THE TAOS TATLER.

They’ll stop only when stopped.

The Wokes’s campaign to ruin childhood scored a short-lived conquest last week when Crayola, the crayon maker whose customer base is mainly kids aged two to ten, decided it would be just ducky to use the creature seen above in a PR campaign on social media. According to TheBlaze, Crayola

. . . shared images of a transgender model on its social media accounts. Crayola promoted Julian Gavino AKA The Disabled Hippie, on the crayon company’s Facebook and Instagram pages to celebrate ‘Disability Pride Month.’

‘Julian Gavino, (he/him) a fashion model, writer, and activist who identifies as a transgender man,’ Crayola wrote. ‘He was born with a progressive neurological condition. Julian is passionate about advocating for his respective communities. As someone who grew up not seeing anyone who looked like him in the media, Julian is determined to normalize disabled and trans bodies in the fashion world.’

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Crayola posted three images of Gavino, including one where he is wearing a leopard-print jumpsuit and another with a lime green jacket with a chain bra as well as latex pants and high-heeled boots.

With all the good will in the world for the physically disabled, your correspondent Bickerstaff wonders how someone high up in the Hallmark Company, the sole owner of the Crayola, which in addition to greeting cards is a major producer of movies stressing family values, okayed this project. Did anyone involved in it stop and ask, even fleetingly, is it appropriate to pitch to those in their single digits, “(he/him) a fashion model, writer, and activist who identifies as a transgender man” who’s goal is to “normalize trans bodies?”

The answer is likely yes. Probably even more than a few at the company questioned the wisdom of the project, but kept it to themselves lest they face the wrath and retribution from pagan clerics in Hallmark’s Diversity and Inclusion Department (or whatever it’s called), departments that are now de rigueur at all US corporations.

Fear is the engine of the Wokes. Even though they consist only a tiny segment of our society, because they have most media, social and traditional, in the palms of their hands they usually get their way. They have the power to wreak holy hell on dissenters and cow them into submission.

Happily, though, this particular scheme of the Wokes seems to have fizzled, for they failed, as they usually do, to consider the opinions of a group that vastly outnumbers them, the public at large. Reactions to Crayola’s campaign were swift and furious, no doubt because it was clearly aimed at children. A flood of negative comments rained in, many calling for boycotts of Crayola, and the commenters did not mince words. Via TheBlaze, a sampling follows.

Stop! Children need to be protected from this! It is sad when I want to go against the school supply suggestions and NOT buy Crayola. Get off the woke bus. Go woke, go broke.”

Kids don’t need to be taught about sexual preference or changing genders while trying to color.

I guess I’ll be switching the brand of crayons I buy for my children.

Stick to crayons.

And this one must have stung.

Our kids don’t need to be pushed through media and this is messed up. I support LGBTQ but I don’t support pushing our children in these ways. JUST LET THEM BE KIDS!

It now appears all of Crayola’s ill-conceived social media postings have been pulled. No doubt its creators are licking their wounds, but be assured, they’ll be back. For it is the goal of the left and has been for years to force the young into adolescence quicky as possible and to keep them there long as possible, which explains the behavior of so many in the colleges, media and, increasingly, corporations.

We should remember though, the good and decent still outnumber by far those emotionally stunted and superannuated teens. In time, the former will become sufficiently fed up with the destructive behavior of the latter and put a stop to it. It won’t be pretty, possibly violent, but will happen.

Also, did he throw his plate on the floor?

How long will those horrid chuckling reporters keep the pathetic charade going?

—Thanks to FWIW.

So just what then was their purpose?

From the Epoch Times:

‘I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection. And I think we overplayed the vaccines. And it made people then worry that it’s not going to protect against severe disease and hospitalization,’ Birx, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator under former President Donald Trump, said during an appearance on Fox News.

Not that long ago however, Dr. Birx said of the  Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines,

‘This is one of the most highly-effective vaccines we have in our infectious disease arsenal. And so that’s why I’m very enthusiastic about the vaccine.’

Yet she now says,

‘So, that’s why I’m saying, even if you’re vaccinated and boosted if you’re unvaccinated, right now, the key is testing and Paxlovid.’

Indeed, and wouldn’t that have  been the appropriate counsel two-and-a-half years ago, obviating lockdowns and closings of so many of our country’s businesses, particularly small ones, many never to re-open? Or the closings of our schools, thus our children losing two formative years, never to be made up, of their educations? Or the utterly ridiculous mask mandates, despite evidence appearing early on they offered little or no protection from COVID, just as we are now learning about the vaccines?

And for what? Basically a flu epidemic, potent, but hardly the worst the world has ever seen, e.g., the Spanish flu or, more recently, the Asian flu of the late ’60s (your correspondent when in his early teens caught that one–as did at least a third of his classmates. He has never had flu since, by the way. Anyone care to hazard a guess why that might be?).

Your humble servant Bickerstaff is disinclined to believe in conspiracy theories, but it does seem striking in an election year the severest lockdowns were those in states controlled by Democrats. This then provided the pretext for ignoring or eliminating safeguards to prevent election fraud, e.g., vote harvesting, mail-in ballots, multiple voting etc.

