I wonder if Trump's going to put out a statement where he calls the pope a hater and loser or if he's going to have someone else write him a normal public condolence message
Or does he give a shit one way or the other? He will continue playing golf and act like nothing happened like he did when our soldiers died in Lithuania last week. Not a peep out of his ass. Didn’t even meet them in Dover.
On 9/11 Trump claimed to have the tallest building NY (it was not even in the top 25). He'll probably claim he's now the highest-ranking, most powerful "Christian" in the world.
I've always thought that the "Cool Pope" thing was overblown and that he was actually still awful, but they're going to replace him with someone a thousand times worse, I'd imagine.
As far as Popes go, Francis was one of the better ones. The conservatives of the Church hated him, it will be a very, very long time before they nominate a Jesuit again.
The backlash will be big, but I think the world's reaction to trump is probably the best timing for this possible, I'm cautiously optimistic even though it's scary
The thing is that like, "Cool Pope" is a relative term.
There are institutional forces that restrict who is going to get into position to be the Pope. And in the context of those forces, he was a HUGE departure for the better
But you're still dealing with the Catholic Church at the end of the day
Let's not forget he went out of his way to demonize trans people in the worst way possible, comparing us to nuclear weapons. That is really creative bigotry. That is weaponized malice.
Which, with traditional reactionary near-sightedness, will be worse for them long term considering how much Francis did to whitewash a lot of the more awful excesses of the Catholic Church by being a sympathetic figure as its face.
Oh, the Conservatives in the Church are licking their chops. They want to get in there and really roll out a reactionary program. I'm not a huge fan of Pope Frank (the Papacy in general) but I suspect he'll be missed in light of what's to come.
When I saw this post without context I wasn't sure if you meant "secret pope", "data security pope", or "cryptocurrency pope" and now I kind of want a schism based on this trilemma
I fully expect a public statement saying how much the pope said he respected trump and told Vance what a great job he was doing. (Because the pope now can’t contradict it)
He will have that message written but then say some BS about Francis being the "Worst Pope in the HISTORY OF THE WORLD" in front of a bunch of journalists on Air Force One.
I can’t wait to watch Vance and American tradcaths try to influence the selection of the pope in a dumb, ineffectual ham-fisted way. That’s going to go about as well as trying to influence who your 15-year-old dates
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Are we sure Vance didn’t kill him
There are institutional forces that restrict who is going to get into position to be the Pope. And in the context of those forces, he was a HUGE departure for the better
But you're still dealing with the Catholic Church at the end of the day
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/pope-francis-compares-transgender-people-to-nuclear-weapons-in-new-book/
There is no chance they will not pick someone so much worse.
DJ Vance: "Hold my whisky."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a9qmc9ju4U&ab_channel=JohnGormley-24MegaFan
We would have preferred….