Tea at Trianon: The Panicans were Wrong

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

Saturday, April 18, 2026

The Panicans were Wrong

From Tierney's Real News:

Remember, oil was $120 a barrel under Biden and the DOW never got over 42,000. Now oil is down 35% from record highs under Obama and the DOW is up 20%!
So I’m saying this once and for all: the panicans and RINO doomers were wrong—again.
Six weeks ago, “the experts” swore that Trump’s showdown with Iran would crash the stock market, send oil over $200, and drag us into a permanent war. Instead, look at the results: oil is down around $80 per barrel, the Dow is back at record highs, the Strait of Hormuz is open and safe, and Iran has agreed not to build a nuclear weapon or keep enriched uranium. Not only that, but a ceasefire is holding in Lebanon, and Israel and Lebanon are headed to the White House for talks after 34 years of silence.
Trump didn’t run from the fight; he stared down the Iranian regime, the Axis of Resistance, and the doom‑porn media—and he won. The world is less dangerous, the markets are stronger, and the “forever‑war” narrative that his critics hyped has already collapsed. (Read more.)