You all are talking about “the Pope is weak on crime” and I feel like the real gem is “should get his act together as Pope.”

Thus, today's election is not really the end of an authoritarian regime. Rather, it is the first step in a much longer unwinding process.

It is massive and absolutely necessary first step — one that anyone who believes in democracy should celebrate. But it's more a beginning than an end.

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

I am still laughing that the More Civilized Age podcast folks compared the Vulturi to KOTOR2 HK units and honestly I now can’t unsee/hear it

Pope is weak on crime would be the all time funniest last post before It Happens

he got too excited at the UFC fight in miami and now he can’t sleep so he’s trying to fight the pope and posting AI slop of himself as jesus and a hotel on the moon. this rocks. i think the pope could beat him in single combat, let’s do it.

once again:

for defenders of Western Civ it sure seems like none of these utterly unserious chuds have ever heard of "hubris"

The difference between a normie liberal-conservative and a fascist is genuinely very large!

Imagine being the Pope and having the seven deadly sins in human form out here saying he hates you.

Congrats Pope Leo.

I mean this with love when I say Iggy please put your shirt on

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Pass it on.

I happily told the Porter people texting me for money that if I had money I’d be sending it to Becerra but thanks for the omg republicans scare tactics

ROMEO, BAKER M. @BakerMikeRomeo • 2h why would the pope care about your book Rod Dreher @roddreher • 1h Because it was widely denounced by Antonio Spadaro, SJ, and others as "anti-Francis" (which it's not, but that was the line in Civilta Cattolica, which Francis reads and has to approve before publication). And Francis's people called around Italy before my book tour asking... ROMEO, BAKER M. @BakerMikeRomeo Replying to @roddreher ok so here's the thing: he's the pope, right and you're explaining to a cartoon rabbit on the internet why you're important enough that the pope should know who you are

Since we’re all making fun of Rod Dreher, I think about this at least once a week

Whoever it was who yelled at me for dissing Swalwell months ago I say to you: HA!

Swalwell ends governor campaign after Chronicle investigation into sexual assault allegations Rep. Eric Swalwell ended his campaign for governor two days after the Chronicle reported allegations he sexually assaulted a former staffer and CNN reported additional allegations.

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The real question isn’t why now but who knew then (and how did it not come out)

I would like to hope the Democrats are noticing all those Hungarians eagerly baying for justice and prison for Orban and his flunkies.

I’m so glad they are getting more and more popular

going to keep repeating “Leo’s Weak on Crime” to myself and giggling for the rest of the week

I’m glad Swalwell is out of the race, but if this really was an “everybody knew“ situation then I still have some serious questions for every member of Congress who endorsed him.

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Oh Hot Mulligan was at Coachella. I was not paying attention but thanks YouTube
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we don’t want to reconcile with MAGAs: we want to watch them writhe and piss themselves in terror before the lash of righteousness

Ew

the Democrat who wins will be the one vibrating with desire to drive the MAGAs before them into the snow and cold, unheeding of their piggy little squeals for mercy

i'm actually really glad to see there are nowhere near as many swalwell deadenders as there were franken deadenders; there are plenty of reasons for that, and they do exist, but it's nowhere near as loud, the party lining up to push him out *immediately* tells me that at least some of them learned

This is cracking me up.

The Pope is weak on crime!

So was JESUS!! 😂😂😂

I’m actually a little surprised and pleased Swalwell didn’t drag this out further

@ericswalwell X.com I am suspending my campaign for Governor. To my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment l've made in my past. I will fight the serious, false allegations that have been made — but that's my fight, not a campaign's.

boy bye

“i’m mildly annoyed” people gently corrected you and you are now playing victim. being more accessible costs you a few seconds. responding by adding passive aggressive *entirely* unhelpful alt text actively makes you ableist. because you’re annoyed???

cool.

People being giant babies about being asked to use alt text are more than mildly annoying whatever their personal annoyance state