So when I first became a Catholic, I would probably go to confession every other week because I would fail to go to mass every other week. I just remember that this process of thinking, okay, if I don't go to church this week, I'm gonna have to go and talk to some [00:00:15] stranger about everything that I did bad the last two weeks. And that process worked in me a much better discipline, a much better prayerful life. And I'm batting probably like 95 % of Sundays now that I actually go to mass. I think that we can say that President Trump, [00:00:34] though not a Catholic himself, has been an incredibly good president for Catholics in the United States of America. Minus a couple things like smearing and besmirching the Pope over and over and talking about the Pope. And the Vatican and Catholicism is just some other political [00:00:54] interest group. He has never once spoken about any of that, like he believes any of it is even like a mile away from the divine. Let alone that the Pope is some sort of like earthly ambassador for the voice and message of God or whatever. Donald Trump has never spoken [00:01:10] that way, because Donald Trump doesn't care as much as JD Vance does to pretend to believe any of this. In JD Vance's credit, he does pretend. He pretends to care about going to church or going to confession or whatever, all that BS that he doesn't actually care about. [00:01:28] This guy cares about himself, his position, and the position he'd like to replace it with. That's all he cares about, and he will be whatever he needs to be. He will change politically, he'll change in terms of his rhetoric, he'll change in who he supports and who he attacks. He'll change his religion in pursuit of all of that. So if you are a Catholic, you need [00:01:47] to understand that he is trying to play you, and I would love for you to wake up for that. And this is a great opportunity, I think, to wake up. Because think about it, he is supposed to believe in God and Pope as the God's representative on the earth. Well, now you have Donald Trump [00:02:03] viciously, unrepentantly, repeatedly attacking the Pope, lying about the Pope's position when the Pope is just doing what he's supposed to do by representing something like the morals in the New Testament or something. And in response to that, who does JD Vance side with? The Pope [00:02:20] or one of the most flawed, corrupt, cruel, vindictive, selfish, vain men in American history. We'll take a look. I think the president has the prerogative to set American foreign policy. He's got the prerogative to set American immigration policy. He has to look out for the interests [00:02:39] of the United States of America. And that inevitably means that when the Vatican comments on issues of public policy, sometimes there's gonna be agreement, of course, and sometimes there's gonna be disagreement. I think that's a reasonable thing, Brett. Again, I don't think that it's particularly newsworthy. But I certainly think that in some cases, it would be best for [00:02:59] the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of what's going on in the Catholic Church. And let the President of United States stick to dictating American public policy. But when they're in conflict, they're in conflict. I don't worry about it too much, Brett. I think it's a natural thing. I'm sure it'll happen in the future. And it's [00:03:18] not that big of a deal that it happened in the past. There's a couple issues I have with that, but I love that last bit. When the earthly representative of the thing that I think is eternal and definitionally true disagrees with the dude from The Apprentice, I don't really worry about that. I don't get [00:03:38] worked up. What do you want out of me? Principles, values, a spine? I'm just sitting here with my thumb up my ass just waiting for my turn. Me, JD Vance, you think I'm gonna stand up for something? Why would you believe that at this point? They disagree. mean, he's got [00:03:57] God on his side and he's cheated on every woman he's ever been with and might have raped a 13 year old. I don't really see any difference between those two things. I'm certainly not gonna stick my neck out. I'm not gonna be a leader. I'm not going to do that, that might imperil my chances of being the leader of everything. I'm not going to practice now. And then the [00:04:18] idea that the Pope should shut up and keep his rhetoric constrained to matters of morality. That's what he's doing. It's a freaking war, you jackal, you rat. You've murdered hundreds [00:04:41] and hundreds of civilians. You killed an elementary school full of children. And you, the guy who would purport to be morally superior to a godless heathen like me, believes that has [00:04:56] nothing to do with morality. that your official policy is we're just going to assassinate the leadership of this nation. Yeah, maybe we do do diplomacy. Maybe we just freaking kill them. Maybe we just murder them. Maybe we blow up their desalination plants, their power plants. [00:05:12] Donald Trump threatened to kill 90 million people last week. And the Pope spoke up and Vance's response as a newly devout Catholic is shut up, Popey. I don't want to hear about it. glassing Tehran has nothing to do with morality. If that is what you think after your experience [00:05:36] in whatever religious sex or whatever you've been in so far, I don't think you were paying much attention to those books. I may disagree with a lot of their messages, but they do seem to think that matters of literal life and death, mass life and mass death has something to do [00:05:51] with morality. But for JD Vance, doesn't. And if you're a Catholic, I mean, just shut the hell up. Honestly then, why the hell are you speaking up against Democratic presidents telling them that they shouldn't be allowing people to have abortions or whatever? That's public policy, okay? You shut the hell up about public policy and then go think about morality. Nothing [00:06:13] the president does has to do anything with morality, so shut the hell up about it. Shut the hell up about trans people. Shut the hell up about them playing in sports. You go do your morality thing or whatever. We've got public policy to set, JD Vance. if that is the way it's supposed to work. Except of course, that's not the way that it's supposed to work. And it's not the [00:06:29] way that he believes that it works. It is the massive spineless double standard that JD Vance has for Donald Trump that he would never give to anyone else except perhaps himself in the future. And that's it. And if you're a religious person, you believe that that guy [00:06:44] has anything in common with you, you are out of your goddamn mind even more than Donald Trump is. I don't believe in any of these religions and I guarantee we agree fundamentally more on vast ranges of questions of morality than you ever will with JD Vance because morality [00:07:00] doesn't enter into it. It's whatever benefits him in the immediate term, okay? That's it, that's it.