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Mary Ballard's avatar

"He’s now saying autism is worse than covid because covid “killed old people.” WTF?! " I've said it before, someplace in Project 2025 it says to kill the old people - all we do is take up space and make waves. I'd like to make a tsunami designated for certain areas, please! Old people rock!

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Edward Jay Allan's avatar

Pretty early in COVID, both Wisconsin Senator "Russian Ron" Johnson and Texas Lt. Governor Dan Roberts publicly advocated letting old people die of COVID and/or even commit suicide so as to save money on Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid and to free up jobs for younger people and leave their estates to the next generation. (This is in fact true, and not from the Onion.)

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Candace Lucas's avatar

Great idea. Let's start with Trump. He's about to be 79.

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Rosemary Orlandi's avatar

on behalf of old people may I say Thank You .

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Robin Richardson's avatar

I'm still rocking, even though people today treat me like they're just tolerating me and I'm taking up space! WTF ever happened to RESPECT YOUR ELDERS!

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Cyn B's avatar

And you can tell who they are! When they start talking down to me like I don't know what I am saying because I am old, maan I get fired up!

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WilyCat's avatar

The Pope "...was so grossed out that he died." -- after meeting JD Vance. Gave me quite a giggle 🤭 😂

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Janina Fenigsen's avatar

The self-described "baby catholic" needs an exorcist, not a pope

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elle  chasing_winter's avatar

Okay, I legit chortled at this.

I was thinking JD said something like “Maybe you could grant an audience to my good Catholic friends Clarence and Sam,” and the Pope thought “Oh Lord, this cup is bitter indeed, please take it from me,” and the Lord was merciful.

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Barbara Lee's avatar

Nancy Mace is truly a horrible person! She’s a “pick me!” woman. Always seeking attention. Wearing gigantic cross earrings while being an insufferable bitch! Pathetic to say the least 🤮

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Open Letters by Mersault's avatar

OPEN LETTER TO VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE

The Pope Spoke—And You Were the Heresy

Mr. Vice President,

You flew to Rome, baby in arms, craving the optics of holiness. A power-hungry apostle of faux tradition, you wanted a photo, a nod, a moment of borrowed sainthood from a dying pope. You did not get it.

You were received by a Cardinal, not the Pope. You were offered a handshake, not a halo. And in the final moments of his life, Pope Francis made one thing abundantly clear: you, your administration, and your desecration of Christianity will not be sanctified.

While you smirked for the cameras and polished your “pro-life” credentials, Francis—too sick to speak—had his words read for the world. And they were not neutral. They were not vague. They were thunderous.

In his final Easter message delivered on April 20, 2025, Pope Francis issued a profound appeal for compassion and solidarity, particularly towards migrants and marginalized individuals.

“How much contempt is stirred up… toward the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants.”

“I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”

“Use the resources available to help the needy, to fight hunger and to encourage initiatives that promote development. These are the ‘weapons’ of peace: weapons that build the future, instead of sowing seeds of death.”

That was no Easter benediction. That was a reckoning. He didn’t say your name—but God help you, he meant you.

He saw your regime’s cruelty dressed in Sunday best. He saw the migrant families torn apart by your border crackdowns, the trans kids erased by your policies, the poor sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed while you cradle your crucifix like a branding tool.

You came for a blessing. What you got was a rebuke. And in the language of saints and sinners, this was as close to a divine “fuck off” as papal diplomacy allows.

You don’t believe in the Beatitudes—you believe in beatdowns. You don’t turn the other cheek—you pass legislation to punish the already broken. You don’t love your neighbor—you vote to exile them.

Let’s call your performance what it is: a sanctified fraud. You wear Catholicism like a costume. You wield Scripture like a cudgel. You think the kingdom of God belongs to the well-armed, the well-connected, the well-insured—but Francis saw through you. He always did.

He saw Trump’s second term for what it is: a golden calf revival, draped in nationalism, greed, and vengeance.

He saw you for what you are: a flatterer of tyrants, a counterfeit Christian, and a Vice President trying to baptize American fascism in holy water.

And now the Pope is gone. His last message echoes like a final trumpet call to the halls of power and to the world’s abandoned. He died delivering truth—to presidents, to popes-in-waiting, to us.

He did not die blessing your crusade.

He died warning the world to resist it.

