Peterr talks about how stupid it was for Trump to pick a fight with Pope Bob in the first place.

emptywheel.net/2026/04/10/poor-tactics-make-any-strategy-impossible-vatican-edition/
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Great and timely article, thank you.
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minor quibble, Dolan was NYC not Chicago.
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"I'll take 'morally upright popes taking intellectually obtuse presidunces to the political woodshed' for two cents, Alex."
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Why JD & little Marco weren't moving on the Catholic hierarchy for their individual future electoral success rather than some deputy? Both men seem to have dabbled (JD w/ name changes & religion & Rubio IIRC LDS from Catholic to ?). I will be surprised if JD doesn't make move to solve this problem
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Pontiff is much smarter, better educated & moral.He won't forget JD is an amoral chameleon willing to lie about anything to set a meme (see Haitians eating cats).The key is pontiff has much larger megaphone to population of Hispanics in the Americas & therefore the dt "sphere of influence" use it
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Excellent article with such great analysis and cultural background.
I feel like I should be able to immediately guess the unnamed official but my brain is on sebatical. Any guesses? Pete Hegseth?
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You don't want to start a fight with Bobby from the South Side.
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especially a lad from Chicago
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