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Donald Trump got a front row seat to his own humiliation Saturday as he was verbally attacked in a homily at Pope Francis’ funeral.
Trump, who traveled to Rome Friday, sat with world leaders at the service as his signature policy was rebuked to an audience of millions watching live around the world.
“Pope Francis incessantly raised his voice, imploring peace and calling for reason and honest negotiation to find possible solutions,” Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, who gave the homily, said.
“‘Build bridges, not walls,’ was an exhortation he repeated many times.”
The statement was clearly aimed at Trump’s promise to build a wall between Mexico and the USA to halt illegal immigration.
It — along with many other Trump policies — was frequently criticized by the pope, who said anybody who thought of building walls rather than bridges was “not Christian” — which prompted Trump to call that statement “disgraceful.”
It’s unknown how Trump reacted to the homily.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-pope-2671849474/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:
Donald Trump got a front row seat to his own humiliation Saturday as he was verbally attacked in a homily at Pope Francis’ funeral.
Trump, who traveled to Rome Friday, sat with world leaders at the service as his signature policy was rebuked to an audience of millions watching live around the world.
“Pope Francis incessantly raised his voice, imploring peace and calling for reason and honest negotiation to find possible solutions,” Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, who gave the homily, said.
“‘Build bridges, not walls,’ was an exhortation he repeated many times.”
The statement was clearly aimed at Trump’s promise to build a wall between Mexico and the USA to halt illegal immigration.
It — along with many other Trump policies — was frequently criticized by the pope, who said anybody who thought of building walls rather than bridges was “not Christian” — which prompted Trump to call that statement “disgraceful.”
It’s unknown how Trump reacted to the homily.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-pope-2671849474/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
He shrugged it off like it deserves to be shrugged off.
Fuck you, Vatican. Fuck you twice on Sunday, dead pope.
How's that?
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I no longer pretend to have serious discussions with SECOND.
It is truly pointless.
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Donald Trump got a front row seat to his own humiliation Saturday as he was verbally attacked in a homily at Pope Francis’ funeral.
Trump, who traveled to Rome Friday, sat with world leaders at the service as his signature policy was rebuked to an audience of millions watching live around the world.
“Pope Francis incessantly raised his voice, imploring peace and calling for reason and honest negotiation to find possible solutions,” Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, who gave the homily, said.
“‘Build bridges, not walls,’ was an exhortation he repeated many times.”
I thought this was aimed at Zelensky.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Quote:We have no idea how many Generals have drinking problems, indiscretions with women -or conflicts of interest with the MIC - but length of service doesnt mean competence or honor.
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The man-babies of MAGA never grew up because they never had to
By John Stoehr | April 26, 2025
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/maga-babies/
Recall that the week began with news that the US secretary of defense had been involved in a second Signal chat in which he shared the same war plans he shared in the first one. This time, Pete Hegseth set up the chat himself and included his wife, his brother and his attorney. Oh, and he used his own phone, not the government’s...
blah blah blah ...
I want to focus on ... a drinking problem and a history of indiscretion with women
Quote:If that sounds like anybody, that sounds like SECOND and the rest of the purple-haired liberals. Projection much?
... honor ... honesty ... loyalty ... character
race and blood ... [not] earned authority ... weakness personified.... fall to pieces... emotional, perhaps hysterical ...
childish ... common white folk... God’s chosen ... always at the center of our time and our attention
"Pure and innocent and just. They never do wrong... God’s chosen
Quote:Like ... JD Vance? Tulsi Gabbard? Elon Musk?
And when man-babies like Pete Hegseth encounter someone who did grow up, who did make something of himself through merit and hard work and determination
Hegseth did something stupid, maybe illegal, and certainly not in the best interest of opsec.
Hillary did something similar while heading the State Dept, 33,000 times. Where was the outrage then?
And then the author goes off on a flight of childish... emotional, maybe hysterical... certainly paranoid ... name calling. He has NO IDEA whether Adm Grady is honorable. He has NO IDEA whether Hegseth, Trump, Vance, Gabbard, Musk, Rubio, Musk etc are driven by "race and blood". And as far as being "God's chosen person", well, I leave that to SECOND and the rest of the hardcore hate-driven Dems.
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Quote:6ix, I expected you would take a shit on decency because Trump and his Trumptards routinely demonstrate the meaning of depravity without knowing yourselves. And I knew Signym would invert the truth by writing: "I thought this was aimed at Zelensky."
