At the end of the day, it's about people who want to have their pope and eat him too, where they can pay enough lip service to make themselves feel better, but then reserve the right to rip him to shreds on a daily basis. You really have to pick. If he's definitely the Pope, no questions, I would absolutely just go back to the Conciliar Church, maybe hide out in an Eastern Riter or some Motu situation ... and in that case I would even agree with Borat here that the New Rites must be valid, since the Church cannot promulgate valid Rites. But if there's enough smoke that the likelihood of fire is not insignificant, and things are bad enough where I cannot in good conscience stay in union with the Conciliars ... then that would be tantamount to a defection of the Church lest I at least hold the V2 papal claimants to be in doubt.
But they don't want the one OR the other, but both, where they can feel good about themselves by putting Prevost's mug up in the vestibule, and that way you pretend that "look we obey the pope", and also you won't scare off new visitors, thereby increasing your collection take. But when they issue various Encyclicals or whatnot, they'll be like "Here goes Bergs with another Recyclical. I wonder what heresy he's going to spew this time." Either you respect the Pope or you don't. If you think he's the Pope, at the very least you don't cop that kind of shitty attitude, but you try to give him the benefit of the doubt but then disagree with the utmost respect if you just can't accept something he teaches, kindof like with your father. If your father is in grave error (about a matter of conscience), then you cannot obey, but that doesn't give you the right to start mocking and deriding him to his face ... not unless it's motivated 100% by charity and you're doing it because you think it has a better chance of snapping him out of it, but that's clearly not what's going on here.
I don't understand you. Why would you have to hide out in an Eastern rite? The Church allows the Latin Rite. God continued it in a miraculous way. The Church of 1965 is the same Church as 1962. The only difference is the the infiltrators gained a foothold in places of authority and used this to hijack the Council for their anti-Catholic purposes. But they could only do so much - they didn't foresee Archbishop Lefebvre and Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer and others like Ottaviani fighting back. I agree with everything His Lordship Tissier de Mallerais said in his 2016 sermon - the surrounding prayers do make you question the intention behind the changes of the Ordination rite - it was not a Catholic spirit at work here - however, the changes are not enough to render it invalid with a positive doubt. The surrounding prayers are still very Catholic even if they do not compare to the beauty and clarity of the old rite. The infiltrators failed. And if you couple this will the fact that, as you said, the Church cannot promulgate invalid Sacraments, then we Catholics can be assured that they are indeed valid.
You used to support the SSPX. Be honest with yourself. They do not pay homage to the liberal spirit that has invaded the Church but the Church itself. These ARE two separate things. Unfortunately, because of their formation, the last few Popes - including His Holiness Pope Leo (his official title before you all start protesting) - have been tainted - blinded - with this liberalism surrounding them. I have great respect for the Pope - he is St. Peter - the same St. Peter who denied Christ three times. And as you beautifully said - minus the gutter language: "If you think he's the Pope, at the very least you don't cop that kind of shitty attitude, but you try to give him the benefit of the doubt but then disagree with the utmost respect if you just can't accept something he teaches, kind of like with your father. If your father is in grave error (about a matter of conscience), then you cannot obey, but that doesn't give you the right to start mocking and deriding him to his face ..." or, may I add, refusing to respect his authority when he speaks and acts justly in accordance to his office. Is this not exactly the Recognise and Resist position of the SSPX?
That reminds me - regarding the 'ut' argument yourselves and others have put forward. I had another look at the essential Form of the two ordinations rites - old and new - and noticed something I had actually missed the first time round: We both agreed that the Form in both rites is exactly the same apart form the missing 'ut' (so that) which you believe puts the intention in question. Yet, heres the thing - in both rites - with exactly the same wording - they speak of the dignity of the priesthood being conferred before the 'ut' word is used. In other words, it is of no consequence, which is why - I understand better now - both the SSPX and Bishop William said the Form is a valid Form. The sense and meaning is exactly the same. My point in bringing this up again is to highlight how careful we, the lay people, must be in challenging the Church. Do you not think the infiltrators are content to sow confusion within the Vatican only? No. Their tentacles are everywhere. What do you know about this Rama Coomaraswamy? He came out of nowhere and divided the SSPX before it had barely got off the ground. His fruits: confusion, bitterness, broken friendships and nine good priests leaving the Church to set up on their own. They too, then bickered and divided and went their individual ways. It's something to think about.