Another day, another lie from the Trump administration. Basic Question: Does anyone here actually believe that Joe Biden would suggest / promote / insist on an unwarranted investigation of Catholic priests WHEN HE HIMSELF IS CATHOLIC??? It MIGHT be possible if there was a foundation for such a study in the ongoing issue of child sexual abuse or some other serious crime, but nope. What they apparently are after are those Catholics who favor the original, traditional Latin Mass. Whoop-whoop. What's worse is just how easily the pants were pulled down on this ridiculous effort by Kash Patel and the FBI.
And all of this was tiresome 10 squares back. Honestly, the midterms cannot come soon enough and with them a Democratic tsunami sufficiently large enough to put quietus to this and other brands of Trumpian stupidity.
While a blue wave that big would be nice, I don't think we'll get a veto proof majority in either house. The result will be two years of government stalemate led by ketchup on the walls tantrums by der OrangeFührer.
It would be lovely to have veto-proof majorities, but no, I don't expect that. What I hope for is a far more assertive and indeed aggressive attitude on the part of a Democratic Congress that will hold Trump's feet to the fire, each and every time he attempts to subvert the Constitution and the rule of law. I've said it a dozen times at least: Trump NEEDS to be STOPPED. If he can be sufficiently frustrated from his destructive behavior, it's just possible that he can be made to BREAK.
Yes, that can be dangerous. It may also be necessary.
I think the third time might well be the charm, sometime in 2027, with an attendant notice given to JD Vance that, should he try to continue Trump's madness, he could find himself in the same jackpot.
I chuckled first about Biden being a Catholic as well. What we are dealing with here every day now is white supremacy and fascism. The attacks on voters rights and mail in voting are getting more and more extreme and desperate. Everyone stay hyper focused out there! I’m still convinced we are experiencing a “death rattle” of corrupt and unjust systems. Rotten to the core.
"Biden being a Catholic" and many Christians believe Catholicts Catholics are not Christian.
Approximately 73% of U.S. evangelical Protestants question or reject the idea that Roman Catholics are authentic Christians, according to a prominent survey by Lifeway Research 2015.
Great comment. The first thought that entered my mind while reading was, "Wait a minute! Isn't Biden a Catholic?" So, this entire BS case should have collapse at that moment.
VERY far out! This is the kind of thing that will drive Trump & Co. up a wall. It's also dangerous as hell, but I salute Laura Berlin and her efforts to hold ICE and Citizens Bank accountable.
Conservative Catholics don’t have a great record. They’re the people behind the Inquisition, the Crusades, and the witch hunts. Additionally, most of the top Nazis, including Hitler, were Catholics. Conservative Christians of all stripes are very quick to claim they’re being persecuted anytime anyone infringes on their expectation of privilege.
I'm still waiting for even the first reply from MAGA when I propose that The Children's Crusades (specifically) did little more than show the worst of Christianity as its true self.
I still offer it, but always to silence.
Now I'm waiting for someone to literally propose similar to Trump for all sorts of "cash" problems in America.
Not be a Debbie Downer, but I'll be very surprised if we don't start seeing mass paupers graves in America in January, with even less decorum and respect than that afforded Covid victims a few years back. (Of course, few Covid victims died of "poverty". Soon, that will very likely be the cause of most American deaths.)
And, of course, you don't spend money on those dying for the very lack.
Not the RIGHT kind of Catholic- he goes to church regularly, he doesn't believe in Christian white nationalism, he doesn't have any tattoos and he knows more about the bible than all these "Conversion Catholics". :)
The radical-right narrative requires that anyone who disagrees with you must be presented as opposing the will of God. Biden cannot be allowed to be seen as a moral, religious man. His Catholicism must be shown to be false and hypocritical. This is part of that process.
Biden is famously Catholic and famously attending Catholic church every Sunday, no? So why the FUCK would he be anti-Catholic? That makes ZERO sense. Of course none of that matters to the dirty liars in the Trump Regime.
As with virtually everything else they've done, the Trump administration simply hasn't thought this through. Mostly, they're just throwing shit against the wall to find out if anything will stick.
