Tea at Trianon: U.S Median Income: $90K. Canadian? $60K.

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

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

U.S Median Income: $90K. Canadian? $60K.

From Welcome to Absurdistan:

Canadians tug their forelocks and intone: Carney will fixit. No, idiots, he won’t. He broke us in 2008. He’s behind the ten bankrupting years of the stinking Trudeau clown. He broke the Bank of England, he drove Britain into the disaster it is now. He is the Undertaker of Prosperity. He is extracting our wealth and shoveling it to his investors. Andy Haldane, the Bank of England’s former chief economist, and Andy Burnham’s chief adviser, now advises both men. On what? How to get out of the catastrophic bet they made on Net Zero, ESG and DEI.
Carney was point man on carbon capture/climate mitigation. He inveigled half of Europe and Asia into his fund. He has to make his investors whole. He needs a climate deal - he needs those taxes, he needs those (failed) green energy pension investments, he needs the $20 billion in climate mitigation funding for the only infrastructure project he has approved.
Like his best friend, Andy Burnham and North Sea Oil, the British and Canadian taxpayers are paying for their mistakes. Andy Burnham’s first order of business was to open Britain’s North Sea oil. The immediate benefit was to the funds who are heavily invested in climate mitigation. Like Canada’s pipeline, the only people who will profit are Carney’s investors. The British and Canadian taxpayers will make them whole. I’d put money on Carney placing carbon costs on the Keystone. A lot of money. (Read more.)