I didn’t think he would really do it.

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    Same as Liz Truss killing the queen. Sometimes, when you’re old and in poor health, you just experience something that makes you think “fuck it, I don’t need to put up with this shit anymore.”

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      Lol … this is it

      When you’re at the end of your life and hanging on the edge looking for a glimmer of hope … then you get visited by an absolute tool that is only motivated by greed and power and represents a general apathy for any kind of humanity …

      you just think to yourself, “yeah, nah, this isn’t worth it any more”

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    Just want to point out this is what furniture in the Vatican looked like before Pope Francis

    And then after Pope Francis

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      Still needed a way to finance a billion dollar corporation with tens of thousands of prime real estate all over the world managed by a legion of professional clergy all managed by a central office that is it’s own country at the center of one of the most expensive cities in the world … all while spreading the message of piety, peace and being humble.

      As much as everyone likes to glorify catholic leaders, they’re still a mafia force that is based on money and wealth and Christian faith last

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        For sure, but as long as the mafia exists (which looks like it’s going to be for a good long while still) I want it to have the leader who will do the most good possible, even if it’s still a net negative. There are those out there who would use the resources to do a lot of harm.

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    What’s a Nazi’s favorite color smoke?

    White smoke.

    (For all y’all non Catholics, the vatican has white smoke to signal when they elect a new pope…and ya know…JD Vance is a nazi.)

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    The pope asked the Trump administration to be kind to immigrants and the poor. Can’t have talk like that from the church.

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    Talking to sex pest Jimmy Dilbert Vance is so exhausting it takes 10 years off your life, the Pope didn’t have 10 years left.

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      Imagine a couch. Comfortable. Soft. Now imagine it can move you around wherever you want to go. Imagine it is surrounded by bullet-proof glass to keep you safe, but also so you can enjoy adoration from millions of people without even having to get up.

      Well, it exists, but it’s one-of-a-kind, it can only have one owner, and it’s currently spoken-for. What do you do?

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    Given the conservative drift of major institutions over the past year or so whoever they pick for the new Pope is probably less likely to excommunicate him

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      We’ll see how it goes but Francis chose a supermajority of the current Cardinals. With the exception of Cardinal Pizzaballa, I don’t know any of their names, much less their views.