Pope Francis. Pins Trump.

Posted by Arthur Gilroy | Jul 22, 2015 | 12 |

I know that Pope Francis was not directly referring to Donald Trump when he said the following words, and I am certainly not a Catholic anymore nor have I been for over 50 years. But this passage from his unscripted speech to 600,000 youths in Paraguay on July 12th hits Trump’s act dead center.

Friends: the devil is a con artist. He makes promises after promise, but he never delivers. He’ll never really do anything he says. He doesn’t make good on his promises. He makes you want things which he can’t give, whether you get them or not. He makes you put your hopes in things which will never make you happy.

… He is a con artist because he tells us that we have to abandon our friends, and never to stand by anyone. Everything is based on appearances. He makes you think that your worth depends on how much you possess.

Right down the middle.

If you have listened to any of Trump’s speeches, one very interesting repeated lick is that whenever he says something about “My good friend’…whomever that might be…he is sure to immediately describe how that “friend” recently called him up to complain about some part of Trump’s act, followed by something like “Of course I will never speak to him again…” This is a big part of his act, as are his ongoing put-downs of various people who must be “stupid” because they don’t make the kind of money he makes.

Now…religion is all metaphor for something much bigger, and Pope Francis seems to know this. He has just described Donald Trump’s stump speeches in two paragraphs. Did he aim for Trump? I don’t know. In his classic book “Zen In The Art Of Archery” Eugen Herrigel describes how Kyudo Archery teaches one to hit a target without aiming. “Impossible,” you say? No. It’s not. It’s a well documented practice. You could look it up. Maybe Pope Francis is more of a Zen archer than the typical Pope.

Whatever. Aiming or not, he scored a bullseye.

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Arthur Gilroy on July 22, 2015 at 4:37 am

Will America fall to this Trump creature?

Let us pray that it does not, because that would be the beginning of the end of days.

Yes it would.

Watch.

AG.
- centerfielddj on July 24, 2015 at 1:29 pm
  
  Arthur, so many pixels spent on the Donald! Good Lord, don’t you realize that we can all see that you like Trump? All the kvetching around it are the sounds of a Frog Ponder doth protesting too much, methinks.
  
  And THIS classic projection:
  
  “This is a big part of (Trump’s) act, as are his ongoing put-downs of various people who must be “stupid” because they don’t make the kind of money he makes.”
  
  Translated:
  
  “This is a big part of Arthur’s act, his ongoing put-downs of various people who must be “stupid” because they don’t share his annihilative cynicism and hatred for others.”
  - Arthur Gilroy on July 25, 2015 at 2:53 pm
    
    I believe that Donald trump is the most dangerous national politician that we have seen in my witting lifetime…say since the JFK fiasco. There were other dangerous ones…George Wallace stands out, also Nixon and Reagan. Had Dick Cheney reached a viable position as a possible president he would be right up there w/Trump, and he did plenty of damage as Butch II’s minder anyway. But Trump leads the pack because:
    
    #1-He can finance his own campaign
    
    #2-His act resonates big time with substantial numbers of the potential electorate…not just people who usually vote, but also with the approximately 40% of eligible voters who do not usually vote.
    
    and
    
    #3-He strikes me as being a true sociopath and megalomaniac. A very intelligent and fabulously wealthy sociopath and megalomaniac, wealth gathered by the same tactics that he would use if he were president. Long story short…bullying tactics. If he were to those tactics on a nuclear-armed world, things could go permanently south very, very quickly.
    
    i guess that takes care of my so-called “liking” of Donald Trump. Had you read what I have written about him over the past week or so my position would have been very clear. If you did read what I have written and came to the conclusion that I somehow “like” Donald Trump, then your reading comprehension skills are either so low and/or so warped by your apparent hatred for me that nothing you say should be taken seriously by anyone.
    
    I certainly don’t take them seriously.
    
    Your dislike for me?
    
    Get in line. It doesn’t bother me a bit. In fact, when people like you start trolling me it just reinforces my belief that I am doing something positive with my posting efforts.
    
    Have a nice day.
    
    AG
    - centerfielddj on July 26, 2015 at 2:20 am
      
      Trump is not going to be elected President. Your delusion that he is a real threat to win is one of the chief pieces of evidence helping us understand that you actually admire him. The other chief evidence is that you too engage in nasty demagoguery of the many with whom you disagree. And you justify it just as Trump does, with the claim that civility and honest, accurate appraisals of our government are universally exclusive from each other.
      - Arthur Gilroy on July 29, 2015 at 5:20 pm
        
        You write:
        
        Trump is not going to be elected President.
        
        Once again (One of how many times in the last couple of weeks?)…I sincerely hope not.
        
        By your accounting, the more I oppose Trump, the more I must secretly admire him.
        
        Also by that accounting, I suppose that since I have supported many of the positions of the Paul family, I must secretly oppose them.
        
        Further along those lines, since you industriously oppose me at every possible turn here then you must secretly admire me and quite probably wish to be me.
        