“ The point is: The church wasn’t the problem. It was just that one guy.” I would beg to differ. It sounds to me like the church is very much the problem. Good Christians knew about one of their members at their church. They knew he was espousing rather radical and violent views. And yet they said nothing until they were asked. It sounds to me like “that guy” knew that what he was saying and where he was saying it all went together like a horse and carriage.
And they said nothing.
What’s obvious in all of this is that The Trump administration is doing all that they can to blame Mr. Biden, a Catholic, for SOMETHING, anything. And then they complain about the weaponization of government. I bet if there were an earthquake in California, it wouldn’t be the San Andreas fault, it would be Joe Biden’s fault.
So rotten people are introducing more rot into an already rotten system. This sounds so much like what was going on in my childhood with the communism panic,my youth with the Vietnam war, in my adulthood with the Iran Contra scandal for Reagan, and those satanic panic of the 90s. At least in these past terroristic tea pots, somebody had the decency to try to keep it at least a bit clandestine.
Now they’re happy to put it all out in the open. And what really awful is that they have created the perfect defense for them themselves doing this. We’re not weapons government, we’re responding to the weaponization of government that they did. And if the Democrats don’t come after this forcefully, they will have to say the same thing, rather than skipping the middleman and going right to the misuse of government to enforce what apparently our fascist ideologies.
To be serious, when the Justice Department finds Trump or his people involved in criminal behavior, ohmygoodness, it's been WEAPONIZED! But when Trump or Patel make spurious claims as a part of an attempt at retribution? Now, they're following the law!
Uh-huh, sure they are ... and I have a SWELL theme park in Florida I'd like to sell you, too! 😝
Praying five times a day and fasting during Ramadan are dangerous terrorist activities.
Stockpiling weapons and ammunition, making Molotov cocktails, planning attacks and recruiting like-minded people to assist him with his plans is just a person's first amendment protected right to exercize his religious duties.
And this doesn't even get into the question of whether an identical report written after an identical investigation would be deemed as perfectly appropriate if the target identified himself as a radical Islamist and the house of worship that was tangentially investigated was a radical breakaway mosque that he had attended and where he had tried to recruit people for his plot. Would we be getting this sort of denunciation of the investigation, or would the report instead be trumpeted by the same conservative forces as evidence of the need to take action against all Muslims?
Today they are complaining about phony anti-Catholic bias in the FBI. When the evangelicals finally fully establish Gilead, they will celebrate real anti-Catholic bias in the FBI.
The investigation started in 2019, under Trump. How could Biden’s FBI have known a full year and a half before Biden was president, hell even before he was elected, know that they were targeting Catholics on his orders?
This will likely be the one instance where someone who to fired from law enforcement for performance issues (not saying they did anything wrong, it’s just the reason they were given) that will have to find a completely new career and not be employable in law enforcement ever again. Not the policemen who raped women being held, not the cops that intentionally target and beat up black people and are openly racist and misogynistic, not the LEs that shoot first and ask questions later. No, those policemen just move one town over and get hired for that locations force. But these fine officers, who were in the middle of an internal document describing their investigation, that did nothing wrong, these people will be blacklisted and never be able to work in law enforcement again.
Because it was actually Obama who started it and Biden was just a puppet for Obama's third term.
For some reason, I have been getting notifications from Quora in one of my email accounts, despite it having been years since I've been on there. Among the more frequent questions that pop up are things like "Why didn't Obama stop 9/11" and "Why did Obama dodge the Vietnam Draft." Democrats are time travelers I guess.
"...engaged in improper and unjustified law enforcement and intelligence activity."
Sounds like a whole lot of projection. "Make sure it never happens again?" It's been happening ever since Orange Blobula waddled his way back into the Oval Office.
Anti-Catholic bias and hatred was a cornerstone of “Christian” fundamentalists across the 20th century. Protestant vs. Catholic overlap with xenophobia and anti-Irish radicalism is a matter of record. MAGA continuing the tradition against Leo. Very old school. Immigration Act of 1924 right around the peak of the Klan. Wonder why?
