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Offline SimpleMan

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"Pope Francis The Destroyer" - very strange website
« on: November 27, 2022, 10:06:27 AM »
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  • https://www.popefrancisthedestroyer.com/

    I stumbled across this last night.  Don't know quite what to make of it.  The website creator seems to have a huge problem with, as they put it, "FSSP rad trad influencers", Taylor Marshall et al.  Aside from that, there's no clear orientation (SSPX, Resistance, sedevacantist, indult, etc.)

    I even have to wonder if it's a parody.  It has a feel to it not totally dissimilar to The Onion.

    Maybe an attempt to make traditionalists in general look bad?  Black propaganda?


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    Re: "Pope Francis The Destroyer" - very strange website
    « Reply #1 on: November 27, 2022, 02:51:47 PM »
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  • Not sure what you're talking about.  What in the website is making traditionalists look bad?


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    Re: "Pope Francis The Destroyer" - very strange website
    « Reply #2 on: November 27, 2022, 06:10:38 PM »
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  • Not sure what you're talking about.  What in the website is making traditionalists look bad?
    It just has a disjointed, strident feel to it, kind of like the style used in the satirical TV show The Colbert Report.  They go on and on about the FSSP, as though it's some kind of pars pro toto for indult traditionalists in particular, or traditionalists in general.  For instance, they have an issue about Ann Barnhardt objecting to a TLM celebrated una cuм Francisco.  If they are opposed to PF, you'd think they'd be sympathetic to that.

    Again, a very strange website.

    A "whois" search doesn't disclose anything.  Google is the registrar --- ???!  (So maybe it does disclose something after all.)

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    Re: "Pope Francis The Destroyer" - very strange website
    « Reply #3 on: November 27, 2022, 11:20:55 PM »
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  • I've been following that blog for many years (almost a decade now, yikes), and I totally agree. I stumbled across it around 2014 when I was googling sedevacantism or something, I forget what. It certainly shows up on a lot of search engines. I've followed it ever since then.

    The guy is ... a little different. :facepalm: For years he had a Friday special, the "F&$^ you Francis Friday" (he spelled out the word) in which he would give the bird to Bergoglio. He eventually stopped that, as he said, because his priest told him to. But he would put all kinds of weird news stories up on there, mostly geopolitical events that he would connect with various theological ideas. And news stories from the Novus Ordo church. Almost everything has always been illustrated with gifs from old movies, or movies in general, generally ingeniously related to the story.

    For a number of years he had various ongoing gags, such as every Sunday he would have a joke about driving an hour to the Latin Mass. For example, he would say, "I stopped to get gas while driving an hour to the Latin Mass this Sunday", and have a short clip from a movie about someone robbing a gas station. Or maybe, "I took a shortcut through the canals while driving an hour to the Latin Mass this Sunday," and show the clip of Arnold Schwarzenegger driving the semi under a bridge and sheering off the roof ... stuff like that.

    The content has always been ingeniously clever and hysterically funny, if a little weird.

    The guy has some seriously bizarre ideas. He thinks it's sinful to "fly in the habit of demons" by which he means anything over 16000 feet or whatever. In other words, he thinks it's a sin to take a commercial flight, because you are going higher than humans are intended to go, which is a sin. The number of 16,000 and some change that he comes up with is based on the height that waters rose during the Flood, which he thinks is the highest that man should ever go. Since the Bible says the water went 15 cubits over the top of the highest mountain in the flood, he takes the height of Mt. Everest and adds 15 cubits to that number, and thinks it's a sin to go over that height. He explains the heretical statements of Bergoglio to reporters on airplanes to saying that Bergoglio was flying in the habit of demons.

    For several years he had an incredibly funny running joke on there about "no women allowed in my car while I drive an hour to the Latin Mass", and illustrate that with gifs of women being angry or riding on the fenders of a car or similar things.

    In recent years, though, the last three or four years his humor has taken a darker turn, attacking the FSSP people such as Taylor Marshall or anyone even remotely conservative. He has attacked Vigano for years, claiming he is trying to become an antipope. He attacked Trump and anyone conservative, or anyone in any way in favor of the traditional Mass, even in the Indult community. He seems to have turned on everyone in the community he belonged to before for reasons I cannot explain.

