THE TAOS TATLER.

Take your time, no hurry, no worry.

The video above showing illegals crossing our border, openly and without the slightest worry of being caught, only emphasizes the urgency of this story.

Goliad CountyJudge Mike Bennett is still fighting for freedom in Texas six generations after his ancestor helped defeat the Mexican Army and win independence at the Battle of San Jacinto.

Over 186 years later, Texas law enforcement officers are battling transnational criminal cartels emboldened by the Mexican government who have operational control of the Texas-Mexico border and in communities throughout Texas and the U.S. With record levels of crime and human and drug trafficking coming into Goliad County since January 2020, Bennett was among the first to declare an invasion in Texas, on July 5, 2022.

Over 186 years later, Texas law enforcement officers are battling transnational criminal cartels emboldened by the Mexican government who have operational control of the Texas-Mexico border and in communities throughout Texas and the U.S. With record levels of crime and human and drug trafficking coming into Goliad County since January 2020, Bennett was among the first to declare an invasion in Texas, on July 5, 2022.

Since then, judges and commissioners representing 33 counties have declared an invasion or expressed support for Texas declaring one. The Republican Party of Texas has declared an invasion and the Texas Public Policy Foundation also expressed support for doing so.

And this, perhaps worst of all:

‘We are losing our country. We are losing Texas. Then what do you have left? Nothing. You’re living in New York.’

Bickerstaff is not a Constitutional scholar, but he believes as things stand now regarding illegals’ Constitutional rights, they enjoy partial rights and their children, if born here, have full rights, both entitled to due process. This must change and if the Republicans take both houses this election, they should start going about accomplishing it as quick as they can.

Nonetheless, most of the required changes may have to wait until 2025 to be effected as until then, our current president’s decision makers will order him to veto them. The goal then should be, beginning in 2025 and a new presidency, to strip illegal immigrants of all Constitutional rights, as well their descendents, so that law enforcement, whenever it encounters those here illegally may, with sufficient evidence of their trespass, swiftly whisk them back whence came, with the forfeiture of all their property, real and personal.

In other words, illegals should have to live with the constant fear (utterly lacking now) they may be picked up at at any moment, day or night, and be unceremoniously hauled back their homelands, penniless.

Drastic action such as the above would likely require a Constitutional amendment, which of course will take some time, though measures can be taken in the meanwhile to at least slow down the invasion. However, since the obvious ploy of Democrats letting illegals pour over our borders is to make voters out of them and establish, once and for all, a one-party state in this country, we must stop them.

Those of you old as the Taos Tatler, and even older, may or may not recognize the woman you see above, but well may remember her from half-a-century ago, under the moniker of Sacheen Littlefeather. She was Marlon Brando’s proxy at the 1973 Academy Awards. Brando, who had just won the Oscar for best performance in The Godfather, refused it and instead of doing so himself, for some reason had Ms Littlefeather, who claimed to be an Apache, refuse it for him.

It was a different world back then, long before “wokeness” and even political correctness, and many in the ceremony were not at all amused by Brando’s stunt and loudly booed Littlefeather. Brando himself was ridiculed for it and his reputation sullied, never really to be restored for the rest of his career. He died in 2004.

This past spring Sacheen Littlefeather died at the age of 75 and just recently her sister, Rosalind Cruz, revealed her as an out and out fraud, that her claims to be an Apache and her name being Sacheen Littlefeather were cut from whole cloth. It also seems she lied just about every other detail in her life. From Lifesite news:

“It is a fraud,” Littlefeather’s sister, Rosalind Cruz, told Keeler, for an opinion piece in The San Francisco Chronicler. “It’s disgusting to the heritage of the tribal people. And it’s just … insulting to my parents.”

Littlefeather’s other sister, Trudy Orlandi, also confirmed to Keeler that Littlefeather was making false claims when she said she was White Mountain Apache and Yaqui through her father.

“It’s a lie,” Orlandi said. “My father was who he was. His family came from Mexico. And my dad was born in Oxnard [California].”

Littlefeather’s sisters said that the activist thought identifying as Native American was more “prestigious” than acknowledging her Hispanic heritage.

“I mean, you’re not gonna be a Mexican American princess,” said Orlandi. “You’re gonna be an American Indian princess. It was more prestigious to be an American Indian than it was to be Hispanic in her mind.”

More lies:

According to Keeler, both sisters also rejected claims made by Littlefeather throughout her life that she grew up in an abusive home with a violent, alcoholic father.

“My father’s father, George, he was the alcoholic,” Orlandi told Keeler. “My dad never drank. My dad never smoked. And you know, she also blasted him and said my father was mentally ill. My father was not mentally ill.”

These words below from the sister of Littlefeather [sic], your Tatler hopes will be required reading by all persons claiming to be “woke” when being deprogrammed.

