The bond market is more powerful than both the pope and the president combined, so it's telling that Mad King Ludwig The Impotent does this

 

I worked for a guy once who everyday wore a blue suit without fail

I remember he officiated at a funeral once, and yep, he wore a blue suit.

Even when I visited him at his home he was wearing a blue suit.

More remarkably, though, on pay day once a month my boss would go to the bank, take out a wad of cash, and then pay his mortgage in cash, walk to the phone company and pay in cash, and walk to the utility company and pay in cash.

He'd also pay me in cash.

Then he'd walk to the hotel bar with his friends for the evening and pay in cash.

He paid for everything in cash, unlike this guy.

Standards have really declined.

If you know what's good for you, stay away from J. D. Vance

 

Pope Francis meddles in US election, says choose the lesser evil between Trump and Harris but can't say which is which

It's really amusing how the pope says everyone has to think and decide for themselves about such a weighty matter, but when Luther did it he was excommunicated for it.

Between 1972 and 2008, the percentage NOT voting in US elections averaged 47%.

 

“Not voting is ugly,” the 87-year-old pontiff said. “It is not good. You must vote.”

“You must choose the lesser evil,” he said. “Who is the lesser evil? That lady, or that gentleman? I don’t know. Everyone, in conscience, (has to) think and do this.”

American Catholics, numbering roughly 52 million nationwide, are often seen as crucial swing voters. In some battleground states, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, more than 20% of adults are Catholic. ...

“Whether it is the one who is chasing away migrants, or the one who that kills children,” said the pope. “Both are against life.”

More.

The pope made the remarks on a flight returning to the safety of his walled-off city-state, population 764, after a visit to Singapore.

 

 

James Carville to the rescue, reminds me of the pope lately

 

 Democratic culture has too many preachy females. Too much 'Don't eat Hamburgers, don't watch football, wear a condom'. Man, shit, leave me alone.     

Seen here.

That's not what the pope said but that's what Drudge hopes you think he said

 Pope says priests can bless same-sex unions... 

Meanwhile, newly couples of weds meet with Pope without exhaustive moral analysis.

 

The international justice committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops can't bring itself to mention Hamas, let alone condemn it

 What a worthless lot they are.

"Launched from Gaza". By whom?

"On all sides" = moral equivalence for the animals of Hamas.

What's important is "the status quo of the holy places", not that defenceless Jews were literally butchered by the hundreds.

They want no war in response to war. All the Jews would die, then. Is that what Catholics really want?

“On October 7, the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary, the world watched the operation launched from Gaza and the rapid call to arms from Israel that ensued. Almost 50 years to the day of the launch of the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, once again war is spilling out in the Holy Land. With it brings the mounting casualties and hostilities unfolding on all sides, and increased threats to the Status Quo of the Holy Places among Jews, Muslims, and Christians further dimming any hope for peace.

“The world is once again shocked and horrified by the outbreak of ferocious violence in the Holy Land. Reports have surfaced indicating large numbers of wounded and dead, including many civilians. 

“I join with Pope Francis in his call for peace and his condemnation of this widespread outbreak of violence. As he stated in his Sunday audience, ‘May the attacks and weaponry cease. Please! And let it be understood that terrorism and war do not lead to any resolutions, but only to the death and suffering of so many innocent people.’

“May all who love the Holy Land seek to bring about among all the parties engaged in the fighting a cessation of violence, respect for civilian populations and the release of hostages.

“As we pray urgently for peace, we recall especially all the families and individuals suffering from these events.  We call on the faithful, and all people of good will to not grow weary and to continue to pray for peace in the land Our Lord, the Prince of Peace, called home.”     

Here.

Pope Chicken Little says the world is collapsing!

 

Pope Francis warns planet ‘is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point’

Republicans started to ditch Catholic Mass after Francis became pope in 2013

 Data here.

 

Chief Kisses Hands A Lot visits Canada

 

We live in a pretend world where everyone is pissing down our backs while telling us it's raining

Men pretend to be women.

Doctors pretend jabs stop spread of disease.

Know nothings pretend masks don't work because mandates don't.

Bankers pretend low interest rates will bring down high inflation rates.

Politicians pretend they had nothing to do with causing inflation.

Scientists pretend the world has never been hotter and we're all going to die if we don't do something.

Policy makers pretend the future is electric while shutting down power plants.

Women pretend their fetuses aren't alive.

Catholics pretend the pope is infallible.

Muslims pretend Muhammad was illiterate.

Jews pretend to be chosen above all the races of the earth.

The Chicoms pretend they're not committing genocide in Xinjiang.

The Russkies pretend Ukraine had it coming.

White people pretend to be anything but white.

Americans pretend we're all good and everything is awesome.

 

 

 

 

This is CNN: Fredo's Connecticut pal with the Pope doll has been indicted for unlawful sexual activity with a female minor from Nevada (and her mother apparently), aka pedophilia and child-sex-trafficking

Story.

Fredo was fired from CNN a week ago for violating the standards of JoUrNoMaLiSm. 

But The Atlantic, December 9, 2021, wants you to know it is THE GREAT (FAKE) CHILD-SEX-TRAFFICKING EPIDEMIC.

Contra Matthew Rose: It's kind of hard to ask a nation of immigrants to be loyal, who are here because they are by definition disloyal

... what is needed is loyalty to one’s nation and people tied to, and measured by, “truths that transcend them".

If, with the Pope, the nation is properly viewed as a natural human community, there is little either natural or communal about this one.  

America, sorry to say it, was doomed from the start. We are a nation of treasonous bastards.

And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.

More.

A Baptist tells Adrian Vermeule America's not going to obey the pope

Here.

Sohrab Ahmari's Catholic kookery would give us for real the JFK taking orders from the pope we only once feared

Looks like Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court could be the pope-follower Americans only used to fear JFK was

Amy Coney Barrett Is Not a Safe Pick for the Supreme Court

Walls don't work, except in Israel, the Vatican, at Pelosi's house, Obama's, Paul Ryan's, and . . . prisons

Just a reminder that if God had meant this to be your position, your feet would be attached directly to your knees, and your hands to your shoulders

il papa assuming the position

Laugh of the Day: It used to be just a rhetorical question to ask "Is the pope catholic?"

Now it's a legitimate one.

Rush Limbaugh, just now.

Police in Colorado Springs won't investigate ACLUer who called for Trump supporters to be killed, citing freedom of speech

Reported here by CBS Denver:

'The post states, “The thing is, we have to really reach out to those who might consider voting for Trump and say, ‘This is Goebbels. This is the final solution. If you are voting for him I will have to shoot you before Election Day.’ They’re not going to listen to reason, so when justice is gone, there’s always force…” ... Wirbel did not respond to a request for comment. He is from Colorado Springs and police there say his post is covered by free speech and they do not intend to investigate.'

Evidently as long as you don't threaten a specific individual it's permitted to advocate killing the followers of Obama, or Clinton or Madonna or the Pope and so on.

Whatever happened to incitement laws? to law and order?

Colorado Springs has bigger problems than Planned Parenthood shootings.