Dread. From the moment the white smoke appeared, it has just been dread. Every day I dread what he is going to say or do. What must be remembered in all of this, and what I have been saying since day one of the Franciscan pontificate is that we MUST understand and remember that Our Lord is ANGRY. Very, very angry. And as St. John Eudes told is in no uncertain terms, when God is angry with His people, we get bad clergy. Given the unprecedented sins of the once-Christian world, it should be no surprise whatsoever that we now have not just bad priests, but a bad pope. Hey, if we had the pope we deserved we would have Pope Snoop Dogg right now, so— yeah. Sigh.

If you have listened to the first podcast, you heard the discussion about the criticality of thinking and arguing from the foundation a TRUE PREMISE. That is what we have to do here when unpacking Francis’ latest mess. Let’s establish some TRUE premises and compare them with the FALSE premises that people are trying to use.

False premise #1: Pope Francis is intelligent, because only an intelligent man could ever rise through the Church and be elected pope. (This sounds eerily familiar somehow—)
TRUE premise: Pope Francis is not a terribly intelligent man.

We want to believe that the people who are in charge or in positions of authority are competent to wield that authority, and that the world is a perfect meritocracy. It is not. It is consoling to one’s self to think that there are people out there who know and understand more than we do and can thus take care of us and handle problems. This is not always true, and as our culture rots and corrupts, the less frequently this is true. Academia is filled with idiots, liars and abject incompetents. The business world rewards psychopathy and elevates stupid people and the unqualified who present no real threat to the able psychopaths, and are regarded as easily controlled pawns. Once you shake off your innate, and quite frankly FEMININE, bias toward believing that occupying a position of authority PROVES competence, it is actually quite easy to spot people who are “the real deal” and, conversely, the poseurs. One simple metric? Real Deals answer questions clearly and directly. Their “yes” means yes, and their “no” means no. Poseurs are evasive and rely heavily on slogans and buzzwords; “speaks much, says little”. Pope Francis’ main buzzterms are “humility”, “dialogue”, “encounter” and “the poor”. I’m not convinced that he has a thorough or even adequate understanding of even one of those terms.

False premise #2: Pope Francis understands economics and the financial system.
TRUE premise: Pope Francis understands little to nothing about economics and the financial system.

This cannot be overemphasized. Taking economic advice from Pope Francis is like taking advice on deep sea oil drilling or the proper playing of the French Horn from me. For those of you who have watched my 2.5 hour video series on YouTube about the financial system and economics, do you honestly believe that Pope Francis knows ANYTHING about any of that? Do you think he understands the situation with regards to the banking system, the debt bubble or the massive global derivatives exposure? And that is just barely scratching the surface of the topic. Do you think Pope Francis even understands or has thought about what money actually is? Let me answer that question clearly. No. Pope Francis’ entire economic platform is, “Give poor people more free stuff forevah.” That’s it.

False premise #3: Pope Francis is politically conservative or completely non-political.
TRUE premise: Pope Francis is a Peronist-Fascist which is a particular subset of Marxism in South America that believes that the state should control the economy and redistribute wealth.

Being that he is not terribly intelligent, he does not understand or have figured out that all political agitation for state-driven, forced coercion of “redistribution of wealth” has NOTHING to do with helping the poor and EVERYTHING to do with consolidating wealth and power among a cadre of oligarchs precisely by creating and then looting a massive underclass. Lenin called these people who actually believe that Marxism genuinely cares about the poor, “useful idiots”. Trapped by his own misguided belief that the poor are somehow INTRINSICALLY SPIRITUALLY SUPERIOR, when he sees the inevitable results of Marxism, namely the proliferation and spread of material poverty throughout a culture, he reconciles it in his own mind by canonizing the underclass and telling himself that they are spiritually “better off” for being materially poor. This is not a malevolent position, but it is a deeply stupid position.

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Now, I am going to Mass of the Ages to encounter Our Lord, physically present in the Eucharist, as have so many saints before us. Please God, let me grow ever-more intransigent in my faith.