‘Indigenous identity is more complicated than that,’ she wrote. ‘A U.S. citizen of distant French descent does not get to claim French citizenship. And it would be absurd for that person to wear a beret on stage at the Oscars and speak on behalf of the nation of France. The White Mountain Apache is a very specific tribe with very specific rules of membership.’

‘Falsely claiming its heritage, using it to become a spokesperson and relying on dangerous tropes about an abusive Indian father to bolster that fable did real damage,’ she added.

There are increasingly hopeful signs “woke” and PC are on the ropes, that a majority of Americans have become fed up with small minority of white upper-middle class college graduates, indoctrinated by their Marxist professors to feel guilty about their privilege. They have been attacking and infiltrating every single institution in this county, ruining them. We will know much more of course after the elections whether or not this revolt not only is genuine, but has legs as well. It is long overdue. As blogger Sasha Stone put its so succinctly,

The American people, by now, have had enough. They’re sick of cowards who cannot stand up to the activists who control them. They’re not just sick of them in Washington. They’re sick of them everywhere. They’re sick of being told what they can and can’t say, what they can and can’t think.

Should that be the case, Deo volente, this writer is hopeful we may see fewer people lying about who and what they are by assuming racial identities different from their own (almost always white), people like Sacheen Littlefeather, Rachel Dolez, Elizabeth Warren and a slew of others. To a number they do these things because there is gain, financial, social or political and often all three. One blessed day, this country may once again heed Thomas Jefferson’s words in the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Should that glorious day ever arrive, there will be no basis at all for fraudulent behavior the likes of those mentioned above engaged in.

Thanks to WJT.

Prelates speak with forked tongues.

From Pilar.

Pope Francis has encouraged French bishops to show special care for Catholics “disoriented” by his decision to severely restrict the celebration of Traditional Latin Masses.

‘Pope Francis … invites you to the greatest solicitude and paternity for those people ⁠— especially young people, priests, and laity ⁠— who are disoriented by the motu proprio Traditionis custodes, which you will be working to implement,’ said the message released Nov. 3 and signed by Cardinal Parolin. ‘They are often wounded sheep who need to be accompanied, listened to, and given time.’

“Given time?” Time for what? Time, after certain “encouragements,” to come round to the point of view the mass going back to the beginnings of the Holy Catholic Church and obtaining its present form 1500 years ago, is not valid–even though it is?

“Wounds” of pious observant Catholics of the Church’s eldest daughter, who insist on the celebration of the Latin mass despite condemnation, ridicule and severe restrictions coming from the Pontiff himself?

More from Francis’s consigliere, Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

‘More than ever you are called to address the wounds of the people of God. The victims of these abuses, in the first place, but also all the scandalized, disappointed, and tested people, in particular your priests whose beautiful ministry is dishonored and made even more difficult, and who need your closeness more than ever,’ he wrote.

May God have mercy on these hypocrites. May God have mercy on His Holy Church.

With thanks to GWR.

 De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine;
Domine, exaudi vocem meam. (No problem there.)

The header is same as that used by a reader in an email sent to your Tatler, in which he brought the item below to his attention. Unable to improve upon it, your Tatler chose to reuse it.

His Eminence Cardinal Dolan discussing the state of Christ’s Church with heavyweight New York Post columnist Cindy Adams.

“Religion is going down. St. Patrick’s used to be jammed every service. Spectacular. Now it’s not always full. Less crowded because once it was the center of New York tourism. I don’t know where this world is going.”

Those sorrowful words were uttered to Ms Adams as the Cardinal was engaged in the annual ritual seen below.

With thanks to GWR.

Dance of (political) death?

Bickerstaff is puzzled. Michigan Governor Whitmer is in serious danger being tossed out on her ear by the voters next Tuesday, this despite having led in the polls for many months. We thus can empathize her feelings of desperation and desperate times call for desperate measures. Still, what possibly could be the message the addled woman is trying to convey in the terpsichorean mysteries above?

But this proved just too irresistable.

Didn’t this guy used to be taken seriously once?

Appearing on MSNBC (where else?), he said:

A historian 50 years from now, if historians are allowed to write in this country and if there are still free publishing houses and a free press, which I’m not certain of, but if that is true, a historian will say, what was at stake tonight and this week was the fact whether we will be a democracy in the future, whether our children will be arrested and conceivably killed.

Further proof the man has lost it:

1868, Lincoln didn’t say, biggest issue is land grant colleges, although he felt strongly, he said the country can’t survive half-slave or half-free.

Your Tatler has the vague notion President Lincoln was three years dead in 1868 and not saying much of anything, but then again, he isn’t a “Presidential Historian.”

