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If humanity sprang from apes these people didn’t spring far enough.
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Another RW athlete saying God is calling him to run for office.
Ex-NFL kicker Feely to run for Congress in Ariz.
Former NFL kicker Jay Feely is leaving the broadcast booth after a decade and entering the political arena, telling ESPN's Josh Weinfuss on Tuesday that he will run for the U.S. House of Representatives in Arizona's 5th Congressional District.
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The leader of President Donald Trump’s White House Faith Office said Wednesday that she willingly “submits” to her husband, whom she dubbed the “head” of her household.
“God has an order,” Paula White-Cain told right-wing media outlet Real America’s Voiceas she described her vision of the divinely dictated relationship between men and women.
“Look, the head of my household is my husband, Jonathan Cain, period,” she emphasized.
“If there’s ever a time that a decision has to be made and we don’t agree on something, he’s the head,” she added, going on to say it’s “not hard to submit” to her husband.
White-Cain, who has been divorced twice, got her start as a televangelist. She also served as Trump’s spiritual adviser and helped lead his Evangelical advisory board during his first presidency.……..
“God has an order,” Paula White-Cain told right-wing media outlet Real America’s Voiceas she described her vision of the divinely dictated relationship between men and women.
“Look, the head of my household is my husband, Jonathan Cain, period,” she emphasized.
“If there’s ever a time that a decision has to be made and we don’t agree on something, he’s the head,” she added, going on to say it’s “not hard to submit” to her husband.
White-Cain, who has been divorced twice, got her start as a televangelist. She also served as Trump’s spiritual adviser and helped lead his Evangelical advisory board during his first presidency.……..
Trump’s Faith Office leader says she ‘submits’ to her husband in ‘God’s order’
‘God has an order,’ says Paula White-Cain, which apparently does not involve women taking the lead
www.independent.co.uk
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On the most recent episode of her YouTube show, the rightwing commentator Brett Cooper joined the rest of the world in jeering Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez’s brief flight to space.
“These women were completely dependent on men who built this spacecraft,” she said with a cheeky smirk. “Frankly, we all are, because men built civilization. They built the homes that we live in, they built the studio that I am recording in … the spaceships that all of these rich celebrities are flying around in.”
The difference between Cooper and feminists, she says, “is I choose to acknowledge that and celebrate it and be grateful”.
The Blue Origin flight was prime fodder for Cooper, a bubbly, fast-talking 23-year-old with silky espresso brown curls and colorful Pinterest-friendly prints on the wall behind her. She posts biweekly videos commenting on hot-button social and cultural issues.
Thumbnails on YouTube depict her – eyebrows raised quizzically, mouth agape in faux surprise – alongside titles like SNOW WHITE EPIC FAIL and CAPTAIN AMERICA HATES AMERICA? in yellow all caps.
These cultural flashpoints serve as her evidence that young women are finally “waking up” to the lies feminism has apparently told them.
There is a sizable audience for Cooper’s brand of disarming anti-feminist content. She had the second-fastest growing political YouTube channel in the first quarter of 2025 with over 900,000 new subscribers, according to data analyzed by researcher Kyle Tharp. Her Spotify audience is about 60% female, a spokesperson told Semafor.
Analyses of the 2024 election widely heralded the “manosphere” – the coalition of bro podcasters and YouTubers popular with male audiences – as key to delivering Donald Trump’s victory.
According to an AP poll, 56% of men under age 30 went for Trump compared with 41% four years prior. By meeting young men where they were at, Trump and his surrogates were able to reach voters who are typically among the least politically engaged segments of society.
Now, there are the beginnings of an organized effort to create a similar alternative rightwing media ecosystem targeting young female US audiences – one of the few demographics that has, until now, leaned substantially Democratic.
This new “womanosphere” includes Cooper’s channel as well as lifestyle magazines like the Conservateur and Evie, Candace Owens’s Club Candace, Alex Clark’s Maha (“Make America Healthy Again”) talkshow Culture Apothecary, conservative Christian influencer Allie Beth Stuckey’s Relatable, and swimmer turned anti-transgender activist Riley Gaines’s podcast Gaines For Girls.
Draw the circle a bit wider and you get the “tradwives” posting homemaking content on Instagram, the edgelord It Girls of Red Scare, and “femcel” influencers positioning themselves as the female answer to Tate.
