How about we downplay neither of them? She was smart and brave to write the note and he was a great guy who called the cops.

Trump IRL

by that standard, I gave up many delicious years ago

At this point the love child of Michael Myers and Typhoid Mary would be a better President than Trump.

Hands down. He’s loves gathering intelligence, he’s strategic, he knows all about infrastructure —mainly water works, but still —he’s probably pro-choice and I bet his thoughts on Muslims and immigration are more progressive ...

After what I just read I find that gif quite comforting.

I’m having some serious baseline shift. Things I used to think were utterly horrifying are now just quaintly quotidian. Good god, we’re fucked.

giuliani? more like, ghouliani - right?

Can’t star this enough! As a fellow militant atheist raised in this fucked up church I love these words: “young people are leaving in droves...in Italy...we are probably more secular...”

Bless his heart.

My Catholic school upbringing consisted of guilt and shame. No smugness.

Dude, a Howard Dean scream was once seen as the height of insanity.

I fell for his schtick. Feel free to relish how right you were, because you have no idea just how very right you were. He’s fucking awful, worse even than he’s undead-looking predecessor.

News Flash! Catholics gonna Catholic! Full story at 110 AD

my ears are bleeding out now after 10 seconds of this clusterfuck

The real “cool pope” would be like “this religion is bullshit and you’re all dumb fucks” as soon as he gets his hat thingy.

It doesn’t look like anything to me.

Conversely, having spent a lot of time in the greys myself a couple of years ago and knowing how frustrating it can be, I try to ungrey every non-troll reply when in a position to do so, even if I don’t necessarily agree with their point.

See also: Brownie, Heckuvajob.