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
He shrugged it off like it deserves to be shrugged off.
Fuck you, Vatican. Fuck you twice on Sunday, dead pope.
How's that?
The Fatal Impact of Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts (Neither Signym nor 6ix care)
By John Haltiwanger
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/08/trump-foreign-aid-cuts-danish-ref
ugee-council-usaid/
The Trump administration’s drastic foreign aid cuts and effort to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have had rapid, rippling consequences across the world.
Foreign Policy recently sat down with Charlotte Slente, secretary-general of the Danish Refugee Council, to discuss the far-reaching effects of Trump dramatically slashing foreign assistance.
As the new administration in Washington axes more and more lifesaving programs, Slente warned that “people will be dying.” In a world where the U.S. is no longer seen as a reliable partner, Slente also discussed where aid groups go from here.
Foreign Policy: Where has your work been hit hardest by [U.S. President Donald] Trump’s aid cuts?
Charlotte Slente: The Danish Refugee Council is active in around 40 countries around the world—primarily countries where we see large humanitarian crises and displacement crises, because we are a displacement-mandated organization, which means that we work on these great, big contracts. And among the 40 countries that we are present in, we’ve been hit in 22. It’s across the globe in different environments and a little bit random, depending on where the U.S. funding falls.
The U.S. was our second-biggest donor—20 percent of our income was from the U.S. We’ve been hit in many countries in Africa, we’ve been hit in Latin America, we’ve also been hit in Asia, and in Ukraine. It’s been quite a bumpy road.
FP: What has the immediate impact of these aid cuts been on the ground? What kind of damage has already been done?
CS: In Afghanistan, for instance, we were supporting drinking water for thousands and thousands of people in a number of provinces. That was cut down immediately. So the effect is that these people will not get access to safe drinking water in these provinces.
That can have fatal consequences.
In Congo and Sudan, both countries where there are very severe humanitarian disaster situations ongoing, there were cuts to our ability to help people with support for livelihoods.
Humanitarian assistance saves lives, but we need people to be able to gain an income and be self-sustaining. That kind of support for people being able to grow food or work in agriculture, maybe work in other areas, that growth has all been cut off.
In Cameroon, we were delivering food assistance to pregnant mothers and their undernourished young children, and that has been cut off from one day to the next. In Colombia, a lot of our work on providing shelter, livelihood support, and activities related to mine clearance, which is one of the sectors we work with a lot in, has been stopped.
FP: So, all of this has really had rippling consequences across the world?
CS: In many different countries, it has had quite dramatic consequences.
FP: Is it fair to say that people are dying because of the Trump administration’s choices?
CS: People will be dying, and people will be losing possibilities to sustain their lives in the long term.
It is a very, very difficult moment because the number of displaced people around the world is over 120 million. The number of people requiring humanitarian assistance around the world is over 300 million people.
Humanitarian response plans, which are U.N. plans where basically you stipulate what is the bare minimum of necessity among the people who need humanitarian assistance in the country, were only partially being perfor
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Quote:Signym, you invert the truth about everything you have ever written. It is a reflex that you can't help doing. That's why you didn't get very far in life before running off the road, crashing and burning, leaving you without a vehicle, stuck for the rest of your bitter life.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
And then the author goes off on a flight of childish... emotional, maybe hysterical... certainly paranoid ... name calling. He has NO IDEA whether Adm Grady is honorable. He has NO IDEA whether Hegseth, Trump, Vance, Gabbard, Musk, Rubio, Musk etc are driven by "race and blood". And as far as being "God's chosen person", well, I leave that to SECOND and the rest of the hardcore hate-driven Dems.
PhD Timeline
https://xkcd.com/3081/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump’s Cosplay Cabinet
The president’s appointees often appear to be acting out a made-for-television version of their jobs rather than actually doing them.
By Ashley Parker | April 26, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/trumps-cabinet-co
splay/682601/
In Donald Trump’s administration, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem rotates through various costumes—firefighting gear for drills with the United States Coast Guard, a cowboy hat and horse for a jaunt with Border Patrol agents in Texas, a bulletproof ICE vest for a dawn raid in New York City. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posts photos of himself doing snowy push-ups with U.S. troops in Poland and deadlifting with them in predawn Germany. And FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino spars with agents on the wrestling mats of Quantico.
In Bongino’s case, his run-in with a skilled jiujitsu instructor left him with a swollen right elbow. But such are the risks of Trump’s Cosplay Cabinet, in which his underlings perform near-daily tone poems to a certain type of MAGA masculinity, publicly pantomiming their professional responsibilities.
