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Vigilante Killer Kyle Rittenhouse Doesn’t Like Pope Francis for Moral Reasons

I'll give you a minute to stop laughing.

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We’re generally not the type here to judge someone by their Twitter likes. The button can slip, or sometimes you just have a moment of forgetting that you’re publicly commenting on something without commenting on it.

But due to the extreme irony involved here, we decided not to give right-wing media darling Kyle Rittenhouse a pass on this one.

Back in mid-November, His Holiness hosted hundreds of the marginalized needy and migrants at the Vatican for the Church’s “World Day of the Poor.” Some of those who attended included a group of transgender women, many of them Latina migrants and sex workers, who were helped by Pope Francis during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

You can only imagine what Fox News did with that information. Actually, you can do more than imagine: They turned it into an article titled “Pope Francis dines with transgender women for Vatican luncheon.” Apparently, according to Fox, nobody else was there and it was just a “luncheon,” not an event that’s been held every year faithfully for 7 years in a row.

Now, nevermind that Fox sucks. We’ve had that conversation before, and we’ll have it again. The fact is, they tweeted that article with nothing but the name of the post as a comment on the tweet. THAT tweet was then retweeted by Taylor D. Rhodes, the Executive Director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, along with the caption “The pope is a liberal ass-hat.”

It’s not that Taylor Rhodes is a particularly important person. He’s yet another right-wing nutcase who adheres to every right-wing tenet. But Kyle Rittenhouse discovered that tweet, and his finger must have slipped on the “like” button.

Just kidding, Kyle’s turned out to be as big a conservative douchebag as the rest of them.

The irony, of course, is that Rittenhouse shot three people, killing two, at an event he specifically attended in order to join in anti-protest violence — and Pope Francis had lunch with some women who really needed a friend.

I think someone’s morals are a little off.

Andrew Simpson
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