Tea at Trianon: Koch Libertarian Snakes

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, June 5, 2025

Koch Libertarian Snakes

From Tierney's Real News:

Right after Elon Musk bashed Trump's OBBB bill and praised the Koch Libertarians - like Rand Paul and Thomas Massie - Elon's Twitter pal, Jack Dorsey, endorsed Paul/Massie for 2028. If you are clueless enough to believe that this wasn't coordinated by the Koch Libertarian snakes to hurt Trump & hurt MAGA - I've got some swamp land to sell you in Florida. This is the same "coordinated" attack plan that the Koch Libertarian snakes used when they launched Gary Johnson in 2016, Justin Amash for 2020 and Ron DeSantis for 2024, that failed. Musk doesn't like Trump's bill because he is a globalist at heart, it takes power away from him, cuts out subsidies for his companies (Tesla, Neuralink & Starlink) and he will lose billions. (Read more.)