Laura Loomer lamented that the new pope ‘is anti-Trump, anti-MAGA, pro-open Borders, and a total Marxist like Pope Francis,’ adding that it’s ‘GROSS’ that he now leads the Catholic Church
It didn’t take long for right-wing media figures and MAGA provocateurs to cry out in rage over the election of Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV after it was revealed that he’d publicly criticized JD Vance and expressed sympathy for immigrants and George Floyd.
Despite feeling national pride over the fact that the Chicago-born Prevost has become the first American pope in history, conservative pundits and Trump loyalists fumed over the “WOKE MARXIST POPE” and complained that he is “worse than Francis,” referencing the previous pontiff known for his progressive values.
Even before the “dark horse” American cardinal was elected the 267th pope, former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon warned about Prevost’s views, claiming that he would be a poor choice for the MAGA movement.
If MAGAts don’t like him, that gives me a lot of faith in him.
This response just tells me it is the correct pope for the job
I hope the Swiss Guard are on their toes. I guarantee there are crazy fascists only too willing to try their hand at assassination.
MAGA meltdown? No way. They melt harder than a slice of cheese on a patty
molten fake american cheese.
I knew it-- just KNEW IT-- the moment we learned the new Pope was American, I knew the MAGAt moron brigade would immediately be expecting the guy to be some gob-slobbering jackass racist like them, expecting him to start licking drumpf’s toes.
The fact the Pope isn’t going to be ordered around by King Damp Pants is going to be a talking point for Faux “news” Entertainment for a while lol
I was expecting it, too. I thought the AI picture of Trump as pope meant he had pulled strings to get an American, and was planning on combining that with his Deus Vult - tattooed secretary of defense to start a literal Crusade.
losing it at the fact that most evangelical Christian assholes are shocked when the Catholic Pope has different views
shouldnt evangelical have thier own “megapastor”
The pope doesn’t like evil? Huh, imagine that.
I love how they lost their shit about an American speaking Italian, in Italy, to a shit load of Italians.
The American nationalism has truly rotted their brains.
he should speak latin to really make thier minds explode.
I just want to add. Anyone that ACTUALLY FOLLOWS the teachings of the bible, cannot with good conscious support Donald Trump.
I think you mean actually follows the teachings of jesus. If you actually follow the teachings of the Bible you probably actually would be good with donald. You would be good with slavery. The Bible is a really f***** up thing
Fair enough
Amen!
I would be surprised if there are more than a couple hundred people in the US who have ever actually read the bible.
My favorite part is when Jesus had a “spirited debate” with capitalists selling stuff in the Temple.
Most people don’t read the entire bible and churches try to avoid it by doing “bible study” where they cherry pick sections that sound good. They avoid the bits about god allowing owning slaves, god telling his people to kill everyone in the area but keep the virgin young girls as rape slaves, and all the other juicy bits in the bible.
It’s a horrible book and the god character is a monster.
It’s clearly divided into an older section and a newer section, and the basic definition of Christian is the newer section defining empathy, caring, accepting of all the people. Sure there’s still some effed up stuff but what do you want from a 1500 year old book: the basic message of the new part is love
It’s more accurate to say these people are not Christian even if the use the name. They do not follow the teachings they proclaim, and have more in common with the Pharisees, the oppressors
That’s just silly. Many millions likely have. But I get your point.
Woke Marxist Pope? Well shit, I just might start going to church again
Same here lol
MAGA hating the new pope is the biggest compliment he could possibly get
Yep I’d be crying with joy if I were him
Maybe the church knows better than to have a concordat with the nazis this time.
Maybe.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. There are still a large number of unpunished child raping fuckers under their protection.
Yes, but that doesn’t have much bearing on whether they have another concordat with nazis or not.
Are we talking about the one that died or his new replacement?
Edit: its about the new Pope (Pope Leo) not the old pope (pope Francis). Apparently the dead progressive pope was replaced with another progressive pope. Cool
Old pope appointed the bishops who appointed new pope so liberal was pretty much guaranteed. The American thing was a surprise.
The last one was American too tho
Wasn’t he Argentinian?
Yes.
So then he was SOUTH American.
And the new one is NORTH American.
People using “American” to refer to anyone from the western continent (from a euro centric perspective) is conventional in some parts or the world. It’s not the convention in Canada, we bristle at the thought of being labeled Americans.
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Yes.
Yes, but not US of American.
Well, Francis had as many good takes as bad takes. Some people described him as “strategically trying to piss off as many people as possible.”
Example?
He wanted Ukraine to surrender and back in 2015 and 2016 made a few statements about how he didn’t think children should be taught gender ideologies or procedures and that there were strong immutable differences between men and women.
