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Hell, I'm just happy (well, as I don't really care who the pope is, I care the same way I care about Marz as PM in Germany, so maybe "appeased"?) that it wasn't that Hungarian ghoul who I figured was the odds-on favorite: Definitely appears to be a MAGA-ish chud, would reel back the reforms of Bergoglio (as such they were), and wouldn't be one of those icky non-whites (because, who's kidding whom here). My John Paul I brain actually figured that Ratzinger's cabal had the election already in hand, which was why the conclave took only a couple of days.

Maybe they chose an American to negotiate a better trading deal and knock down the tariffs a bit?

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