Ben Myselish
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but the Pope says things against tyrants and against warmongers, and then the Trump administration and people like Pete Hegseth get all offended.
But I think what this really shows, first off, I don't understand, at least often I can understand the strategy behind Donald Trump's moves, like why he's attacking a specific group, why he's trying to pit these groups apart from each other, but attacking the Pope and attacking Catholics, attacking the Catholics,
It's just like, do you agree?
Like, this is like the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life.
I don't understand it, but it also shows like, it really exposes who the charlatans are out there.
The people who you should just never trust about absolutely anything.
Even when they try to be slimy and get out of the kind of answering the question, like even Mike Johnson, who positions himself as this devout Christian, right?
He's asked about this and he's like, Well, I'm not going to comment on any religious leaders.
But, you know, I will say that the the the pope should not be waiting in on issues of of religion.
Listen, if you're going to use religion
I mean, of politics.
If you're going to use religion to justify your politics, you can't be upset when someone is using politics or using religion to speak out against your politics.
And so we're seeing just these frauds right now expose themselves.
And we knew who they were, don't get us wrong.
But you even saw a guy like Franklin Graham, right?
Trump supporter, evangelical.
he writes this super embarrassing note about Donald Trump and about this whole Jesus fiasco where Donald Trump posted that AI image of depicting himself as Jesus and then said, I thought I was a doctor.
I thought I was a doctor healing people.
I thought, or the Red Cross.
and franklin graham who positions himself as this legitimate evangelical type he writes this whole letter to uh the press uh where he addresses it to donald trump but it's for the press and he says i've been out of the country and just returned this afternoon this is a statement i just released to the media addressing some of the issues you've been facing this week first of all issues you've been facing