Ryan Chase 

Fox News asked Trump about the global oil crisis. His response: “It used to be called the Gulf of Mexico. Now it’s called the Gulf of America because of me. One of my little sidelines. People are so happy. I must tell you, I was thinking about calling it the Gulf of Trump.” The Strait of Hormuz is under blockade. Britain refused to join. Iran’s nuclear talks collapsed. Lebanon’s death toll passed 2,000. Oil is at $100 a barrel. The least popular Vice President in history just flew home with nothing. Hungary just rejected the authoritarian template Trump endorsed. And the President is talking about renaming a body of water after himself.

WE. REACHED. A. FUCKING. AGREEMENT. WITH. THEM. IN. 2015. THAT. IMPOSED. STRICT. LIMITS. ON. URANIUM. ENRICHMENT. UNTIL. 2040. It was called the JCPOA. And Trump TORE IT UP IN 2018 out of spite for @BarackObama 8 years later, here we are. Total. Disaster.

@Casey5122dark You clearly don’t know what YOU are talking about Gerard. It’s a well known fact that there is wealth disparity in the world, and that it’s skyrocketed.

Your Holiness, let me put this as politely as I can: you don’t know what you are talking about. If you want to write on a subject—horse racing, say, or musical composition—it’s a good idea to know something about it before putting pen to paper or, these days, hitting the computer keyboard. The same goes for economics. You don’t have to know anything about economics, but if you don’t, you shouldn’t pontificate on the subject. What you have written gives evidence of a soft heart, which is a good thing, but soft hearts, if they are not to be destructive, should be closely associated with hard heads. Your post is an embarrassment to those of us who are Catholic and who respect and venerate the office you hold. You wrote: "Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty." Yes, and that’s not good. However, almost all of the human race was immersed in extreme poverty for most of human history. The last two hundred years have seen the mass of people lifted out of poverty in a way that has never been achievable or achieved before. [see Hans Rosling’s Factfulness for some real information: [amazon.co.uk/Factfulness-It…] You wrote: "Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few." If wealthy people have obtained their wealth by honest means, issues of proportionality are irrelevant. They have provided goods or services that people are willing to pay for and they have been rewarded accordingly. What they do with that wealth is a moral issue for them and not a legal or political matter for anyone else. You wrote: “...the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.” [italics added] This is a classic example of the zero-sum fallacy. The solution to poverty is to make poor people un-poor, not to make wealthy people un-wealthy. [see stephankinsella.com/2023/06/casey-…] What you call 'equitable distribution' presumes that wealth is something that just sits there, waiting to be distributed. But wealth is something that is produced, and its production already determines its ‘distribution’. Your Holiness, there is much work to be done to sort out the problems in the Church. May I respectfully suggest that you direct your attention to the resolution of these problems.

BUTTIGIEG: The strait was open before they started this KERNEN: They were close to having 11 nuclear weapons! BUTTIGIEG: We had other ways of dealing with them KERNEN: Like what? Obama's way? BUTTIGIEG: That worked KERNEN: That did not work! BUTTIGIEG: Did they get a nuclear weapon under Obama?

The Christian conservative mind cannot fathom someone being simultaneously religious and not hateful

The Pope literally just asked for peace and MAGA is losing it

This is what it looks like to take the Lord's name in vain--using God to justify bombings and Bible verses to promote violence.

Jimmy Kimmel ridicules Trump's latest Iran deadline extension with a montage of his many empty promises of "two weeks."

So he’ll stop bombing Iran in order to reopen the Strait of Hormuz… …which was open before he started bombing Iran. Got it.

I thought this was an SNL skit. 😱 Trump: "I'm polling higher than anybody has ever polled in Venezuela. I will quickly learn Spanish. It won't take too long. I'm good at language. I will go to Venezuela. I'm going to run for president."

Trump: Biden used an Autopen! Kids: What?

The man is talking about war to an audience of children with a giant f'ing bunny standing beside him. Everything is insane.

Three Sundays a week. Through the snow. Uphill both ways.

Trump won the war again! He had defeated Iran for a record 12 times in one month!

This man believes he teleported to a Waffle House but can't believe that trump lost the 2020 election.

What a time to be alive.

I’ve never had to call the police, fire department, or EMS to my house. Do I get my taxes back for that? Of course not.

I just can’t believe any of this is real. This man is literally beyond parody.

Marco Rubio 2 days ago: “Imagine if Iran funded the well-being of its people, rather than its military” Trump today: “We can’t fund daycare or Medicaid, we need more money for our military” Sometimes the jokes write themselves.

TWO STATEMENTS BY TRUMP 7 MINUTES APART: Trump at 9:00: "Regime change was not our goal. We don't want that" Trump at 9:07: "Regime change is what we want. It is needed" These statements were made 7 minutes apart in the same speech