Tea at Trianon: Kash Patel Stuns Joe Rogan

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, June 11, 2025

Kash Patel Stuns Joe Rogan

From Overton:

“Hostages, we can talk about that forever too,” he began.
“Counterterrorism was a big portfolio, I ran it for the White House and National Security Council in the first Trump administration.”
Then came the number:
“We brought home—people don’t know this—President Trump in his first term, brought home and rescued over 50 hostages and detainees from around the world.”
He added, “That’s more than every president before him combined.”
Rogan, clearly taken aback, responded with a simple “Wow.”
Patel pointed out that few people even know these missions happened. Most weren’t headline news.
The stories of families reunited after high-risk rescues in Africa and the Middle East barely registered in the press.
“Did you hear about the successes of reuniting families with lost loved ones from Africa or the Middle East?” he asked.
He then described how Trump personally greenlit fearless operations, sending in elite forces to carry out rescues in hostile territories.
“These operations, that the president was courageous enough to green light to go into places like Afghanistan and do these hostage rescue ops, and use Seal Team Six and Delta,” he said. (Read more.)