ATLANTA, GA — CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky held a press conference to warn the public about a deadly new “stealth” COVID-19 variant that causes negative test results and causes no symptoms.
“This deadly variant has bypassed our most sophisticated tests by ingeniously becoming harmless to the human body,” said Director Walensky, “It is estimated that eight billion people have caught this variant. We must prevent it from spreading further by closing schools and locking up kindergarten children.”
The excellent veteran blogger Ann Althaus gives us an excerpt from the Times article, which is pay-walled.
[The playwright Charlie] Josephine said the decision to make Joan nonbinary came after studying Joan’s life and realizing that Joan of Arc had been willing to die at the stake rather than stop wearing men’s clothing. This was “not a casual fashion statement,” Josephine said. “It was a deep need for them.” Josephine wanted to depict what it would have been like for “a young person in a female body, who is questioning gender in a very different society than what we live in now,” they said. “My younger self really needed a protagonist like this,” they added…
Althaus adds:
A quote from the Globe’s artistic director: “Everyone’s got an idea of how plays should be done and how historical figures should be treated. All ‘I, Joan’ was doing, [said], was asking, ‘Who is Joan for now?'”
Do the play-makers care about Joan‘s identity — to herself — or are they appropriating her interest in her own identity for their purposes? I see an inherent contradiction.
To put it mildly. The army of woke continues its dreary and depressing march through the western canon. Nothing in its path is safe.
Steven Kruiser on Donald Trump’s speech lastnight in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
What the Democrats and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media are doing is making Trump a living martyr. Their repeated unforced errors — especially the J6 kangaroo court — are fuel for Trump. His oversized personality soaks up their frothing pettiness and turns it into political gold. (italics added)
On September 2nd, the President of the United States gave a presidential, i.e., paid for by the taxpayers, address in which he accused Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans, 71 million of them, of representing “an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” essentially telling all of us we had better chose sides, which your Tatler infers as a warning there is trouble ahead for those who chose wrong.
Here is one of those persons on the wrong side. Listen to what he has to say.
It is well worth reading Lee Smith’s article in the Tablet in its entirety, but in a nutshell it appears the FBI’s purpose raiding Mar-a-Lago was, as rumored, the retrieval of documents proving it and the CIA’s extensive involvement in the so-called RussiaGate conspiracy to remove President Trump from office. Trump seems to have taken them with him when leaving office and if he chose to declassify them, which was certainly his privilege, he could do whatever he wants with them. Knowing Trump, he could do so bigly. We thus may imagine a panic-stricken FBI desperately wanting to get those documents out of his hands.
The corker of Smith’s story though is his highly believable proposition the documents the FBI and CIA, as well the entire Biden administration, are so eager to get hold of may not have been among those confiscated from Mar-a-Lago; that despite received opinion among the left Trump is too stupid to know his right from left, he obviously knew what those imbeciles were up to and took care to remove the incriminating documents elsewhere. Who knows, perhaps he even had multiple copies made to stash in various locales.
If Trump is indicted, as so many Bidenistas are clamoring for, and if he still has the documents, he could then release them which, as Smith states, could well bring down the FBI, the CIA and possibly the entire Biden administration.
We’ll quote directly Smith’s dramatic conclusion to his story.
What is preserving the stability of the United States at present is therefore something like a Mexican standoff. Does Trump actually have the documents? If so, will he put them before the public? Will Garland indict him, and risk finding out? Given the Biden administration’s tendency to instrumentalize the violence of its rhetoric and turn federal bureaucracies loose on its political opponents, it is likely that the standoff will not hold for long.
UPDATE: Breitbart reports among the items seized were 43 file boxes marked “classified.” They turned out to be empty. What might have been in them, we wonder.
The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life called Italy’s notorious Law 194 legalizing abortion “a pillar of society” this weekend, insisting that no one is looking to overturn it.
Interviewed by Italian state television Rai Tre, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia lauded the 1978 law allowing abortion in Italy, a move that critics called a new ‘ground zero of morality.’
