Tea at Trianon: What Ever Happened to Q?

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

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

What Ever Happened to Q?

From Sharyl's Substack:

Picture a digital bulletin board where faceless strangers swap secrets without names—an anonymous message board like 4chan, where anyone can post ideas, wild or mundane, shielded by a cloak of invisibility.
It’s there, in October 2017, that a figure dubbed “Q” sparked a wildfire called “QAnon.” An anonymous post claimed a shadowy cabal of elite pedophiles was locked in a secret war against then-President Donald Trump. They said Trump would soon unleash “The Storm” of mass arrests:
HRC extradition already in motion effective yesterday with several countries in case of cross border run. Passport approved to be flagged effective 10/30 @ 12:01am. Expect massive riots organized in defiance and others fleeing the US to occur. US M’s will conduct the operation while NG activated. Proof check: Locate a NG member and ask if activated for duty 10/30 across most major cities.
—October 28, 2017 post by an anonymous user with the ID "BQ7V3bcW.”
This was the initial "Q drop" that kicked off the QAnon conspiracy theory, claiming Hillary Clinton’s arrest was imminent, and predicting unrest.
From this obscure beginnings, QAnon surged to mainstream infamy, gripping millions with cryptic posts promising insider truths. Today, its blaze has dulled to embers, yet questions linger: Who was Q? Was it a Trump cheerleader or something else? Did any of its predictions hit the mark? And where do its traces hide today?
Read on for details. (Read more.)