Also striking is concomitantly, an ageing political hack, a zero to begin with, now well into the negative numbers and obviously going gentle into that good night, could nevertheless reap 81 million votes, thus claiming the presidency.

Just coincidences? Who knows, but it is unnerving there isn’t a single Democrat in our present administration even remotely competent yet there are any number of them hugely proficient at making it easier to cheat at elections. It’s as if they don’t know how or want to do anything else.

To his credit, when the mistake was pointed out to him, the poster decided to leave it be so people might get a laugh from it.

It’s not just rich New Yorkers who find Greenwich so attractive.

Comes word your Tatler’s hometown is seeing a sharp increase in crime these days and it’s not just the bored and spoiled scions of billionaire hedge funders smashing mailboxes or drunk driving daddy’s Lamborghini at 100 mph on North Street before barreling into their country club’s pool.

No, this is more serious. Miscreants from NYC have discovered there’s gold (figuratively–usually) to be had in the chic and pricey stores on Greenwich Avenue. With easy-on, easy-off access to Interstate 95, the pickins are choice and usually easy, In this latest heist though, a good Samaritan came to the rescue of a woman being robbed outside the Apple store, a favorite of the criminal class who visit Greenwich’s shopping district, and tried hard to nab the perp.

Nonetheless, the robber got away, but there is sufficient evidence to assume he’ll be busted eventually and no doubt released shortly afterward on his own recognizance (Connecticut’s courts are as lenient as New York’s these days). The local paper has declined to reveal the suspect’s hue so identifying him should be much less burdensome.

With events like these occuring more and more often in Greenwich, a conundrum is facing many of Greenwich’s newer residents who virtually all, despite their great wealth, range politically from liberal to radical left. Despite their being exemplars of capitalism, Wall Street bankers and the like, they are the same people who, when living in the City enthusiastically supported the reforms [sic] of its last mayor, Bill de Blasio, possibly the dumbest politician in America. This cretin defunded the police, eliminated bail, decriminalized most quality-of-life offenses and other idiocies. When the predicted results of these changes materialized with astonishing quickness, returning New York to the David Dinkins ’80s and ’90s,

the millionaire and billionaire leftists with children began to flee what they had wrought and Greenwich was their number-one destination. Sadly though, those radical chic-ers  brought their political baggage with them and Greenwich, which used to be one the most solidly Republican strongholds in the nation, now has a majority of Democrat voters, who already are pushing the same tired progressive agenda so dear to them.

Your Tatler (who also fled New York in the de Blasio years, but chose to go west instead), wonders how the arriviste monied commies of Greenwich will deal with its rising crime rate. Will they at last get wise and perhaps reconsider the wisdom of soiling their own nest? Or will they pretend as before none of it is happening until this idyllic suburb has declined enough to compel them seeking out fresh territories on which to spread their ruination. Your Tatler’s money is on the latter.

This would certainly be the test case.

From the Daily Caller:

Ocasio-Cortez, Members Of ‘The Squad’ Appear To Have Been Arrested In Front Of Supreme Court.

Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other members of the far-left group “the squad” were escorted away from the Supreme Court Tuesday afternoon during a protest.

In several videos posted on Twitter, Ocasio-Cortez can be seen with her hands behind her back being held by police officers who appear to be escorting her away from a protest in front of the Supreme Court. 

Of course, your Tatler being of charity, ten years hard labor would certainly be satisfactory as well.

Perhaps her deepest and most moving yet.

Despite the odds and the obstacles,

We push to move forward,

That we are guided by what we see,

That can be, unburdened by what has been.

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Big news! Your Tatler’s been outdone. The good souls at the The Federalist now offer downloadable inspirational posters containing pearls of prose by the Bardess of Embassy Row.

Damian Thompson expresses a popular sentiment, though perhaps a tad more exuberantly than your Tatler would.

An accident of birth does not automatically grant the right to publicly voice ill-formed, unasked for opinions with the expectation they be regarded the least bit seriously. It’s a pity this highborn larrikin couldn’t have followed the example of his older brother, who seems to have accepted his birthright and the responsibilities thereto: ribbon cuttings, charitable events, state dinners, diplomatic greetings and the like (things your Tatler would sooner chew glass than have to engage in) with grace and gratitude, while also producing two heirs with his lovely wife.

The leader of a failed state hosts the leader of a failing state.

One might think the Jewish state nearby could easily muster up real musicians to play our national anthem. Indeed, compare and contrast.

Addendum: the clown show above brings to mind another occasion our national anthem was played overseas: shortly after 9/11 at the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace by the band of the Coldstream Guards. This was at the behest of Queen Elizabeth and a graceful and touching gesture by a true ally. At that same time Palestinians were dancing in the streets with joy at our loss.

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From the Telegraph:

Irrespective this silly little man’s needless slamming of our country’s two most stalwart allies, it takes a special kind of brazenness for someone excommunicated latae sententiae, owing to his enthusiastic support of abortion, to express empathy with Catholics past. He also displays ignorance of history, as the Palestinians have time after time rejected opportunities having their own state, preferring instead maintaining their state of war with Israel. This writer has no knowledge of England acting similarly with Ireland.