Tea at Trianon: Some Monsters Never Die

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 23, 2025

Some Monsters Never Die

From AND Magazine:

Witness Christopher Steele, author of the infamous “dossier” that launched the whole mad Russiagate hoax and started us on the path to what would ultimately prove to be the first attempted coup in American history.
Steele is a former British intelligence officer. He was hired by Fusion GPS, a research firm, to produce a dossier connecting Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin. Fusion GPS was working for the law firm representing Hillary Clinton’s political campaign. The cost of all this was borne by Hillary’s campaign and by the Democratic National Committee.
Steele produced a garbage report filled with lies and innuendo. That dossier was then effectively injected into the American law enforcement and intelligence communities, where anti-Trump partisans ignored its obvious lack of credibility and used it to launch an investigation of Donald Trump, smear him with false accusations, and produce junk intelligence “assessments”. All of this is well established by this point, and Mr. Steele’s reputation has been destroyed.
One would think Steele would be living incognito somewhere, keeping his head down and hoping he is not named as a conspirator in a plot to overturn the republic. One would be wrong. (Read more.)

From Overton:

TSUNAMI. Trump just crossed the Rubicon—and there’s NO going back. Inside the Oval Office, with cameras rolling, he accused Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton of orchestrating the Russia Hoax. Then he said it flat-out: Obama committed TREASON. But it’s what he revealed next that could blow the lid off the Deep State:
“And we have ALL of the documents....and from what Tulsi told me, she’s got THOUSANDS of additional documents coming.” (Read more.)