American Politics from 2019 on

[Svartalf]

Burn the heretic!

man, it would give me so much pleasure to do so...

[Svartalf]

and can please somebody sum up the article Jim posted for me, I was lost before the third paragraph.

[Tero]

and can please somebody sum up the article Jim posted for me, I was lost before the third paragraph.

...signs of frontotemporal dementia, which affects a person’s personality, behaviour and language more than memory.

[Brian Peacock]

Bah. Trump has always been a self-obsessed, sociopathic, sadistic, racist arsehole. It's part of his charm.

[Brian Peacock]

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and when [Vance] aims at reproofing the effing pope on matters theologyckal, i wonder if vance is expressing 5 centuries of protestant personal interpetation of the bible tradition, or just playing the rump game and talking from the rear.

Exactly. He's missing something of deep significance to Catholicism - the pope is second only to the big man himself, and his theological word is metaphysical and actual religious law. Vance exposed that his self-declared (and heavily self-promoted) religiosity is fundamentally at odds with, and subservient to, his political perspective.

more like, he just stated that I'm more of a Catholic than he is.

In the olden days you'd be tested on the rack or offered the embrace of the iron maiden for saying you were more Catholic than the pope.