Pope Francis has died

If anything this speech tried it's best to counter Vance and Trump's political opinions. Let's hope it matters.

the conspiracy minded were convinced he already died weeks ago but they also thought he was the anti-pope so it's whatever

I'm not even a tin-hatter and that is immediately where my mind went when I saw the headline. Vance and his ilk are so incredibly near-sighted that it would bolster them to think they could plot such a thing and play it off as a coincidence.

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