This weekend, I’m going to see some old friends, a couple of which have been engulfed into the propaganda and alternate reality of the current administration. “I’m not an independent, but I voted for Trump. What? No, I’ve never voted Democrat.”
Yes, I have little tolerance for these people, and I do my best to avoid them at most opportunities. They discourage and me drain my happiness. Be that as it may, I’m going to see them because we go way back and sadly they’re great people otherwise. But we’re gonna get drunk, and one or both of them will bring up dumb shit because I’m outnumbered and they can’t help themselves.
I’d like to go into this prepared for what they’re going to parrot from Fox or the blond bimbo talking heads or other charlatans, and I refuse to watch or read that garbage myself. Perhaps the fine folks here know people like this as well, and have heard all of the current tropes they’re reciting. You would be saving me a lot of headache.
Thought and/or encouragement are appreciated.
If they are religious at all they might talk about the papacy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/maga-catholics-vatican-pope-conclave
Have fun with that
Oh god they’re both Catholic. At least the Catholic Church is an easy target.
They’re big on “Francis didn’t do enough to root out pedophiles”. I would agree, he didn’t. But he did much more than the Nazi pope before him. This is the new world though, Benedict was the ancient past. This is all Francis’s fault. Plus he was a Commie/LGBTQ plant who turned all the frogs gay
To anyone that asks that question- just ask which Pope was doing enough to root out pedophiles? Because over the past ~2000 years, I’m pretty sure none of them have. Because they don’t see it as a problem, it’s just part of “the culture.” Like how certain Muslim populations have sex with underage children, and claim it’s not pedophilic. Or how certain Protestant groups see no issue with someone in their 20s “courting” (read: dating) someone that is 14. Religion is cancer.
A commie/LGBTQ plant divinely chosen by God himself to be his vessel to humanity….🤔
If he goes against your agenda he is obviously a false pope
“Do I have to talk about the false pope?”
Holly fucking shit those people 🤦🏻
They’re pretty nuts. Saying something like that is heretical if you’re Catholic. The Pope is gods messenger on earth.