Monday, May 04, 2026

"So What?" Is the Correct Response to Ace/Deace

Much as we enjoy Ace's place for news and spicy opinions, we are suspicious of this effort:

 Via Instapundit, reports that the pope is a woke buffoon and leftwing culture warrior have been proven 100% true, by his own actions....

Gee, Ace.  You don't like the Pope, or do you just post obnoxious crap because that's what New York City people do?

Ace goes on to quote someone named Deace.  Whoever he is, he is all up in a lather:

... This was not a dreamer. Evelio originally came here from El Salvador illegally as a grown man in 1990. He had already been deported at least once before. Soon after his arrival, he was granted TPS because of the civil war back home. Eventually learned English and became a US citizen in 2006. His is a sympathetic case from a bygone era when most of America thought we could look the other way at such things given the overall prosperous state of things.

But we are not now in that era.

Our national debt is now over 1,000% higher than it was when Evelio first arrived. Illegal immigration has swelled over 300%. Whole industries have replaced the American-born family man with illegal aliens. The amount of school children who only speak Spanish has doubled since 1990. The median age of a first time home buyer in 1990 was 28-30, while today it is 41. It was twice as likely a 30-year old man would be married with children in 1990 compared to now.

Barely 2% of West Virginia is Hispanic. Barely 1% of the state speaks Spanish. This is a purely political appointment by a woke pope trying to shoehorn his open borders agenda into a state Trump has won by 40 points three times. There's nothing prophetic here, but it's all shamefully political. An open borders agenda the pope himself isn't forced to abide by, because Vatican City has strict enforcement policies and walls. This is like if MSNBC picked offices in the church, all the while never allowing the illegals in Martha's Vineyard where their primetime hosts spend their summers....

The proper response to Pp. Leo's appointment?

So What?

Deace is a Huckabee/Cruz "Christian."  Those are the Israel-Firsters, if you need reminding.

It is not a stretch to say that Deace's intent here is to fire up the Know-Nothing/anti-Catholic crowd, and perhaps persuade some Catholics that the Pope is anti-American or sumpin'sumpin'. He is not the first of the Huckabee/Cruz/Levin persuasion to attack the Church, and he won't be the last.

Maybe he thinks that Catholics blindly follow whatever their Bishop says regarding politics, in the way that some people blindly follow Rabbi Schneerson, or Dispensationalists long for the Battle of Megiddo. 

But in reality, about 95% of Catholics in any Diocese will never MEET their Bishop, much less follow that Bishop's political inclinations, unless those inclinations are eminently sensible.  

Deace is excusably ignorant of that fact, but one hopes that his little rant is not a mark of deeply-held anti-Catholicism. There's plenty of that available in the Levin/Hannity/Cruz crowd--the ones who will follow Rabbi Schneerson into any war, so long as Israel asks them.   

Does Deace seriously want to be one of them? 

 

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