When a mommy century and a daddy century hate each other very very much...

Nancy Pelosi is still House Speaker.  Naturally all the Democrats who said they should get a new speaker voted for her because they were so serious.

□ [“Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Is Finally Figuring Out He Can’t Appease Antifa Rioters"]
“The who: violent antifa and anarchists.   Why?  This is the hardest question of all to answer.  Why would a group of largely white, young and some middle age men destroy the livelihood of others who are struggling to get by?"

They were doing that a month ago and he didn't mind.  Two months ago, three months, four, five, six, seven...  What's changed?  He didn't say a word, much less lift a finger, to stop destroying livelihoods in all that time.  And he gets away with it.

Working on the "History project," I've been going through the history of France.  Not looking at detail, I'm not remotely far enough into the project to do that, but I did run across the French Revolution and had to wonder how many of them were executed within a few years of overthrowing the King.

I looked it up but still haven't found much.  Of course I haven't tried that hard.  I found a few names that lived much longer that expected.  Of course Robespierre was executed two years later, having established "The sentiment that led me to call for the abolition of the death penalty is the same that today forces me to demand that it be applied to the tyrant of my country."  If it's alright to execute the leader when you're in charge, they can do it to you too.

The same thing happened to Philippe Égalité, Louis XVI's cousin, who voted for execution.  A year later, his son was accused of treason and being related to your son was all that was needed to get one's head chopped off.  Funny, his son would grow up to be King of France.  Briefly, but still...

The French Revolution has always been seen as a follow-up to the American Revolution but there have always been noticeable differences.  The US didn't execute people for disagreement being one obvious difference.  Then there was the fact that we didn't need or want any kind of king or dictator.  George Washington could have gotten away with that but he didn't want it either.

France obviously had a lot more history to build this up than the US did but it's always seemed like a more overt leftism than anything else, no doubt why the left is still into that.  They like executing people who have some relation to someone else and don't see anything that could go wrong with that.  Everyone else just has to suffer from their wishes, they wouldn't have it any other way.

Just a minor note but France also shows how that continues on over generations.  They overthrew the king, then the real tyranny got started and lasted for years until they finally went with a military dictator who wasn't even from France.  Then the real war got started and lasted even longer.  By the time France was beaten, they tried again with a king but it ended before long.

I'm a little iffy on the details and a lot lazy to look them up, there were the 1830 and 1848 revolutions.  I think the king lasted through the first one but fled to England for the second.  Napoleon's nephew had always wanted to become dictator and had failed before - also fleeing to England - but now he came back and got to join the new democratic government.  In a few years, he became dictator and although he stayed there for a long time, ending by giving Germany a goal to unify which had its own consequences a few decades later.

And that's how the 20th Century was born.  It's still being repeated.

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