Chinese officials told the Trump administration they disregarded their trade commitments under Biden, believing he was too weak to enforce them.
Of course, this is not news to the leaders of the Democratic Party nor the major news media. They moved heaven and earth to persuade the voters otherwise. Not all voters, only Democrats, most of whom were fooled or allowed themselves to be. As long as they were a majority, it didn’t matter if others were not fooled; the news media and celebrity elites would take care of the problem.
Once Democrats began to suspect their president was a non-entity, party leaders knew the show was over, and the sock puppet got the hook.
Since an earlier report in this space about things looking hopeful for Britain, but only in a small way, things have changed. TCW’s Matt Goodwin reports, with regard to Britain’s Nigel Farage and the Reform Party,
We are, in short, witnessing a full-blown political revolution against the establishment. In the latest poll by YouGov, one of the most reliable pollsters, Reform is on 29 per cent, Labour is on 22 per cent, the Tories are languishing on 17 per cent, their lowest share of the vote since the party’s dark days of 2019, while the Liberal Democrats are on 16 per cent.
This not only puts Reform firmly in the lead and well outside the margin of error, but also points to a commanding Reform majority at the next general election
The number one reason, as reported before, Reform is doing so well should be familiar to most Americans, unchecked immigration. In the closing paragraphs of his detailed report, a report that ought to be read in full by all Anglophiles and others too, Goodwin repeats the bold statements above.
Nigel Farage and Reform are now seriously emerging as the main opposition to Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour government, while the political system is undergoing the most significant change since the rise of Labour in the early twentieth century.
A political revolution is now under way, and much like the rise of that embryonic Labour movement it looks likely to transform our politics and country.
Your Tatler has been burned in the past, and the website this report comes from, Facebook, is hardly the last word in credibility–which by no means is to impune the chap reporting it.
All caveats duly given, here we go.
BREAKING: Multiple sources confirm that Pope Leo XIV has privately celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass for years, including within the Vatican, with special permission from Pope Francis.
Reports indicate that his Latin is “fluent,” and photographs show him donning traditional vestments.
Additionally, it has been revealed that he offered the Traditional Latin Mass at the USCCB in the 1990s and again in Rome.
Could this signify a liturgical turning point?
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Or could it signify mere wishful thinking? Your Tatler would love to know the unnamed “multiple sources” cited. Enthusiastic as this blogger is to see Usus Antiquior returned to its proper place in the Mass, he will acknowledge some of his fellow TLMers are, shall we say, not all there.
There is, however, always room for hope, prayer, and optimism. In time, Holy Church’s true language of the Mass shall return to where it belongs. Oremus.
Priestly formation must not be shaped by cultural trends, political correctness, or the spirit of permissiveness. It must be formed in the fire of truth, chastity, self-sacrifice, and Eucharistic love.
—Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost (Now Pope Leo XIV) Excerpt from the Speech: “Formation of Priests in the Truth”,March 12, 2022,Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), Rome,Conference on Priestly Formation
Your Tatler is having second thoughts about Pope Leo XIV, which does not mean he is thrilled by the conclave’s decision; hardly, and the rather catty screed posted yesterday shall remain up, for now.
Extended claws retracted though, our new pope hardly seems the villain, and the general reaction among your Tatler’s colleagues is, although admitedly we have little evidence to go on, Leo XIV is a decent, honorable man.
Regarding that, a friend posted on social media recently the following.
They chose a nonentity, someone who has spent his entire career as an obscure bureaucrat. The broadcasters were stupefied yesterday, no one knew anything about him, and there was a long patch of dead air after the announcement was made. The cardinals are obviously hoping for someone who will keep a low profile and not make much noise. That’s not a bad thing. Neither is his relative youth. He was chosen for the long haul, and for a long haul, you want to pace yourself and keep to a steady course. That’s not a bad thing, either. I think we could have done FAR worse.
Agreed.
An example of Leo’s improved disposition over his predecessor, he has no history of uttering inflammatory anti-Americanisms, unlike his forebear, who issued them with tiresome regularity, which will come as welcome relief to most Catholics everywhere, but especially in the US, of course.
Leo XIV’s reputedly easy-going nature will welcome. One issue of importance to your Tatler and watched closely will be Leo’s attitude toward celebrations and celebrants of Usus Antiquior, that is, the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite; or in short, the Latin Mass or TLM. Pope Francis had a particularly low regard for it bordering on contempt, ordering restrictions that made it nearly impossible for the Latin Mass to be celebrated. If Pope Leo makes it even somewhat easier for TLM, enthusiasts will be most grateful to His Holiness.
