Well, Here’s The Answer
In case you, like everyone else, were wondering why Trump nominated Calista Gingrich as Ambassador to the Vatican, being as how she’s not particularly good at anything except jewelry buying and husband stealing, which, by the way, are not necessarily the best resume to the Holy See, I have an answer.
Oh Newt, Oh really? Newt’s latest Trump book is on Amazon now for you to buy and review.
Mr. Gingrich provides unique insight into how the new president’s past experiences have shaped his life and style of governing. This book also includes Mr. Gingrich’s thorough analysis of how President Trump thinks and makes decisions, as well as the president’s philosophy, doctrine, and political agenda going forward.Further, these pages hold a detailed discussion of Trump-style solutions for national security, education, health care, economic growth, government reform, and other important topics. Mr. Gingrich also identifies the forces in the Washington establishment, media, and bureaucracy that will oppose the president at every turn.
Question: do you think they could get Trump to read it?
Or even acknowledge that he has a plan?
One last question: Newt, do you think the Pope would agree with even one damn thing you ever espoused in your whole pathetic greedy dreadful life?
I hope they don’t try to baptize Newt. They’d have to skim nasty off the holy water for a month.
“…have shaped his life and style of governing…”
1What the hell’s he talkin’ about?
Well, now that I’ve read the whole blurb…
2“What the hell’s he talkin’ about?”
It’s too obvious that newt wrote that himself!
Shoot. Baptize Newt indeed. The baptizer ought hold Newt under for a good, extra long time. Say til the bubbles and thrashing around stop.
3It’s a crime to kill so many trees for 354 pages of butt kissing, boot-licking hagiography.
4Sprinkling holy water on Newt should have much the same effect as it does on other demonic life forms…
5“Understanding Trump?”
Talk about a book with a limited shelf life. Even Trump’s administration can’t keep up with his daily policy changes. They say something in the morning, Trump will contradict them by mid-afternoon.
Let’s put a copy with the Trump beef & Trump wine.
6Did anyone read this?:
7“Calista Gingrich as Ambassador to the Vatican”
Drop me a note a and let me know how it came out, please!
I’ve read another similar book,
8‘Understanding God’ by the Devil.
Painful read, makes you want to go pull the wings off flies.
I purpose a pop quiz of the pResident on the details of these plans Newt says are the basis of his (drump’s )philosophy. Any guesses as to how many he could explain? Thought so.
9@micr, That’s what Molly Ivins said about most politicians and it still holds true today.
10Careful, Micr, that’s exactly the same solution Grover Norquist has for Democrats!
11Lawdy, Paul! How I do miss Molly! Get up outta there, Molly, and he’p us with this! We could use your wisdom right about now. (Reckon she likely thinks it ain’t worth the trip!) Talk about a ‘silver foot in his mouth’!
12The thrice-married adulterer whose first two marriages don’t count because he wasn’t Catholic then; smug, greedy, self-righteous SOB who could care less about the poor or any part of the country that’s not Republican; super (stupid) Republican who gave newts a bad name, broke Congress with his sheer obnoxiousness as Speaker of the House along with a couple of laws), and got canned from the job thinks he understands Trump? He should–they’re two peas in a pod. He can take his “Trump-style” solutions to the country’s problems and stick them where the sun don’t shine.
13Ah… another “Profile in Curage”. (Not a typo.)
14@charles phillips
I thought it was government that Grover wanted to drown in the bath tub, not us Dems.
OTOH, America would prolly be better off if Grover spent 30 or 40 minutes submerged.
15Does anyone but me see appointing Callista Gingrich diplomatic envoy to The Vatican as a slap in the face of the pope?
16Does anybody ever get an ambassador and send them back? Or do they just sigh real loud? I’m picturing the Pope with that same expression he had while standing next to Trump.
17Would somebody explain to me just exactly what an ambassador to the Vatican does for a living? This title makes it sound like a helluva lot of nothing! And pete’s sake, why Callista? Aren’t ambassadors supposed to be real?
18Rhea,
19I prefer to think of Papa Paco getting fed up and letting loose a stream of blue profanity in Calista and Newt’s direction.
On the other hand, one of Pope Francis’s early jobs, before going to seminary, was as a nightclub bouncer (really). So I imagine he could still whack corpulent ol’ Newtie across the Tiber (or even better: in it).
maggie,
20Suspect somebody told tRump that “Calista” was an EyeTaleeyan name and Newt likes pizza, ergo- Rome.
This all could have been avoided, if Donnie spoke English. In previous conversations the Pope told Donnie: “whoa, stop babbling, man.” Donnie ‘heard’ or ‘remembered’ that as “send the Whore of Babylon.”
Cheer up Frankie, he could have sent you Skull Anus Wrongway.
21And can someone explain why we don’t have an ambassador to the Dalai Lama, if we’re treating religious leaders as if they were countries?
