MAGA fans preparing to storm St. Peter’s Basilica should Trump lose conclave

https://newsthump.com/2025/05/08/maga-fans-preparing-to-storm-st-peters-basilica-should-trump-lose-conclave/

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MuskyMelon@lemmy.world · 82 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Personally I'd like to see what a fully armed and operational Swiss Guard would do.

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Kill a lot of Nazis, as they are wont to do.

SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 15 pts · 1y

That would be the happiest day of my life.

Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

Too bad the Vatican they protect, then helped those Nazis escape to South America

huppakee@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y

Statistically it's most likely they dig holes and stay put, maybe repaint some 'barns' and blow up a bunch of bridges. No wait, that's what the Swiss Armed Forces would do. I have no clue what's statistically most like they would do.

Damage@feddit.it · 24 pts · 1y (3 replies)

The Vatican Is less tolerant and kind than the US police forces

octopus_ink@slrpnk.net · 22 pts · 1y

The Vatican Is less sympathetic to their cause than the US police forces

FTFMe.

Any illusions I had a about a gram of tolerance and kindness in US police evaporated while I spent half a year watching them beat and instigate with protestors, among other things.

ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 14 pts · 1y (1 reply)

If you think qualified immunity from Uncle Sam is good, just wait till you see a guy hopped up on qualified immunity from God

sundray@lemmus.org · 6 pts · 1y

TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 14 pts · 1y (1 reply)

RuPaul would be the best of popes.

edit: i was closer than i thought i would be

turtlesareneat@discuss.online · 1 pts · 1y

Several people have done good pope drag, and I would see any of them in the office: Catherine O'Hara, pre-rape Marilyn Manson, the dude from Francis Bacon's Study after Portrait of Pope Innocent X. But RuPaul would probably be the best in terms of policy.

fargeol@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Fac Vaticanem Magni Iterum

DisOne@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Nunti falsi sunt

RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Romanes eunt domus!

fargeol@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

"People named Roman, they go to the house" ?

sundray@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 1y

"It says 'Romans go home!'"

rekabis@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y

DON’T GIVE THOSE MORANS ANY IDEAS, YOU FOOLS!!!1!

I mean, I’m a hard atheist that would gladly classify religion as child abuse, thereby preventing any exposure until a person has become an adult. That alone would dramatically restrict religion to the mentally ill within only a generation or two.

But judging from Francis’ track record, there is still hope for the Catholic Church to still do some material good, if they elect the right pontiff.

lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 1y

Russia has probably sabotaged that election, too....

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (4 replies)

The world would be so much better if Trump became pope.

Edit: To clarify, that would of course mean he'd have to resign as US president.

Hawke@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Y’know I think you’re actually right. It would get him out of power in the US.

Steve@startrek.website · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Would it, tho?

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Of course. He can't be both.

selkiesidhe@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

Vance killed the last pope so...

Oooooh I see what you doin'

No1@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 1y

Make the Vatican great again!

Patronus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

I would love to see the Vatican guards in their awesome uniforms and shiny spears show MAGA what they're all about!!

daskye@fedia.io · 5 pts · 1y (5 replies)

???? Is he even a candidate?

console@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 1y (2 replies)

you just ate the onion

Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 21 pts · 1y (1 reply)

In this case I get it. I really get it.

console@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Yeah, we do live in the darkest timeline

TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Fun fact if he was baptized as a catholic he is eligible.

EpeeGnome@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y

Yes, there is precedent. Some random Catholic who wasn't even a priest got selected after a conclave had been stuck in political deadlock for literal years. He couldn't actually take the job till he was ordained, which he did. He immediately instituted a bunch of rules including locking them away together with no luxuries until a decision was made to make sure that problem didn't happen again. (It happened again multiple times anyway.)

DisOne@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

And now Cardinal Robert Prevost first USAian to be elected pope - perhaps Trump delegated the job…?

atro_city@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y

Just call them rebels.