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steve schreibman's avatar

this true lunacy. No christian in his right mind would up with this clown and his paper tiger posturing. The audacity of threatening the Pope is a final statement of TRUMP LUNacy

Pam C's avatar

This administration is so out of control it's not even funny anymore. Thinking they can tell the pope and the Vatican what to do? Especially a president that sells Chinese Bibles and didn't touch the Bible when he took his oath of office? It's just ridiculous. They just keep tapping themselves and I don't know when they're going to stop. If Congress can't get there act together I guess maybe we deserve what the mega people voted for. And if that's the case I truly hope that whoever is our next president and his administration can fix all the fuck ups from this one. And hopefully they'll get reelected so they've got enough time to do it.

Cathy Loiacono's avatar

Trump is the village idiot of the United States. It is disturbing how many people who voted for him, either have no morals or watch too much Fox and become their zombies.

cindee68's avatar

He makes career ending statements at least weekly, and yet here we are.

igor isa🤘⚧️'s avatar

💯‼️ there's no question drümpf is completely insane. sadly the 25th amendment can’t help us. I'm disheartened how many folk think it's an ez fix when it's just bad idea theatre! i been sharing around @MilesTaylor's article (linked below) for deets on why 25th was avoided inside drümpf #1: mostly cuz drümpf gets 3 weeks in power before removal to incite a bloody civil war. I also worry if he's deemed insane & incompetent: he'll have an escape hatch from accountability. Impeachment’s better, Art 2 Sec 4 has the tools. I believe We the People have power & strength in numbers to #ProtectOurElections. we must ALL put in the effort to make them #TooBigToRig; then when dems take both house & senate impeachment becomes ez as pie 🤞💙🌊🇺🇸🙏🏻‼️

🧚🏽‍♂️LINK FAIRY sez for your convenience, Miles’ article, highly recommended, please share it around anytime you see/hear mention of the 25th: https://substack.com/@milestaylor/note/c-239178105?r=60kbqc&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

Phil's avatar

The not-in-their right mind evangelicals want a US authoritarian government akin to Orban's Hungary. They're going to be shocked at the backlash when they try it in Red, as well as Blue states. It would work about as well as Prohibition did.

Abandoned Afghan Ally's avatar

As an Afghan Allywho stood with U.S. forces and was left behind, this hits painfully close to home. Truth tellers like Courtney Williams are heroesfacing jail for speaking what the world needs to hear. Independent journalism isn’t just importantit’s life-saving for people like us.

Rosemary E Gaskell's avatar

Trump REALLY wants to lose the next election. Conscription. There goes the young white male vote. Then going on to hit the Vatican. Bye bye Catholic vote. I am not Catholic and am not all that impressed by that faith, neither do I have conscription aged children but I stand with the Vatican and the mothers of America. in this they have my support. Trump has no businesses tolerating this treatment of America and a religious house.

Elena's avatar

Mother to mother, woman to woman, I agree with you totally and completely. I have four sons and 9 grandsons, and I will fight to keep them safe.

Robot Bender's avatar

There's about 53M Catholics in the US. That's a LOT of votes.

Stuyvesant Bearns's avatar

More than enough to swing both houses.

Will Catholic people pay attention and see the handwriting on the wall?

Talvi’s Mom's avatar

You and me both Sister.

Stu Rhodes's avatar

Foxtrot Delta Tango!

Stuyvesant Bearns's avatar

Great message!

Took me a few seconds to figure it out.

In occupied Paris in WWII, people would surrepritiously chack the Morse Code for "V" - "Victory" on the walls when no Gestapo were around.

Since we DO NOT have a Gestapo to avoid I URGE a national campaign of chalking "FDT" everywheree possible.

This is the sort of stuff that will drive our Narcissist in Chief absolutely BONKERS.

OH WAIT! HE ALREADY IS.

Mary Sims's avatar

I am stunned every day. Groundhog day in hell.

Jeannine B Busby's avatar

This AUTH AUTHORITARIAN REGIME IS WAY OUT OF HAND!!! NO ONE IS SAFE!!

History will be very bad for the fool in office and he knows it, so why not get rid of the EVIDENCE NOW. There will be hell to pay when this is over and I hope a lot of this regimes accolades are in prison.

We are living in the worst judicial time, I think ever in the 250 yrs of AMERICA.

PS, I HOPE THERE WILL BE THE BIGGEST MOST UNBELIEVABLE PROTEST EVER AT THE 250 YRS THAT🌮🤡 IS PUTTING ON FOR HIMSELF!

Patricia Batleman's avatar

The late, former CIA Director, Bill Colby, has to be rolling over in his grave that his grandson, Elbridge, did that to an emissary of the Pope. Really sad.

Stuyvesant Bearns's avatar

YES IT IS.

But look at it this way: Trump has just driven one more massive spike into his political coffin.

And OH BOY, am I glad that I am not a Republican running for office this coming November.

Rose's avatar

I understood it was an Israeli reporter who leaked the news..not the woman they are charging

Lynne 🇨🇦's avatar

Thanks so much for sharing 😊

SG, Newport RI's avatar

The whole Trump administration with its oligarchic cabal and congressional enablers should be tried under Nuremberg 2.0 in 2029 or sooner post impeachment if democrats regain the senate and the congress in midterms with 2/3 majority.

Talvi’s Mom's avatar

Trump/Pentagon threaten the Pope? I’m not Catholic but I wouldn’t get too close to any of them or that building. Lightening bolts could be eminent. That is just so wrong.

Melanie's avatar

Thank you for such important reporting!

Libby's avatar

Great reporting! Thank you !

Bea's avatar

Maybe Gen Z doesn't remember because they are a social media generation missing that generation in history, assumed based on how they voted this time around, but every NATO country bled for the US when Bush took us into a never-ending war. Numbers killed and wounded from these countries equaled our own. Of the Hispanic and other nation soldiers who fought for America in exchange for citizenship, many have not received it.

Wanda Ronk-Ford's avatar

What ever happened to the whistleblowers complaint that got hidden because it was a threat to national security ? So much every single day that things get forgotten too quickly