exactly this. i can have reasonable, nuanced debate with old-school republicans about the benefits & drawbacks of international relations, trade agreements, etc.

true. but i think the Catholics that would care about what the Pope says are already on the fence, if not outright opposed to Trump because the current Pope’s Jesuit background has meant a shift in the Vatican focus to helping the poor and (most importantly) ADVOCATING for helping the poor/refugees/downtrodden, etc.

don’t forget, though, that the Pope doesn’t get a lot of respect from Protestant/Evangelical churches, particularly the insane ones, because they don’t recognize Catholicism as “Christianity”

there’s usually 24-36 hours of “normal” comments before devolving

(i’m pretty sure this is the new iteration of Tomato - it’s the same writing style as when he would troll Gawker, making inane statements with lots of question marks and “i’m just saying”s)

this is so key. she went on TV and said she did it right. okay, so prove it. this is an investigation into claims she herself made in public.

yeah your math was definitely fair and on point. i just wanted to emphasize that the 379k paps per annum is not necessarily indicative that only 379k women use PP for paps given the prevailing wisdom of how often we’re supposed to get paps done.

also - get them vaccinated so their future wife/gf/partner (if applicable) doesn’t get HPV from them and then die of cervical cancer

another follow-up - since you seem like a reasonable person

agreed. he’s clearly not a “steal the kids to be vengeful” kind of guy, since he could give a shit about the kids to begin with.

i could see him being emotionally abusive but i highly doubt he’s threatening to withhold Barron in such explicit terms. maybe their prenup is just ironclad and she doesn’t want to have to raise Barron alone with little/no money, but i doubt he’s said he wouldn’t let her see their son

i love that “trump” is a word so my phone will never, ever auto-capitalize it

how do these things have names? who decides what their names are?

that is supremely shitty.

she turned me into a newt

here’s my thing, though

everyone knows the poophole is the Christian loophole!

as do lesbians!

that’s pretty much Jesus in a nutshell. i went to a Jesuit university and for my upper-division religion course i took something about the socioeconomics of Judea during Biblical (New Testament) times, so it was really more of a history class than a religion class

nah man if you’re not cool with the idea of dads having weird ownership things over their daughters there’s a solid chance you aren’t a chauvinist pig