An astonishing story in the New York Post reports a whistleblower with the Secret Service has revealed agents assigned to Donald Trump for the July 24th rally at which he was shot, were “specifically told by headquarters in Washington not to request any additional security for the outdoor rally.” Moreover, the service repeatedly turned down offers by local police to provide drone service, which would have exposed Trump’s attempted assassin in a trice.
The Secret Service’s actions can only be described as willful neglect. Did the order orignate from someone high up in the Biden administration? We can only speculate, but while it may be over the top believing there are people in the Biden administration who would like to see Trump assassinated, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to believe they would not be overly saddended if he were.
Nor does it seem out of bounds believing, were Vice President Harris presiding at the ribbon cutting ceremony of a transgender counseling center for adolescents, there would be Secret Service agents at the event as far as the eye can see. And it also doesn’t seem out of bounds believing someone in this hate-filled administration would object to increasing the likelihood of someone bumping off Donald Trump.
Your Tatler tries to avoid providing links to social media TikTok, as it is a Chinese enterprise. Regular readers of this blog are well aware of our antipathy toward them and the corrupt, oppressive government they collude with.
That apologia being cheerfully ignored for the nonce, do watch what is comedy gold: Vice President Kamala Harris explaining collective bargaining to her adoring fans.
It is remarkable this life-long public servant [sic] has no knowledge of such a basic concept of modern labor negotiating. Your Tatler looks forward next to our possible future president tackling the subjects of mediation, binding arbitration and contracts.
The lovely Island of Nantucket, the “Gray Lady,” was a whaling port in the 19th-Century, slowly evolving after the whaling had ended into a quiet, low-keyed resort, attracting the sort of people Cleveland Amory ably and urbanely described in his classic volume, The Proper Bostonians, referring to an elite known as Boston Brahmins. There were also a few habitués from old New York families, permitted on the island if they promised to behave and not talk too much about money. This demographic continued into the late eighties-early nineties, when the island underwent another transformation, becoming more like Martha’s Vineyard, where many consider a billion dollars chump change and put up the kind of huge, tasteless houses one might expect of them.
Decades ago Bickerstaff ferried across Nantucket Sound to escape the hurly-burly of New York. During his stay he did what many visitors do and stopped by the well-known and charming Murray’s Toggery Shop. There he bought a signature item, a pair of “Nantucket Reds,” which not only looked good but, to be honest, were only worn by certain people in the know, lending them a certain cachet.
That all changed with the publication of a ghastly book by a ghastlier person: The Preppy Handbook by Lisa “Bunny” Bernbach, who greatly popularized Reds, sending sales soaring and undoubtedly providing the Murray family with a much tidier income.
Regardless of their huge popularization, Bickerstaff continued wearing his Reds at dressy and not so dressy events, until they finally wore out. He never considered replacing them, especially after jumping ship to Taos. That is, until last week, when he shrugged his shoulders, muttered “what the hell,” and ordered a new pair of Reds from Murray’s.
They arrived soon and the Tatler was delighted with them, as they looked identical to his old ones from long ago. One thing he was curious to know was, were these lovely Reds still made on-island, as his original pair were. Alas, they were not only not made on-island, these essential New England artifacts are now made in China.
Bickerstaff can understand if, owing to their popularity, and no doubt having difficulty in these times finding skilled needle workers, and the like, especially among young people wanting to learn a trade, the Murrays had to go off-island. But in China, where the factories use forced labor, prisoners of war, and even children to man their sweatshops? In addition, there’s the god-awful Chinese government to consider, which supports some of the worst people on earth, and some of America’s worst enemies.
Hey Murrays, (they still own the company), why, in your search for cheap labor did you not consider other countries in the Far East, such as Bangladesh, India, Timor Leste, Kazakhstan, Nepal and others, where democracy and human rights are respected, and labor is affordable? Why patronize such a cruel and easily bought dictatorship as China?
Your Tatler doubts he will ever wear his beautiful Nantucket Reds, there is too much of a corrupt stench emanating from them. He will also do his best to spread the word on the sad, selling-out by the Murray family. You think they would know better. For shame.
ADDENDUM: after criticising Murray’s Toggery Shop in an email, your Tatler received this reply from a representative:
As you probably realize, American made products have a higher price point and we here at Murray’s strive to provide options for all of our customers, some of whom may want to save some money.
Hope this helps!
Best Regards,
Kate Murray’s Toggery Shop
So you can buy American if you’re willing to pay a substantial premium, separate and unequal, one could say. Fair enough we suppose, but there’s no explanation why preppies on a budget must buy Chinese.