Noem, who has earned herself several dismissive, Mattel-inspired nicknames—“Border Control Barbie,” “ICE Barbie”—is perhaps the most conspicuous offender. She has been photographed behind the controls of both a Coast Guard boat and a Coast Guard plane, donned a helmet and Border Patrol fatigues for an ATV tour along the southern border, and posed in cargo pants and an ICE vest. In a social-media video, she wielded a tricked-out automatic rifle, the M4 muzzle disconcertingly pointed at the head of the agent directly to her left.
“I’m old school, but I don’t think our Cabinet Secretaries should cosplay as armed agents,” the conservative radio host Erick Erickson wrote on X above Noem’s video of herself with the poorly placed gun. “You’re a politician, not one of our heroes.”
When I called Erickson this week, he told me Trump’s subordinates understand that the president is “an image guy” who looks to surround himself with people who appear to be out of “central casting.” But, he said, looking the part on TV also serves a useful purpose for Trump—it “distracts the voters from: Is stuff actually going well behind the scenes?”
“It’s like hiring the guy who plays a doctor on Grey’s Anatomy,” Erickson told me. “You don’t actually want that guy to do your heart surgery. He’s an actor. You hire the people who sound competent because they use the polysyllabic words. But can they actually do the job?”
Trump, of course, may be the ultimate cosplayer. His quixotic political rise was fueled, in part, by Americans who knew him as a successful businessman, not through any of his actual business exploits (or bankruptcies), but through the high-flying mogul he played in their living room every Thursday night on The Apprentice.
During his most recent campaign, he sported various working-class costumes to troll his political rivals. In October, mocking then–Vice President Kamala Harris’s claim that, as a college student, she had spent a summer working at a McDonald’s, Trump tied on a navy-and-gold apron and served fries through a Philadelphia-area McDonald’s drive-through window. Later that month, in response to mumbled comments then-President Joe Biden made seeming to liken Trump supporters to “garbage,” Trump wore a neon-orange reflective vest and hopped into a white Trump-branded trash hauler in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
“How do you like my garbage truck?” Trump crowed, as reporters looked on.
The ethos seems to have trickled down to his Cabinet secretaries and other top officials, whose public pronouncements and social-media posts sometimes give the impression that they view government work more as a game than as true public service. In 2022, Kash Patel, now the FBI director, shared a post featuring himself—chain saw in hand and “Bad to the Bone” thrumming in the background—lopping off chunks of a log emblazoned with images of alleged enemies, a group that included Biden, CNN, “Fake News,” and Representativ
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What Happens When There Are No Trade Deals?
Trump's tariff fantasies are colliding with reality. Now what?
By Paul Krugman | Apr 27, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/terror-and-embarrassment
Trump’s trade negotiations are going badly if they’re happening at all. Yet Trump keeps insisting that big deals with other countries are just around the corner. Read his amazing interview with Time. https://time.com/7280114/donald-trump-2025-interview-transcript/
Q: Your trade adviser, Peter Navarro, says 90 deals in 90 days is possible. We're now 13 days into the point from when you lifted the reciprocal, the discounted reciprocal tariffs. There's zero deals so far. Why is that?
Trump: No, there’s many deals.
Q: When are they going to be announced?
Trump: You have to understand, I'm dealing with all the companies, very friendly countries. We're meeting with China. We're doing fine with everybody. But ultimately, I've made all the deals.
Q: Not one has been announced yet. When are you going to announce them?
Trump: I’ve made 200 deals.
Q: You’ve made 200 deals?
Trump: 100%
In case you’re wondering, China says that there are no negotiations. Who do you believe? This is a case of he said, Xi said. But given Trump’s long history of fantasies and delusions of grandeur, as well as Xi’s long history of being single-minded and indefatigable, I believe the Chinese.
Also, Japanese trade negotiators have gone home because they can’t get any clarity on what America wants. Among other things, Trump has berated the Japanese for testing American cars by dropping bowling balls on them — which they don’t. https://www.ft.com/content/b545d7cf-f5a1-4fae-8ff8-5fec262e91bc
At some point, Trump’s fantasy of trade dominance will become unsustainable. And he’s hitting the wall on many other fronts, including his other signature issues, the economy and immigration. Recent polling has been brutal: Trump has no strengths left.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Keep cheerleading for the fall of America, Democrats.
It's the only thing you have left.
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