Laura Loomer lamented that the new pope ‘is anti-Trump, anti-MAGA, pro-open Borders, and a total Marxist like Pope Francis,’ adding that it’s ‘GROSS’ that he now leads the Catholic Church
It didn’t take long for right-wing media figures and MAGA provocateurs to cry out in rage over the election of Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV after it was revealed that he’d publicly criticized JD Vance and expressed sympathy for immigrants and George Floyd.
Despite feeling national pride over the fact that the Chicago-born Prevost has become the first American pope in history, conservative pundits and Trump loyalists fumed over the “WOKE MARXIST POPE” and complained that he is “worse than Francis,” referencing the previous pontiff known for his progressive values.
Even before the “dark horse” American cardinal was elected the 267th pope, former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon warned about Prevost’s views, claiming that he would be a poor choice for the MAGA movement.
This is PR to try and make the new pope attractive to young and leftist people. He’s nothing new or progressive, he’s a pedo enabler who told his priests to reject the law and avoid speaking to police investigating his clergy’s child abuses. He’s garbage, just like the rest of them
That’s part for the course for the Catholics. For them their dogma is over the law. You gotta take what you can from these guys.
A pedo enabler who happens to advocate for the poor is still not good, but also not as bad as a fascist-enabler, pro-rich, pedo enabler.It’s funny how if I get in a minor collision or if I get my house inspected everyone’s quick to “It’s totally gone, have to start over, here’s a cheque”. If we can all see that an aging corporation is rotten to the core the money just pours in.
Whatever is a “poor choice” for the MAGA movement is a great choice in my book. Even if it’s about a religious figure.
He completely ignored sexual assaults.
Sounds like the Catholic Church, alright. But I’m pretty sure the MAGA crowd doesn’t give a shit about that.
Judging by all the stupidity from this administration, Trump is going to ask the pope to step down. Or try to fire him. Or ask Russia to assisinate him.
Time to Tariff™️ the Vatican!
If MAGAts don’t like him, that gives me a lot of faith in him.
This response just tells me it is the correct pope for the job
Your comment shows how strong the propaganda and PR is that they put out an article like this and suddenly you’re liking a guy who enabled pedophiles and stone walls police investigating child sex abuse. He’s garbage
My dude, just because the Catholic Church won’t stop being the Catholic Church doesn’t make a progressive pope a bad idea.
I hope the Swiss Guard are on their toes. I guarantee there are crazy fascists only too willing to try their hand at assassination.
I knew it-- just KNEW IT-- the moment we learned the new Pope was American, I knew the MAGAt moron brigade would immediately be expecting the guy to be some gob-slobbering jackass racist like them, expecting him to start licking drumpf’s toes.
The fact the Pope isn’t going to be ordered around by King Damp Pants is going to be a talking point for Faux “news” Entertainment for a while lol
I was expecting it, too. I thought the AI picture of Trump as pope meant he had pulled strings to get an American, and was planning on combining that with his Deus Vult - tattooed secretary of defense to start a literal Crusade.
losing it at the fact that most evangelical Christian assholes are shocked when the Catholic Pope has different views
shouldnt evangelical have thier own “megapastor”
MAGA meltdown? No way. They melt harder than a slice of cheese on a patty
molten fake american cheese.
I love how they lost their shit about an American speaking Italian, in Italy, to a shit load of Italians.
The American nationalism has truly rotted their brains.
he should speak latin to really make thier minds explode.
It’s bad enough half of his speech at the Conclave was in Spanish. You know from that he’s insufficiently AMERICAN. And his dual citizenship with Peru & USA makes him doubly suspect.
I just want to add. Anyone that ACTUALLY FOLLOWS the teachings of the bible, cannot with good conscious support Donald Trump.
I think you mean actually follows the teachings of jesus. If you actually follow the teachings of the Bible you probably actually would be good with donald. You would be good with slavery. The Bible is a really f***** up thing
Fair enough
I would be surprised if there are more than a couple hundred people in the US who have ever actually read the bible.
My favorite part is when Jesus had a “spirited debate” with capitalists selling stuff in the Temple.
It was a bit worse than selling stuff. The area they had set up was specifically for people to do community service and help the poor in the name of God.
Imagine predatory payday lenders showing up to a church charity event/potluck, not bringing food, acting like they were doing people favors with 50% interest loans, and expecting blessings.
So not much has changed really…
Most people don’t read the entire bible and churches try to avoid it by doing “bible study” where they cherry pick sections that sound good. They avoid the bits about god allowing owning slaves, god telling his people to kill everyone in the area but keep the virgin young girls as rape slaves, and all the other juicy bits in the bible.
It’s a horrible book and the god character is a monster.
It’s clearly divided into an older section and a newer section, and the basic definition of Christian is the newer section defining empathy, caring, accepting of all the people. Sure there’s still some effed up stuff but what do you want from a 1500 year old book: the basic message of the new part is love
It’s more accurate to say these people are not Christian even if the use the name. They do not follow the teachings they proclaim, and have more in common with the Pharisees, the oppressors
what do you want from a 1500 year old book
The question isn’t what do you want from an old book, it’s what do you want from a book people are choosing to follow.
the basic message of the new part is love
It isn’t though.
Jesus was a failed apocalyptic preacher who basically said don’t worry about your life right now because it will all end soon enough. He thought end times would be in his lifetime.
Yes, but the message of the new testament has very little to do with the historical figure of jesus and is build around the ideas of Jesus that devolved in the years after his death. For the later church I would agree: The main message is love.
Believe or burn forever isn’t love.
That’s just silly. Many millions likely have. But I get your point.
Amen!
MAGA hating the new pope is the biggest compliment he could possibly get
Yep I’d be crying with joy if I were him
Woke Marxist Pope? Well shit, I just might start going to church again
Same here lol
The pope doesn’t like evil? Huh, imagine that.
Maybe the church knows better than to have a concordat with the nazis this time.
Maybe.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. There are still a large number of unpunished child raping fuckers under their protection.
Yes, but that doesn’t have much bearing on whether they have another concordat with nazis or not.
