Republicans should criminalize child drag shows for two reasons: 1) It’s child sexual abuse. And 2) It will force Democrats to defend them.
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) June 4, 2022
Heinous behavior begets lost elections, (but don’t tell the Democrats).
A splendid thesis, the tweet above. It begs to be developed into a full-blown essay, though your Tatler sees a possible flaw with reason number two. Since today’s Democrats refuse to acknowledge the notions of decency, morals or taste, they cannot be expected to defend themselves for their lack of them.
Which actually is just ducky. Democrats’s inability to feel shame, plus the vast social cocoons in which they confine themselves with their own kind, means they will continue advocating and engaging in depravities like child drag shows all the way up to election day. If the polls are any indicator of their fate that day, perhaps wiser Democrats, assuming there are any remaining, might do some self-examination the day after, but that seems doubtful to this writer.
The Catholic News Agency reports Pope Francis made significant appointments recently to the vast Vatican bureaucracy: among many others, Cardinal Blase Cupich as a member of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and Cardinal Kevin Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family, and Life.
Both these cardinals have expressed enthusiastic support for Francis’s motu proprio, Traditionis custodes, which basically tears up Benedict XVI’s earlier encyclical, Summorum pontificum. The latter considerably loosened restrictions on usus antiquior, the traditional Latin mass, celebrated, albeit with additions and subtractions over the years, but essentially the same, for 1500 years.
Over 50 years ago Pope Paul VI, at the behest and with the assistance of revisionist Cardinal Archbishop Bugnini and others, chopped up and made mincemeat of the old mass, though by taking snippets from it here and there and inserting them into the new rite claimed it was essentially the same as the ancient rite of old. It was hardly that; the innovators were simply telling lies.
It should be noted there were no demands from the faithful or most clergy for the desecration, rather it was done by executive fiat. Though Benedict did some tinkering with Novus Ordo to make it more palatable, as well correct egregious errors, it is still a travesty compared with the old rite, though your Tatler will admit, grudgingly, it does “gets the job done” and attending an NO mass fulfills one’s obligation.
The traditional Latin mass after Benedict’s encyclical was making slow, but steady progress returning to Catholic churches worldwide, but Francis, if you read his motu proprio, makes it clear he not only despises TLM, but those attending and taking part in it. He is hell-bent on crushing it. The recent appointments to the cardinalate that share Francis’s revulsion to TLM, indicate he is serious about snuffing it out.
Francis will not succeed; there are too many priests and laymen who love the old Latin mass and will jump through all the many additional hoops now required of them. In cases where that proves impossible, it will be celebrated regardless. The best Francis may expect is TLM, like Catholic masses in England and Ireland long ago, will be driven underground (the return of priest holes?), further dividing our deeply troubled Holy Church.
Stumbled across this montage from the doomed Biden ‘88 campaign and I’m crying at the McLaughlin Group reactions at the end. pic.twitter.com/A9etqn8J4H
Your Tatler’s colleague at For What it’s Worth takes a trip down Memory Lane, posting a tweet of a young, vigorous Joe Biden splendidly lying with command and authority. Today, while most his limited faculties have been recalled by their maker, his preternatural gift for prevaricating remains, though even that has diminished to the point his lies are only believed by himself–and mainstream media, of course.
Still, since lies are likely, along with ice cream cones, among the President’s few remaining pleasures, it’s best we not call this shell of a man on account for them; it’s not as if we can stop him, anyway.
UPDATE: Our president’s engaging in a bit of his favorite activity is actually called out for it in today’s Washington Post. Understandable: believing untruths day in, day out can be terribly fatiguing.
A FRIEND COMMENTS: “There is no elected official running the White House, or the United States, right now. It’s deeply troubling that more people aren’t freaking out about this. We all know it’s true.”
The mysterious phenomenon of guns firing by themselves.
Victoria Taft, writing at PJ Media, reports on a terrifying new trend reported by mainstream media lately, injuries and killings committed by cognizant self-firing guns. She offers up a plethora of injuries caused by them recently in Portland, Oregon.
[P]olice report that ten guns shot ten people over a 24-hour period of time starting Friday night, Memorial Day weekend. No guns have been arrested.
She then gives details on each of the guns-on-people shootings, of which your Tatler, not desiring to frighten his readers, will provide but two.
05/27/2022, 5:57 a.m. An employee retrieving a scrap metal dumpster discovered a gun inside being held by a man, and a disturbance resulted in the gun firing itself. The gun is still on the lam.
05/27/2022 6:03 a.m. A man was found shot to death in a house by a gun that fired itself. No gun has yet been arrested for the crime.
Of course, what Taft is lampooning is the policy of gun-hating major media to assign blame not on the perpetrators of shootings, rather the weapons they use, although they more or less limit blameworthy implements to guns. All of this of course is to rally public support behind additional gun control measures, irrespective of all previous attempts proving utterly ineffective.
The media and Democrats’s (pardon the redundancy) ultimate aim, no surprise, is banning all private ownership of guns. While in the past, their tactics have garnered limited support restricting gun ownership, poles lately indicate the strategy is falling flat, that a majority of those polled prefer beefed up police forces and prosecutors and judges taking a tough stance on criminals rather than further restricting gun ownership.
It must be noted though, poll results on this matter swing widely, with stricter gun control enjoying greater popularity in the aftermath of mass shootings. That is why Democrats and media pile on with frenzied joy in support of it directly following the carnage. The hope is in the heat of the moment legislation further restricting or even banning guns can be rushed through before things cool down. Pretty-boy Pierre Trudeau is doing just that in Canada.
