Tea at Trianon: Terminate It!

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, November 10, 2025

Terminate It!

From Tierney's Real News:

People keep telling me that MAGA and the Republicans can’t terminate the Senate filibuster now because we’ll need it later to stop the Democrats from installing Communism. WRONG.
That tells me they don’t understand what they are talking about and are just spewing left-wing talking points! Democrats will terminate it themselves the first chance they get! They’ve done it before!
The ONLY way that MAGA can codify VOTER ID & get rid of cheat-by-mail for Federal elections is to TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER!
The GOP has 53 votes in the Senate & all they need is 51 votes to TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER & pass every single MAGA agenda item RIGHT NOW. Do it! They don’t need 60 votes to terminate the filibuster and open up the Government. They can terminate the 60-vote filibuster threshold on anything they want - with a simple majority of just 51 votes!
This isn’t just about opening up the government! Here’s a list of actions that a majority of Republican Americans want to see accomplished through the nuclear option on the filibuster:
1. Voter ID Laws
2. Restrictions on Mail-In Voting
3. Election Integrity Act
4. Border Wall Funding
5. Immigration Reform
6. Deportation and Enforcement
7. Permanent Tax Cuts
8. Corporate Tax Reductions
9. Deregulation
10. Repeal and Replace Obamacare
11. Medicare and Medicaid Reforms
12. Energy Independence
13. Climate Policy Reversal
14. Federal Judges and Supreme Court Nominees
15. Abortion Restrictions
16. Religious Freedom Laws
17. DOGE Initiatives
18. Agency Consolidation
19. Military Spending Increases
20. Foreign Aid Reform
21. School Choice Expansion
22. Curriculum Control
Listen to Trump explain: https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1986447950328029516
If Republicans in the Senate do not terminate the filibuster immediately, with 51 votes, the Democrats (Communists) will keep the nation shut down until mid-terms.
The MAGA agenda will die, we will lose the Senate & the House, our borders will open wide, and we will lose our country. Trump will be impeached for a 3rd time and the White House will fall to the Communists in 2028.
It’s as simple as that, folks.
The filibuster is just another form of COVID - except it won’t be a two week shutdown to stop the spread - it will be three years and then permanent. Got it? I hope so. (Read more.)