Another day, another lie from the Trump administration. Basic Question: Does anyone here actually believe that Joe Biden would suggest / promote / insist on an unwarranted investigation of Catholic priests WHEN HE HIMSELF IS CATHOLIC??? It MIGHT be possible if there was a foundation for such a study in the ongoing issue of child sexual abuse or some other serious crime, but nope. What they apparently are after are those Catholics who favor the original, traditional Latin Mass. Whoop-whoop. What's worse is just how easily the pants were pulled down on this ridiculous effort by Kash Patel and the FBI.
And all of this was tiresome 10 squares back. Honestly, the midterms cannot come soon enough and with them a Democratic tsunami sufficiently large enough to put quietus to this and other brands of Trumpian stupidity.
While a blue wave that big would be nice, I don't think we'll get a veto proof majority in either house. The result will be two years of government stalemate led by ketchup on the walls tantrums by der OrangeFührer.
It would be lovely to have veto-proof majorities, but no, I don't expect that. What I hope for is a far more assertive and indeed aggressive attitude on the part of a Democratic Congress that will hold Trump's feet to the fire, each and every time he attempts to subvert the Constitution and the rule of law. I've said it a dozen times at least: Trump NEEDS to be STOPPED. If he can be sufficiently frustrated from his destructive behavior, it's just possible that he can be made to BREAK.
Yes, that can be dangerous. It may also be necessary.
I'd be satisfied with that. At the same time, I'm arguing with someone on Twitter who thinks impeaching Trump would be a bad idea for Democrats.
I reminded him, we impeached Trump twice in his first term, and Biden got elected.
I think the third time might well be the charm, sometime in 2027, with an attendant notice given to JD Vance that, should he try to continue Trump's madness, he could find himself in the same jackpot.
The time to play nice was over LONG ago.
I chuckled first about Biden being a Catholic as well. What we are dealing with here every day now is white supremacy and fascism. The attacks on voters rights and mail in voting are getting more and more extreme and desperate. Everyone stay hyper focused out there! I’m still convinced we are experiencing a “death rattle” of corrupt and unjust systems. Rotten to the core.
"Biden being a Catholic" and many Christians believe Catholicts Catholics are not Christian.
Approximately 73% of U.S. evangelical Protestants question or reject the idea that Roman Catholics are authentic Christians, according to a prominent survey by Lifeway Research 2015.
Good morning, TS!
[BIG GRIN!!! 😁😁😁] Hidy-hi! How's you? 🙋♂️
I'm not so bad, thanks!
Ready to dive back into the breach!
Hot dog! Go get 'em!
Great comment. The first thought that entered my mind while reading was, "Wait a minute! Isn't Biden a Catholic?" So, this entire BS case should have collapse at that moment.
"This Department of Justice will not tolerate a weaponized bureaucracy that chills First Amendment activity."
*spit take* WHAT!?! Says the guy whose entire fascist regime is doing everything in its power to weaponize and take a blowtorch to the Constitution?
Like asking the FCC to investigate Kristen Welker for telling the truth?
He wants them to investigate polling firms now because of his abysmal poll numbers.
They want freedom of speech and religion to apply only to their speech and their religion.
Slightly OT but relevant:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/08/31/who-profits-from-ice-website-dhs-alert/91259795007/
From the article: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑠, 𝑖𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 “𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑠 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡-𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠.”
I would argue that ALL of the information describes First Amendment protected activities.
VERY far out! This is the kind of thing that will drive Trump & Co. up a wall. It's also dangerous as hell, but I salute Laura Berlin and her efforts to hold ICE and Citizens Bank accountable.
WELL DONE!
That woman is a true citizen 🦸♀️.
Good morning, Nogodz!
Top o' th' mornin' to ye, foofaraw (and Chiquita as well). :)
Thank you!
I wish for this week also to contain snippets of hope!
Conservative Catholics don’t have a great record. They’re the people behind the Inquisition, the Crusades, and the witch hunts. Additionally, most of the top Nazis, including Hitler, were Catholics. Conservative Christians of all stripes are very quick to claim they’re being persecuted anytime anyone infringes on their expectation of privilege.
The so-called MAGA Catholics lost their way long ago when they decided the abortion issue was the one and only.
oraxx,
I'm still waiting for even the first reply from MAGA when I propose that The Children's Crusades (specifically) did little more than show the worst of Christianity as its true self.
