Tea at Trianon: Make All of America Muslim?

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

Sunday, November 23, 2025

Make All of America Muslim?

From Tierney's Real News:

Today, Trump and Salman announced that Saudi Arabia will purchase as many as 48 F-35 fighter jets to help counter the Jihadi, Hamas & Iranian threat in the region. At $110 million each, this means the total deal could be roughly $5 BILLION. Saudi Arabia also agreed to invest $1 TRILLION in US industry - to build plants and create thousands of new jobs.
Instead of asking about the deals and investment in America, ABC News (Washington Post CIA) decided to bring up the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi - to try to embarrass the Prince in the Oval Office.
Jamal Khashoggi, a Jihadi and Saudi journalist and former Washington Post columnist critical of Prince Salman and the reformed Saudi government, was killed on October 2, 2018, inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey by a 15-member squad of Saudi operatives.
Note that the Las Vegas massacre occurred one year earlier in October 2017. Let’s connect some dots. (Read more.)