While the women behind these outlets all have different styles and tactics, they are mostly aligned in their desire to return to a gender-essentialist worldview: women as submissive homemakers, men as strong providers.
Like the manosphere influencers, these outlets are animated by a grievance against “wokeness” and the belief that conservatives are the real oppressed minority. They claim that the liberal media and Hollywood are promoting feminist propaganda, and so they must fight back.
Though they present themselves as independent thinkers, their ideology lines up neatly with the Trump administration’s quest to dismantlereproductive rights, roll back protections for LGBTQ+ people, and advance an anti-scienceagenda that puts the health of millions of Americans at risk.……..
“These women were completely dependent on men who built this spacecraft,” she said with a cheeky smirk. “Frankly, we all are, because men built civilization. They built the homes that we live in, they built the studio that I am recording in … the spaceships that all of these rich celebrities are flying around in.”
The difference between Cooper and feminists, she says, “is I choose to acknowledge that and celebrate it and be grateful”.
The Blue Origin flight was prime fodder for Cooper, a bubbly, fast-talking 23-year-old with silky espresso brown curls and colorful Pinterest-friendly prints on the wall behind her. She posts biweekly videos commenting on hot-button social and cultural issues.
Thumbnails on YouTube depict her – eyebrows raised quizzically, mouth agape in faux surprise – alongside titles like SNOW WHITE EPIC FAIL and CAPTAIN AMERICA HATES AMERICA? in yellow all caps.
These cultural flashpoints serve as her evidence that young women are finally “waking up” to the lies feminism has apparently told them.
There is a sizable audience for Cooper’s brand of disarming anti-feminist content. She had the second-fastest growing political YouTube channel in the first quarter of 2025 with over 900,000 new subscribers, according to data analyzed by researcher Kyle Tharp. Her Spotify audience is about 60% female, a spokesperson told Semafor.
Analyses of the 2024 election widely heralded the “manosphere” – the coalition of bro podcasters and YouTubers popular with male audiences – as key to delivering Donald Trump’s victory.
According to an AP poll, 56% of men under age 30 went for Trump compared with 41% four years prior. By meeting young men where they were at, Trump and his surrogates were able to reach voters who are typically among the least politically engaged segments of society.
Now, there are the beginnings of an organized effort to create a similar alternative rightwing media ecosystem targeting young female US audiences – one of the few demographics that has, until now, leaned substantially Democratic.
This new “womanosphere” includes Cooper’s channel as well as lifestyle magazines like the Conservateur and Evie, Candace Owens’s Club Candace, Alex Clark’s Maha (“Make America Healthy Again”) talkshow Culture Apothecary, conservative Christian influencer Allie Beth Stuckey’s Relatable, and swimmer turned anti-transgender activist Riley Gaines’s podcast Gaines For Girls.
Draw the circle a bit wider and you get the “tradwives” posting homemaking content on Instagram, the edgelord It Girls of Red Scare, and “femcel” influencers positioning themselves as the female answer to Tate.
While the women behind these outlets all have different styles and tactics, they are mostly aligned in their desire to return to a gender-essentialist worldview: women as submissive homemakers, men as strong providers.
Like the manosphere influencers, these outlets are animated by a grievance against “wokeness” and the belief that conservatives are the real oppressed minority. They claim that the liberal media and Hollywood are promoting feminist propaganda, and so they must fight back.
Though they present themselves as independent thinkers, their ideology lines up neatly with the Trump administration’s quest to dismantlereproductive rights, roll back protections for LGBTQ+ people, and advance an anti-scienceagenda that puts the health of millions of Americans at risk.……..
Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican
A crop of conservative personalities such as Brett Cooper and Candace Owens, and outlets like Evie, are convincing young women of a gender-essentialist worldview
www.theguardian.com
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Does it include B@D? so a scammer like this wants us to believe she is such a Christian???
I seem to recall something about adultery that The Christ commented about…
Yeesh. People will do anything to get attention.On the most recent episode of her YouTube show, the rightwing commentator Brett Cooper joined the rest of the world in jeering Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez’s brief flight to space.
“These women were completely dependent on men who built this spacecraft,” she said with a cheeky smirk. “Frankly, we all are, because men built civilization. They built the homes that we live in, they built the studio that I am recording in … the spaceships that all of these rich celebrities are flying around in.”
The difference between Cooper and feminists, she says, “is I choose to acknowledge that and celebrate it and be grateful”.