    He is a fanatical and superstitious adherent of the false messages of La Salette, and constantly quotes some fake prophecy of Melanie about "two popes" which he applies to Bergoglio and Ratzinger. (?) He is always talking about some "prophecy" that 40 years of chastisement will begin when the "two popes" die, which apparently is one of the stupid things Melanie said in her writings. He is always quoting Melanie to the point that it's practically his secondary religion.

    For a while he had his own podcast called the "La Salette Chronicles" and you could hear recordings of him using his own voice talking about his crazy ideas about Melanie's prophecies. He sounds like a typical white man in his 30s.

    He has mentioned living in the Chicago area and said he used to attend the church of the order of St. John Cantius, which is an Indult group that used to have a very large indult parish outside Chicago.

    He hates babies crying in church and constantly complains about this. He hates gun ownership and attacks anyone who carries a handgun in church as if it were a sacrilege or something. This would be consistent either with his Chicago residency or his hatred of conservatives and/or both.

    On a certain level he seems to be liberal in various ways, but in my opinion he is probably on the spectrum and generally doesn't like the human race and just attacks people for the sake of attacking them, not because of any principled objection to what they are doing. That's generally the trend I see in his work. He used to attack Francis (especially with the F You Francis Friday specialty) but now he attacks basically everyone in the conservative section of the Novus Ordo Church.

    My own opinion based on nearly a decade of being a fan of this blog (not a fan of the ideas, which are detestable, but of the entertainment value, which is amazing) is that he's probably on the spectrum and obsesses over all kinds of weird ideas and spends all day on the internet and putting this stuff together. He runs about 10-15 different blogs, all of which are very similar to this one, with all kinds of names. This is the sort of obsession that an autistic person would have.

    It's a fun read, but just don't take it seriously.

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    Re: "Pope Francis The Destroyer" - very strange website
    « Reply #4 on: November 27, 2022, 11:43:35 PM »
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  • Maybe this will shed some light on your reaction.

    Hang on ... reading the comments section of that post, the long anonymous post on January 28, 2017 at 10:09 PM sounded vaguely familiar, and I remembered that I was the one who wrote that!!! :laugh1: I barely remember writing it, but it's sort of a short review of the whole blog. I said a lot of very uncomplimentary things about it, along with a few good things, and his response was just "Thanks!"


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    Re: "Pope Francis The Destroyer" - very strange website
    « Reply #5 on: November 28, 2022, 09:21:13 AM »
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    The guy has some seriously bizarre ideas. He thinks it's sinful to "fly in the habit of demons" by which he means anything over 16000 feet or whatever. In other words, he thinks it's a sin to take a commercial flight, because you are going higher than humans are intended to go, which is a sin. The number of 16,000 and some change that he comes up with is based on the height that waters rose during the Flood, which he thinks is the highest that man should ever go. Since the Bible says the water went 15 cubits over the top of the highest mountain in the flood, he takes the height of Mt. Everest and adds 15 cubits to that number, and thinks it's a sin to go over that height. He explains the heretical statements of Bergoglio to reporters on airplanes to saying that Bergoglio was flying in the habit of demons.
    ...

    In recent years, though, the last three or four years his humor has taken a darker turn, attacking the FSSP people such as Taylor Marshall or anyone even remotely conservative. He has attacked Vigano for years, claiming he is trying to become an antipope. He attacked Trump and anyone conservative, or anyone in any way in favor of the traditional Mass, even in the Indult community. He seems to have turned on everyone in the community he belonged to before for reasons I cannot explain.

    He is a fanatical and superstitious adherent of the false messages of La Salette, and constantly quotes some fake prophecy of Melanie about "two popes" which he applies to Bergoglio and Ratzinger. (?) He is always talking about some "prophecy" that 40 years of chastisement will begin when the "two popes" die, which apparently is one of the stupid things Melanie said in her writings. He is always quoting Melanie to the point that it's practically his secondary religion.
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    Sounds like Richard Ibranyi on crack.