        HAH hah hah hah hah hah hah!!!!
        
        WTFU.
        
        AG
      - centerfielddj on July 31, 2015 at 9:30 am
        
        Interesting argument.
        
        An argument totally unresponsive to the post you were responding to, but interesting nonetheless in its testimony to your egomania and commitment to hostility above all else.
        
        You appear to prefer offending people here than persuading them. In that, at least, you have been successful.
      - Arthur Gilroy on July 31, 2015 at 6:00 pm
        
        You appear to prefer offending people here than persuading them. In that, at least, you have been successful.
        
        I find you offensive, centerfielddj. Do not think that my relations with you or any of the other kneejerk liberals on this site are in any way my whole bag. I get along just fine with a number of people here and in my workplace I get along with pretty nearly everybody. You are offensively stupid in my opinion, and I treat you that way.
        
        Deal wid it.
        
        Yourself.
        
        AG
Arthur Gilroy on July 22, 2015 at 12:38 pm

Hmmmm…

Pope Francis’ Popularity Dives in United States, Gallup Poll Finds

Pope Francis’ popularity in the United States has dropped significantly over the last year, fueled in part by conservatives, according to a new poll.

The Gallup survey found 59 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the pontiff, down from 76 percent a year ago. The plunge was greatest among those who identify as conservatives — from 72 percent a year ago to 45 percent now.

The pollsters said Francis’ criticism of capitalism, comments on climate change and focus on the poor may have hurt him with conservatives. Liberals who were drawn to Francis’ populist message may have become impatient with the slow pace of change in church policy, the pollsters theorized.

The Gallup findings differ from those in another recent poll — a survey from Pew Research in February that found the pope’s popularity among Americans has never been higher. That poll also found nine out of 10 Catholics viewed him positively.

—snip—

HMMMmmm…

Could it be…

SATAN at work!!!???

Or just that nasty old PermaGov mule Gallup.

Or…is there really any difference between the two?

Hmmmm….

AG
- Arthur Gilroy on July 22, 2015 at 12:40 pm
  
  Forgot the link. Sorry.
  
  NBC News
  
  The devil is in the details, I guess.
  
  Later…
  
  AG
- Quentin on July 22, 2015 at 4:01 pm
  
  Does Gallup think the Pope is concerned about his ‘popularity’ in the US as if he’s running for office? In the US it’s always about US.
  - Arthur Gilroy on July 22, 2015 at 4:50 pm
    
    Well…you have to remember that he is the CEO of a fabulously wealthy and powerful organization.
    
    Have you ever wondered how wealthy the church really is? In his book, `The Vatican Billions’, writer and philosopher Avro Manhattan gives us a glimpse of the true financial worth of the catholic church:
    
    “The Vatican has large investments with the Rothschilds of Britain, France and America, with the Hambros Bank, with the Credit Suisse in London and Zurich. In the United States it has large investments with the Morgan Bank, the Chase-Manhattan Bank, the First National Bank of New York, the Bankers Trust Company, and others.
    
    “The Vatican has billions of shares in the most powerful international corporations such as Gulf Oil, Shell, General Motors, Bethlehem Steel, General Electric, International Business Machines, T.W.A., etc.” (…)
    
    “Some idea of the real estate and other forms of wealth controlled by the Catholic church may be gathered by the remark of a member of the New York Catholic Conference, namely `that his church probably ranks second only to the United States Government in total annual purchase.’
    
    “Another statement, made by a nationally syndicated Catholic priest, perhaps is even more telling. `The Catholic church,’ he said, `must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T., and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government.'” (…)
    
    “The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each successive pope, has been increasingly orientated towards the U.S. The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican’s financial deals in the U.S. alone were so big that very often it sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars at one time.” (…)
    
    “The Vatican’s treasure of solid gold has been estimated by the United Nations World Magazine to amount to several billion dollars. A large bulk of this is stored in gold ingots with the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, while banks in England and Switzerland hold the rest.
    
    “But this is just a small portion of the wealth of the Vatican, which in the U.S. alone, is greater than that of the five wealthiest giant corporations of the country. When to that is added all the real estate, property, stocks and shares abroad, then the staggering accumulation of the wealth of the Catholic church becomes so formidable as to defy any rational assessment.” (…)
    
    —snip—
    
    You write:
    
    In the US it’s always about US.
    
    Yes, but…
    
    In the Church it is always about the Church, and much of its wealth resides right here in the good ol’ U.S. of A.
    
    Follow the money.
    
    As always…
    
    Follow the money.
    
    Imagine if there was a real, strong wave of anti-Catholic sentiment in the U.S. population and thus in the government. Or more than likely vice-versa, considering the mind-control media apparatus that is controlled by the PermaGov.
    
    Of course he’s concerned.
    
    AG
- centerfielddj on July 24, 2015 at 1:02 pm
  
  That’s all opinion anyway.

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