No, we’re not playing this game any longer. We’re not doing the thing where you get to accuse people who criticize Israel as “Jew haters”, because you people have cried wolf on this for so long that the term is meaningless.
If Israel wants to go after Iran, they’re welcome to do so on their own without the U.S, thank you very much.
Zionist boomers are incapable of breaking free of their programming. It's sad, but not surprising.
Why should we believe that *this* time Iran was *this* close to having a nuke when Netanyahu has been dropping that line since the 90s?
Haven't you people done enough to discredit yourselves? Seriously? Did you not get the message from the massive ass whooping you were handed on Tuesday?
Grow up.
Way to spoil the big twist in the third act regarding certain characters, Nintendo. Although I suppose the entire internet knows by now, even though this game is for new players as well who don't know the plot, I hope.
I'm in Ohio, and I'll tell you exactly what happened in Ohio, specifically, setting aside any feelings voters may have had toward the president and his policies:
Vivek was a horrible gubernatorial candidate. As in, quite possibly the worst I've seen in my lifetime. From the jump, it was obvious he had nothing but contempt for working class, white, native-born Ohioans (cf. his infamous Twitter crashout of Christmas 2024) and acted as if he were the smartest man in the room when he had nothing on his resume to back up such arrogance. And then, to top it off, he was the victim of his own October surprise by stupidly launching a blame-the-rape-victim campaign against Acton and then, astonishingly, doubling and even tripling down on it in spite of the backlash.
Vivek's utter incompetence and unlikability completely torpedoed the GOP down ballot, turned off potential Husted voters (who has his own problems), and kept huge swaths of the people he needed to show up at home instead. That's what happened.
It's never Trump's fault according to these people. Never.
If something good happens, he gets all the credit in their mind. If something bad happens due to his stupid decisions and behavior, it's an endless conspiracy against him.
Excuse making like this (along with a terrible economy and an unpopular war) is a large reason why independents said "No thank you" to more of this.
"Had to happen?" You and all the Catholic conservatives who've spend the last nearly two years poisoning minds against him, insisting that Iran wasn't really a threat and he was just seeking his own glory.... you helped make that happen. It didn't have to happen.
You really are that naive that you believe the Iran war was the product of his vainglory and not a response to a real threat? That the same people who willingly and deliberately unleashed a virus and vaccines onto the world, who participated in mass murder in order to keep their power, were not willing to do something even more drastic and destructive to continue keeping it?
Was he supposed to just ignore the virus and its potential threat first term? And what would you be saying if he brushed aside the obvious threats Iran - and their Chinese and Globalists enablers - were clearly sending this second term? You honestly don't think they'd have set off some limited level nuclear weapon in an American city if he ignored the threats?
There's only one thing worse than naivety: the pride that enables it to prevail. It didn't "have to happen." You participated in making it happen.
Now this is just both really cool and really depressing at the same time, as it makes me realize just how old I am.
I remember the halcyon days of the mid-to-late 90s when the internet looked like this, and when social media wasn't a thing, and when something as technically primitive as Ocarina of Time is to us now was a mind-blowing experience.
(Yes, I am going to get the remake when it comes out on Thursday. So don't bother me!)
“I’m not going into the weeds here”
Then why make blanket statements about the Holy Ghost’s “spirit” being equivalent to whatever an ecumenical council teaches, then? If you can’t handle someone pointing out flaws in your argument, maybe blogging isn’t for you.
I don’t think I’m the one who is “struggling” to understand Catholicism here. I’m not the one who posts bizarre statements on just who or what guides councils, then proceeds to refuse to elaborate or clarify precisely what I mean when other people highlight the problematic implications of such an argument.
Maybe Montini should have, I don’t know, actually read the texts he was approving before promulgating them, or changed them after the fact instead of whining about them like a little girl who has no power to change anything.
Even Paul VI was not a fan of the new funeral rite. In 1971 he commented after Mass to his MC:
"How on earth in the liturgy for the dead should there be no more mention of sin and expiation? There is a complete absence of imploring the Lord’s mercy. This morning too, for the Mass celebrated in the [Vatican] tombs, although the texts were beautiful they were still lacking in the sense of sin and the sense of mercy. But we need this! And when my final hour comes, ask for mercy for me from the Lord, because I have such need of it!”
Every year, the priests of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet in Paris spend nearly six hours offering their three private low Masses for All Souls Day back to back, and it's one of the most profoundly spiriritual things I've ever experienced.
I know low Masses get criticized by liturgical purists, but there's something to be said about the ability to simply walk into this church at any point during said six hour period and stumble upon a priest offering Mass for the dead, especially when so many churches in Europe are more museum pieces than worship spaces.
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The point, Melody, is that at Lateran IV, an ecumenical council with just as much authority as Vatican II, its canons defined orthodoxy as discriminating against Jews. Period. Full stop.
You can try to weasel out of your own standards by claiming "That was disciplinary, not infallible" but then you've just given trads the green light to reject Sacrosanctum as merely "disciplinary" and "pastoral" for the same reasons, so just what point is it you think you've made, exactly?
Following up on my earlier observation re this person, it seems patently obvious from this tweet that she has absolutely no idea what Lateran IV taught.
"Theology by feels" isn't a thing, no matter how much she seems to want it to be.
I wonder if Melody thinks the "Spirit of Lateran IV" was the Holy Ghost actively willing the prohibition of Jews from holding public office and having to wear identifying clothing.
I mean, if this is the game we're gonna play, then let's be consistent.
Your role as laity is to pay, pray, and obey, no matter how much Rome pays lip service to the contrary. Where did you get the idea our bishops and cardinals actually think the laity should have any sort of agency or self determination when it comes to, say, which liturgy is best for their parish?
It's always the laity's fault. Always. So if something bad happens in the Church, it's because you, the layman with zero authority or power to change things, failed somehow.
Glad we're all clear on that.
In case you haven't noticed, I'm taking a break from daily liturgical posting. I've done it for over six years now, and I'm burned out.
I've done some consulting work/editing for the 2027 edition of a popular 1962 Ordo; I would suggest that as a resource for the 1962 rubrics, and Rubricarius's St. Lawrence Press Ordo is the gold standard for pre-55 (aside from the fact that he doesn't recognize anything after 1939, so you won't get the 1940-55 Pius XII changes in that resource).
I can answer occasional questions on specific issues is anyone is interested, but that's it for the foreseeable future. I apologize again, but I just can't do it anymore.
Boomer priest apparently knows so little about sacramental theology that he thinks a validly-consecrated bishop who doesn't have a see isn't a "real" bishop, apparently.
So I guess, by this logic, the minute the ordinary of a diocese has his resignation accepted by the pope, he ceases to be a bishop. Of course, that's not what happens, but this is what happens when you try to score cheap points on social media by saying stupid things.
The fundamental problem is that people seem to want the Earth to not do what the Earth does and spontaneously alter its rotation and trajectory around the sun to accommodate their desires. Unfortunately, the planet doesn't really care what people think.
