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[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: CASH FOR CLAPS: Iowa lobbyist packs JD Vance rally in Des Moines by offering people $100 each to attend!

An ethanol Iowa ethanol lobbyist was caught offering $100 cash plus unlimited referral bonuses to fill the crowd!

Just hours before Vance took the stage, lobbyist Jake Swanson (who works for a group pushing E15 fuel, a pet issue of Vance’s), texted contacts with a cash offer:

“Gentlemen, Jake Swanson here. I wanted to invite you to join me in seeing Vice President JD Vance this afternoon in Des Moines. I do some work for an ethanol company and so if you’re able to join, I will give you $100, and for anyone that you recruit, an additional $25. No limit on referrals, so if someone recruits a group of 20 to show up, that’s $500.”

This is textbook astroturfing, that is paying people to fake grassroots support for a certain issue.

And the hypocrisy is rich. First, you would think the the Vice President of the United States could fill his own hall, but JD Vance remains about as popular as a visit to the dentist.

More importantly, MAGA constantly screams about “paid protesters” on the left, but when it’s their own side handing out cash to pack a rally, it’s suddenly just “enthusiastic supporters.”

Vance was out there championing the very ethanol policy this lobbyist pushes, while the lobbyist was literally handing out the Benjamins to any warm body willing to cheer him on!

This is the illusion and obfuscation of Trumpworld reality in a nutshell: fake crowds, paid attendance, and lobbyists with deep ties to the administration buying influence and optics.

Think about the assassination attempts on Trump in this context. Who knows what they say or do is really real?

If you’re disgusted by the blatant hypocrisy and artifice of the whole MAGA superstructure, please like and share.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump punishes Pope Leo for criticizing his Iran War by stripping $11 million from Catholic Charities in Florida that was supposed to help shelter and care for children who enter the country alone.

Trump is terrorizing kids in America while killing them overseas...

“The U.S. government has abruptly decided to end more than 60 years of relationship with Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Miami,” said Archbishop Thomas Wenski. “The Archdiocese of Miami’s services for unaccompanied minors have been recognized for their excellence and have served as a model for other agencies throughout the country.”

"Our track record in serving this vulnerable population is unmatched. Yet, the Archdiocese of Miami’s Catholic Charities’ services for unaccompanied minors has been stripped of funding and will be forced to shut down within three months," he added.

The Department of Homeland Security, through its Office of Refugee Resettlement, has paid Catholic Charities in Miami for years to help house children who enter the country without accompanying adults. The Miami Herald describes the program as essentially a "federally funded foster care system."

Bishop Wenski said that despite there being a recent decrease in unaccompanied minors “it is baffling that the U.S. government would shut down a program that it would be hard-pressed to replicate at the level of competence."

Robert Latham, associate director of the University of Miami Law School’s Children and Youth Law Clinic, said that the gutting of funding and possible need to move the children elsewhere could inflict serious damage on their developing psyches.

"It’s incredibly psychologically harmful to be moved,” he said. “For little kids, moving repeatedly creates bonding issues and destroys the sense of both self and community. They don’t know who they are and where they will be."

“This should only be done with a lot of emotional support that you normally would find within a family. Unfortunately, that is not there in a group home setting,” Latham added.

Of course, Donald Trump couldn't care less about the suffering of children. This man was friends with Jeffrey Epstein for years and been accused of sexual abuse himself. He started his Iran War by blowing up a school full of little girls and his administration has worked around the clock to strip funding from programs that feed, educate, and house children.

While the administration has not admitted that these funding cuts are payback against Pope Leo, the point A to point B is apparent. Trump is the most vindictive man to ever hold the presidency. He has been relentlessly attacking Leo for criticizing his Iran War. This is him using financial leverage in an effort to beat the Pope into submission. It will not work.

Please ❤️ and share to demand that the funding be doubled when Democrats take back control!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump SHOCKS Catholics with a deranged Sunday night attack on Pope Leo, calling him "WEAK," claiming credit for him becoming pope, and accusing him of "hurting the Catholic Church" in a lengthy blasphemous rant.

