I've noted here before --- and keep in mind that this is nothing more than the opinion of what is, at bottom, a highly educated hillbilly with a laptop --- that I have a pet theory, namely, that the "long game" may be to corral as many non-sedevacantist TLM adherents as possible, into an SSPX that becomes united or associated with the FSSP, ICKSP, and similar bodies, and then to propose a personal ordinariate, or even to create a new rite not unlike the Maronites, Melkites, and so on, essentially, a second Roman Rite.  Those who resist, both SV and non-SV, could then be painted as either gravely disobedience or (more likely) schismatic.  What would happen after that, one can only speculate.  Maybe nothing.  When you set a humane trap for an animal, it can either end well for the animal, or it can not end well.  It depends on what the trapper has in mind.

I'm not sure how much of a "long game" even exists, though, because TC comes across as the desperate "last gasp" of a man who is afraid he is about to die, "guys, I may not make it, before I go, I'm going to throw the entire weight of the papacy against the Tridentine Latin Mass, insofar as I can, I'm going to get rid of it, and make the Novus Ordo the only game in town".  It does seem to have been a "rush job" of sorts, in that it has no vacatio legis, it doesn't even mention the SSPX --- a curious omission --- nor Canon 87 of the 1983 CIC:

Can. 87 §1. A diocesan bishop, whenever he judges that it contributes to their spiritual good, is able to dispense the faithful from universal and particular disciplinary laws issued for his territory or his subjects by the supreme authority of the Church. He is not able to dispense, however, from procedural or penal laws nor from those whose dispensation is specially reserved to the Apostolic See or some other authority.

Neither did he specifically mention Quo primum.  That is another curious omission.  Maybe that was a Rubicon he didn't want to cross, or maybe the Holy Ghost wouldn't permit it.  No way to say.

 

But most SSPXers will still deny any modernist changes are happening.

I've noted here before --- and keep in mind that this is nothing more than the opinion of what is, at bottom, a highly educated hillbilly with a laptop --- that I have a pet theory, namely, that the "long game" may be to corral as many non-sedevacantist TLM adherents as possible, into an SSPX that becomes united or associated with the FSSP, ICKSP, and similar bodies, and then to propose a personal ordinariate, or even to create a new rite not unlike the Maronites, Melkites, and so on, essentially, a second Roman Rite.  Those who resist, both SV and non-SV, could then be painted as either gravely disobedience or (more likely) schismatic.  What would happen after that, one can only speculate.  Maybe nothing.  When you set a humane trap for an animal, it can either end well for the animal, or it can not end well.  It depends on what the trapper has in mind.

I'm not sure how much of a "long game" even exists, though, because TC comes across as the desperate "last gasp" of a man who is afraid he is about to die, "guys, I may not make it, before I go, I'm going to throw the entire weight of the papacy against the Tridentine Latin Mass, insofar as I can, I'm going to get rid of it, and make the Novus Ordo the only game in town".  It does seem to have been a "rush job" of sorts, in that it has no vacatio legis, it doesn't even mention the SSPX --- a curious omission --- nor Canon 87 of the 1983 CIC:

Can. 87 §1. A diocesan bishop, whenever he judges that it contributes to their spiritual good, is able to dispense the faithful from universal and particular disciplinary laws issued for his territory or his subjects by the supreme authority of the Church. He is not able to dispense, however, from procedural or penal laws nor from those whose dispensation is specially reserved to the Apostolic See or some other authority.

Neither did he specifically mention Quo primum.  That is another curious omission.  Maybe that was a Rubicon he didn't want to cross, or maybe the Holy Ghost wouldn't permit it.  No way to say.

This is right in line with what I suspect as well. The Neo-SSPX leaders are working to get the SSPX under the thumb of Modernist Rome, and then proceed to regularize them into the Novus Ordo. It is precisely what Bp. Williamson, Fr. Jenkins, Fr. Cekada, and Bp. Sanborn have been warning us about the neo-SSPX for years. These talks with the Modernists in Rome is nothing more than a honeypot to get as many unsuspecting traditional Catholics under the control of the Novus Ordo. I recall one of the SV clergy stating that the heads of the neo-SSPX want nothing more than to have their niche, their little corner, in the pantheon of the Novus Ordo. The SSPX leaders are really no different than indulters at this point: they want their "High Catholic" rite, a superficial "communion" with heretics.

Look at what Francis pulled with Traditionis Custodes. I would fully expect him or a successor to do the same thing to a "regularized" SSPX.

Like I have been saying for a while now. The chapels here in Florida are primarily made up of 90% Novus Ordo parishioners displaced during the Plandemic. The actual traditionalist, i.e., Catholics who were going to the SSPX chapels, have mostly left. This is completely fine with the Florida SSPX because they have increased their numbers which means more money. As far as the Catholics that supported the Society for decades, they could care less about them. It's all about money and thus the hyper pandering to the local Novus Ordo Bishops. Venroy should go and submit himself to Estevez already.

Gratuitous, hyperbolic, unsubstantiated, etc...

Do you really expect anyone to believe 90% of SSPXers have left, or are now outnumbered by Novus Ordo Catholics 10:1???

Gratuitous, hyperbolic, unsubstantiated, etc...

Do you really expect anyone to believe 90% of SSPXers have left, or are now outnumbered by Novus Ordo Catholics 10:1???

 
The 90% number is from one of the chapels down here—But I have friends who attend other chapels in the state(Including the priority in Sanford), and they have seen a similar influx.

So, where are the former SSPX people?

That is a good question. One that I have asked myself. Keep in mind that one SSPX chapel was closed during the pandemic and is now being sold off. It was located in the largest County in Florida. Some of those mass goers went up to the chapel in Davie. I would say about 5-10%. I guess the other 90% either stopped going to mass, started going to the local indult mass, or an independent chapel run by a Thuc Bishop. The others located in other parts of the state, I don't know.