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Great. It's time for another call for "peace" that will be achieved by giving up all our weapons.

Pope Francis on Monday blasted the weapons industry and its "instruments of death" that fuel wars as he made a Christmas Day appeal for peace in the world and in particular between Israel and the Palestinians…

"It should be talked about and written about, so as to bring to light the interests and the profits that move the puppet strings of war," he said. "And how can we even speak of peace, when arms production, sales and trade are on the rise?"

If he's going to give up weapons, maybe start with telling the Swiss Guard to give up its "instruments of death"?

"For their protection and guard functions, the guards are equipped with Glock 19 and 26 automatic pistols, SIG 550 assault rifle (Stgw 90 ) and SIG 552 assault rifle (Commando), both in 5.56 mm x 45 caliber, OC-Spray and destabilizing devices (Taser X2). modernization of the already aging Stgw 90 (which was donated by the Swiss Army at the time), currently B&T APC 556 assault rifles and B&T APC 9 submachine guns are used."

Beyond these, the only reason Vatican City isn't overrun by guys with machine guns mounted on pickup trucks howling, "Allahu Akbar" is because there still is an Italian military, under the Lateran Treaty, such as it is, armed with some of those "instruments of death". .....

White House Evacuated after Far-Left Rioters Breach Grounds

The White House has been evacuated after large crowds of violent far-left rioters scaled the fence and breached the grounds.

Democrat President Joe Biden is currently at Camp David while remaining White House staff have been “relocated.”

Riots broke out in Washington D.C. after Hamas-sympathising anti-Israel protests turned violent.

The rioters gathered outside the White House on Saturday night and started damaging security fencing and hurling objects at police.

Some of the rioters were able to scale the fence and breach the White House grounds, according to reports.

But the best part was when NBC got down to brass tacks, describing it real fear — being hoisted on its own moronic tactics:

Among the least-understood tools available to a president is the Insurrection Act. Vaguely worded, it gives a president considerable discretion in deciding what constitutes an uprising and when it is OK to deploy active-duty military in response, experts say.

Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill worry that Trump might invoke the act to involve the armed forces in the face of domestic protests or if the midterm elections don’t go his way. “There are an array of horrors that could result from Donald Trump’s unrestricted use of the Insurrection Act,” (Senator Dick) Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said in an interview. “A malignantly motivated president could use it in a vast variety of dictatorial ways unless at some point the military itself resisted what they deemed to be an unlawful order. But that places a very heavy burden on the military.”

It gives a president considerable discretion in deciding what constitutes an uprising. You don’t say. Like, could unarmed Capitol Protests be considered an uprising? Just asking.

It’s so weird! I wonder how NBC might have got the idea that Trump could use the Insurrection Act? I mean, nobody’s used that dusty old law in over a hundred… oh, wait. That’s right. The democrats have invoked the Insurrection Act about ten billion times in the last three years since January 6th, 2021. Democrats have called every Republican they could find an “insurrectionist,” both in and out of court.

In other words, now that they’ve re-defined “insurrection” to include strolling into the Capitol at the invitation of police, democrats are starting to fret about what a Republican president might do with the very same laws they’ve been battering conservatives with for years. While all the many hand-wringing articles about Trump love to cite the George Floyd protests as an example of the kind of thing they worry Trump would crack down on, the reality is probably that every democrat involved in the “Russia Collusion” hoax is sweating worse than Kamala Harris in church.

I’ll say it: the “Russia Collusion” operation was an insurrection. And they know it, too.

White House staff "relocated" last night after pro-Palestine protesters tore into barricade and confronted police in "mostly peaceful" protest ...

A group of pro-Palestine protesters all converged on the White House last night and ended up pushing through the first barricade outside the White House and engaging with police officers in a mostly peaceful display of leftism.

Here's the video that shows the protesters pushing the barricade into the police.

[Language warning, they're chanting the R-rated Let's Go Brandon chant] ...

Again, many prominent Democrats told me that this type of behavior should land you in jail. The J13 watchlist has to be a thing now, right? We need hearings! We need a committee! We must serve justice!

Yeah, I don't think we're about to have congressmen crying on television this time for some reason.