I still offer it, but always to silence.
Now I'm waiting for someone to literally propose similar to Trump for all sorts of "cash" problems in America.
Not be a Debbie Downer, but I'll be very surprised if we don't start seeing mass paupers graves in America in January, with even less decorum and respect than that afforded Covid victims a few years back. (Of course, few Covid victims died of "poverty". Soon, that will very likely be the cause of most American deaths.)
And, of course, you don't spend money on those dying for the very lack.
Try offering them some chocolate pudding.....they really seem to appreciate it when I do so. 😉
Gotta be chocolate?
That sounds kinda woke....
It's the only flavor of pudding I've found in the emojis.
(Also, good morning!)
💩
"The Children's Crusades" many religions know its easier to indoctrinate their dogma while their young.
"Lets Get Wacky" 🤪
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_xtfKwBr3g
https://youtu.be/180YLV4b5Nw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F2o0803EVM
Good morning, oraxx!
GM Foofaraw!
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡—𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐—𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡-𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝐵𝐼, 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑑𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠.
They do know Biden is a Catholic, right?
Not the RIGHT kind of Catholic- he goes to church regularly, he doesn't believe in Christian white nationalism, he doesn't have any tattoos and he knows more about the bible than all these "Conversion Catholics". :)
"Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling from glen to glen, and down the mountain side".
I love that song. My dad always wanted to be Irish ( we weren't), and he would tear up every time he heard that song.
Good morning, Boreal!
Good morning!
Strangely, I heard that in Robin Williams voice.
The radical-right narrative requires that anyone who disagrees with you must be presented as opposing the will of God. Biden cannot be allowed to be seen as a moral, religious man. His Catholicism must be shown to be false and hypocritical. This is part of that process.
Good morning, Joe!
Howdy!
A Good Catholic (TM). The Pope himself said so. Lotta good that did him.
Biden is famously Catholic and famously attending Catholic church every Sunday, no? So why the FUCK would he be anti-Catholic? That makes ZERO sense. Of course none of that matters to the dirty liars in the Trump Regime.
As with virtually everything else they've done, the Trump administration simply hasn't thought this through. Mostly, they're just throwing shit against the wall to find out if anything will stick.
So far, they're not having a whole lot of luck.
"So far, they're not having a whole lot of luck."
I'm not sure about that.
The constant drumbeat keeps the news cycle off of other, arguably more important things, like war crimes and sex crimes.
I would argue they're not throwing shit against the wall. They're trowing it at the camera lens.
And in our faces.
Oh, my. there are some issues here.
“ The point is: The church wasn’t the problem. It was just that one guy.” I would beg to differ. It sounds to me like the church is very much the problem. Good Christians knew about one of their members at their church. They knew he was espousing rather radical and violent views. And yet they said nothing until they were asked. It sounds to me like “that guy” knew that what he was saying and where he was saying it all went together like a horse and carriage.
And they said nothing.
What’s obvious in all of this is that The Trump administration is doing all that they can to blame Mr. Biden, a Catholic, for SOMETHING, anything. And then they complain about the weaponization of government. I bet if there were an earthquake in California, it wouldn’t be the San Andreas fault, it would be Joe Biden’s fault.
So rotten people are introducing more rot into an already rotten system. This sounds so much like what was going on in my childhood with the communism panic,my youth with the Vietnam war, in my adulthood with the Iran Contra scandal for Reagan, and those satanic panic of the 90s. At least in these past terroristic tea pots, somebody had the decency to try to keep it at least a bit clandestine.
Now they’re happy to put it all out in the open. And what really awful is that they have created the perfect defense for them themselves doing this. We’re not weapons government, we’re responding to the weaponization of government that they did. And if the Democrats don’t come after this forcefully, they will have to say the same thing, rather than skipping the middleman and going right to the misuse of government to enforce what apparently our fascist ideologies.
And if there was a problem with the highways, it's not Trump's fault; it's the asphalt!
[sorry, couldn't resist!]
You could’ve resisted, but you chose not to. You said to yourself “Ben’s just on his 1st cup of coffee, he’ll never notice. Now it’s my chance!”
We know how you people are.
Sometimes you just have to drop back 15 yards and PUN-T!
