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— Pope Leo XIV, on X.

The Sistine Chapel’s been sealed for the conclave.
If it’s anything like the movie, it’ll be a rave.
Of course, I have no hope
Of influencing the choice for Pope —
I’d pick the African, the drunk or the hermaphrodite. Who’s your fave?

Vance at the Vatican

April 22, 2025April 22, 2025 Buck Banks

JD Vance is a Catholic convert and mealy-mouthed acerbic dope.
He went to the Vatican on Easter to meet the pontiff, he hoped.
While the two differ on the concept of ordo amoris,
By Monday, we were posing one question, which is,
Did JD Vance somehow kill our favorite Argentinian Pope?

Pope’s No Dope

September 13, 2013September 13, 2013 Buck Banks

Pope Francis is cool — his own luggage he carries,
And he eschews limos for cabs, buses or ferries.
And when it comes to celibacy
He’s got some flexibility,
He’s willing to talk about priests getting married!

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Pope Posts on X

“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.”

— Pope Leo XIV, on X.

God Save the Conclave

Vance at the Vatican

Pope’s No Dope

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

“I think it’s embarrassing, still, even more so. I mean, sure, like, take care of yourself, get healthy, but who gets to take four months off of work because they’re sad?”

— Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) called Rep. Tom Kean Jr’s (R-NJ) explanation on Tuesday for his prolonged absence from Congress “embarrassing” in an interview with TMZ, Mediaite reports.

Numerati

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.

$3.81 billion

53%

A new Cato Institute poll found that only 53% of Americans could correctly identify the adoption of the Declaration of Independence as the historical event marked by July 4. And 46% said they did not know what the day commemorated, including 61% of Gen Z respondents.

$26 million

“President Donald Trump said he had earned at least $26 million in income from an array of new real estate ventures abroad, illustrating how his fortune has grown as his family embraces foreign deal-making in his second term,” Bloomberg reports.