Tea at Trianon: "Bus Tape" Hoax

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, February 16, 2026

"Bus Tape" Hoax

From Tierney's Real News:

FLYNN: “Mike Pence and Paul Ryan wanted Trump out. They had a plan for when Trump steps down, they would step in.”
In other words, Pence didn’t just decide to become a traitor on J6. He was a traitor from the very beginning working with Paul Ryan and his pals in the Koch-funded Freedom Caucus.
Why is this important? Because many of the same bizarre elements and people involved in the Guthrie case were also involved in the “bus tape” hoax. CONNECT THE DOTS WITH ME.
In 2018, I suggested - in my first blog - that the “infamous” bus tape that was released on Trump right before the 2016 election could have been engineered in the NBC studios at the Today Show and used to smear and set up Trump - to force him to step out of the race.
If the hoax worked and drove out Trump before the 2016 election in November - it’s obvious that Pence would step up and run for President - instead of Trump - and Speaker Paul Ryan would be his VP - line of succession. (Read more.)