These sound like the words of the literal Antichrist...

"Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy. He talks about 'fear' of the Trump Administration, but doesn’t mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else, for holding Church Services, even when going outside, and being ten and even twenty feet apart," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Up until now, Trump has avoided insulting Leo directly despite the pope's vocal criticisms of his Iran War and his brutal treatment of migrants. Over the weekend, Leo again slammed the war and blamed it on a "delusion of omnipotence" while calling for an immediate end to the conflict. Clearly, this time his message struck a nerve.

"I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA," Trump continued. "He gets it, and Leo doesn’t! I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country."

Trump's own intelligence agencies have admitted that Iran was not pursuing nuclear weapons, just like those same agencies have stated that Venezuela was not trafficking large amounts of drugs into the United States. As usual, he's lying.

"And I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History," Trump continued.

For the record, it doesn't matter what kind of pope Trump "wants." He's not Catholic and clearly doesn't believe in God at all. His opinion on the papacy is about as relevant as Satan's.

"Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise," Trump went on. "He wasn’t on any list to be Pope, and was only put there by the Church because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump. If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican."

Not that it matters to Trump — who clearly doesn't give a damn about offending Catholics — but the Church has never and will never revolve around him. It's a 2000-year-old institution, older than MAGA, older than the United States itself. Popes are chosen to shepherd the faithful towards Jesus Christ, not to pander to American presidents. Not only that, but Catholics believe that the Holy Spirit helps guide the papal election through the College of Cardinals. In his hubris and rage, Trump is spitting on ancient, sacred beliefs.

"Unfortunately, Leo’s Weak on Crime, Weak on Nuclear Weapons, does not sit well with me, nor does the fact that he meets with Obama Sympathizers like David Axelrod, a LOSER from the Left, who is one of those who wanted churchgoers and clerics to be arrested," Trump wrote.

"Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician. It’s hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it’s hurting the Catholic Church! President DONALD J. TRUMP" the president concluded.

Ironically, Trump is the one filtering these issues through a political lens. Leo is not being a politician. He's being a Christian. True followers of Jesus — not the bloodthirsty Evangelicals who make up the MAGA base — are profoundly anti-war. If Leo were being "political" he wouldn't be speaking out so forcefully on these moral issues. He's defending migrants and innocent people being torn apart by American bombs because it's the right thing to do, even if it means incurring the rage of Republicans.

As for Trump's claim that Leo is hurting the Church, in reality it's flourishing under his leadership. This past Easter, Catholic parishes saw a massive influx of new converts. The average diocese reported a 38% increase compared to last year. In some places those numbers were even more dramatic. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles saw a 139% increase.

Perhaps that's why Trump is so angry at Leo. As the MAGA movement implodes under the weight of an unpopular war launched on Israel's behalf and a worsening Epstein scandal, the Catholic Church under this new pope is blossoming into an era of spiritual rebirth.

Please ❤️ and share if you stand with Pope Leo!

[Johannes Maria @luo_yuehan]

Trump panics and blows up interview over war!

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Omg SNL so accurate‼️

[Byrd Benson @Byrdbenson911]

🎬 Coach Carter wasn't just a movie. It was a real-life story of motivation ✨️💯❤️

[On This Day in WWE @OTD_in_WWE]

#OnThisDayInWWE 20 years ago on #WWERaw:

"It's better to be pissed off than pissed on!"

Shawn Michaels throws his cup of urine in the McMahons' faces! 😖

And that's even after Vince's important PSA on drugs, too... 😂

@ShawnMichaels @bfg728 @shanemcmahon

[MikkyGirl @shangtos]

🍿: The Guest

[Tad Ghostal @poe_collector]

If you think that we’re making serious progress socially in the US, you’re wrong.

This video is 13 years old. Peak woke died in 2017. Most of you have no idea how good we once had it.

[State of the Union @CNNSOTU]

TAPPER: “Every reporter that I know wants the United States to succeed in every way, and the way that reporters help that happen is by asking questions of people in power and not blindly cheering on leaders who take the nation to war.”

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che!