The Blue Origin flight was prime fodder for Cooper, a bubbly, fast-talking 23-year-old with silky espresso brown curls and colorful Pinterest-friendly prints on the wall behind her. She posts biweekly videos commenting on hot-button social and cultural issues.
Thumbnails on YouTube depict her – eyebrows raised quizzically, mouth agape in faux surprise – alongside titles like SNOW WHITE EPIC FAIL and CAPTAIN AMERICA HATES AMERICA? in yellow all caps.
These cultural flashpoints serve as her evidence that young women are finally “waking up” to the lies feminism has apparently told them.
There is a sizable audience for Cooper’s brand of disarming anti-feminist content. She had the second-fastest growing political YouTube channel in the first quarter of 2025 with over 900,000 new subscribers, according to data analyzed by researcher Kyle Tharp. Her Spotify audience is about 60% female, a spokesperson told Semafor.
Analyses of the 2024 election widely heralded the “manosphere” – the coalition of bro podcasters and YouTubers popular with male audiences – as key to delivering Donald Trump’s victory.
According to an AP poll, 56% of men under age 30 went for Trump compared with 41% four years prior. By meeting young men where they were at, Trump and his surrogates were able to reach voters who are typically among the least politically engaged segments of society.
Now, there are the beginnings of an organized effort to create a similar alternative rightwing media ecosystem targeting young female US audiences – one of the few demographics that has, until now, leaned substantially Democratic.
This new “womanosphere” includes Cooper’s channel as well as lifestyle magazines like the Conservateur and Evie, Candace Owens’s Club Candace, Alex Clark’s Maha (“Make America Healthy Again”) talkshow Culture Apothecary, conservative Christian influencer Allie Beth Stuckey’s Relatable, and swimmer turned anti-transgender activist Riley Gaines’s podcast Gaines For Girls.
Draw the circle a bit wider and you get the “tradwives” posting homemaking content on Instagram, the edgelord It Girls of Red Scare, and “femcel” influencers positioning themselves as the female answer to Tate.
While the women behind these outlets all have different styles and tactics, they are mostly aligned in their desire to return to a gender-essentialist worldview: women as submissive homemakers, men as strong providers.
Like the manosphere influencers, these outlets are animated by a grievance against “wokeness” and the belief that conservatives are the real oppressed minority. They claim that the liberal media and Hollywood are promoting feminist propaganda, and so they must fight back.
Though they present themselves as independent thinkers, their ideology lines up neatly with the Trump administration’s quest to dismantlereproductive rights, roll back protections for LGBTQ+ people, and advance an anti-scienceagenda that puts the health of millions of Americans at risk.……..
Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican
A crop of conservative personalities such as Brett Cooper and Candace Owens, and outlets like Evie, are convincing young women of a gender-essentialist worldviewwww.theguardian.com
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Donald Trump has pardoned a Nevada Republican politician who was awaiting sentencing on federal charges that she used money meant for a statue honoring a slain police officer for personal costs, including plastic surgery.Classy
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada Republican politician who ran unsuccessfully two years ago for state treasurer was found guilty Thursday of using funds raised for a statue honoring a slain police officer for personal costs, including plastic surgery.
A jury convicted Michele Fiore, a former Las Vegas city councilwoman and state lawmaker, of six counts of federal wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, KLAS-TV in Las Vegas reported. The weeklong trial in U.S. District Court in Nevada began last week.
Each count carries a possible penalty of 20 years in prison. Fiore, who has been suspended without pay from her current elected position as a justice of the peace in rural Pahrump, Nevada, will be sentenced Jan. 6. She will remain free while she awaits sentencing.
Her attorney, Michael Sanft, said Fiore will appeal the conviction.
Federal prosecutors said at trial that Fiore had raised more than $70,000 for the statue of a Las Vegas police officer shot and killed in 2014 in the line of duty, but instead spent the money on plastic surgery, rent and her daughter’s wedding……..
Nevada politician guilty of using $70,000 meant for statue of slain officer for personal costs
A Nevada Republican politician who ran unsuccessfully two years ago for state treasurer has been found guilty of misusing funds for a statue honoring a slain police officer for political and personal costs.apnews.com
Michele Fiore, a former Las Vegas city councilwoman and state lawmaker who ran unsuccessfully in 2022 for state treasurer, was found guilty in October of six counts of federal wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. She was out of custody ahead of her sentencing, which had been scheduled for next month.