It’s safe to say that other than the validity of the sacraments and church teachings, there is little or nothing that your Tatler is in agreement with Pope Francis. Until now. In an excellent piece by Christopher J. Scalia of the National Review, he writes on the sorry state of reading in this country, that the percentage of those who read literature and poetry regularly has been sharply declining the last several years.
Scalia, when confessing his own decline in book reading, which Bickerstaff alas shares, attributes the decline, correctly, Bickerstaff thinks, to increased reading on the Internet; that there is more and more decent reading found on it and that takes away from our more traditional reading.
Scalia has a surprising ally, Pope Francis. In a Papal letter released on August 4th, His Holiness writes,
Often during periods of boredom on holiday, in the heat and quiet of some deserted neighbourhood, finding a good book to read can provide an oasis that keeps us from other choices that are less wholesome. Likewise, in moments of weariness, anger, disappointment or failure, when prayer itself does not help us find inner serenity, a good book can help us weather the storm until we find peace of mind.
Quite so, and His Holiness presents many other good arguments for reading good literature, making it worthwhile to read the whole Papal letter.
So salve, your Holiness. Bickerstaff takes back all the mean things he has said about you–today, anyway.
The Most Rev. and the Rt Hon. the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury GCVO and the amazing technicolordreamcoat.
Long ago a piano teacher of Bickerstaff’s went on a tirade during a lesson about institutions like the poor old C of E, “apologizing for being Christian.” Those four words sum up nicely what is happening with many of the protestant churches, both here and abroad. With each loosening or ignoring of their doctrines, whatever they may be, instead of drawing more worshippers through their doorways, precisely the opposite is happening: their present congregants are, as Samuel Goldwyn would say, staying away in droves. Some of them go in search of something more substantial in church, others are choosing to stay home on Sundays, it’s just too much bother.
To a lesser but still significant extent, a similar occurrence is taking place in the Holy Catholic Church. Because of the dumbed-down ritual, chatty extemporizing by priests, god-awful music, and other waterings down of the mass, many Catholics have left the Church; attendance is down precipitously from years ago. It doesn’t seem likely to Bickerstaff most of those deserters have joined protestant parishes, they probably still consider themselves Catholic even if they no longer go to mass. However, empty pews are empty pews, it makes no difference if those who once sat in them claim to be Catholic, they won’t be counted.
The solution to the emptying of churches, and this applies to the Worship Centers® of England as well, is not minimizing ritual and glossing over unpleasant topics like sin, it’s quite the opposite, but most Church leadership will never admit it.
The Holy Catholic Church will survive, even with vastly lower attendance figures. Still, this Catholic prays our churches will make efforts to rid themselves of the silliness that has infused itself in so many of them. Benedict XVI was making real progress toward that end, but it abruptly ended with his resignation. Pope Francis in many ways is Benedict’s antithesis and we do not know what his eventual successor will bring to the papacy. Many of the potential candidates however do not look promising. The Church of England? It doesn’t look good at all for the institution that once knew glory. Churches throughout England have closed their doors, especially in neighborhoods where Islam has supplanted Christianity. It could well be someday the only still-open churches in England will be found in well-endowed institutions of higher learning, and in Canterbury. In the United States the situation for the Episcopal Church is certainly less dire than that of the Church of England, but the trend is not good. Church attendance is steadily going downward and in time, the Episcopal Church, like the C of E, will experience an existential crisis. Shed a tear for Bickerstaff’s former church.
Some uppity Muslim “migrants” in Russia may not even be alive by the time you read this. Would that thugs like these in the US at least be subjected to the quickest possible due process and swiftly deported, instead of being warmly welcomed by Kamala, Tim, and the rest of their fellow commie haters of America, i.e., the Democratic [sic] party.
As-salamu alaykum it’s our first day in Moscow, we’ll f*ck your women and steal your money.
New York Post: Crowd leaves joint Biden-Harris event early after VP hands off lectern to lame-duck prez.
(Idle thoughts from an idle fellow, taking the form of some random questions.)
Although it’s hardly a mystery to Bickerstaff why anyone should decline to listen to the incoherent utterances of a none-to-bright-to-begin-with old man, now in the throes of dementia. The genuine puzzle is what anyone expected to hear from the president’s usurper; her sparkling repartee? Her intellectual prowess, so deep she’s ever-probing and reconsidering her political stances (i.e., sticking her finger in the air)? Her infectious sense of humor, punctuated with a delightful mélange of con brio cackling and mellifluous laughter? Something else, perhaps?
Did this dreadful harriden so quickly run out words she had to leave it to Joe Biden to finish the job?
What do you suppose was on Joe’s TelePrompter?