So go ahead, Mr. Vance. Pretend this is just politics. Pretend your Rome visit was historic. Pretend your regime’s war on the vulnerable is the will of God.

But the faithful know better.

You did not walk away from Rome with a crown. You walked away marked.

And history, like scripture, will remember who broke bread—and who broke the people.

Amen.

🔘 Subscribe » @Open Letters by Mersault

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Cheri Ezell's avatar

Bravo! I pray JD reads this!

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Katiejane M's avatar

Brilliant!

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Open Letters by Mersault's avatar

Thank you, Katiejane!

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Mary Ballard's avatar

I want to amend or add to my comment - old people rock, but we need more young people interested, enthused, and ready to step up to the game!!!!

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JavaJunkyMonkey's avatar

Hey Adam, how was your Easter? I bonded with kid even more. We have to stay tight because of these hard times. I also made a new friend on BlueSky. A chef. I made one of his recipes and what a kind gentleman he is. Chef Eric Feltman. I made his recipe of chicken andouille gumbo. Boy was it good. Despite my hands hurting due to arthritis, it was worth the pain I feel now LOL. Great Easter dinner.

As far as this drunk ass idiot, I hope he ends up killing his liver. Harsh? I don't think so. That is after all what you're doing to your liver if you drink in excess. I can't believe he did it again. Why don't they swiftly arrest him like they are the immigrants that are here LEGALLY? Chicken shits.

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Fred Jonas's avatar

What was the harsh part? Calling Hegseth a drunk ass idiot? He is. That's not harsh. It's a correct observation and interpretation.

You can't mean the part about hoping he kills his liver. That's his own choice. Whether or not you hope for it, it's entirely in his control.

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JavaJunkyMonkey's avatar

Yeah, that's why I said; I don't think so. I can careless.

Sarcasm.

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Harold Miller's avatar

THIS JUST IN……….

The Trump Administration is claiming that during the Easter Sunday meeting between Vice President JD Vance and Pope Francis the Pontiff expressed an interest in being interred at the Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster, NJ.

Officials at the Vatican expressed some skepticism but have deferred comment.

The Presidents first wife, Ivana Trump was buried on the first hole after her untimely death in July 2022. This is a developing story and we will have up-dates shortly.

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

😆😆😆😆

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A. Hofferkamp's avatar

Francis would have laughed at your commentary. Thanks for highlighting him.

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Bill Riley's avatar

Nice pic of Kamala. Has her husband quit his job yet?

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Barryt's avatar
4dEdited

Well, in Nancy's defense, the Daisy Dukes critique is spot on (speaking as someone on the receiving end of that insult a long time ago). And for the record, I am politically and spiritually opposed to shorts getting too short like they were in the 70's, and I have grave concerns about the direction this country is moving in regards to the inseam length on shorts.

(to be clear, that is sarcasm, and Nancy Macy is a ****)

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Elizabeth's avatar

😲

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A Woman of Uncertain Age's avatar

As if national Trumpublicans weren't bad enough, welcome to Texas, where nothing is off limits and nobody can go too low (if they're in the TX GOP). Tony Tinderholt, a psychotic windbag of petrified rat turds, opposed recognizing Cecile Richards in the TX House (there's a tradition of honoring/recognizing TX public figures who have died) because he would rather "honor the 60 plus million innocent, unborn, defenseless children that were murdered in the U.S.—the organization that did it, she was in charge of.” Richards was head of Planned Parenthood, and Tinderholt, along with the extremist clowns who joined him in opposing the motion to remember her, is a blowhard douchebag who would rather watch women hemorrhage to death during a miscarriage. Texas Trumpublicans suck.

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jan martin's avatar

BREAKING NEWS!

Nancy Mace is TRANS, but she has decided to change BACK, so now she's had the surgery twice!

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Barbara Hartwell's avatar

Appears she made a round trip!

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Donna Ciaccio Giliberto's avatar

LOL. ROGLMFAO. Rolling on ground, laughing my fat ass off.

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Renee's avatar

Truth! To crooked power.

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𝐹𝑜𝓍𝓎's avatar

Dalai Lama Quietly Cancels Scheduled Meeting With JD Vance

https://babylonbee.com/news/dalai-lama-quietly-cancels-scheduled-meeting-with-jd-vance

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Cyn B's avatar

An acquaintance was staying in Nancy Mace's condo bldg while repairs were being made to her home. She said Mace is even worse in person. Is that even possible?

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