In a lengthy statement Thursday on Facebook, the loyal Trump supporter expressed gratitude to the president while also accusing the U.S. government and “select media outlets” of a broad, decade-long conspiracy to “target and dismantle” her life………
Trump pardons Nevada politician who paid for cosmetic surgery with funds to honor a slain officer
President Donald Trump has issued a full pardon for loyalist Michele Fiore, who paid for her plastic surgery with funds that were meant for a statue honoring a slain police officer.
apnews.com
My guess is that they followed the money. She was caught. But she also learned as much of MAGA has that screeching loud enough about being “targeted” can get the attention of the dim-witted Trump either directly or through some fellow whiner.LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Donald Trump has pardoned a Nevada Republican politician who was awaiting sentencing on federal charges that she used money meant for a statue honoring a slain police officer for personal costs, including plastic surgery.
Michele Fiore, a former Las Vegas city councilwoman and state lawmaker who ran unsuccessfully in 2022 for state treasurer, was found guilty in October of six counts of federal wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. She was out of custody ahead of her sentencing, which had been scheduled for next month.
In a lengthy statement Thursday on Facebook, the loyal Trump supporter expressed gratitude to the president while also accusing the U.S. government and “select media outlets” of a broad, decade-long conspiracy to “target and dismantle” her life………
Trump pardons Nevada politician who paid for cosmetic surgery with funds to honor a slain officer
President Donald Trump has issued a full pardon for loyalist Michele Fiore, who paid for her plastic surgery with funds that were meant for a statue honoring a slain police officer.apnews.com
Men didn’t build civilization. Humans built civilization. Of course, men did give us patriarchy, paternalism, slavery, religionism, countless wars, famine as weapon, racism, misogyny, nationalism/Christian nationalism, the so-called clash of civilizations, destruction of indigenous peoples, land theft…On the most recent episode of her YouTube show, the rightwing commentator Brett Cooper joined the rest of the world in jeering Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez’s brief flight to space.
“These women were completely dependent on men who built this spacecraft,” she said with a cheeky smirk. “Frankly, we all are, because men built civilization. They built the homes that we live in, they built the studio that I am recording in … the spaceships that all of these rich celebrities are flying around in.”
The difference between Cooper and feminists, she says, “is I choose to acknowledge that and celebrate it and be grateful”.
The Blue Origin flight was prime fodder for Cooper, a bubbly, fast-talking 23-year-old with silky espresso brown curls and colorful Pinterest-friendly prints on the wall behind her. She posts biweekly videos commenting on hot-button social and cultural issues.
Thumbnails on YouTube depict her – eyebrows raised quizzically, mouth agape in faux surprise – alongside titles like SNOW WHITE EPIC FAIL and CAPTAIN AMERICA HATES AMERICA? in yellow all caps.
These cultural flashpoints serve as her evidence that young women are finally “waking up” to the lies feminism has apparently told them.
There is a sizable audience for Cooper’s brand of disarming anti-feminist content. She had the second-fastest growing political YouTube channel in the first quarter of 2025 with over 900,000 new subscribers, according to data analyzed by researcher Kyle Tharp. Her Spotify audience is about 60% female, a spokesperson told Semafor.
Analyses of the 2024 election widely heralded the “manosphere” – the coalition of bro podcasters and YouTubers popular with male audiences – as key to delivering Donald Trump’s victory.
According to an AP poll, 56% of men under age 30 went for Trump compared with 41% four years prior. By meeting young men where they were at, Trump and his surrogates were able to reach voters who are typically among the least politically engaged segments of society.
Now, there are the beginnings of an organized effort to create a similar alternative rightwing media ecosystem targeting young female US audiences – one of the few demographics that has, until now, leaned substantially Democratic.
This new “womanosphere” includes Cooper’s channel as well as lifestyle magazines like the Conservateur and Evie, Candace Owens’s Club Candace, Alex Clark’s Maha (“Make America Healthy Again”) talkshow Culture Apothecary, conservative Christian influencer Allie Beth Stuckey’s Relatable, and swimmer turned anti-transgender activist Riley Gaines’s podcast Gaines For Girls.
Draw the circle a bit wider and you get the “tradwives” posting homemaking content on Instagram, the edgelord It Girls of Red Scare, and “femcel” influencers positioning themselves as the female answer to Tate.