“I ask myself, if the so-called gender theory is not, at the same time, an expression of frustration and resignation, which seeks to cancel out sexual difference because it no longer knows how to confront it. Yes, we risk taking a step backwards. The removal of difference in fact creates a problem, not a solution.”
~Da Pope
I strongly disagree with him.
Thinking a second about this, he literally pwned MAGA
The entire conservative line of thought is backed by Christianity and American exceptionalism, and now there comes an American pope and tells “You’re not following the God’s word”. That’s a damn checkmate.
Wonder how many MAGA supporters, many of which are devout Christians, will start questioning their beliefs.
Also, lol, a Marxist Pope is top comedy.
They won’t question their Christian beliefs for a single second because they didn’t have any in the first place. They’ll turn their backs and say “The Pope went woke,” still call themselves godly Christians, and continue to spread hate. During that whole time they will never question whether or not they’re Christian, they’ll just hate the Pope too.
Yeah, exactly this. It can be confusing because they call themselves Christians, loudly and frequently - but their attitudes and beliefs have sweet fuck all to do with the teachings of Christ.
It’s kinda like the way they use ‘Marxist’ for anyone left of Mussolini. I’m not sure if it’s a deliberate attempt to shift definitions, or if they don’t understand what the words actually mean. Wankers.
It’s both, for different segments of the party. The GOP has always been comprised of the unwashed masses and the conmen manipulating them.
Yeah I mean, it’s not like Catholicism is the only flavor of Christianity.
The whole reason the USA even exists today is because a bunch of shitty religious people got ousted from England.
I know a lot of people still view the Pope as the head of Christianity but there are many Christians who would not see it that way. Many who would dismiss the Pope with a wave of the hand and not a care in the world.
The evangelical right wing Christian movement in America certainly does not give a fuck about the Pope based on what I’ve seen.
They don’t, but the neofascist movement loves the aesthetic of catholicism. Its why Vance converted. In fact I’d say that pointing to Vance and Biden as the two sides of modern American catholicism is a reasonable framing (we’re gonna ignore the catholic workers because though their deeds are great, their numbers are few).
That is the actual win, the legitimate aesthetic they seek has denied them. It’s absolutely a similarity Trump’s administration has with the Nazis. They both never think about what the church actually is, they both just like the authority the Holy Sea has and the ceremony of it all. It’s great to watch an American Pope hold his ground. I wonder how long until Trump starts publicly ranting about him. I give it until this weekend.
Christianity the religion and Christianity the political platform are different things. The con requires you to believe they are the same thing.
Much of the American Christian establishment is the type of Protestant that does not consider Catholics to be Christian.
I know that doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense but that’s how Americans “do religion”.
Baptists don’t care what the Pope has to say, seventh-day Adventists think he is actually the Antichrist. Most American Catholics don’t really care what the Vatican has to say and would resent the implication that they’re supposed to give a shit about the Pope’s opinion.
Americans just don’t do religion very well.
all Protestant religions do not accept the pope as leader, that’s the basic definition. They all broke off from Catholicism by disagreeing with something but usually it boiled down to not following the pope. Whether it was a king who wanted to divorce and remarry at will or a king who wanted to control his country or an alternate pope.
It amazes me that Catholics will ride along with that bandwagon. Like when they get that Christian Nation they want, when freedom of religion is ditched in favour of state endorsed religion, and all that remains is to decide whether it’s going to be a Protestant Nation or a Catholic Nation, do they actually think it’s going to go their way?
They haven’t thought that far ahead.
Christianity is the big umbrella of faith, Catholics are inside that umbrella and have been not so popular compared to other factions. Pope’s are catholic.
Personally I think it’s all horse shit but that’s just me.
I didn’t realize Catholics comprise less than Protestants. Still, 22% of Americans identifying as Roman Catholics is a big deal.
They don’t. Almost half of all Christians are Catholic.
A “big deal” to people that give a shit, sure.
He should excommunicate them all.
Pretty sure none of them are Catholic, which makes it even weirder that they care about the Pope at all.
JD Vance converted to Catholicism 5 or 6 years ago, apparently.
'cause protestantism is a weak-ass religion. Catholicism is where the real money and power is
5-6 years conversion and then killing the pope using his cringe. What a run!
Maybe keep him away from this one? Throw him a nice leather couch to distract him.
Fun fact killing the pope is an instant excommunication. It can be argued that Vance DID kill the pope or speed up his death by demanding that Frank leave the hospital to meet with him, ergo Vance needs to be excommunicated.
