Originally published at: MAGA Melts Down Over First American Pope - TPM – Talking Points Memo
As the white smoke cleared, Robert Prevost of Chicago became Pope Leo XIV, the first ever American pope. That revelation quickly gave way to an even more important one: Bob seems to have a Twitter account. Online sleuths quickly shared a February post from an account in his name sharing a National Catholic Reporter headline:…
"Unlike Letitia James, who unethically ran around the state campaigning on getting Donald Trump… my office conducts itself in a manner that is proper and professional, by unethically running around the state boasting about how we’re gonna get Letitia James.”
Even without the addition, it’s an almost perfectly self-cancelling statement.
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Maybe all these MAGA types might want to consider that people who understand what Christianity is supposed to be all about picked a man who can’t stand Trump and his policies.
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I love the sound of exploding conservative heads!!!
Re: pope
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A lot of people are saying that the MAGA were rooting for President Trump to be on the ballot. If he was, he would have won. What a landslide it would have been. He is very popular with the catholics. He has said so on Lies Social.
Indeed, Robert Prevost did not have any winning cards – he’s not a woman, but he’s from Democrat-run Chicago, after all. He won only because President Trump did so much. He spoke up, threatened tariffs against Heard and McDonald Islands, sent a Melanoma lookalike to Pope Francis’ funeral, and negotiated with the cardinals to make America great again. No other American President has been able to get an American elected to this position.
American Presidents have helped Americans win at the Olympics, the World Bank, IMF, and the lottery, but not at the College of Cardinals. Robert Prevost has not said thanks to Vice President Vance and to President Trump yet. When?
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Dual citizenship with Peru.
He is the first American to fill the role of Pope, although he is considered as much a cardinal from Latin America because of the many years he spent as a missionary in Peru, before becoming a bishop there.
His first speech was in Italian and Spanish, not English.
He has Peruvian nationality and is fondly remembered as a figure who worked with marginalised communities and helped build bridges.
He spent 10 years as a local parish pastor and as a teacher at a seminary in Trujillo in northwestern Peru.
He us expected to carry on what Francis had begun.
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In a match between Paula White v. Pope XIV, I throw my hat in with the new Pope. MAGA Evangelicals have met their match!! And strike and strike and strike and STRIKE!!
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They shouldn’t take it so bad, at least the pope has covered up for sexual predators, so he has at least a foot in their camp.
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Magats don’t believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ? What else is new. Love your neighbor and treat people with respect/dignity, take care of the sick, poor, and disabled (Christ healed lepers and washed the feet of the poor), welcome the stranger (immigrants) and above all forgive those who have hurt you.
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I suggest he hurry, lest JD come and visit him next.
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Jeannine Pirro: Make SNL Great Again.
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Isn’t she making their job easier?
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Pope Francis was hospitalized as soon as the irregularities at the fraud-riven Vatican Bank were uncovered. The VP showed up at the same time.
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So now, we will never learn a single tiny thing about this Pope. From here on in, his story has now become just Trump’s story…and will likely remain so…No matter what Leo Fourteen does from now for years into the future, it will be mentioned only as something to which Trump will or will not react…
I believe that is the media/“journalism” environment we’re living in currently?
I’m very tired of that media/'journalism" moment…
I’d like to hear about other people and other things and I’d like to hear about their histories and people’s praise of them and complaints about them and the connections they have that don’t involve Trump and his malicious and stupid and way too frequent reactions…because in this condition, I feel that I and everybody else are just becoming more and more stupid and both ill- and un-informed
But there’s not much hope this will change any time soon, is there?
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The President just loves attention and the excitement of elections. He dressed as the pope before the Pope election, and he commented on statehood on the day of Canada’s general election.
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The nuns are tearing down the goalposts in St. Peter’s Square!
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In other non-MAGA Pope news, Congratulations to Judge Jeannie. It appears that Washington DC is going to get an unhinged drunk TV host as its new US Attorney. I hope there are television and Tiktok cameras in every DC courtroom.
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He is an attention whore.
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I think Trump hates SNL, except when he’s hosting. So this is yet another example of Trump’s making a stupid decision against his own interests.
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Will Tillis go all in for Judge Gin-een? Ah, for the good ol’ days when southern christians were teetotalers.
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