The Man Who Would Be King of the Popes

 When this first aired on SCTV between 1976 and 1984, it was a parody mashup of Becket, The Lion in Winter, Camelot and British costume pictures generally.  It was funny.  This is not.👇

This was posted by a QAnon outpatient called MJTruthUltra who is convinced that Trump/Michael Corleone has ended evil by taking over the Vatican Bank, a mashup of Godfather Coda and The Apprentice.  It could be parody but I doubt it.

This is a joke.  For now.

Canada, Greenland, Panama, Gaza...Vatican City?  Why not?  Its art collection alone must be worth a trillion dollars.   St. Peter's would be a really classy building with a few chandeliers and a lot more gold, and maybe a patio instead of gardens.  Great parking.  He could marry people in there and then DJ the reception, for the right price.  "INRI, I wanna pray to the INRI...."   Forgiving sinners (for a fee) is the same as pardoning criminals, isn't it?

Stop it.  Even you don't hate the Church that much.  Christopher Hitchens would tell you to tone it down.

"There is nothing clever or funny about this image, Mr. President.  We just buried our beloved Pope Francis and the cardinals are about to enter a solemn conclave to elect a new successor of St. Peter.  Do not mock us," the New York Catholic Conference xweeted, including Timothy Dolan, whose red cardinal hat actually has "MAGA" on it.  Don't worry, they'll get over it.  The new pope's first act will probably be a concordat with The Leader.

"Beloved Pope Francis"?  They hated his guts.

Pope Francis continues to troll MAGA.  His final bequest was for the Popemobile to become a mobile health unit for the children of Gaza.  The original up-armored popemobile was built after the attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II in 1981.  "It will be staffed by doctors and medics, reaching children in the most isolated corners of Gaza once humanitarian access to the Strip is restored."  That last bit is for Bibi and his real estate partner Donzo.  Go on, call him a terrorist.

If you were idly wondering where to sue the Chief Justice, the answer is the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.  That's where Stephen Miller's cabal, "America First Legal Foundation," filed a suit disguised as a FOIA action demanding that SCOTUS hand over control of the federal judiciary to the executive branch because Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr., betrayed his patron by ruling that he can't pretend migrants are an invading army and deport them under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.  The expected midnight rant was not enough.

He knows "what our Founders had in mind!!!" because he is a legal scholar historian demented clown.  No district court judge is going to take this seriously but now we know there is a "long-awaited answer to the ACLU."  The fascists have been without legal recourse for so long.  That's probably why they're driven to violence.

(Wait till he finds out that Governor Katie Hobbs "paused" the deportation of a Guatemalan woman just because she gave birth in a Tucson hospital this week.  The infant already has "MS-13" tattooed on its umbilicus.  One of those "Criminals including Murderers."  Must cancel Fourteenth Amendment!!!)

Speaking of which, maybe they'll finally stop wailing about "angel martyr" Ashli Babbitt, the rioter who was shot while breaking into the Capitol.  The Bondi Department is handing a pile of our tax tariff money to her husband, who sued for $30 million.  We'll learn exactly how much when he and his lawyer start fighting over it. 

St. Ashli comes from good people.  Her brother Roger Witthoeft was convicted in 2022 of assaulting and hurling racial slurs at a San Diego Gas & Electric worker, urging him to "talk in English" as the man directed traffic around a work site.  Six years earlier he assaulted a 71-year-old Latino man in Lakeside who asked him to move his pickup.  As you can see, the family have poor impulse control with a side of racism.

You don't know that.  They might have a sibling who delivers Meals on Wheels in Compton.

He did it again!  "The Australian people have voted for Australian values, for fairness, aspiration and opportunity for all," said Anthony Albanese as he was re-elected prime minister.  Guardian:  "The comprehensive victory, which defied predictions of a hung parliament, hands Albanese a clear mandate to deliver a second-term agenda that includes slashing student debt, more free GP [primary care doctor] visits and building homes for first-time buyers."  Wow, socialism.  As in Canada, the leader of the opposition lost his own seat, despite the Coalition being ahead a few months ago.  Donald, what's your secret?  Struggling liberals everywhere want you to campaign for their opponents.

In Australia, voting is compulsory.  Nobody wants that here.

Someone finally put the question and got a weasel answer.  "Don't you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?" asked Kristen Welker, of all people, after reminding him that Marco Rubio, of all people, said everyone who is here deserves due process.  "I don't know.  I'm not, I'm not a lawyer.  I don't know."  Rubio's days are numbered and Welker just had her last interview.  Very hostile.  It's not like he took an oath or anything.

Nevertheless she persisted, evoking this:  "I have brilliant lawyers that work for me and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said.  What you said is not what I heard the Supreme Court said.  They have a different interpretation."  SCOTUS says not everyone is entitled to due process?  We're through the looking glass, people.  

Didn't he TroofSocial that he knows "what our Founders had in mind!!!"?  Did he forget between 1:47 am and the Welker interview?  Can anyone recommend a good book on dementia for a non-specialist?

The Kentucky Derby on Saturday was a surprisingly woke affair.  Nearly all the riders appeared to be DEI hires (Latinos) and the chorus did not sing the original racist words of Foster's "My Old Kentucky Home" ("It's summer, the darkies are gay but not in terms of orientation, of course").  How long can Churchill Downs hold out?  It's a private enterprise but so is Harvard.

"Palomah goshi ma!  Palomah goshi gomah!  Hahkala sheeko ma!  Andahsheela gayshi!"  That and more was Bernadette Smith, co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party, at the church of Robin Bullock.  And here's Bullock.

If that's what the Republicans are running on, it's fine with me.  I like a bit of speaking in tongues.  When Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme did it, it was called scatting.  Take us out!