What was the complement of Secret Service officers at this event compared with the assignment at the other former president’s speech, the one at which he was shot?
And finally, Kamala Harris was Attorney General of both the City of San Francisco and the State of California. How on earth did this halfwit manage to pass the California Bar Exam? Is it that easy? If not, how many times did she have to take it?
Planned Parenthood has quietly transformed itself from an organization terminating pregnancies to one terminating the ability to become pregnant at all. The organization accomplishes this by exploiting confused, unhappy adolescent girls who have yet to reach their majority, that is, they are too young to vote, buy a drink, or sign a contract, and persuading them that undergoing the life-changing bodily mutilations they peddle, usually irreversible, will result in their becoming “males” [sic], alleviating their mental suffering and attaining the happiness they seek. Often these monstrous procedures are performed on the young charges without the knowledge of their parents.
Anyone who refuses to admit the hideous immorality of these actions, done on a massive basis nationwide, is every bit as guilty as the heinous organization itself. In short, they are Democrats.
Even if Donald Trump is elected president, which sadly seems increasingly unlikely, he’ll be dealing with a pernicious force that will work tirelessly to crush him and his initiatives. Orwell called it “IngSoc,” Newspeak for “English socialism. Bickerstaff prefers a more direct name for it, “The Blob,” which will not only smother all of Trump’s attempts to dismantle or emasculate the administrative state in the US, but similarly abroad. Nepotism will play a vital part.
Consider:
From: James Linen <linen@mac.com> Date: August 4, 2024 at 1:14:39 AM EDT To: Jamie Linen <linen@mac.com> Subject:Must be a coincidence
…So Trump is the danger to democracy??
One Big Happy Family —
*YES, THE GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN USED TO WORK FOR GEORGE SOROS.*
*YES, CALIF GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM IS NANCY PELOSI’S NEPHEW
* YES, ADAM SHIFF’S SISTER IS MARRIED TO ONE OF GEORGE SOROS’ SONS.
* YES, JOHN KERRY’S DAUGHTER IS MARRIED TO A MULLAH’S SON IN IRAN.
* YES, HILLARY’S DAUGHTER CHELSEA IS MARRIED TO GEORGE SOROS’ NEPHEW.
* YES, ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IAN CAMERON IS MARRIED TO SUSAN RICE, OBAMA’S FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER.
* YES, CBS PRESIDENT DAVID RHODES IS THE BROTHER OF BEN RHODES, OBAMA’S DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS.
* YES, ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT CLAIRE SHIPMAN IS MARRIED TO JAY CARNEY, FORMER OBAMA WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY.
* YES, ABC NEWS AND UNIVISION REPORTER MATTHEW JAFFE IS MARRIED TO KATIE HOGAN, OBAMA’S FORMER DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY
* YES, ABC PRESIDENT BEN SHERWOOD IS THE BROTHER OF ELIZABETH SHERWOOD, OBAMA’S FORMER SPECIAL ADVISER.
* YES, CNN VP VIRGINIA MOSELEY IS MARRIED TO TOM NIDES, HILLARY CLINTON’S FORMER DEPUTY SECRETARY.
THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL A “STACKED DECK”. IF YOU HAD A HUNCH THE NEWS MEDIA WAS SOMEWHAT RIGGED AND YOU COULDN’T PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT, THIS MIGHT HELP YOU SOLVE THE PUZZLE.
Now you know why no one is investigated. They all have their hands in the cookie jar! You might remember James Comey who investigated the Clinton email scandal and the Clinton Foundation, and made the final decision to not recommend prosecution by the DOJ.
It turns out that the Clinton Foundation was audited by the law firm DLA Piper. One of the executives there was in charge of the Clinton Foundation audit.
Who was it? Peter Comey, James Comey’s brother. Peter Comey held an executive position with the Washington law firm that did the audit of the Clinton foundation in 2015. Peter Comey was officially DLA Piper “Senior Director of Real Estate Operations for the Americas,” in 2015 when the Clinton Foundation scandals first broke and Hillary was preparing her Presidential campaign. Not only was DLA Piper, the firm where Comey’s brother worked involved in the audit of the Clinton Foundation, but according to the foundation’s donor records, DLA Piper has given between $50 – 100k to the Foundation
It gets even more cozy. DLA Piper executive Douglas Emhoff is taking an extended leave of absence from the firm. Who is Douglas Emhoff? He is the husband of KAMALA HARRIS! Just a coincidence? You can’t make this stuff up!
And it only gets worse. This “Family Tree” will make your head spin. THE SWAMP IS DEEP!!
Dominion (voting machine provider) serves 40% of the US market. It is in 30 states – – The state of Texas rejected the machines.
