What's even crazier is people being surprised...

Like, people honestly think conservatives are actually religious and they use religion to dictate their politics and not the other way around.

MAGA is JD’s religion now.

Juliette Dianne Vance

James Donald Bowman

"they're very low IQ." "Stupid" "losers" all of these weak insults, and they never, ever give examples of such. "How so are they losers?" "What makes you say they're stupid?" There's never any push back. These are the things a bully says because they're insecure and don't know why. There's no evidence or thought given to these insults.

How is the Pope weak on crime? Show me when the Pope said Iran should have nukes. This is the most basic push back. The media just lets him say whatever without questioning it.

If you can read this you are a pope. Specticals, testicles, wallet, and watch. Ramen.

The Pope should just excommunicate the couchfucker.

Not justifying mr couch fucker, but I will point out: modern Catholic doctrine does not actually say the Pope is infallible. Rather, it is that he is infallible when speaking "ex cathedra", literally "from the chair", which is also like... weird with different peoples' opinions on what is ex cathedra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility

If a core Catholic belief is the pope is infallible

It isn't. That's only when the Pope is speaking "ex cathedra" meaning "from the chair" which Pius IX defined as

when, in the exercise of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, [the Bishop of Rome] defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole Church.

And then curbstomp him to drive the point home.

I think time and experience has proved Jesus right - priests should definitely cut off their bollocks.

The other part was to make it a patriarchal church instead of a matriarchal one. The Virgin Mary used to be the holy figure of Christianity, but men didn't like that.

Henry VIII didn’t do so badly for himself.

A antipope you say? That hasn't happened in a long time.

Nah, Vance is going to jump over to evangelicalism. It's more expedient; the white supremacists have always been anti-Catholicism and this will only serve his larger purposes. Also, evangelicals are more lenient on divorce (unless Erica has already moved on since she dropped out of that recent TPUSA event that drew like eleven people the other day)

How convenient for Christianity 🙄

Vance is kind of a fruit tho

Did you know God's favorite son (David) murdered two hundred men so that he could remove their foreskins? He used them to purchase a bride (her price was 100 foreskins, but David doubled that because, well, you know, he just really likes murdering men and cutting off their foreskins).

What kind of fruit is that? I dunno. maybe some kind of fruit roll-up

Take him into a backroom with promises of a soft couch.

Then just fucking shoot him in the head. Lights out. No fanfare. Just gone.

What funny to watch (I mean, gallows humor funny) is that as Trump gets weaker, the various temptations for Crown Prince Couchfucker to coup him just grow exponentially.

I like to imagine Trump and Vance sitting across from each other, silently weighing each other up, Trump telling himself shit like "JD owes me everything, he wouldn't," and Vance just looking back across at Trump like Trump's a couch.

No, it's not. He'll flourish.

Watch and see!

We can't even get rid of Ted Cruz. They stay in office until they are half-dead (see Biden, Mitch, etc.)

He's banking on being POTUS for the back half of Trump's term. Trump could keel over any day, but if he's still alive by New Year's we'll almost certainly see Vance try to remove him with the 25th. Once he's in power, he just needs to be less batshit than Trump for two years and he'll be in a good position to win an election.

It’s silly because it’s based on the idea that God is a being who would pick sides in the first place.

If you read the Bible, you'll find that God picked sides immediately, and has never stopped. He even has a "Chosen People", you can't possibly pick sides any further.

We may all be God's children, but remember, God is perfectly fine with murdering billions of His children, and not only that, He tortures them with Hell forever after. He can't even let them die in peace.

Yes, it is certainly silly, which makes it all the more horrifying

I feel like there's a really great Bob Dylan song that deals with this very topic... Maybe JD Vance should listen to it?

The Pentagon already threatened it mafia-style.

“In January, behind closed doors at the Pentagon, Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre — Pope Leo XIV’s then-ambassador to the United States — and delivered a lecture,” said Hale.

“America has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world,” Colby and his associates informed the cardinal. “The Catholic Church had better take its side.”

As the room temperature grew, Hale said he confirmed that one U.S. official “reached for a fourteenth-century weapon and invoked the Avignon Papacy, the period when the French Crown used military force to bend the bishop of Rome to its will.”

During the period in question, there were two Popes. One in the Vatican, and one in Avignon. I'm fairly certain that if the Vatican doesn't bend to Trump's will, there will soon be a Church of America with it's own Pope.

Complete with supply side Jesus

They think he fights crime

As absolute monarch, he is in fact both of these thkngs.