Treading carefully not to (gasp!) offend anyone over a deeply offensive act.

All too typical of Princes of the Church in this country, alas. Our shepherds are sheep, led by wolves of woke.

—h/t  Damien Thompson.

From serious business journal to spewer of pop psychology.

It wasn’t all that long ago Fortune Magazine was a sober journal of business. Under the the direction of the late Marshall Loeb, it expanded its editorial horizons somewhat to include pieces on topical matters, but  always written in a clear and objective manner.

My how things have changed. Consider this bit of slop, which dribbled onto your Tatler’s screen this morning.

The Roe v. Wade decision is “pushing people into psychological crisis,” mental health expert warns

By Alexa Mikhail, 18 hrs ago

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A pro-choice supporter cries outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2022. Olivier Douliery—AFP via Getty Images

From the article:

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision guaranteeing federal protection of abortion rights, experts warn of dire mental health consequences. Frank C. Worrell, president of the American Psychological Association (APA) calls for mental health providers to support people as they grapple with their reproductive health decisions.

. . .

With abortion access now left up to the states, Dr. Carolyn M. West, professor of clinical psychology at the University of Washington, Tacoma, highlights the mental impact of those who live with an abusive domestic partner who may be forced to stay in contact with them due to being denied access to an abortion.

“You’re going to have to be managing a pregnancy in the midst of a really unhealthy, unsafe intimate partner relationship, and so that will have profound mental health impacts,” West says. “Being forced to carry their pregnancy to term, that can lead to certain higher rates of depression…particularly when you’re struggling to provide basic necessities for yourself and a child.”

This is but a sampling. There is much more in the article for those interested.

Your Tatler isn’t sure which is more lamentable here, the mushy psycho-babble gushing from supposed professionals in a field that enjoyed a certain utility once, or the decline of a formally respected journal that once had decent reporting on its pages. It’s a toss up.

So where does one begin picking through this tripe? In the case of your Tatler, who is congenitally lazy, one chooses not to. Idiocy such as this speaks (or babbles) for itself and to add further commentary might lead to the silly notion there is actual substance in the piece worthy of it.

Now that the Supreme Court has finally and officially overturned Roe v. Wade, perhaps the worst Court decision of our time (“Looking Glass justice,” your Tatler calls it), we may expect to see manifold increases in protests of the sort seen above. TMZ had it right when it predicted (before today’s decision):

ROE VS. WADE Protests At Amy Coney Barrett’s Home BLOOD AND DOLLS SYMBOLS OF WHAT’S TO COME

As the decision over the fate of Roe vs. Wade looms, pro-choice activists descended on the home of conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett Saturday … dressed in blood-soaked clothing and holding dolls.

The group — members of Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights — traveled to the Justice’s home in Falls Church, Virginia. The blood on the crotch area of their clothing symbolizes forced births if Roe is overturned.

To say such atrocious behavior is rotten bad taste is pointless because the overgrown children who perform such stunts have no concept the notion of “taste.” Still, we have to wonder why they engage in them. Has anybody’s view on abortion ever been changed affirmatively by such witless antics?

Nevertheless, your Tatler has only one response to the instigators of such grotesquerie. Bring it on. Give it your all. Show us your worst. Smash things and harass people. Get in their faces and hold up traffic. In short, make it plain as day to the vast majority of decent folk in this country what truly awful people you are.

Naturally, the Democrat/media complex will approve, condone or at least ignore your terrible behavior, but if ordinary citizens should chance to experience your heinous acts up close in the public square, those among them who might narrowly support abortion in limited cases may pause to reconsider and, God willing, gain a fuller understanding the horror of it.

UPDATE: And off we go.

Blue-check ‘Marxist pig’ says ‘violence is a legitimate and appropriate response to oppression’ in response to the Dobbs SCOTUS ruling

The President is given step by step instructions what to do at an utterly routine appearance.

Note the second-person pronouns in all caps to remind him it is he being instructed. Happily, he doesn’t need to be told yet when to go potty. Of course it all Depends.

What is that which in the morning goes upon four wheels, upon two wheels in the afternoon, and in the evening upon four?

