These assholes should try being woke and not fucking stupid. Do they think that the 300+ Americans in this country are going to let them hijack this country and let a South African fuck who did a lot of destruction get away with this? I don’t think so.
MAGA Tried to Buy the Papacy—And Got Righteously Rejected
MAGA’s Vatican coup just collapsed in full view of the world.
After flooding Rome with donors, dangling a $1 billion bribe, and deploying smear campaigns against progressive cardinals, the Trump wing of American Catholicism aimed to hijack the Church. They didn’t want a spiritual leader—they wanted a culture war general in robes. What they got instead was Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago-born reformer (and dual citizen of Peru) who embodies everything Trumpism detests: humility, inclusion, and moral courage.
The contrast couldn’t be starker.
While MAGA’s preferred candidate would have gladly sanctified nationalism and bigotry, Leo XIV opened his papacy by declaring:
“We must seek together to be a missionary church… that is always open, like this piazza, to receive with open arms everyone—everyone—who needs our charity, our presence, our dialogue, and love.”
That’s not just a message—it’s a direct rebuke to the “us vs. them” poison that Trump and his clerical cronies have injected into public life.
Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Trump’s favorite cardinal, and groups like the Napa Institute threw lavish dinners, peddled influence, and tried to tilt the scales of the conclave. But even their billion-dollar blitz couldn’t stop the College of Cardinals from choosing someone committed to building bridges, not walls.
Pope Leo XIV amplified this stinging truth:
“Help me build those bridges to unite as a single people always in peace. Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.”
MAGA did everything in its power to buy the keys to St. Peter’s. Instead, they got a pope who padlocked the door.
This is the first I've heard that there was behind the scenes skullduggery - though I can't say I'm one bit surprised. I can't wait for the sordid details to come out.
Pope Buck—points to you for deploying “skullduggery” with surgical precision. If ever there was a word designed for Vatican backrooms soaked in incense and intrigue, that’s the one.
And yes, while MAGA plotted their divine coup, they weren’t exactly passing out loaves and fishes. Try $100 bottles of wine at donor receptions—because in Trump Land, even the Eucharist must be ostentatious.
Okay, Leo, now excommunicate Vance and while you’re at it, Alito, too. Everybody hates Vance but only the chosen few can fuck him over like a pope can.
The world is going through a Renaissance (well, not exactly) and American Democracy is sinking under the floor. Today, as a person who left the church decades ago, I felt joy at this momentous occasion. I was shocked, frankly. With politics in Rome, I was totally convinced that the next Pope would be conservative.
wouldn't it be nice if he issued whatever he issues under guise of infallibility that simply says "Donald Trump is an asshole as is Marco Rubio, [etc etc]
Congrats to the new Pope. Maybe he will have some words about what is happening in the USA. I hope so. JD might have to listen, since he says he's a "baby" Catholic. I don't believe him, because no where in the Catholic religion does it say to treat your fellowman the way he is doing. I think he turned Catholic because his wife wanted to be married in the Catholic Church. Not for the religion part of it. I would have to believe that he is someone that only believes in hurting others and being a loudmouth. I, also, wonder if the events that he described in his book were true, because if they were he has fallen as far as you can possibly can. I can't imagine that if they were true that he could become such a rotten person with so much hatred. Maybe the mascara gives him comfort.
These assholes should try being woke and not fucking stupid. Do they think that the 300+ Americans in this country are going to let them hijack this country and let a South African fuck who did a lot of destruction get away with this? I don’t think so.
Pope Leo was a close confidant of Pope Francis. I love it!
MAGA Tried to Buy the Papacy—And Got Righteously Rejected
MAGA’s Vatican coup just collapsed in full view of the world.
After flooding Rome with donors, dangling a $1 billion bribe, and deploying smear campaigns against progressive cardinals, the Trump wing of American Catholicism aimed to hijack the Church. They didn’t want a spiritual leader—they wanted a culture war general in robes. What they got instead was Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago-born reformer (and dual citizen of Peru) who embodies everything Trumpism detests: humility, inclusion, and moral courage.
The contrast couldn’t be starker.
While MAGA’s preferred candidate would have gladly sanctified nationalism and bigotry, Leo XIV opened his papacy by declaring:
“We must seek together to be a missionary church… that is always open, like this piazza, to receive with open arms everyone—everyone—who needs our charity, our presence, our dialogue, and love.”
That’s not just a message—it’s a direct rebuke to the “us vs. them” poison that Trump and his clerical cronies have injected into public life.
Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Trump’s favorite cardinal, and groups like the Napa Institute threw lavish dinners, peddled influence, and tried to tilt the scales of the conclave. But even their billion-dollar blitz couldn’t stop the College of Cardinals from choosing someone committed to building bridges, not walls.
Pope Leo XIV amplified this stinging truth:
“Help me build those bridges to unite as a single people always in peace. Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.”
MAGA did everything in its power to buy the keys to St. Peter’s. Instead, they got a pope who padlocked the door.
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This is the first I've heard that there was behind the scenes skullduggery - though I can't say I'm one bit surprised. I can't wait for the sordid details to come out.
Pope Buck—points to you for deploying “skullduggery” with surgical precision. If ever there was a word designed for Vatican backrooms soaked in incense and intrigue, that’s the one.
And yes, while MAGA plotted their divine coup, they weren’t exactly passing out loaves and fishes. Try $100 bottles of wine at donor receptions—because in Trump Land, even the Eucharist must be ostentatious.
The Pope is a resistor. Take heart.
I hope Leo is at least as woke as Francis! Imagine popes who make an effort to follow the teachings of their religion’s founder.
Great stuff Adam! Another Christmas card J.e.D won't have to wait for!!
In answer to your question
Yes everyone hates JD
Okay, Leo, now excommunicate Vance and while you’re at it, Alito, too. Everybody hates Vance but only the chosen few can fuck him over like a pope can.
Ginny and Clarence, too.
Is a bear Catholic?
Technically the Pope cannot hate anyone - not very papal. He would just pray for his lost soul.
Can Popes run for Congress?
The world is going through a Renaissance (well, not exactly) and American Democracy is sinking under the floor. Today, as a person who left the church decades ago, I felt joy at this momentous occasion. I was shocked, frankly. With politics in Rome, I was totally convinced that the next Pope would be conservative.
Me too!
This is VE Day and at least this Pope choice won't have WWII veterans rolling in their graves...
"Not a former Hitler youth" - you'd think that'd be a much easier bar to clear.
wouldn't it be nice if he issued whatever he issues under guise of infallibility that simply says "Donald Trump is an asshole as is Marco Rubio, [etc etc]
Congrats to the new Pope. Maybe he will have some words about what is happening in the USA. I hope so. JD might have to listen, since he says he's a "baby" Catholic. I don't believe him, because no where in the Catholic religion does it say to treat your fellowman the way he is doing. I think he turned Catholic because his wife wanted to be married in the Catholic Church. Not for the religion part of it. I would have to believe that he is someone that only believes in hurting others and being a loudmouth. I, also, wonder if the events that he described in his book were true, because if they were he has fallen as far as you can possibly can. I can't imagine that if they were true that he could become such a rotten person with so much hatred. Maybe the mascara gives him comfort.
The Alan Parson's song should have been "I wouldn't want to be like you"