Tea at Trianon: Economic Warfare 2.0

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

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Economic Warfare 2.0

From Tierney's Real News:

President Trump is now doing to Communist China what Reagan did to the Bolshevik Communists behind the Soviet Union: defeating them economically. President Trump is now rewarding the countries who came to the table to negotiate a new tariff deal - with a 90 day pause - while doubling down on Communist China - who retaliated. This is called carrot & stick. This is how you break Communist China, ECONOMICALLY, the same way Reagan broke the Soviet Union.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
BESSENT: “What I am certain of is that what China is doing will affect their economy much more than it will ours."
Scott Bessent, President Trump’s Treasury Secretary, has been making the rounds giving interviews. So far, I’ve seen him on Tucker, All-in, NBC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, Kudlow, Axios and more. You name it, he’s talking to them and explaining Trump’s economic plan to revive America. (Read more.)