Gonna tell my kids this was Dandadan

yeah please stay with us

Oh he’s like CLOSE to death close to death

This means if you're in the UK and haven't signed this yet, please do. At 100k signatures they have to discuss it again.

Literally the least you can do!!

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I DON'T THINK ANY OF THOSE SHOULD BE LEGAL

Respectfully, Dennis The Menace The Comic, I reeeeeaaaally don't think you want to open the can of worms that is "what would Dennis's life be like if there were no comic strips"

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

I guess whoever wrote this headline assumes NPR has an infinite amount of Bob Ross paintings to auction off and continue their funding

The fuck is wrong with you?

I know they were big mad that his response to Charlie Kirk’s death was basically “thoughts and prayers” 💀

you know they wanted him to do the funeral

obviously the Fox News-pilled are already calling him “woke Pope” and there are a lot of people talking shit

but is that just Fox News pundits and random influencer blowhards and like five asshole cardinals? can Trump’s base of white Catholic voters be turned around? this feels like a test of that

anyway we all know I was Team Pizzaballa at the conclave for both name reasons and Gaza reasons, but Francis handpicked this guy and I continue to believe it was to bring the right-wing American garbage monsters back in line (or, if they won’t go, to replace them)

I’m interested in the degree to which things like declaring war on Trump while wearing the fancy garb are a manifestation of an attempt to drive a bit of a wedge. not just declaring “I, the American Pope, am not Trump’s yes-man, but also the rest of you assholes aren’t supposed to be either”

I would imagine there to be a pretty broad-based resentment on the part of a lot of Vatican guys toward the chokehold US politics has over the US church. we are huge outliers. trying to deny communion to politicians you don’t like is not normal practice. and the antivax stuff made Francis INSANE

the Latin Mass is a perfect example of this. 25 years ago it was for monks and nerds. now it is for misogynist white supremacist antisemites. but Leo would have come up in a Kennedy Catholic world, where in American cities, rosaries and Latin chanting could fully coexist with civil rights protests

one thing I’m pondering, and I don’t know if I can describe it very well, is what feels like a very Chicago Catholic energy around separating CHURCH conservatism from POLITICAL conservativism, which the trads and the sedevacantists across the asshole spectrum from JD Vance to Cardinal Dolan conflate

but I think the intersections of violence and money and power are really important to him, and if all he did over the course of his tenure was pull the Catholic Church back from policing sexual and bodily autonomy toward defending the marginalized, that would shake up the US church a lot

I think as far as LGBTQ rights we will probably see no more or less than leaving in place whatever Francis did. I don’t know that I see him enacting major reforms there. I also don’t see him softening the church’s stance on abortion, except insofar that not opening with it actually kinda IS progress

now

is he personally pro-life

almost without question

is this gonna be an area where we always disagree

for sure

but telling the US bishops they’re out of pocket for betting all their chips on Roe to the exclusion of guns and war and famine hits different when an American pope says it

the other one is the Dick Durbin thing

having an American pope not only say “absolutely a pro-choice Democrat Catholic politician is worthy of being honored” but also “abortion is not gonna be central to my brand and you abortion-only guys are not ‘pro-life’ actually” is. uh. lowkey seismic tbh

Leo has done two things recently that interest me very much. this is one of them. I didn’t know much about the last Pope Leo until the new one, but I believe he was an Industrial Revolution-era guy who took poverty and workers’ rights really seriously

the name choice always tells you who they are

I did hear about this and I don’t know that I have TEA but I have THOUGHTS

first of all let us not skip past the symbolic significance of “Leo signed the document on Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi”