Tea at Trianon: Globalism is a Crime Scene

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, April 12, 2026

Globalism is a Crime Scene

From Welcome to Absurdistan:

First of all, you wittering morons, MAGA is not Trump or the glitterati. MAGA grew out of the heartland, the flyover country, the people who make the world of centimillionaires like Owens, Carlson, Kelly, not to mention all the idiots on stipends at the New York Times and Atlantic and in D.C., possible. They saw what the rules-based order had created right on top of them, and they were the ones who built the ideas upon which Trump operates. They saw the results of mass migration of the violent and primitive, the insistence on bankrupting green requirements, the flooding of drugs, the destruction of the family, the stripping away of access to resources, the metric ton of regulatory horror - and said NO. That rejection is now happening in every other country in the world. Americans, the real ones, not the glitterati, led this, but everywhere, MAGA is enjoined. Just this week, for instance, the Irish literally shut down the country. Why? Remigration now, buddy.
It didn’t work. The pallet-loads of verbiage, the suffocating nonsense that supported the Third Way, the endlessly cited rules-based order, the flood of intellectuals from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, the Aspen Institute, Chatham House, the Atlantic Council? Failed failed failed failed failed. They all need to fold their tents and slink away in the night. (Read more.)