A posting yesterday expressed in no uncertain terms Bickerstaff’s annoyance with Catholic leadership expending time and energy to break bread (as it were) with Muslims. Wasted effort, Bickerstaff wrote, as Catholicism and Islam are so different from one another it’s impossible for the two faiths to engage in ecumenism, regardless what tiresome Catholic prelates from the ’60s and ’70s might insist.

HOWEVER (and here’s where Bickerstaff serves himself a small, but tasty dish of corvus corax): a piece in PJ Media reminded this writer that though the Catholic and Muslim religions are vastly different from one another, it does not mean there are not moral matters over which we may march in lockstep agreement.

In its unique prose, PJ Media reports thus:

While the Democrats were attacking white Christians for believing women are women and men are not, they never thought the Muslim community might have a say in all this. They do.

We are less than a week before the midterms, and the Democrats are in panic mode. They didn’t learn from Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s victory last November — don’t mess with people’s kids. And they didn’t see themselves possibly losing Michigan.

And then there’s this:

No doubt there are many other topical matters where Catholics and Muslims can, and should, embrace. We’re on the same side, after all.

The people responsible for this want amnesty now pic.twitter.com/JYbYFpCFu0

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 2, 2022

We must not let them get away with it.

Bickerstaff posted earlier on his and millions of other people’s outrage over the heavy-handed, and sadistic manner in which the Biden Administration and its auxiliary hacks handled the Coronavirus lockdowns. Recently, The Atlantic, once a venerated and respected journal, now degenerated into a cheesy propaganda sheet of the left, published a piece urging Americans of all political stripes to forgive and forget the outrages foisted upon them by the bureaucratic Apollyon and its assistants.

John Nolte, writing for Breibart, has some thoughts on the Atlantic piece. He has distilled it to the following.

We didn’t know then what we know now. When we closed your schools, masked your kids, fired you, fined you, LOL’d at your death, bankrupted your small business, arrested your preacher, killed your Grandma by pouring infection into her nursing home, and then made sure she died alone; we honestly believed we were doing the right thing!

Nolte then goes on to explain the Atlantic’s real motive in publishing this offensive tripe.

Democrats are about to get wiped out in large part by suburban mothers in blue states and cities where the COVID tyranny and human rights abuses were the worst. The Atlantic’s request for an amnesty was a direct, election-eve appeal to these suburban voters to forgive, forget, and vote Democrat. It doesn’t get any more cynical or dishonest than that, but that’s what the Atlantic was aiming for.

Without apologizing or even admitting they did anything wrong, without promising never to do it again, without any contrition or remorse or consequences, these monsters are requesting amnesty.

More proof arrogance breeds stupidity like rats breed plague.

We should actually thank the Atlantic for publishing this horrendous piece, Nolte writes, because it has brought the issue to the fore again, just before Election Day and reminding voters what these terrible people put us through. It goes without saying Nolte’s piece is a must read, all of it.

Your Tatler, in his earlier piece, included a heartbreaking video of a very young child being forced to put a mask on, bringing him to tears. If you can bear it, watch the video above, which if anything is even more heartbreaking–and do remember the responsible people and party on Election Day.

This should stir things up.

The race for governor in New Mexico, mostly ignored outside the state (as so much is concerning New Mexico), took a dramatic turn two days ago when Donald Trump unexpectedly endorsed Mark Ronchetti, who is running against incumbent Michelle Lujan Grisham, whose only qualifications seem to be she’s a Democrat and the scion of a political dynasty.

Despite her undistinguished record, with only the occasional two-bit scandal to add a little fun to the campaign, Lujan Grisham has been regarded more or less as a shoe-in. So likely has her re-election been considered, Democrat party leaders recently decided that trotting out President Biden in Albuquerque today to sputter some mangled some words in her favor, could do little or no harm to the campaign.

Donald Trump’s getting involved changes everything. Paul Ronchetti, an able candidate, nonetheless made a foolish error early on when deciding to keep the former president at “arms length” from his campaign. He must have believed mainstream media’s constant iterations a Trump endorsement is a sea anchor that drags campaigns under. Evidence lately has proved the fallacy of that belief.

Ronchetti has issues to run on. Though most people in this country seem unaware of it, New Mexico’s border, like those of Texas and Arizona, is also wide open, with illegals and fentanyl pouring into our state daily. Crime is also on the rise here, just like other states. Lujan Grisham has not distinguished herself in these matters and seems ethically confused at times.

Trump’s endorsement might just encourage still uncommitted voters to come down for Ronchetti, who has been campaigning vigorously and well. Also helping will be Republican heavyweights, Governors Youngkin, DeSantis and Ducey, of Virginia, Florida and Arizona respectively, all of whom will be coming here to campaign for Ronchetti.