‘I believe that at this point the Law 194 is a pillar of our social life,’ the archbishop stated. ‘In my opinion, and I have written as much, I would like to see more emphasis on the part that is hardly spoken of, namely the right to motherhood, to see our country grow, in the face of the drama of a generational imbalance that is quite dramatic.’
“I would exhort to look with trust upon a country that wishes to live in liberty, in development and progress, and I think that the crisis in natality is a problem on which we have unfortunately not reflected and it is already late,” he said.
So a primate of the Holy Catholic Church, the President of the Pontifical Academy for Life no less, says he’s fine with a law permitting abortion in the state that surrounds the Vatican, that he isn’t interested in seeing it overturned. While the Academy for Life is not officially connected with the Vatican, it certainly is cozy with it. So far, not a word from Pope about the matter.
Words fail. That is a rare occurrence for your Tatler.
UPDATE: The oldest dodge of all: ‘The Pontifical Academy for Life’s spokesman said afterward that the word ‘pillar’ had been taken out of context. In other words: “Yes, he said it, but it doesn’t mean what he said.’
Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia, President of Pontifical Academy for Life. Pity he doesn’t wear a soundproof mask. It would do a lot more good than the one he wears here.
Former Washington Field Office Special Agent in Charge Tim Thibault was reportedly escorted out of the Bureau’s headquarters on Friday, amid whistleblower allegations that he showed political bias in his handling of politically sensitive investigations.
The Washington Times reported eyewitness accounts that Mr. Thibault was seen exiting the bureau’s elevator last Friday escorted by two or three ‘headquarters-looking types.’
Whistleblowers alleged that Thibault concealed the partisan nature of evidence from FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland to secure their approval to open an investigation into former President Donald Trump. That investigation culminated in the FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month.
Some of that evidence included, “information from news articles, including a CBS Miami piece titled “Moving Trucks Spotted At Mar-a-Lago.” In other words, if CBS News suggested moving trucks “spotted” (by whom, we wonder) at Mar-a-Lago implicated Trump was removing documents from his home, by golly that was good enough for Trump hater Special Agent Tim Thibault.
Bickerstaff wonders if Messrs Wray and Merrick believe axing this fellow is sufficient to deflect the heat on them and make Mar-a-Lago go away. If the Republicans make a huge stink, perhaps not, but don’t count on it. The media, if they run the story at all, will play it as if the party responsible for the debacle has been caught. Now that he’s been weeded out and transfered to another office, that’s the end of the matter of Mar-a-Lago, that it’s time to move on.
The complaint above was an oft-muttered lament by Bickerstaff’s father, who died decades ago. Things have only gotten worse of course and get worser still.
Consider the video above. An elementary truth about driving cars is one doesn’t drive in the rain with bald tires. One would thing the management of NASCAR would be well aware of that truth. One would be wrong.
Over the past few years, NASCAR has developed kind of a strange habit. It has become increasingly comfortable waiting to throw a caution for dangerously wet conditions, leading to wrecks that could be attributed entirely to the wet surface at Texas Motor Speedway in 2020, Circuit of the Americas in 2021, and, most notably, New Hampshire Motor Speedway in 2021. Despite all this, NASCAR chose to keep a flat-out pack race at Daytona going as rain approached with less than 30 laps in today’s race. When the field hit a damp track, the predictable happened.
Indeed it did, resulting in an awful lot of wrecked cars. Not that long ago, believe it or not, when a racetrack got wet a timeout was called. The drivers would come to a halt and the drivers’s crews would rush to swap the racing slicks on each car for “rain tires,” with grooves carved into them just like civilian tires. Racing would then resume from the exact spot where each car had stopped.
It shouldn’t be a terribly difficult decision to make, calling a timeout in an auto race when it starts to rain. One might say it requires few brains indeed, but few hardly equals none, does it?
THE TAOS TATLER. 