While the women behind these outlets all have different styles and tactics, they are mostly aligned in their desire to return to a gender-essentialist worldview: women as submissive homemakers, men as strong providers.
Like the manosphere influencers, these outlets are animated by a grievance against “wokeness” and the belief that conservatives are the real oppressed minority. They claim that the liberal media and Hollywood are promoting feminist propaganda, and so they must fight back.
Though they present themselves as independent thinkers, their ideology lines up neatly with the Trump administration’s quest to dismantlereproductive rights, roll back protections for LGBTQ+ people, and advance an anti-scienceagenda that puts the health of millions of Americans at risk.……..
Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican
A crop of conservative personalities such as Brett Cooper and Candace Owens, and outlets like Evie, are convincing young women of a gender-essentialist worldviewwww.theguardian.com
Have I left anything out?
The Bankrupt Administration is wholesale attacking women’s rights. Unless the men are idiots (many likely), they need to be defending the rights of women, especially the self autonomy of their bodies, and their acceptance into professions historically controlled by men. Most of them won’t be going back to the kitchen just because men beat them.On the most recent episode of her YouTube show, the rightwing commentator Brett Cooper joined the rest of the world in jeering Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez’s brief flight to space.
“These women were completely dependent on men who built this spacecraft,” she said with a cheeky smirk. “Frankly, we all are, because men built civilization. They built the homes that we live in, they built the studio that I am recording in … the spaceships that all of these rich celebrities are flying around in.”
The difference between Cooper and feminists, she says, “is I choose to acknowledge that and celebrate it and be grateful”.
The Blue Origin flight was prime fodder for Cooper, a bubbly, fast-talking 23-year-old with silky espresso brown curls and colorful Pinterest-friendly prints on the wall behind her. She posts biweekly videos commenting on hot-button social and cultural issues.
Thumbnails on YouTube depict her – eyebrows raised quizzically, mouth agape in faux surprise – alongside titles like SNOW WHITE EPIC FAIL and CAPTAIN AMERICA HATES AMERICA? in yellow all caps.
These cultural flashpoints serve as her evidence that young women are finally “waking up” to the lies feminism has apparently told them.
There is a sizable audience for Cooper’s brand of disarming anti-feminist content. She had the second-fastest growing political YouTube channel in the first quarter of 2025 with over 900,000 new subscribers, according to data analyzed by researcher Kyle Tharp. Her Spotify audience is about 60% female, a spokesperson told Semafor.
Analyses of the 2024 election widely heralded the “manosphere” – the coalition of bro podcasters and YouTubers popular with male audiences – as key to delivering Donald Trump’s victory.
According to an AP poll, 56% of men under age 30 went for Trump compared with 41% four years prior. By meeting young men where they were at, Trump and his surrogates were able to reach voters who are typically among the least politically engaged segments of society.
Now, there are the beginnings of an organized effort to create a similar alternative rightwing media ecosystem targeting young female US audiences – one of the few demographics that has, until now, leaned substantially Democratic.
This new “womanosphere” includes Cooper’s channel as well as lifestyle magazines like the Conservateur and Evie, Candace Owens’s Club Candace, Alex Clark’s Maha (“Make America Healthy Again”) talkshow Culture Apothecary, conservative Christian influencer Allie Beth Stuckey’s Relatable, and swimmer turned anti-transgender activist Riley Gaines’s podcast Gaines For Girls.
Draw the circle a bit wider and you get the “tradwives” posting homemaking content on Instagram, the edgelord It Girls of Red Scare, and “femcel” influencers positioning themselves as the female answer to Tate.
While the women behind these outlets all have different styles and tactics, they are mostly aligned in their desire to return to a gender-essentialist worldview: women as submissive homemakers, men as strong providers.
Like the manosphere influencers, these outlets are animated by a grievance against “wokeness” and the belief that conservatives are the real oppressed minority. They claim that the liberal media and Hollywood are promoting feminist propaganda, and so they must fight back.
Though they present themselves as independent thinkers, their ideology lines up neatly with the Trump administration’s quest to dismantlereproductive rights, roll back protections for LGBTQ+ people, and advance an anti-scienceagenda that puts the health of millions of Americans at risk.……..
Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican
A crop of conservative personalities such as Brett Cooper and Candace Owens, and outlets like Evie, are convincing young women of a gender-essentialist worldviewwww.theguardian.com
And I sincerely hope that those women as a group tell the men to fork off. That said, the All Female Space Flight Crew was a wasted effort when most of the women were tourists. It’s not significant as compared to something like the first three woman flight deck crew on an airliner that represents the progress of professional women in an industry dominated by men.
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During U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s brief meeting with the mortally ailing Pope Francis last week, he said he’d been praying for the pontiff’s recovery. But that wasn’t the case for U.S. lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene and other MAGA luminaries, who had no compunction celebrating the news of the pope’s passing.
“Evil is being defeated by the hand of God,” Greene wrote on X on Easter Monday (of all days). “Good work, JD,” trolled conservative commentator Ann Coulter, mockingly implying that Vance, who was the last foreign leader to see the pope alive, had somehow helped usher Francis out of this world.
Meanwhile, Benjamin Harnwell — sidekick to former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, who’s been trying to establish a right-wing “gladiator school” in a Lazio monastery near Rome — lost no time comparing Francis to King Herod, ancient Rome’s satrap in Judea who, according to the Bible, had all male infants in Bethlehem massacred, believing Jesus might be among them. In an exchange with POLITICO about his rhetoric’s belligerence, Harnwell said he’d be a hypocrite to conform to “your norms of compassion,” before adding: “I’m very glad he’s dead.”
Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised at all the venom. MAGA stalwarts never hesitate to use personal invective and hyperbole to smear and intimidate — it’s their way of grabbing attention while seeking to break opponents and discipline institutions that won’t bend the knee, whether church, university or media outlet. And Francis, who was no friend to populist nationalism, certainly infuriated them.
The irony is that MAGA leaders are now marching in lockstep with a deep state — in this case, the Vatican’s cloistered and rigidly doctrinaire insiders, who would like to turn the clock back not just to before Francis but preferably to before John XXIII’s liberalizing reforms of the 1960s.
Francis began skirmishing with MAGA during U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term in 2016, criticizing Trump’s plans to build a “big beautiful wall” along the southern U.S. border. At a Mass in Ciudad Juárez, he said that a “a person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”
A furious Trump dubbed the comments “disgraceful.”
Then, in 2017, Francis warned against rising populist movements, cautioning that they could lead to a new Hitler. Noting that Germany in 1933 was the most obvious example of populism in Europe, “in times of crisis, we lack judgement,” he told Spain’s El Pais newspaper. “Hitler didn’t steal the power, his people voted for him, and then he destroyed his people.”
But beyond Francis’ unrelenting advocacy for migrants and insistence on their dignity, his ecological warnings about climate change and condemnation of the “shameful” war in Gaza, MAGA never forgave him for giving former President Joe Biden a pass on his backing abortion rights — nor could they overlook the warm relations he enjoyed with former President Barack Obama.
But Trump himself was careful not to go full tilt at the spiritual leader, who enjoys high poll ratings in the U.S., with around 80 percent of American Catholics regularly expressing favorable opinions of him................
“Evil is being defeated by the hand of God,” Greene wrote on X on Easter Monday (of all days). “Good work, JD,” trolled conservative commentator Ann Coulter, mockingly implying that Vance, who was the last foreign leader to see the pope alive, had somehow helped usher Francis out of this world.
Meanwhile, Benjamin Harnwell — sidekick to former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, who’s been trying to establish a right-wing “gladiator school” in a Lazio monastery near Rome — lost no time comparing Francis to King Herod, ancient Rome’s satrap in Judea who, according to the Bible, had all male infants in Bethlehem massacred, believing Jesus might be among them. In an exchange with POLITICO about his rhetoric’s belligerence, Harnwell said he’d be a hypocrite to conform to “your norms of compassion,” before adding: “I’m very glad he’s dead.”
Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised at all the venom. MAGA stalwarts never hesitate to use personal invective and hyperbole to smear and intimidate — it’s their way of grabbing attention while seeking to break opponents and discipline institutions that won’t bend the knee, whether church, university or media outlet. And Francis, who was no friend to populist nationalism, certainly infuriated them.
The irony is that MAGA leaders are now marching in lockstep with a deep state — in this case, the Vatican’s cloistered and rigidly doctrinaire insiders, who would like to turn the clock back not just to before Francis but preferably to before John XXIII’s liberalizing reforms of the 1960s.
