Tea at Trianon: Grand Plan

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 25, 2025

Grand Plan

From Tierney's Real News:

Russia's number two man even said two months ago that if Trump destroyed Iran's ability to build a nuclear weapon that Russia and China would HELP IRAN REBUILD IT. Who thinks that means Putin and Xi are on our side? Who thinks that makes them the good guys and us the bad guys? WRONG.
People pretend that Russia and Putin is not a threat to America - WRONG. THEY FUND HAMAS AND IRAN. Just like the CCP funds the Muslim Brotherhood and Zelenskyy enables the NAZIs. The propaganda is thick. Putin, Xi & Zelenskyy are all dangerous to the American people!
Add Trump’s plan to take back control of the Panama Canal, unite the Middle East and Israel in the Abraham Accords and end the Muslim Brotherhood’s reign of terror into the fray - and it's world peace!
Pretty cool, huh?
MARK LEVIN: “Like it or not, the Axis of China-Russia-Iran-North Korea has already started WWIII. The Battle of Ukraine is the first battle of WWIII. China's military has been and is being built to wage a military and economic world war against the United States in particular, and the West generally, and Xi will not be satisfied with conquering Taiwan. All of his military spending and diplomatic maneuvering is about far more than Taiwan.” (Read more.)

Meanwhile, Democrats are in decline. From Gregg Jarrett:

The Democratic Party is facing steep voter registration losses nationwide, with new data showing Republicans gaining ground in every state that tracks partisan registration. Breitbart News reports on a New York Timesanalysis of voter registration records, which was compiled by nonpartisan data firm L2, found that more new voters identified as Republicans than Democrats in 2024 — the first time that has happened since 2018.

The shift has been fueled by President Donald Trump’s gains among younger voters, Latinos, and men. The report describes the situation as dire for Democrats, noting that the party’s traditional methods of reversing registration declines no longer appear effective. Party officials and strategists, the Times noted, are increasingly unsure how to recover. (Read more.)