Did.. Did he just try to shake the pope down?
Dude is trying to speedrun his way to super hell.
Trump will go to only "the best hell".
I think the "hell for rich people" is actually the worst hell.
You know, if any hell was real besides the living hell of late-stage capitalism...
I don't think Trump is catholic. The stoke will have to do.
I would say he's the antichrist but surely he's too dumb for that? Peter Thiel is generally considered to be the anti christ, he's basically encouraging the association I think he likes it even. The president is like the devil's guy that keeps embarrassing him, can't get anything right.
He's trying to roll the sin odometer over. Super hell was a lock a long time ago with all the rapes and murders
As Shepherd Book would say: "The special hell: reserved for child molesters and people who talk in the theater."
...I bet this SoB talks in the theater a lot, too.
He shook every country leader down. The pope is one of those.
Well, they killed the last one. Seems like a credible threat.
Or “POPE SAYS NOPE” as it would say on a tabloid.
I bet I would read a lot more articles if they stopped trying to cram the whole article into the headline and instead indulged in some alliterative whimsy every once in a while.
The opposite would be a clickbait. maybe something like: "You wont believe what the Pope said to Trump". Which is trash.
I actually respect this pope quite a bit. He’s been doing a good job.
Francis was good as well. These are the first good popes in, well maybe forever I am no expert but not familiar with any popes that were good before. They aren't seemingly able to do anything big with it yet sadly. The catholic church in the US is mostly owned by the religious right still. Betraying Christ's mission on earth.
Opposition to the genocide in Palestinian and the treatment of immigrants in the United States that has the potential to turn into a genocide is massively influential considering the churches reach and the powerful corrupt forces at play here
It is massively influential, it does not seem to be taking precedence over the massively influential right wing forces controlling most of American Catholicism leadership anyway. I say right wing, that is really kind of labeling it. This right and left is meaningless when we aren't measuring from a real place in reality. They are in service to malign interests, some of the most wealthy interests in the country.
Unfortunately , Christian evangelicals believe in Zionism because they believe that it will bring the end times and they want that.
Evangelicals are like 30% of the Republican base as well. And I guess that is not even counting like Baptists and other related ones. I'm not sure if Calvinists count as Evangelical. But yes, their worldview is so fucked, they want bad shit to happen, especially in the Middle East in israel, to bring on the rapture which will end the world in lakes of blood and Fire.
I’m not really religious but come from a southern Methodist and Catholic background on the two sides and from what I understand these evangelicals have 0 chance of ascending to heaven because not only do they fully and completely reject the teachings of Jesus they rabidly support a man who very closely resembles the Antichrist in their own book. Unfortunately even in a minority they have big money backing them
But I think that what we’re really dealing with here is religious extremism and fundamentalism is bad in any form and destructive as hell when mixed with settler colonialist ideology
It's always fascinating to me to think that the popes most likely do not believe that anything in their religion is actually true, and are only playing along with it because they either want the power associated, or in the case of this one seemingly, think that it's an effective way of wrangling the opinions of the idiot masses. It really must be a very interesting mentality they have. A bit like a noble sacrifice in some ways, if weren't for the huge luxuries and power associated with it of course.
I think there's plenty of people who participate in churches (of any flavor) without necessarily buying in to the spiritual aspects. The social aspect of churches provides people with all sorts of benefits.
This guy has devoted his life to the church, with an infinitesimally small chance of rising high enough for it to be "an effective way of wrangling the opinions of the idiot masses" so it seems unlikely that he doesn't believe any of it.
You're right, what you think of the Pope is a fantasy in your mind, reality is very mich different
What an articulate and coherent point you've made!
Don't look too deep then.
The bar is pretty low for wold leaders right now so not supporting genocide and not supporting the kidnapping of immigrants is above and beyond these days unfortunately
Probably hurts his ego a little extra since this is the first US-born pope, too
Honestly it feels like everything these chucklefucks do is a troll. The "~~Bored~~Board of Peace" for a group established with the pretty obvious intention of using the largest military on the planet to shake down non-members.
DAE remember how the last pope died like right after meeting JD Vance?
DAE remember how Epstein and Bannon wanted to undermine Francis, shortly before Epstein, himself, died?
🤔
vance reaped his soul. remember what happened to the queen after LIZ met with her. death has sent his reapers out on a job.
Liz Truss is one of those abominable vampires which attach like a limpet to their victim's arsehole and drain their life force rectally.
Like within a day or so right? Just dead. And then they replaced the guy with a new guy from the US for the first time ever too I think.
If Leo the Pope meets Vance & doesn’t die immediately afterwards, it is an indication that in six months to the day, JD will meet his fate. They can make it happen! Otherwise they’d be known as the Vatican’t.🥸
... so he tried to have the pope bribe him. Classy.
Good on dunking that mobster meat puppet trying to turn Gaza into Atlantic City 2.0.
Good, maybe the Vatican can pick up the US tab for outstanding payments to the UN. They sure as fuck can afford it.
UN is useless
end veto
Oh no I was thinking more disgust at his relative relative Andrew's associations but that probably isn't it I don't know I know nothing about the Royal Family and have gone out of my way to not know anything about them.
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