Trump should go full Henry VIII, and proclaim himself Pope of the Church of America. The finest religion. It only pledges allegiance to itself and always kicks the world’s ass.
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I bet Yoko would let him use this one!
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Is it just me, or is Steve Bannon a wanna-be the Karl Marx for the far-right?
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Given that the US Bishops don’t really like the Vatican, this is not out of the realm of possibility.
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The next time anyone from this administration, especially Vance, wants to meet with or have an audience with the pope, the Vatican should just tell them to fututus et mori in igni
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Two parties one cup?
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We can only hope that part of that response is similar to recent electoral responses in countries like Canada and Australia: hopefully the conclave is motivated to send a signal by electing the least Trump-like candidate possible.
I think we all know that Vance’s true religion isn’t Catholicism. It’s Trumpism:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/03/vance-ai-pope-trump-00325197
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I hear this a lot these days. Usually refering to something vaguely positive (or at least something not entirely insane) in American politics. It feels weird, but here we are.
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They should include Rebecca Ferguson. She had been asked to sing at Trump’s 2017 inauguration ceremony. Her reply was that she would “graciously accept” if she could sing “Strange Fruit”.
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While it was propaganda, Radio Free Europe’s activity during communist times here in Poland is seen in very positive light. My grandfather was listening to it, and it was good to have a source of news that was not official government propaganda.
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Nixon wasn’t a Goldwater Republican conservative. He was a moderate-ish Republican. He supported the creation of the EPA and signed it into law. He supported health care reform and damn near worked out a plan for nearly universal health care with Ted Kennedy. Kennedy’s rejection of that deal came to be the biggest regret of his political career (not including personal stuff like Chappaquiddick). On the other hand, he started the War on Drugs, and was a racist, fascist piece of shit. Hitler also liked children and animals. People are complicated. Even really, really bad people.
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“As a general rule, I’m fine with people telling jokes and not fine with people starting stupid wars that kill thousands of my countrymen,” Vance wrote in a post on X on Saturday responding to a question from Bill Kristol, editor-at-large at The Bulwark, on whether or not Vance was “fine with this disrespect and mocking of the holy father.”
Are we now at war with the Vatican?
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“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”
— Attributed to Stalin
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Reform UK did well partly because Labour is not showing itself to be different to the Conservatives in any meaningful way, and Labour are chasing off the left wing vote in a crazy attempt to appeal to people who are going to vote Reform UK anyway. The Runcorn by-election was lost by less than the number of transgender people living there, but after the last two-three weeks of incessant transphobia Lib Dem or the Greens seemed like a better choice even if they couldn’t win.
It is scary that right wing Democrats think that copying Keir Starmer is a good idea.
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Certainly appears to gormless me that the more one examines the numbers the more parallels between the two country’s political situations seem apparent. Reform wins off the disgruntled and xenophobic edge as do the republicans, economics is the manic focus of both the political parties yet that may not have been the critical issue among the voters (versus again, xenophobia or misogyny), and of course the progressive parties …aren’t, really. -sigh-
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So muskrat (fading from trump’s side apparently) is trying for his own (henry) Fordlandia horror-show?
‘He’s Trying to Colonize This Community’: Inside Elon Musk’s Plan to Take Over This Texas Town
Will McCarthy
Fri, May 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM PDT
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS - FEBRUARY 6: A statue of Elon Musk sits by the side of the road leading to his Space X facility, February 6, 2025 on the outskirts of Brownsville, Texas. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
BOCA CHICA VILLAGE, Texas — Driving down a long empty stretch of Highway 4 in South Texas, there are few indications that this windswept corner of the nation, bound by the Gulf of Mexico and the Rio Grande, is host to more than dense mesquite thickets and the ghosts of the Civil War. The land feels vast, unchanging and decidedly apolitical — bigger than people altogether.
That is, until a break in the brush reveals an enormous gold bust of Elon Musk, staring into the distance.
Then, signs of the political moment are everywhere. U.S. Immigration and Enforcement agents in bullet-proof jackets flag down passing cars at an inland border checkpoint.
A road leading off the highway reads “Mars-a-Lago.” A hundred yards away, bookending an old, black Studebaker parked for-sale in a dusty pullout, murals of Musk’s face and the DOGE Shiba Inu plaster two 30-foot concrete towers.
And finally, rising from the empty salt plains, in the shadow of a towering rocketship and suborbital launch vehicles, sit homes and hangars, office buildings and neighborhood streets. This is Starbase, the soon-to-be newest city in Texas, and Elon Musk’s first company town. The far-flung settlement, populated almost entirely by SpaceX employees and construction workers, is the site of SpaceX’s launchpad for their next-generation of Starship rockets, and home base for humanity’s future colonization of Mars. …
only this time i think the ‘citizens’ voted for this obvious mistake -sigh-
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Such a sadly ironice step backwards.
I imagine the workers will be paid in company crypto that only works at local “businesses.”
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