The Daily Populous Wednesday February 12nd, 2025 day edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by z8675309z

“There is … a very Christian concept that you love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world,” Vance said at the end of January. “A lot of the far left has completely inverted that; they seem to hate the citizens of their own country and care more about people outside of their own borders.… The British prime minister should care about Brits, and the French should care about the French.”

Pope Francis sent a message on Tuesday to clear up Vance’s comments. Without mentioning the vice president by name, he attacked Vance’s entire logic for the Trump administration’s cruel policies.

“Christians know very well that it is only by affirming the infinite dignity of all that our own identity as persons and as communities reaches its maturity. Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups. In other words: The human person is not a mere individual, relatively expansive, with some philanthropic feelings! The human person is a subject with dignity who, through the constitutive relationship with all, especially with the poorest, can gradually mature in his identity and vocation,” Pope Francis wrote (emphasis added). “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the ‘Good Samaritan’ (cf. Lk 10:25-37), that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.”

BlackCaaaaat on February 12nd, 2025 at 00:21 UTC »

> It seems hard to believe that a judge could say, ‘We don’t want you to do that,’ so, maybe we have to look at the judges,” Trump said. “I think it’s a very serious violation.”

That’s straight up terrifying. The courts are definitely in Trump’s crosshairs now. They’re the main group actively resisting him so it’s not surprising, though.

ChiefFun on February 11st, 2025 at 22:58 UTC »

Republicans have failed the United States of America!

dbuck1964 on February 11st, 2025 at 22:51 UTC »

In a normally functioning democracy he’d already be removed from office. Criminality, bribes, grifting, threatening allies, a whole litany of reasons I won’t go into here because it isn’t necessary.