Liberal PBS News commentator Jonathan Capehart was left aghast at the preliminary election results suggesting that former President Donald Trump is in a strong spot.

“There’s a shift right and then there’s a shift to Trump,” Capehart vented on the program. “I am mystified in some ways simply because we’re talking about a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, convicted-on-34-felony-counts former president.”

The poor dear, go back to your PBS playhouse. The real world is for big boys.

Addendum

On a related note:

Georgetown gives students milk and cookies to help them cope with election

Universities across the country are providing students with de-stressors for election night Tuesday.

Music is the sweet consolation of great labors.

A Monk’s Life, The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice, Director, Hyperion Recording CD68447

Your Tatler has listened to so many recordings in his life he cannot possibly estimate their number. He has also reviewed a good number of them, how many he cannot say. It hardly matters; when it comes to the one you see above, without a doubt, and risking hyperbole–but so what–it is the most beautiful and expertly performed recording he has heard in many, many years.

The title explains its contents and, in addition to the splendid audio (192k.0 kHz when streaming), it comes with well written and informative notes.

Go here to listen to a sampling: https://open.qobuz.com/album/r7tl4hz4zrr5b. See if you don’t agree with this blogger.

From the National Catholic Register:

Bishop Robert Barron Pans ‘Conclave’ Movie: ‘Run Away From It As Fast As You Can’ |

From the article:

Bishop Robert Barron is urging Catholics to skip the new film Conclave — a fictional movie that depicts a papal conclave — saying that it “checks every woke box.”

“If you are interested in a film about the Catholic Church that could have been written by the editorial board of the New York Times, this is your movie,” Barron, the bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, said in a post on X after watching the film himself.

“The editorial board of the New York Times:” Golly, how could it possibly be worse. Read it all.

The 2024 Presidential election is the most depressing one that your Tatler can recall. At this writing it does finally appear the prospect appears favorable for Donald Trump’s victory, a man this blogger has been a fan of since he first came to public attention with his rescuing the restoration of Central Park’s Wollman Skating Rink in 1986. Nevertheless, unlike in the past, a possible Republican victory this election gives no pleasure to Bickerstaff. It looks as if our country has simply gone too far to the left to be saved.

Nearly every major institution has been co-opted and corrupted by the left: government, of course, local, state, and federal, our educational institutions, along with our media and cultural ones. Most depressing, sexuality has been turned upside down, with the adaptation of the absurd and downright preposterous notion  one’s sex is merely a matter of  changeable choice. If a man desires to be a woman, or vice versa, voilà, it is so. If said former man wishes to go even further and have his genitals removed or, similarly, a woman desires a penis, major medical institutions are only too happy to oblige, often at the expense of the rest of us.

It is difficult to see how even the excellent Donald Trump can arrest and reverse the overwhelming decay this country is suffering. Perhaps it can be, however, the only way this blogger can see that happening is through the power of prayer. With God’s help our country can come out of this wretched situation; His love, agape, for his creation has not ceased in the slightest despite the decadency and decay of our times, but His creation has to want to be saved and that can only be accomplished by our loving Him with all our hearts, and with all our souls, and with all our minds.

Can it happen? Yes, but it will take a mighty collective effort of will and prayer in this country to make it happen. Let us pray.

From the New York Post

Read the whole thing.

It will be making its way down here shortly.

On the eve of Election Day Bickerstaff recalls, when he was but a lad, his father telling his children not long after the 1964 election: “They told me if I voted for Goldwater there would be inflation, our cities would go up in flames, and crime would soar. I voted for Goldwater and by God, they were right.”

Has anything changed?

Barry Goldwater, a prophet without honor, not even in his own country.

Read how a woman who wants to be the next President of the United States, conducted an interview with the celebrated Muslim comedian Kareem Rahman. It consisted a couple of her incisive questions.

From THE Post:

Though he was initially told the vice president was going to argue against taking off shoes on airplanes, Rahman, who is Muslim and doesn’t eat pork as part of his faith observance, learned when the two sat down that Harris was instead going to deliver the take that “bacon is a spice.”

And:

The disagreement led to Rahman pausing the interview and asking for Harris to return to the topic of shoeless passengers on planes, prompting the veep to instead talk about how she like[s] anchovies on pizza.

Wow! What an intellect! She could have mopped the floor with President Trump if only  he had accepted one of her many invitations to debate him (not really).

From the excellent music blog, Slipped Disc:

As does this blogger, who will offer prayers for this superb musician. Readers are invited to do the same.

The Democratic nominee’s spokeswoman has made a statement for her, as she had difficulty putting her thoughts in order.

An excerpt:

Trump’s connections to fascism are easily proven. For instance, his second wife was Marla Maples, who was born in the town of Cohutta in Georgia. Cohutta is an anagram of “Taco Hut”, which is a conflation of Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. These are both examples of popular restaurants. It is in restaurants that one often finds sausages. The country most associated with sausages is Germany. And Germany was the home of the Third Reich.

You must read the whole thing.

With thanks to Messrs Tighe and Armstrong.