So among the assorted responses to Trump's little nazi rally in the Garden, there's this

Catholics and Catholic-adjacent among my timeline, is it a good thing when a priest ends a letter with "May you be blessed with wisdom" ? :|a

Because based on the context I'm gathering that it's like if the Southern "Bless your heart" carried an implied threat with it.

Like a technically polite, formal "You have fucked up and you are about to find out, I will make sure of it"

Oh. He mad mad

how do we think Trump will respond? "I don't with that comedian, I barely know him, you beautiful Christians love me" or outright threats?

Speaking as someone who was once given a talking to by nuns at my little sister's school when I didn't even GO there........he's damn lucky the bishops didn't do this in person. They'd CRUSH him like a bug.

also, because it really needs to be said every single goddamn time Republicans get super racist about Puerto Rico:

These are US Citizens these people are talking about. Natural born US Citizens. Every single word is pure, unvarnished, mask-off racism and this is the ONE GROUP they're allowed to get away with it for

basically for no other reason than a disproportionate number of people forget that Puerto Rico is a US territory and not a totally separate country

so they keep getting away with it under the cover of "well it's not racist to talk shit about other countries, specifically, for some reason" umbrella

instead of people realizing "oh wait, that's how they're talking about people who have exactly the same rights and citizenship I have, maybe that's A Problem"

(or well, technically slightly less, since Puerto Rico being a territory does things to representation, at the bare minimum)

(but that's a separate conversation)

yep

but also damn that letter

That is a sign off that makes me want to go back to confession. Youch.

Sort gives a vibe of 'you are so foolish that only God himself could cure it and Lord do I pray he does'. Literally have NEVER heard a priest say something like that when not upset.

that is definitely giving off biiiiiig "Bless your heart" vibes

also San Juan is beautiful. I haven't seen much of the island besides that and Casa Bicardi

but what i have seen it is so pretty

The second part of that sign-off is "Lord knows you don't have any now."

Puerto Rico needs actual representation in Congress

Puerto Rico deserves statehood

Trump says he's never heard of the comedian and didn't hear his comments.

And doesn't know what he said.

... Of course he did

Bugly42: It's very much up to them by now and tbh it's been a thorny issue for years

The biggest problem is that the sides for and against statehood also use boycotting referendums to decide it as a viable strategy

So while there was at least one in the past that was overwhelmingly in favor of statehood, it was something like half the population that actually voted

Trumps indifference to the island after the last hurricane cause support for it to go up, but as it is now its still waiting on a new referendum to decide it

(one of the things the new Dem congress did after coming into session after the 2020 election was pass legislation to open the process up for statehood on our end, but they still have to hold their own referendum to decide it)

yeah it's for them to decide, not the US to enforce its will on them, it's done that quite enough.

that archbishop is big mad

i was raised catholic and oof "may you be blessed with wisdom" is scathing

very much "only god can help you now"

except if the guy was presenting at the rally he had to submit his speech for approval to put it up on the teleprompter so they had to have known

oh they absolutely did, because his set was going to include him calling Kamala the C word

and the campaign told him no

so this was not a surprise for them

UGH i saw that too, what a fucking gross guy