For our friend skudrunner (and Dave M.)

 

It's been a busy weekend at the goat farm.

We worked both Friday and Saturday because of 4 new kids and a doe who's ready to kid today.

But I had time to read some postings on social media and thought this one hit the mark:

Vance didn't get a deal.

Pentagon Threatened the Pope After He Criticized Trump

So, now the crazy former weekend FAUX NOOZ host, serial adulterer, and DUI Secretary of Defense, Hegseth, is going after religions that don't support his war-crazed policies?

Where have we seen this sort of madness in history? 

Nazi Germany (1933-1945): Despite a 1933 treaty, the Nazis violated the concordat, closing church schools, suppressing press, and sending thousands of priests to concentration camps, most notably in the "Priest Barracks" of Dachau. 

 Mexico's Calles Law (1920s): President Plutarco Elías Calles' 1926 penal code aimed to break the Church's power, sparking the Cristero War, a violent conflict between Catholics and the government. 

German Kulturkampf (1871-1876): Chancellor Otto von Bismarck initiated laws to assert state control over the Church, arresting bishops and priests, and forcing religious orders to disband. 

Soviet Union (1917 onwards): The Bolshevik government actively attacked the Catholic Church, seizing properties and arresting clergy. 

Early American Anti-Catholicism: In the 17th and 18th centuries, several colonies, including Maryland and Virginia, banned or restricted Catholic settlers and forced them to pay taxes to established Protestant churches.

Pentagon Threatened the Pope After He Criticized Trump 

"Relations between the U.S. and the Catholic Church have not been the same since January, when senior U.S. defense officials shared an abrasive message with a Vatican official. 

 Days after Pope Leo XIV delivered his State of the World speech, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s U.S. representative, to a closed-door Pentagon meeting for a bitter lecture. 

 'The United States,' Colby said, according to a blistering new report by The Free Press, 'has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.' 

One U.S. official present at the meeting brought up the Avignon papacy, a period in the 14th century in which the French monarchy bent the Catholic Church into submission, ordering an attack on Pope Boniface VIII that led to his downfall and subsequent death and forcing the papacy to relocate from Rome to Avignon, a region inside France. 

 The Trump administration had taken issue with the pope’s critique of its militaristic proclivities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other top Pentagon officials were particularly aggrieved by portions of Leo’s January 9 speech in which the pope argued that 'a diplomacy that promotes dialogue and seeks consensus among all parties is being replaced by a diplomacy based on force,' and that 'war is back in vogue, and a zeal for war is spreading.'

 

Meidas Touch Report (Yes, I know, this is a left leaning source, but its report has been confirmed):

"SHOCK REPORT: Did the Trump administration threaten the Pope's life?!

The Vatican has shelved plans for Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States after what officials describe as a deeply alarming confrontation with the Pentagon.

A stunning new report — now independently confirmed the publication Letters from Leo — reveals that a top U.S. official summoned the Pope’s then-ambassador, Cardinal Christophe Pierre, and delivered a stark warning: America has the military power to do whatever it wants — and the Church 'had better take its side.' ”

JUST SO WE'RE CLEAR ABOUT WHAT TRUMP THINKS HIS HOLY IRAN WAR ACCOMPLISHED:

 

Trump's cultists are giddy with excitement because the Strait of Hormuz was reopened.

The strait was freely open BEFORE Trump started his Holy Iran War! His war with Iran closed it!

Iran is now charging vessels $2 million to go through the strait. It was free before Trump's war.

And now, according to reports, it's closed again:

Trump's Press Secy., Karoline Leavitt:

 Karoline Leavitt: "Lebanon is NOT part of the ceasefire agreement". 

 FACT: The PM of Pakistan, who mediated the ceasefire, tweeted out that it WAS included. He's literally the one who witnessed the deal.

Either she's deliberately lying or is stupidly incompetent.

The Aftermath of the Raving Lunatic's Threats

 

Brett McGurk

And this is madness!

Hegseth: "God deserves all the glory. Tens of thousands of sorties, refuelings, and strikes, carried out under the protection of divine providence. A massive effort with miraculous protection."

Greg Sargent:

This is the reality, not the B.S. being propagandized by the Trump regime:

Is this what MAGA voted for?

 

A maniac willing to commit war crimes in the name of the US by destroying an entire civilization?

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From Stars and Stripes:

Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’ as Iran deadline looms

A self-imposed deadline set by President Donald Trump for Iran to reach a peace deal was looming Tuesday, as Trump escalated his threats to destroy the country’s infrastructure and talks appeared to stall.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump said in a post to his Truth Social account. “I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”

This is an American president, not the North Korean crazy man:

According to the Department of Defense's "Law of War Manual," Trump's "Truth Social" post is a war crime itself:

TRUMP'S EASTER MESSAGE TO IRAN AND THE WORLD:

 

FROM RAWSTORY:

"President Donald Trump issued a curse-laden threat to Iran on Sunday, warning its leaders that unless they cave to his demand to re-open a critical shipping channel to U.S. vessels, the United States would launch an unprecedented attack Tuesday on Iranian civilian infrastructure. 

 “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F----- Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.” 

(I read that FAUX NOOZ hasn't published Trump's crazy Easter Truth Social post, so his cultists on the Mother Ship won't see what a raging maniac he truly is.)

Trump’s post said the U.S. “hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in Iran. Bridges next, then Electric Power Plants!” 

In his post, Trump did not elaborate on what needed to be “done,” but said the U.S. “hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in Iran.” 

 On Friday, Trump said in another Truth Social post: 

“With a little more time, we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL,& MAKE A FORTUNE.” “IT WOULD BE A “GUSHER” FOR THE WORLD???” said the post.

 1. General Protections for Civilian Objects Under the Geneva Conventions, parties to a conflict must distinguish between "civilian objects" and "military objectives." 

Definition of Civilian Objects: All objects that are not military objectives are considered civilian and are protected from direct attack. 

Presumption of Civilian Status: 

In cases of doubt about whether an object (such as a school, house, or place of worship) is being used for military purposes, it must be presumed to be civilian and cannot be attacked.

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Everyone who voted for this psychopath is complicit in what he's threatening and in what he may do next to Iran. 

The civilian destruction and deaths will be on the conscience of every person who voted for this maniac.

 

HAPPY SPRING.

AND HAPPY EASTER TO THOSE WHO CELEBRATE TODAY.