Tea at Trianon: Danger Close

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

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Danger Close

Demons. From Tierney's Real News:

Did you know that the atheist, satanic & transgender lobbies in Minnesota are so powerful that they have taken over the Minnesota Capitol - even during Christmas & Easter? If you live in Minnesota - and are a person of faith - is this what you hoped for the future of your state and your children?
Governor Walz of Minnesota went to the Minnesota Capitol yesterday to declare March 31, 2025 as the official TRANSGENDER DAY OF VISIBILITY in the state during Lent. (Read more.)

Stealing Wisconsin. From Tierney's Real News:

Here is a summary of the election results in Wisconsin for the past 5 elections. Voter ID was on the ballot in the last election along with the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. The Democrat candidate for the Supreme Court, Susan Crawford, is AGAINST VOTER ID but somehow that measure passed and she won? That alone makes no sense. It’s almost like they flipped the answers.
The elections in Wisconsin are controlled out of Madison (Dane County) and Milwaukee - just as elections in Minnesota are controlled out of CD5 (Ilhan Omar’s district in Minneapolis) and Hennepin County. (Read more.)