22why Callista?
Because in Trump’s scale of values,
Callista is Newt’s property,
and the “loyalty” of Newton Leroy Gingrich
is the quid for which the ambassadorship is pro quo
One talent The Donald truly does have :
23all the whores come around to tell him that they have a price.
@#16: actually, yes. When the US sent Joseph Kennedy to GB in the late ’30s, he wasn’t allowed to present his credentials to the Court of St James, nor was he received by them at any function. This is because he was a known bootlegger and criminal, and the royals refused to meet him. There’s a photo of him taken to his bed, pretending he was too ill to go to court, propped up in bed, reading papers, etc. He eventually gave up and went back to the US.
24@22, Rhea: “if we’re treating religious leaders as if they were countries?”
“The State of Vatican City (Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano;[e] Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae),[f] is a country located within the city of Rome. … it is the smallest state in the world by both area and population. However, formally it is not sovereign, with sovereignty being held by the Holy See, the only entity of public international law that has diplomatic relations with almost every country in the world.”
It is a “country”, the tiny physical remnant of a once vast empire, the “Vatican States”, which had armies and navies too, and engaged in warfare; and which also nominally controlled the “Holy Roman Empire”, which ruled most of Europe.
In all the turmoil of European history, the Vatican lost temporal power, and was finally almost completely subjugated by a consolidated monarchical Italy under a King of Italy in 1870.
Today’s Papal Vatican City was then reinstituted by the Lateran Agreement in 1929, between the Church and Mussolini (then the PM and Head of State for the King of Italy).
Like all things historical (EG: Slavery in the US) it’s all pretty complicated.
But Pope Francis is in fact a Head of State too (“It is an ecclesiastical[3] or sacerdotal-monarchical[7] state (a type of theocracy) ruled by the Bishop of Rome – the Pope”).
Something that today’s American evangelifundies like Roberts, Hagee, et al., and some whole denominations (SB’s) are driven mad with envy by.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City
People are going to have some big fun photoshopping THAT book cover. Oh, yes indeed.
26Old Joe Kennedy is listed as a banker in the sources I read. Was he ever indicted and convicted of a crime? What I heard over the years was that the royals did not receive him because he was Catholic. They didn’t seem to have anything against other members of the family such as Kathleen who had her “coming out” at a court function along with a lot of other debutantes. Also, Old Joe was not tight lipped about Britain’s chances if Hitler attacked. Der Fuhrer was at that time building up a lot of steam. Plus there was that amity between the future king (David) and the growing Third Reich that a may have played a part in Old Joe’s thinking.
27And in other semi-local Texas news, I just heard that San Antonio’s corrupt current mayor, the DINO and closet-fundy/rethug, Ivy Taylor, went down in flames in the mayoral election to Ron Nirenberg, a progressive D. Whoohoo!
28The city council also changed for the better, with a big upset by Dem and progressive John Courage in the most conservative north district 9?.
Oh gosh guys give Uncle Joe a break. Even though unsuccessful, he represented the USofA well to the UK, but he dismissed Churchill, preferring Chamberlain’s policy toward Germany.
He served adequately as Ambassador until FDR tired of his defeatist reports of the UK’s survival chances versus Nazi Germany. He also underestimated USofA’s capacity to build for war, telling FDR the USofA had no chance against the Nazi juggernaut as well.
His great weakness was that He desperately wanted election as president and when the became impossible because he spoke openly in opposition to FDR’s third term, he groomed first Joe Jr then JFK for a run at the presidency.
In some respects he was Drumpf circa 1940: rich, “untrained in diplomacy, unlearned in history and politics, who is a great publicity seeker” and wished to make history as the first Catholic POTUS. He might very well have self-dealed as well.
I have a certain affinity for Joe Kennedy, warts, wrinkles and all. For no reason other than being the sperm donor for the brothers Kennedy. Especially Ted.
29@Micr, they got all the really good stuff from their Mama!
@Rhea, it would be GREAT to have an ambassador to the Dalai Lama, he is a most splendid person! I bet he’d get that same look Papa Paco did when photographed with DJ Trump!
@Sandridge, that’s some glorious good news; that there Ivy Taylor is one of those proud ol Cathlicks that don’t cotton up to Francis too well. He sounds too much like Jesus for them! Anyway, Ivy is a nasty piece of work and if she’s out – that’s wonderful!
30Aggieland Liz,
31Are you sure Taylor is a Catholic? Nope.
OK, I just verified it on Wiki, she is a New Yawk yankee, Yalie, and a Baptist (of some sort).
Looks like she’s done a few good things, but leans very ‘con’.
As a bonus, Sen, Cornyn likes her so damned much he’s been grooming her to run for Texas Governor, so we likely haven’t seen the end of her.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Taylor
Time for some thoughtful product reviews…
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