Pope Leo is also being undermined at every turn by the radtrad media machine...

...that has been constructed by these maniacs (EWTN, Relevant Radio, Ave Maria Radio/Ave Maria anything, as well as numerous regional and local media groups--e.g. St Michael Broadcasting in MN). EWTN's "news" show, The World Over, is often even worse than Fox News when it comes to issues of fairness, accuracy, and guest balance. Raymond Arroyo, anchorman for The World Over, apparently has a Rolodex a mile wide and an inch deep when it comes to his favored guests. The show often features the same three radtrad "experts", day after life-sucking day.

Every retrograde Church official, no matter how marginal, always gets the red-carpet treatment at EWTN. And the perpetually smug Raymond Arroyo can always be counted on to give them an obsequious, fawning interview lacking even a scintilla of critical journalistic competence.

Yep, I think that was it--they made one EP only.

The EP had the title The Honeydrippers: Volume One, which naturally led many to believe that there would eventually be a Volume Two, but that never occurred. Apparently the death of producer Ahmet Ertegun caused any future projects to be shelved for good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honeydrippers:_Volume_One

For a bit of levity, here's the obligatory Donald Fagen song...

...about the Cold War: "New Frontier", from The Nightfly (1982). The video features a young couple spending the night in a '50s-style fallout shelter.

The entire record is a nostalgic look back at Fagen's youth in New Jersey from the '50s to the mid-'60s.

Wow--it was said that the neocons had utopian plans...

...for Iraq two decades ago (can you believe it's been that long?!), but here the Trump regime really takes the cake. It's not enough to pave over the entire history and culture of the Middle East with miles of concrete and McDonalds--that was the neocon program--no, the Trump "leadership" apparently wants to personally select an "acceptable" leader and then somehow "make Iran great again", Soviet-style. It's not the first time Trump has expressed these kinds of delusions about what would in fact be a completely dysfunctional command economy (run by idiots).

I can't believe this idiot used to have a show on Air America.

IIRC, he was kicked out by his co-host, Mike Papantonio. The show was Ring of Fire, which is now apparently defunct. Kennedy got fired for his antivax insanity, of course.

Interesting that you specify "Protestant Christianity"...

...(I agree, BTW). Your assertion reminds me of something I heard a long time ago; it might have been on PBS. The historical claim was that "in the USA, even the Catholics are Protestant". If you look at the way that conservative Catholicism has allied itself with institutional power in this country, particularly in the revolving door think-tank-to-government system, it becomes self-evident. Many of those conservative and far-right voices dump on the poor and marginalized just as much (if not more) than the traditional WASP American business caste. They completely ignore their Church's own teachings about the Social Gospel, which cannot simply be hand-waved away as irrelevant by any serious disciple. Here I am especially thinking of organizations like the Heritage Foundation and the Acton Institute, which in recent years have taken on an explicitly Catholic tone.

As for liberal Catholicism, it is largely marginalized, particularly in the leadership of the Church. There is also a disconnect--a huge gulf, in fact--between the laity and the clergy in Catholicism these days. It doesn't help matters that the laity is often more educated and accomplished than the clergy. Gone are the days when the latter were the "princes of the Church".

LOL, "refrigerator Madlib magnet label list"...

...that's exactly what it is. Just rearrange the words and you get a new enemy. The old slogans like "DEI" and "woke" have lost their vigor, so we're on to "radical narco-communism" as the latest shibboleth from the shambolic Trump regime.

"One of these things is not like the others...

...One of these things doesn't belong".

As the kids say, "Oh, snap!".

Yep--he's been appearing on some pretty marginal...

...over-the-air TV subchannels, doing ads for something called "Relaxium".