The Politics Thread

[DRW50]

The biggest joke is many of the people who are upset over this would not be saying a word if he had their position on Gaza. As you've said before, he was always what he is now, it's just this was seen as their idea of a blue-collar Bernie hero. The story of how he treated that jogger was all I needed to know.

[janea4old]

New Pope has taken the name Leo IV .
Correction:  Leo XIV.
He was born Robert Provost, comes from Chicago, and spent many years working in Peru, and has or had Peruvian citizenship.
Due to all of Provost's work in Peru, I think the late Pope Francis may have regarded him as a fellow South American, symbolically.

February 2025 tweets from the new pope regarding politics:

https://x.com/drprevost/status/1886469097560719594

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article cited in tweet:
https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/jd-vance-wrong-jesus-doesnt-ask-us-rank-our-love-others

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https://x.com/drprevost/status/1889907998753173882

article cited in tweet:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250213055438/https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2025/02/12/bishops-pope-francis-trump-deportation-249919

Edited 19 hours ago by janea4old

[Khan]

What gets me is this attitude that Fetterman must be suffering from some sort of mental collapse.  Take it from me: you could be mentally well and still be an [!@#$%^&*].

[Vee]

I mean, he is but he's also still an ásshole.

[janea4old]

2017 retweet from the new pope under his birth name Robert Provost.
He was retweeting Connecticut senator Chris Murphy
after the mass shooting in Las Vegas

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[Maxim]

https://time.com/7283887/pope-leo-lgbtq-women-migrants-rights/

Where Pope Leo Stands On Specific Issues

"In a report assessing his opinions regarding queer couples, The New York Times cited a 2012 statement from Leo in which he expressed dismay at the way media and pop culture expressed “sympathy for beliefs and practices that contradict the gospel.”"

 

 

[Khan]

Exactly!

[marceline]

I'm just curious how this ends for him. From where I sit these are the options:

1. He resigns and Shapiro names his replacement (my preference). In my perfect world, he's replaced by a Black woman but I'm not going to pretend that I understand internal PA politics so I defer to people on the ground. I've noticed nobody has called for him to step down the way they did for Al Franken. Perhaps they learned a lesson there.
2. He stays and is primaried in 2028. That's exactly the kind of ugliness we don't need and it's exactly what the far left wants. They are obsessed with primaries. Bernie taught them primaries are all that matter. Another drawback is that there's no telling how much harm Shrek could do in the meantime given that he's clearly a danger to himself and others.
3. They could expel him from the Senate. That's not going to happen.
4. Mother Nature takes care of this for us which brings us back to Shapiro naming his opponent.

 

Edited 19 hours ago by marceline

[DRW50]

I could see the second as happening. I could also see him switching to independent like Manchin and Sinema and Eric Adams.

[Classic Cars 425]

Amen to that. 

Anyway, what's going on with the USA shipping ports during the USA-China trade war on tariffs? 

[marceline]

I'm not gearing this at you specifically but I wish people would stop talking about Manchin and Sinema. They're gone. The haters got what they wanted. Fetterman and Adams are the problems in front of us now. I'm hoping Fetterman can be convinced to resign and as for Adams, I think Andrew Cuomo will be the next mayor of NYC.

 

[janea4old]

Apology for my error. That should say Leo XIV.

[Maxim]

Apology accepted.