Laura Loomer lamented that the new pope ‘is anti-Trump, anti-MAGA, pro-open Borders, and a total Marxist like Pope Francis,’ adding that it’s ‘GROSS’ that he now leads the Catholic Church

It didn’t take long for right-wing media figures and MAGA provocateurs to cry out in rage over the election of Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV after it was revealed that he’d publicly criticized JD Vance and expressed sympathy for immigrants and George Floyd.

Despite feeling national pride over the fact that the Chicago-born Prevost has become the first American pope in history, conservative pundits and Trump loyalists fumed over the “WOKE MARXIST POPE” and complained that he is “worse than Francis,” referencing the previous pontiff known for his progressive values.

Even before the “dark horse” American cardinal was elected the 267th pope, former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon warned about Prevost’s views, claiming that he would be a poor choice for the MAGA movement.

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      Crucify? Oh, no, no, no.

      They would have him arrested and detained by plain-clothes ICE agents, held in a Texas concentration camp where he would be bundled with the “illegals,” then shipped off to El Salvador to be starved and worked to death… Twice.

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      Jesus? That woke ass dude who believes in hand outs (feed the poor), pro-DEI (love thy neighbor), anti-capital punishment (preaches forgiveness)?

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    I just want to add. Anyone that ACTUALLY FOLLOWS the teachings of the bible, cannot with good conscious support Donald Trump.

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    “Progressive values” - do they even read the new testament? Compassion is the overt message of the Jesus they claim to follow.

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        It isn’t even supply side Jesus anymore, they are more and more brazen that trump is their god.

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          This is the truth. Trump is their prophet. Why else does anyone think he posted a meme of himself as the Pope. They know they’ve created an unbreakable cult and there’s nothing that can be done to shatter the indoctrination his zealots are thoroughly infected with.

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      Most of the new testament is for suckers and losers in these peoples’ opinion. They are all about the vindictive, crazy shit in the old testament, and a few rare things from the new testament. like Paul’s letters.

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      They only care about the parts of the bible that they can use to justify their cruelty to others.

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      Of course they didn’t. They only use the bible as a prop or to justify their hatred for gay people. None of them ever thought about actually reading the thing.

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      they only look at parts of the old testmanets, and whatever is distilled by thier televangist.

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    MAGA would melt down no matter who they picked because everything maga is doing right now is the opposite of what Jesus would do, and whoever is the pope is going to criticize maga for being terrible humans.

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    I love how they lost their shit about an American speaking Italian, in Italy, to a shit load of Italians.

    The American nationalism has truly rotted their brains.

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        It’s bad enough half of his speech at the Conclave was in Spanish. You know from that he’s insufficiently AMERICAN. And his dual citizenship with Peru & USA makes him doubly suspect.

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    According to headlines lately, MAGA melts down fucking constantly. I hypothesize that they’re actually just liquid. They aren’t ‘melting down’, this is just their natural state.

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    I knew it-- just KNEW IT-- the moment we learned the new Pope was American, I knew the MAGAt moron brigade would immediately be expecting the guy to be some gob-slobbering jackass racist like them, expecting him to start licking drumpf’s toes.

    The fact the Pope isn’t going to be ordered around by King Damp Pants is going to be a talking point for Faux “news” Entertainment for a while lol

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    Very good! I see this as confirmation that they elected the right man for the job 😊

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    Whatever is a “poor choice” for the MAGA movement is a great choice in my book. Even if it’s about a religious figure.