To be serious, when the Justice Department finds Trump or his people involved in criminal behavior, ohmygoodness, it's been WEAPONIZED! But when Trump or Patel make spurious claims as a part of an attempt at retribution? Now, they're following the law!
Uh-huh, sure they are ... and I have a SWELL theme park in Florida I'd like to sell you, too! 😝
What about that really nice, abandoned campground in the Everglades?
MAGA are the biggest crybaby snowflakes who pearl clutch about the most minor perceived wrongs against them
Yes.
Praying five times a day and fasting during Ramadan are dangerous terrorist activities.
Stockpiling weapons and ammunition, making Molotov cocktails, planning attacks and recruiting like-minded people to assist him with his plans is just a person's first amendment protected right to exercize his religious duties.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-wE_E4Wi-30?feature=share
And this doesn't even get into the question of whether an identical report written after an identical investigation would be deemed as perfectly appropriate if the target identified himself as a radical Islamist and the house of worship that was tangentially investigated was a radical breakaway mosque that he had attended and where he had tried to recruit people for his plot. Would we be getting this sort of denunciation of the investigation, or would the report instead be trumpeted by the same conservative forces as evidence of the need to take action against all Muslims?
We would denounce it the same way. They would claim it was proof that all Muslims are terrorists.
I wouldn't denounce it at all -- because they followed proper investigative procedures..
There would be no report, the target would be taken out.
Today they are complaining about phony anti-Catholic bias in the FBI. When the evangelicals finally fully establish Gilead, they will celebrate real anti-Catholic bias in the FBI.
💯
"Everything is Joe Biden's fault" writ large.
Or Obama's fault. Hell, even Clinton and Carter are still getting blamed by the right for everything..
Tan suit. Blow job. Hostages.
The investigation started in 2019, under Trump. How could Biden’s FBI have known a full year and a half before Biden was president, hell even before he was elected, know that they were targeting Catholics on his orders?
This will likely be the one instance where someone who to fired from law enforcement for performance issues (not saying they did anything wrong, it’s just the reason they were given) that will have to find a completely new career and not be employable in law enforcement ever again. Not the policemen who raped women being held, not the cops that intentionally target and beat up black people and are openly racist and misogynistic, not the LEs that shoot first and ask questions later. No, those policemen just move one town over and get hired for that locations force. But these fine officers, who were in the middle of an internal document describing their investigation, that did nothing wrong, these people will be blacklisted and never be able to work in law enforcement again.
Justice. I guess.
Because it was actually Obama who started it and Biden was just a puppet for Obama's third term.
For some reason, I have been getting notifications from Quora in one of my email accounts, despite it having been years since I've been on there. Among the more frequent questions that pop up are things like "Why didn't Obama stop 9/11" and "Why did Obama dodge the Vietnam Draft." Democrats are time travelers I guess.
Some days I get really depressed living at the end of a civilization.
"...engaged in improper and unjustified law enforcement and intelligence activity."
Sounds like a whole lot of projection. "Make sure it never happens again?" It's been happening ever since Orange Blobula waddled his way back into the Oval Office.
Anti-Catholic bias and hatred was a cornerstone of “Christian” fundamentalists across the 20th century. Protestant vs. Catholic overlap with xenophobia and anti-Irish radicalism is a matter of record. MAGA continuing the tradition against Leo. Very old school. Immigration Act of 1924 right around the peak of the Klan. Wonder why?
Protestants and Catholics have hated each other since 1517.
Can we just let them have it out somewhere? Preferably on Epstein Island.
They had at it for so long in Ireland even the Irish got tired of fighting.
That’s half time for the Irish.
😂
OT - baby donnies favorite pasttime
https://www.tampabay.com/resizer/v2/cartoon-QLSG5MJ3ZVGUXNTIXGLRSMCLJU.JPG?auth=99edfe6d31ff7b9a37071de6f19d153deb3322753c6adc39511eb38299b41484&width=480
horseytoons.substack.com/p/trump-escalates-his-idiotic-assault
It needn’t be specific to trade policy with Canada. He’s a full-spectrum self-administered failure.
“Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government”. ENDING? Haha, what a merry jape. Hoho, it is to laugh.