Tea at Trianon: Cities Are Turning Into War Zones

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 30, 2025

Cities Are Turning Into War Zones—And It’s No Accident

From Overton News:

The system has COLLAPSED.
American cities are now lawless wastelands—where criminals roam free and the innocent suffer.
A man and woman were knocked out cold by THUGS in Cincinnati.
A mass shooting just rocked Manhattan in broad daylight.
Bill O’Reilly has a theory why this is allowed to happen.
The justice system isn’t broken by accident. It’s broken ON PURPOSE.
By now, most of us have seen it.
It is the kind of video that makes your stomach turn.
A man and woman were BRUTALLY assaulted in the middle of downtown Cincinnati after a jazz festival by a gang of rabid THUGS.
The man was left motionless on the pavement. The woman’s head hit the concrete with such force she was knocked unconscious.
No one intervened. No police. No help.
Just a growing crowd and more violence.
The footage went viral.
Not just because of brutality, but because it captured something much deeper: the complete and TOTAL unraveling of public safety in American cities.
A sense that the ground has shifted.
This video is a symbol for America’s Mad Max era. (Read more.)