Answer:

BLM and Pride flags adorn the front of the putatively Catholic Nativity School in Worcester, Massachusetts.

From the New York Post:

Diocese of Worcester Bishop Robert McManus told the Nativity School of Worcester in a letter this week that flying these flags in front of a Catholic school “sends a mixed, confusing and scandalous message to the public” about the church’s stance on important moral and social issues . . .

Mass and sacraments are no longer permitted on school premises.

The bishop has ordered Nativity School to cease identifying itself as Catholic. The school however is overseen by Jesuits (no surprise there) so of course its headmaster has stated he will ignore the order from his bishop. Your Tatler woders if our Jesuit Pope will wade into the matter, given his favorable views on BLM (“social poets” he calls those violent and corrupt thugs) and Pride groups, to whom he has apologized in the past for . . . well, he’s not sure what, but he is sorry.

Don’t sugarcoat it, Kurt. Tell us what you really think.

From Townhall:

The left can only impose its will when it convinces us to choose to let them do so. They have to make us care. Look at them. They are a gaggle of mutated misfits, neurotic chicks, academic parasites, grievance hustlers, and femmy doofuses who can’t do a push-up. They can force nothing on us. That’s why they attempt to enlist the power of the state to do it for them, but their real power comes from us going along. When you watch some stupid Star Wars spin-off on Disney, you empower them. When you refuse to vote because you are convinced your vote will never be counted – despite huge election reforms in places like Georgia – you help them. When you let yourself think, “Gosh, maybe this androgenous fatty screaming that I am a privileged tool of the patriarchy has a point because s/he/it would never lie to my face,” you let them win.

No.

Taking care to avoid the Slough of Despond.

Loyal Reader(s):

Your Tatler shall be on a journey the coming week. Blogging shall be scant to non-existent. Your indulgence is respectfully asked.

Apologies for the kinky sounding header.

For What it’s Worth reports the annual Gay Pride parade in Aurora, IL has been cancelled. Why, you may ask? Because the woke folk who sponsor the parade decided police, whose presence is required at parades in Aurora, as in most municipalities, would be prohibited from wearing uniforms and carrying their pistols. They declined. No police, no permit, no parade.

Parade organizers issued a statement: “Our position has been misrepresented, and we’re making every effort to keep the parade as scheduled.” Uh-huh. By “misrepresented,” they mean: “we thought those fascists would cave and go along with us. Effing pigs!”

Unfounded rumors, so far.

The estimable Damian Thompson reports rumors are flying Pope Francis is mortally ill with cancer and that his resignation is nigh. Thompson quotes several respected Vatican watchers on this, but also points out there is no evidence whatsoever to support the rumors. Your Tatler is skeptical as well; public nuisances have a tendency not to go away on their own.

No decent person will cheer the news that someone, no matter how disagreeable,  suffers from cancer, but the fact is Pope Francis is a most unpopular man these days and seems to make new enemies daily. There are many who would not shed a tear at his departure. As Thompson writes:

The best kept secret of this pontificate, at least so far as the general public in concerned, is that Jorge Bergoglio is not, and never has been, a nice man. He made so many enemies in Argentina that he hasn’t dared set foot in his native country since being elected pope. He was involved in some jaw-dropping scandals there, most shockingly his attempt to protect his child abuser ally Fr Julio Grassi from justice. He’s lucky that the Vatican press corps is too afraid of him to investigate them properly.

[ . . . ]

Francis has a streak of cruelty in him, and recently he’s done little to hide it. Last year his authoritarian attempt to crush regular celebrations of the traditional Latin Mass offended hundreds of bishops who don’t like that style of worship but dislike the Argentinian pontiff even more. They have quietly ignored the ruling . . .

(Not all have ignored that ruling. One of the Pope’s lapdogs, the Archbishop of Santa Fe, is going all guns blazing to suppress it.)

Were the Pope to leave office, of his volition or God’s, traditionalists will not have much to look forward to from his successor. Francis has lately packed the cardinalate with liberals, some even more so than he, so it’s likely to be more of the same, or worse, whoever is elected.

Thanks to William Tighe.