Francis began skirmishing with MAGA during U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term in 2016, criticizing Trump’s plans to build a “big beautiful wall” along the southern U.S. border. At a Mass in Ciudad Juárez, he said that a “a person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”
A furious Trump dubbed the comments “disgraceful.”
Then, in 2017, Francis warned against rising populist movements, cautioning that they could lead to a new Hitler. Noting that Germany in 1933 was the most obvious example of populism in Europe, “in times of crisis, we lack judgement,” he told Spain’s El Pais newspaper. “Hitler didn’t steal the power, his people voted for him, and then he destroyed his people.”
But beyond Francis’ unrelenting advocacy for migrants and insistence on their dignity, his ecological warnings about climate change and condemnation of the “shameful” war in Gaza, MAGA never forgave him for giving former President Joe Biden a pass on his backing abortion rights — nor could they overlook the warm relations he enjoyed with former President Barack Obama.
But Trump himself was careful not to go full tilt at the spiritual leader, who enjoys high poll ratings in the U.S., with around 80 percent of American Catholics regularly expressing favorable opinions of him................
MAGA vs. Pope Francis
The venomous reactions to the pope’s passing are no surprise, but it’s ironic that MAGA is marching in lockstep with the Vatican’s cloistered and rigidly doctrinaire insiders.
www.politico.eu
Completely disgusting, if these hate filled, so called Christians (I don’t believe they are) they’ll be the ones who’d be burning in Hell (if you believe in that).During U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s brief meeting with the mortally ailing Pope Francis last week, he said he’d been praying for the pontiff’s recovery. But that wasn’t the case for U.S. lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene and other MAGA luminaries, who had no compunction celebrating the news of the pope’s passing.
“Evil is being defeated by the hand of God,” Greene wrote on X on Easter Monday (of all days). “Good work, JD,” trolled conservative commentator Ann Coulter, mockingly implying that Vance, who was the last foreign leader to see the pope alive, had somehow helped usher Francis out of this world.
Meanwhile, Benjamin Harnwell — sidekick to former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, who’s been trying to establish a right-wing “gladiator school” in a Lazio monastery near Rome — lost no time comparing Francis to King Herod, ancient Rome’s satrap in Judea who, according to the Bible, had all male infants in Bethlehem massacred, believing Jesus might be among them. In an exchange with POLITICO about his rhetoric’s belligerence, Harnwell said he’d be a hypocrite to conform to “your norms of compassion,” before adding: “I’m very glad he’s dead.”
Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised at all the venom. MAGA stalwarts never hesitate to use personal invective and hyperbole to smear and intimidate — it’s their way of grabbing attention while seeking to break opponents and discipline institutions that won’t bend the knee, whether church, university or media outlet. And Francis, who was no friend to populist nationalism, certainly infuriated them.
The irony is that MAGA leaders are now marching in lockstep with a deep state — in this case, the Vatican’s cloistered and rigidly doctrinaire insiders, who would like to turn the clock back not just to before Francis but preferably to before John XXIII’s liberalizing reforms of the 1960s.
Francis began skirmishing with MAGA during U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term in 2016, criticizing Trump’s plans to build a “big beautiful wall” along the southern U.S. border. At a Mass in Ciudad Juárez, he said that a “a person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”
A furious Trump dubbed the comments “disgraceful.”
Then, in 2017, Francis warned against rising populist movements, cautioning that they could lead to a new Hitler. Noting that Germany in 1933 was the most obvious example of populism in Europe, “in times of crisis, we lack judgement,” he told Spain’s El Pais newspaper. “Hitler didn’t steal the power, his people voted for him, and then he destroyed his people.”
But beyond Francis’ unrelenting advocacy for migrants and insistence on their dignity, his ecological warnings about climate change and condemnation of the “shameful” war in Gaza, MAGA never forgave him for giving former President Joe Biden a pass on his backing abortion rights — nor could they overlook the warm relations he enjoyed with former President Barack Obama.
But Trump himself was careful not to go full tilt at the spiritual leader, who enjoys high poll ratings in the U.S., with around 80 percent of American Catholics regularly expressing favorable opinions of him................
MAGA vs. Pope Francis
The venomous reactions to the pope’s passing are no surprise, but it’s ironic that MAGA is marching in lockstep with the Vatican’s cloistered and rigidly doctrinaire insiders.www.politico.eu
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