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When Vance tells a Pope to be careful, that Pope should be careful. You know, considering Vance's established track record with Popes...
Wait what did I miss
The day (or the day after, can't remember) he visited the previous pope, the pope died.
Died of cringe
Queen Elizabeth was immortal right? Everyone knows that. But when Lizz Truss became prime minister, the queen was like "oh blimey, I believe it best that I take my departure from this unfortunate circumstance forthwith" which is translated to peasant English "screw this shit I'm outta here". JD Vance is like a toddler Truss so if I were the pope, I'd kill myself too. I mean, you believe in God and an after life, you are the person standing between your imaginary world and reality for whoever believes in that shit. But after meeting this bozo you can't believe in a god anymore, all hope is lost, fuck this world, it has no future. "Hoc nihil est; abeo."
Riiiiggghht, "cringe." That's what it was...
He killed the last one lmao
Vance had a visit with the last pope at the Vatican, right before he died. At the time, Francis was trying to get him to acknowledge biblical teachings to love your neighbour (and I think that ICE was the antithesis of this), and not the vaguely dystopian stuff Vance was pushing about only only offering respect/kindness/compassion to the people closest to you.
Its quite poetic actually. The popes last action was to make one of the most evil men alive turn away from evil. And then the pope dies the next day.
I mean, ... it's not like he was successful.
He was quite successful with his dying. He did it on the first try, unlike his boss.
Very true, failed to turn Vance away from evil though.