No horse in this race

As a recovering Catholic I don't care if Pope Leo chose the alias because of Fra Leo, an associate of Francis of Assisi, or to hint that he plans to continue the work of Leo XIII, who tried to reconcile the church with modernity in Rerum Novarum (1891).  I just love how he's triggering MAGA.

Despite being nominally Jewish the Trump whisperer was first across the post with this assessment of the new papacy.  The litmus test for MAGA (and for Trump) is whether you are pro- or anti-Trump because their worldview is less nuanced than American cheese.  He failed.

Sean Hannity entered the arena lamenting Leo's inability to understand that "open borders" lead inexorably to the rape and murder of Americans because all migrants (and only migrants) are rapists and murderers.  As for that "love your neighbor" crap, Hannity explained, "The neighbor is the person next door, not the person in another continent," which is basically the gospel according to Adolf Hitler.

Sean Davis, described by Google as "Internet Personality," found more fault:  he "trashed Trump, trashed Vance, trashed border enforcement, endorsed DREAMer-style illegal [sic] immigration, repeatedly praised and honored George Floyd, and endorsed a Democrat [sic] senator's call for more gun control."  Pope?  This guy should be investigated by all the committees.

Another Sean checked in, Sean Feucht (pronounced "fucked," I hope), who operates Sean Feucht Ministries.  He does not care for the competition:  

According to Google the reverend has four children named Keturah, Malachi, Ezra and Zion.  He also writes songs.  He has his own YouTube channel because of course he does.

The new guy is 69.  Inshallah he'll be annoying them for decades.  Go White Sox!  Win it all for your biggest woke Marxist fan.

I shouldn't pick on Laura Loomer, she's having a bad day.  The utterly unqualified secretary of health and human services chose utterly unqualified Casey Means as surgeon general and even Loomer can't believe it.  Means (she has no medical license but styles herself "doctor") is another internet hire who promotes the discredited vaccines-and-developmental disorders theory and sells her own line of potions and creams.  She mentions in passing that she once "performed 'full moon' ceremonies, did mushrooms and literally spoke to trees" in her forties, when most people have aged out of such things.  Loomer pronounced her a "Witch Doctor" and moaned, "I do not believe for one second that Donald Trump made this decision.  I refuse to believe it."  Disillusionment hurts.  For his part Trump is already scurrying away:  "Bobby thought she was great.  I don't know her.  I listened to the recommendation of Bobby."  So much for her "impeccable 'MAHA' credentials" and "our wonderful Secretary."  What a difference a day makes.

The radar at Newark Airport glitched again this morning around 4 am.  Nobody crashed, which is always good.  It's that damn Buttigieg's fault.

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden was fired only yesterday, probably because Trump didn't know there was one.  ("Congress has a library?")  An outfit called American Accountability Foundation identified her as "woke, anti-Trump and promoting trans-ing kids," not to mention female and black, so that was that.  Also, the National Science Foundation has been gutted.  This is excellent news for the European Union, which announced a 500-million-euro effort to attract scientific talent.  "No one would have thought that one of the biggest democracies in the world would delete with a stroke the ability of one researcher or another to obtain visas.  But here we are," said Emmanuel Macron at the launch.  Yes, here we are.  Remember when America had a civilization?

The first 54 white refugees from democratic South Africa are due to arrive in Washington on Monday yearning to breathe free from majority rule.  Wait till they find out the city is run by Kaffirs.

Will Mayor Bowser be at Dulles to welcome them? 

America's Chinatowns are not just magnets for tourists and lovers of dim sum -- they're communities where Chinese immigrants settle to conduct business in their own language and to obtain foods, herbal medicines and other products from home.  Needless to say they're caught in the crossfire of the insane tariff war, with merchants forced to raise prices on items their customers, often elderly and dependent on food stamps, can hardly afford now.  They are still struggling to recover from the covid pandemic and didn't need this wholly avoidable disaster.  Too bad they're not wealthy Boers or able to afford Trump Gold Cards.  

Welcome to MAGAworld, where everything is for sale.  Discredited US attorney candidate Ed Martin has already been rewarded with an even plummier job, Pardon Bagman.  I hope George Santos held onto some of the campaign money he was convicted of stealing -- it won't be cheap.  "I am fearful of being severely brutalized and harmed," he whined to Piers Morgan, as if he were facing CECOT instead of Club Fed.  Have some dignity, Kitara, you're a former Member of Congress.

Could Pope Leo be a brother?  Right-wing loony Rod Dreher thinks so.  What's worse than being a woke Marxist?  After a New York Times story traced Bob Prevost's family to New Orleans Dreher wrote, "With a name like Prevost and New Orleans roots I thought the new pope might be a coonass.  Turns out his mama has New Orleans roots -- and he's part black (Creole)!  From da 7th Ward."  Even the Louisiana legislature came out against the slur back in 1981, relating it to connasse meaning "dirty white."  

There's only one thing to say.