Tea at Trianon: 5 Truths About Immigration

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, July 16, 2025

5 Truths About Immigration

From John Hawkins at Culturcidal:

The issue with both legal and illegal immigration in America is that everyone can see the problems with it, but we’re not supposed to talk about them. Why? Because we don’t want liberals to get mad. We don’t want immigrants to get mad. Because it’s hard to fix the system. Because, as we saw with COVID, many of America’s elite think the American people are too stupid to understand nuanced arguments that go beyond, “Immigration GOOD!”
Well, immigration is GOOD, but only if it’s done right. If it’s done wrong, it can destroy your entire society, and quite frankly, as you hear about riots in France, grooming gangs in Britain, and sexual assaults in Germany and Sweden, we have to consider that may be exactly the direction they’re going in. We need to go in a different direction, and that starts by getting back to reality. This is reality.
1) America has a fundamental right to decide what foreigners are and are not allowed to cross the border into our country: I’m a big fan of Joe Rogan, but he recently said something incredibly dumb....(Read more.)