a conventional, existential threat to Europe - they cannot even take Donbass in a timely manner. Europe is not on their agenda. Of course, they are a nuclear threat, but that is a threat of last resort. (Read more.)

From Nick's Picks:

Of the many important revelations to come out of Elon Musk’s DOGE, the one that caught my eye more than any other was the information which indicates just how right President Trump was when he first called the legacy media the “fake news.” Not only are they fake in terms of dishonest content, but they are fake in terms of a wholly inauthentic “origin story.”
For many years, the naive among us assumed that the fake news was comprised of people who believed their own lies. We called them deranged and unhinged, and to be fair, many of them were and are. But thanks to DOGE, we now know that even the origin of the fake news was inauthentic. It was paid for by the leftist/globalist deep state, something that only accelerated under the Biden/Harris “administration.”
These media outlets, many of which received funds from USAID, were paid by the deep state to tell lies on their behalf. The accurate term for such “news” is propaganda. Now that Elon Musk has pulled back the curtain, we can see that the “Mighty Oz” of fake news media was built on an economically dysfunctional house of cards that cannot survive in the free marketplace of ideas.
The people at the top echelons of these media outlets always knew this. The recent firings at Fake News CNN, MSDNC, and the Washington Post are a testament to this.
But there is a deeper issue at hand. While people like Jeff Bezos are smart enough to know which way the wind is blowing, many of the true believers at these media outlets remain in a state of shock. For them, “fake news” was not about winning favor with the old regime, but it was a way of life. These people with mid-level salaries and low-level intellects actually believe that the lies were truth. They were, and in many cases remain, trapped in a Huxlean paradigm wherein they have ingested so much mind-numbing SOMA that they find it literally impossible to analyze or even report on the methods and achievements of President Trump objectively. (Read more.)