The positive signs beginning to emerge from this, let’s face it, fairly unknown pontiff, are hopeful indeed. However, even if they come to naught, Pope Leo XIV deserves our fervent prayers. He has a tough job in front of him, undoing the major damage suffered by Holy Church over the past years. He will need those prayers of ours.
Note: this post was published only a day after Robert Prevost was elected pope. It is sarcastic and wrong. It will remainpostedhoweverto remind this blogger not to be so hasty.
Sizing Him up.
So what is the best thing about our new pope? Without question, his new name, Leo XIV.
And the second best thing? His origin, Cardinal Robert Prevost is from Chicago, and is the first American pope.
And the third? Oh, c’mon, enough; okay, the third best thing about our new pope is . . . er . . . hmm . . . um . . . gee . . . let’s see now . . . Ah, he’s the first pope younger–barely–than your Tatler.
One more, the fourth best thing? Stop this pestering! There is no more. The well’s run dry. Run away and pray for Holy Church.
The power of teaching frightens many people in and outside the Church. They wonder whether freedom of conscience is threatened or whether it is a presumption opposed to freedom of thought. It is not like this. The power that Christ conferred upon Peter and his Successors is, in an absolute sense, a mandate to serve. The power of teaching in the Church involves a commitment to the service of obedience to the faith. The Pope is not an absolute monarch whose thoughts and desires are law. On the contrary: the Pope’s ministry is a guarantee of obedience to Christ and to his Word. He must not proclaim his own ideas, but rather constantly bind himself and the Church to obedience to God’s Word, in the face of every attempt to adapt it or water it down, and every form of opportunism.
The Trump DOJ has launched a federal civil rights investigation into a new Washington law that would jail priests unless they break the Seal of Confession, an excommunicable offense.
As well they should, and this preposterous law quickly overturned.
Here, the law’s supporters reveal their underlying motive, hatred of the Catholic Church.
“Worse, the law appears to single out clergy as not entitled to assert applicable privileges, as compared to other reporting professionals. We take this matter very seriously and look forward to Washington State’s cooperation with our investigation,” Dhillon stated.
The qualification claimed by the bill’s supporters: they kinda-sorta used to be Catholic. An example:
Democrat Governor Bob Ferguson [said] . . . “My uncle was a Jesuit priest for many years, (I’ve) been to Confession myself – and so I’m very familiar with that,”
Wow, you’ve been to confession, sir!? What did you think? Did you go again?
President Trump foretold plan to ax federal funding to PBS and National Public Radio with a sweeping executive order announced Thursday night.
PBS was founded by Congress in 1970 and created out of an assemblage of so-called educational television stations funded by state and local governments, as well donations from well-to-do, left-leaning charities. Its kissin’ cousin, National Public Radio, was created the same year, and in that year, the Holy of Holies of the left-leaning radio news, All Things Considered,first aired. As your Tatler recalls, the putative reason for those two institutions’s founding was to provide a non-biased source of news and to offer quality programming not available on commercial stations.
The joke about non-biased news is, were we ever supposed to believe the three networks’s news programs were somehow canted to the right? Regarding the claim of quality programming, your Tatler will concede that PBS had a lock on it, compared with the mostly wretched stuff aired by CBS, NBC, and ABC. But where did most of that quality programming come from? Answer, Britain. And who comprised most of the viewers of that quality programming? Answer, the upper-middle and upper classes, who hardly needed the government to pay for their entertainment. That is especially true in these satellite and Internet times, when there is a wealth of low-brow, middle-brow, and high-brow entertainment available for the asking. The only hitch is that the viewers must pay for it, not the government. The same holds true for PBS and NPR. Let those who are sure to be screaming their heads off at Villain Trump for taking away their government-paid entertainment: pay for it yourself.
Both mainstream parties, Labour and Conservative, are enervated, worn out wrecks, and have been for some time. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been a viable alternative to fill the void. Recent local elections, however, suggest things may be changing in Britain. Maybe. From the BBC.
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has made big gains in English local elections, cementing it as a prime challenger to Britain’s traditional main parties.
It won 677 of around 1,600 seats contested on Thursday across a clutch of mainly Tory-held councils last contested in 2021.
Reform seized control of eight authorities from the Conservatives, including former strongholds Kent and Staffordshire.
As that clever Greek put it, one swallow does not a summer make. However, there’s certainly cause to be hopeful. With the two moribund major parties as his only competition, Nigel Farage stands at least half a chance of becoming the PM of Britain. The Brits could certainly do worse. And he, “Trump with a pint,” and our president ought to get along famously.
THE TAOS TATLER. 