Ultimately, though, in the United States we have the Second Amendment protecting citizens’s rights to bear arms. Previous thinking on the left, which had been gaining traction for some time, that the plainly written Second Amendment doesn’t really mean what it says, has been discredited by the courts. Completely banning gun ownership or even overly restricting it requires a constitutional amendment passing by a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress, or a national convention of the states passing same by a three-quarters vote. In short, it’s not going to happen unless the commies take over.
Meanwhile, those nasty anthropomorphic guns will keep shooting people.
The United Nations says everything is swell with the Uyghurs. Who are we to doubt it?
It was said during the Clinton administration that Bill Clinton was such a habitual liar he would lie even if he had nothing to gain from it; he did it just for fun.. As lamentable as that might be, it doesn’t compare in duplicity with that of the Human Rights Commissioner of the god-awful United Nations, Michelle Bachelet, who recently heaped praise on China for its “tremendous achievements” in human rights by dismantling the Uyghur concentration camps in East Turkistan. This despite compelling evidence to the contrary.
It takes a special kind of malice to tell lies like that. Unless Bachelet is even brain-deader than Joe Biden, she is sure to possess at least a few grams of intelligence somwhere, if not in her head then in the nether regions, thus is cognizant both of the utter untruth of her gushings and worse, by giving China and President Xi a clean bill of health on the matter, condemning those poor souls trapped in the hell-on-earth encampments to continued misery and certain death. The parallels here to the propaganda spewed out eight decades ago by the Nazis is frightening and prove the Big Lie is alive and well.
The only ameliorating factor of this dismal event is, it is the impotent United Nations pushing out the lies, thus has garnered little attention. Even the UN-adoring New York Times’s story on this propaganda effort reflects a noteworthy skepticism, a tone no doubt adopted lest it besmirch their sterling reputation for objectivity to do otherwise, however preferred.
UPDATE: Here’s an item that should bestow credibility at last on the UN.
With the leaking of the Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson, which apparently overturns Roe v. Wade and its arbitrary and preposterous Looking-Glass logic–decision first, argument afterward–abortion advocates have become positively unhinged. This however is only the latest development in a movement whose initial attitude on the subject was the superficially reasonable: abortion should be an option only to save the life of the mother, descending later to the Clintonian: safe, legal and rare and finally devolving to advocates screaming: we don’t need any damn reason at all to abort, to term and beyond.
This extreme attitude as been around for some time, as witness the repeated proclamation to her charges by the Rev’d [sic] Katharine Hancock Ragsdale, President of the mercifully defunct Episcopal Divinity School.
Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Let me hear you say it: abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Abortion is . . . ad nauseum.
The charming admonition was delivered way back in 2007, so extremism has been with us for some time. What has changed is the degree of vehemence and rage of abortion advocates, to the point now where it seems for many, if not most of them, to be the overriding concern of their sad empty lives.
This vehemence and rage, especially the rage, has puzzled your correspondent for years, until now. Reading for an upcoming symposium, your Tatler came across a passage from a superb essay by physician, scientist and educator, Leon R. Kass. Published over 20 years ago in First Things, the title being L’Chaim and its Limits: Why Not Immortality?, it provides a possible explanation for the extraordinary anger of pro-abortionists.
Biological considerations aside, simply to covet a prolonged life span for ourselves is both a sign and a cause of our failure to open ourselves to procreation and to any higher purpose. It is probably no accident that it is a generation whose intelligentsia proclaim the death of God and the meaninglessness of life that embarks on life’s indefinite prolongation and that seeks to cure the emptiness of life by extending it forever(Emphasis added). For the desire to prolong youthfulness is not only a childish desire to eat one’s life and keep it; it is also an expression of a childish and narcissistic wish incompatible with devotion to posterity. It seeks an endless present, isolated from anything truly eternal, and severed from any true continuity with past and future. It is in principle hostile to children, because children, those who come after, are those who will take one’s place; they are life’s answer to mortality, and their presence in one’s house is a constant reminder that one no longer belongs to the frontier generation. One cannot pursue agelessness for oneself and remain faithful to the spirit and meaning of perpetuation.
If Kass’s cogent argument holds true, then the reason for these angry, destructive and childish baby haters’ behavior (see photo above) could be their rejection of God and the afterlife. Manifest in them, as Kass writes, is “not only a childish desire to eat one’s life and keep it; it is also an expression of a childish and narcissistic wish incompatible with devotion to posterity.” Those childish desires are found not only in young indoctrinated college students, but also in superannuated children, amplifying as age and mortality encroach. Thus we have the doddering Nancy Pelosi, whose views on abortion have become increasingly strident as death becomes an ever-closer and unwelcome neighbor.
The desire to live forever (what a ghastly prospect!) causes these twisted souls to regard new life, children in and out of the womb, as evil competitors that must be destroyed, lest they grow up (most of them, anyway) and render their haters irrelevant or worse.
Texas police lieutenant says cops were reluctant to engage gunman because “they could’ve been shot.”
A Texas Department of Public Safety official said responding officers were cautious as they entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas because “they could’ve been shot.”
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One girl inside the room reportedly bled for an hour after she was shot. She died at a hospital. It is unknown if that hour might have saved her life.
This writer is an enthusiastic supporter of the police, but that enthusiasm is tested when they don’t do their job.
Doing whatever it takes to make us believe junk science.
No surprise there, to environmentalists and the radical left (to be redundant), truth is merely an affectation of the bourgeoisie and capitalists vermin. Still, your Tatler is a little disappointed they haven’t yet tried to scare us with forecasts of “hailstones big as canned hams.”*
*A crack made by David Letterman long, long ago, when a TV weatherman and still funny.
THE TAOS TATLER. 