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.
That’s probably one of the most positive things written about the new pope.
From what I have read so far, he’s the “middle of the road” candidate, your average, run-of-the-mill, Catholic bishop:
A little anti-LGBT, just a bit of a pedophile protector and apologist, default-sexist … but not hard-line enough to not make any of it his entire personality.
Yeah he’s a conservative. But that’s not enough for Republicans anymore, you need to be a full blown fascist or you’re not acceptable.
Of course Laura Loonie is against anything that is good in the world.
Whaaaaat? This isn’t what Jesus would have wanted!
Greed 4:19 “You get your own fish and loaves. I paid for this. I can throw it on the floor if I want. Suck it up libtards!”
That’s my favorite Bible story.
The bible says libtards?
The New King Trump I edition will.
I’m ever so closer to crossing Trump suggesting the US goes to war with the Vatican City off my 2025 bingo card…
I wonder how switzerland would react.
I’m adding that to mine now don’t tell anyone
Well first he’ll suggest it become the next US state
MAGA ISN’T A MOVEMENT IT’S A REGIME.
Totallyyy not a cult.
/s
I didn’t care about who the new pope was but he’s getting more sympathetic by the minute.
There is no such thing as marxist pope.
Are you calling Lara Loomer a liar?
Every second of the day
Leo XIII called marxism a “deadly plague”. I guess Leo XIV chose his name because he’s ok with his predecessor.
Yeah, but the new Pope may be to the left of Mussolini, so MAGA doesn’t like him.
Thinking a second about this, he literally pwned MAGA
The entire conservative line of thought is backed by Christianity and American exceptionalism, and now there comes an American pope and tells “You’re not following the God’s word”. That’s a damn checkmate.
Wonder how many MAGA supporters, many of which are devout Christians, will start questioning their beliefs.
Also, lol, a Marxist Pope is top comedy.
Christianity the religion and Christianity the political platform are different things. The con requires you to believe they are the same thing.
They won’t question their Christian beliefs for a single second because they didn’t have any in the first place. They’ll turn their backs and say “The Pope went woke,” still call themselves godly Christians, and continue to spread hate. During that whole time they will never question whether or not they’re Christian, they’ll just hate the Pope too.
Yeah, exactly this. It can be confusing because they call themselves Christians, loudly and frequently - but their attitudes and beliefs have sweet fuck all to do with the teachings of Christ.
It’s kinda like the way they use ‘Marxist’ for anyone left of Mussolini. I’m not sure if it’s a deliberate attempt to shift definitions, or if they don’t understand what the words actually mean. Wankers.
It’s both, for different segments of the party. The GOP has always been comprised of the unwashed masses and the conmen manipulating them.
Yeah I mean, it’s not like Catholicism is the only flavor of Christianity.
The whole reason the USA even exists today is because a bunch of shitty religious people got ousted from England.
I know a lot of people still view the Pope as the head of Christianity but there are many Christians who would not see it that way. Many who would dismiss the Pope with a wave of the hand and not a care in the world.
The evangelical right wing Christian movement in America certainly does not give a fuck about the Pope based on what I’ve seen.
They don’t, but the neofascist movement loves the aesthetic of catholicism. Its why Vance converted. In fact I’d say that pointing to Vance and Biden as the two sides of modern American catholicism is a reasonable framing (we’re gonna ignore the catholic workers because though their deeds are great, their numbers are few).
That is the actual win, the legitimate aesthetic they seek has denied them. It’s absolutely a similarity Trump’s administration has with the Nazis. They both never think about what the church actually is, they both just like the authority the Holy Sea has and the ceremony of it all. It’s great to watch an American Pope hold his ground. I wonder how long until Trump starts publicly ranting about him. I give it until this weekend.
Much of the American Christian establishment is the type of Protestant that does not consider Catholics to be Christian.
I know that doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense but that’s how Americans “do religion”.
Baptists don’t care what the Pope has to say, seventh-day Adventists think he is actually the Antichrist. Most American Catholics don’t really care what the Vatican has to say and would resent the implication that they’re supposed to give a shit about the Pope’s opinion.
Americans just don’t do religion very well.
It amazes me that Catholics will ride along with that bandwagon. Like when they get that Christian Nation they want, when freedom of religion is ditched in favour of state endorsed religion, and all that remains is to decide whether it’s going to be a Protestant Nation or a Catholic Nation, do they actually think it’s going to go their way?
They haven’t thought that far ahead.
all Protestant religions do not accept the pope as leader, that’s the basic definition. They all broke off from Catholicism by disagreeing with something but usually it boiled down to not following the pope. Whether it was a king who wanted to divorce and remarry at will or a king who wanted to control his country or an alternate pope.
Christianity is the big umbrella of faith, Catholics are inside that umbrella and have been not so popular compared to other factions. Pope’s are catholic.
Personally I think it’s all horse shit but that’s just me.
I didn’t realize Catholics comprise less than Protestants. Still, 22% of Americans identifying as Roman Catholics is a big deal.
These people would’ve literally crucified Jesus
Literally yes. The Pharisees of Jesus’ time were the conservative religious hardliners of Israel, having drifted significantly from their original theology because of political expediency, pushing their version of morality under the threat of harm; and Jesus represented a challenge to their power.
So more than just “would’ve,” they (well, their first century predecessors) did.
The pope doesn’t like evil? Huh, imagine that.
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.
I started off looking at charts of the breakdown of how the major dominations voted, and ended up finding a chart showing how wide a spectrum of “Christianity” has/has had.
MAGA would crucify Jesus all over again
Crucify? Oh, no, no, no.
They would have him arrested and detained by plain-clothes ICE agents, held in a Texas concentration camp where he would be bundled with the “illegals,” then shipped off to El Salvador to be starved and worked to death… Twice.
They would have set attack dogs on him in Palestine, bombed his extended family, then made Tik Tok videos mocking his death.
Jesus? That woke ass dude who believes in hand outs (feed the poor), pro-DEI (love thy neighbor), anti-capital punishment (preaches forgiveness)?
Don’t forget brown.
What are you talking about? I have his picture on my mantle, he looks like Ewan McGregor wearing monk robes.
/s, obviously that’s my Obi Wan shrine.
The true face of Jesus.
