Tea at Trianon: Dictator Judge Sanctioned and Other News

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

Monday, August 4, 2025

Dictator Judge Sanctioned and Other News

From Tierney's Real News:

Hamas thinks it can starve and torture Jewish hostages — like Evyatar David — for nearly two years…and record him digging his own grave and the suckers will reward Hamas terrorists with their own state. The problem isn't only Hamas - it’s other Islamo-Communist terrorist groups - and the Deep State, cartels and countries who fund them. It's also the brainwashed world allowing and empowering them. This is what intentional starvation (by Hamas) in Gaza looks like. (Read more.)

Trump delivered but the Dems want to cancel his accomplishments. From Amuse on X:

The decision by the US Court of International Trade to strike down President Trump’s use of tariffs as a tool of negotiation is not only deeply flawed in its legal reasoning, it is a case study in judicial myopia. That is a strong charge, and I do not level it lightly. But when a court disregards explicit statutory delegation, ignores Congress’s own votes to preserve executive flexibility, and, in doing so, threatens the gains of successful international negotiations, one is left wondering what, exactly, the judiciary imagines its role to be.
We begin with what is uncontested: the Constitution grants Congress the power to regulate foreign commerce. Yet it is equally well established that Congress may delegate aspects of that power to the executive, especially in domains that involve foreign policy, national security, and economic diplomacy. Tariffs, in the Trump administration’s hands, were not a protectionist reflex, but a tool of negotiation, calibrated to pressure allies and rivals into fairer trade arrangements.
The Court claimed that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) was an insufficient basis for the President’s actions, despite the statute’s sweeping language. Congress gave the executive authority to deal with “unusual and extraordinary threats” to the US economy, and did so with the knowledge that the modern global economy is interconnected, adversarial, and subject to persistent manipulation by state and non-state actors alike. Trump’s identification of the trade deficit and industrial hollowing as national security threats is not merely plausible, it is prescient.
What makes the Court’s ruling especially troubling is its disregard for the practical outcomes of the policy it nullified. In the wake of Trump’s so-called Liberation Day tariffs, the United States successfully concluded trade negotiations with Mexico, Canada, China, Japan, and the European Union. These were not symbolic overtures, they were quantifiable wins. China committed to $200 billion in purchases of US goods. The EU pledged $750 billion in energy contracts and $600 billion in industrial investments. The USMCA replaced NAFTA with a more balanced, labor-protective framework. If this is not the proper fruit of diplomatic leverage, what is? (Read more.)