525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)
The Rest Is Politics
Goalhanger
4.5 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for listening to The Restis Politics. To support the podcast, listen without the adverts and get early access to episodes and live show tickets, go to therestispolitics.com. That's the rest is politics.com. |
| 0:12.9 | The reality is that Vance and the administration are wrong. I mean, they're theologically illiterate. |
| 0:19.8 | They are consistently portraying a worldview, |
| 0:24.1 | which is, well, in a lot of their actions, almost seems to be completely unbound by any kind of |
| 0:29.4 | ethical principles. This is a deliberate thing of constantly wrapping up what they're doing in |
| 0:34.3 | religious rhetoric. And if you are somebody like Poeo, who clearly can't stand what these people are doing to America and to the world, |
| 0:42.3 | then you can see why he would get very, very offended. |
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