The idiots who say this always want you to stop talking about something lurid, grotesque, and attention-getting and focus on something impossibly boring, like tax cuts for the wealthy or social security.
For folks saying,"Ignore the Pope thing! He wants to offend you! Don't you get it!" I have this rule I follow. I say what I think. I don't get into second order head games in which I think I'm outwitting someone else by strategically not saying what I think. Perhaps Im simple. But that's how I roll.
Everybody (with the exception of overwound Liberals) realizes stuff like the Pope thing is an obvious joke. Losing your mind about it just alienates you to average people. Please get a grip.
You don’t think it tugs on the sensibilities of any of his voters who genuinely are catholic? A lot of the time this stuff doesn’t reach them because the media buries it under “everybody thinks it’s a joke” he’s the premier diplomat, not a comedian. Not holding him to standards emboldens him
What is the “standard” here? This - even more than other stuff he does - is just clearly a joke. Any normal person understands this. If you want to flash it on some news segment and let some Catholic’s be offended at the poor taste - sure. Harping on it as some supposedly real ~threat~ is absurd.
Did I not just say the president is the premier diplomat? If that idea is lost on you, then your cynicism is apart of the authoritarian drift. The offensive things about him can + do rattle people who don’t pay attention to the other shit—it should be a full throttle assault on all the ways he’s bad
Lol that idea is not “lost on me.” It has been clear to me since 2016. But it is “lost” on a huge share of the American electorate who repeatedly vote for him despite the clowning. You act like this is the first time he has besmirched the office and that no one is aware of this tendency of his.
May 3, 2025 17:01I’m saying pretending you’re above it is apart of giving up. The fear of being cringe is at least one aspect of the culture we’re in