– Admiral Peter Neffenger is on Biden’s transition team.
– Neffenger was the President of the board of Smartmatic
– Smartmatic (another voting machine supplier) entered into an agreement with Dominion in 2009 UK
– Smartmatic counted votes in Venezuela
– Smartmatic is connected to Philippine voter fraud
– Smartmatic is run by Lord Mark Malloch Brown who works for George Soros (he and Brown are life-long friends)
– Brown chairs the Boards of a number of non-profit boards including the Open Society Foundation.
– Brown chairs the Centre for Global Development.
– Open society of course is owned by George Soros
– Smartmatic partnered with DLA Piper Global
– Douglas C. Emhoff works at DLA Piper Global
– Douglass C. Emhoff is Kamala Harris’s husband
– Guess who owns Dominion? – -Blum Capital Partners, L.P.
– Guess who is on the board for the company? — Richard Blum.
– Richard C. Blum is Dianne Feinstein’s husband.
– Nancy Pelosi’s husband is also a major investor
– An aide to Nancy Pelosi, Nadeam Elshami, was hired by Dominion Voting Systems
And it goes on…..
– Dominion Voting Systems is listed on the Clinton Foundation website.
– Dominion Voting is listed as a $25,000 -$50,000 donor to the Clinton Foundation in 2014 by The Washington Post
– Georgia Governor Kemp used Dominion Voting after Texas and Florida rejected them
– Dominion has a lobbyist named Jared Thomas
– Jared Thomas was Governor Brian Kemp’s chief of staff and press secretary from 2012 to 2015
You must remember the Feinstein-Kavanaugh-Soros connections to understand this next information:
– Debra Katz (Christine Ford’s lawyer) worked for George-Soros at the Open Society Foundation.
– Debra Katz (Christine Ford’s lawyer) also worked at Project on Government Oversight (POGO).
– POGO is funded by Soros’s Open Society Foundation.
– POGO is the co-signer of the letter Diane Feinstein presented against Kavanaugh’s nomination.
– Kamala Harris did not prosecute OneWest Bank for their fraud when she had the authority – Soros owned OneWest Bank.
– Now you know why a woman who placed 7th in her own State when running for President is now VP!
i. Gr-r-r—there go, my heart’s abhorrence! Water your damned flower-pots, do! If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, God’s blood, would not mine kill you! What? your myrtle-bush wants trimming? Oh, that rose has prior claims— Needs its leaden vase filled brimming? Hell dry you up with its flames!
ii. At the meal we sit together: Salve tibi! I must hear Wise talk of the kind of weather Sort of season, time of year: Not a plenteous cork-crop: scarcely Dare we hope oak-galls, I doubt: What’s the Latin name for “parsley”? What’s the Greek name for Swine’s Snout?
iii. Phew! We’ll have our platter burnished, Laid with care on our own shelf! With a fire-new spoon we’re furnished, And a goblet for ourself, Rinsed like something sacrificial Ere ’tis fit to touch our chaps— Marked with L. for our initial! (He-he! There his lily snaps!)
iv. Saint, forsooth! While brown Dolores Squats outside the Convent bank, With Sanchicha, telling stories, Steeping tresses in the tank, Blue-black, lustrous, thick like horsehairs —Can’t I see his dead eye glow Bright as ’twere a Barbary corsair’s? That is, if he’d let it show.
v. When he finishes refection, Knife and fork across he lays Never, to my recollection, As do I, in Jesu’s praise. I, the Trinity illustrate, Drinking watered orange-pulp; In three sips the Arian frustrate; While he drains his at one gulp!
vi. Oh, those melons! If he’s able We’re to have a feast; so nice! One goes to the Abbot’s table, All of us get each a slice. How go on your flowers? None double? Not one fruit-sort can you spy? Strange!—And I, too, at such trouble, Keep ’em close-nipped on the sly!
vii. There’s a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails. If I trip him just a-dying, Sure of Heaven as sure can be, Spin him round and send him flying Off to Hell a Manichee?
viii. Or, my scrofulous French novel, On grey paper with blunt type! Simply glance at it, you grovel Hand and foot in Belial’s gripe. If I double down its pages At the woeful sixteenth print, When he gathers his greengages, Ope a sieve and slip it in’t?
ix. Or, the Devil!—one might venture Pledge one’s soul yet slily leave Such a flaw in the indenture As he’d miss till, past retrieve, Blasted lay that rose-acacia We’re so proud of! Hy, Zy, Hine . . . St, there’s Vespers! Plena gratiâ Ave, Virgo! Gr-r-r—you swine!
THE TAOS TATLER. 