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By Comic Sands EditorialSep 02, 2019
President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan was called out for hypocrisy after telling Pope Leo XIV to "stay out of politics" after he clashed with Trump over the widely unpopular war in Iran.
Last week, Pope Leo criticized the war and called on the world "to reject war, especially a war which many people have said is an unjust war, which is continuing to escalate and is not resolving anything."
Trump later took to Truth Social in an attempt to discredit the Pope, saying he doesn't "want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon." Among other things, Trump said the Pope should "stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician."
Historically, the Catholic Church views the act of war as a consequence of sin and a failure of humanity, so it's unsurprising that the Pope spoke out against it.
But Homan criticized the Pope, recommending he "stick to fixing the Church and stay out of politics":
“Look, I’ve spent my whole life in the Catholic Church, but I’m disappointed that they want to weigh in on political issues like this. There are enough problems with the Catholic Church—and I know because I’m a member of the Catholic Church—that they need to fix and concentrate on and leave politics alone."
“I mean, they talk about that they don’t believe in a secure border, they need to support open borders. However, if you cross the wall at the Vatican, you’re going to prison, and the penalties are much worse there than they are here.”
'I wish they would sit down and let me educate them on open borders. When President Trump has illegal immigration down 97 percent, how many women aren’t being raped by the cartels? How many children aren’t dying making that journey? How many pounds of fentanyl aren’t killing Americans? How many women and children aren’t being sex trafficked?"
Homan said that "with an open border, the most vulnerable people in the world are going to give their life savings to the cartels" to afford a journey to the U.S., blaming the Biden administration for a "historic" number of border crossings and fentanyl-related deaths.
He added:
"I wish they'd sit down with me and hear my experiences these last 40 years. Maybe they'd understand why a secure border saves lives. A secure border is the most humane thing this country can do."
You can hear what he said in the video below.
Pope Leo previously criticized the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and urged legislators to make sure immigrants' "spiritual rights" are being respected.
In February, responding to the news that Catholic migrants detained in Chicago have been denied access to Holy Communion, he stressed that “the role of the Church is to preach the Gospel."
Pope Leo was previously criticized by MAGA supporters after they became aware of an article he once shared that criticized Vice President JD Vance because "Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others."
Notably, the Pope previously condemned the Trump administration on social media for Trump’s “anti-immigrant rhetoric” back in 2015. He later reposted messages criticizing the death penalty, mass deportations, and Congress’s failure to act on gun reform after mass shootings.
But considering the lengths Republicans have gone to to inject religion into politics—Trump even created a task force dedicated to rooting out "anti-Christian bias" and has pledged to his evangelical supporters that he will make religion a focal point of everyday life—Homan's words rang hollow.
He was swiftly called out.
Homan might want to study that holy book again.
Dave Chappelle seems super duper surprised that people took his punchlines exactly as he delivered them. Back in 2021, he carelessly ranted about trans people during his Netflix special The Closer, setting off immediate backlash.
The comedian’s so-called “joke” that kicked off the controversy:
“Gender is a fact… [All of us] had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on Earth.”
He then compared trans women’s vaginas to plant-based meat substitutes, adding that they’re “not quite” real—a line that drew swift backlash from trans people, allies, and even a sizable number of Netflix employees. Doubling down, he further inflamed the LGBTQ+ community by defending transphobic author JK Rowling and declaring himself “Team TERF.”
And now, after years of backlash, Chappelle is expressing something that almost resembles regret—while also claiming the Republican Party weaponized his material.
Sir… be so serious.
In a new interview with NPR, Chappelle attempted (and failed) to distance himself from the anti-trans hysteria pushed by Republicans and the Trump administration—despite his own well-documented track record of targeting the community in his stand-up.
Speaking to NPR host Michel Martin, he pushed back on how his material has been used:
“I did resent that the Republican Party ran on transgender jokes. You know, I felt like they were doing a weaponized version of what I was doing. That’s not what I was doing.”
Then what exactly was he doing?
Because if the claim is that his comedy has been misunderstood, his more recent work doesn’t exactly support that argument. In his 2024 Netflix special The Dreamer, Chappelle opens with a story about meeting Jim Carrey while the actor was deep in method acting as Andy Kaufman.
Chappelle recalls being “very disappointed” at having to pretend he was speaking to Kaufman when he could clearly see Carrey.
Chappelle’s punchline made the comparison explicit:
“That’s how trans people make me feel.”
Despite his attempts to reframe the conversation, Chappelle has shown a consistent pattern of punching down at the transgender community—something critics have pointed out for years.
Back in the NPR interview, Chappelle offered an example he believes illustrates how his work has been politicized, recounting a visit to Capitol Hill that included anti-trans MAGA stalwart Rep. Lauren Boebert, Republican of Colorado.
Chappelle recounted his interaction with Rep. Boebert:
“At first, it was [Congressional Black Caucus] people… Then here comes Lauren Boebert, and she said, ‘Can I get a picture?’ And I had already taken 40 pictures. I didn’t want to say no in front of everybody, but I didn’t know the phrase ‘I respectfully decline.’ So I just took the picture.”
Boebert later posted the photo in November 2023, using it to signal alignment with anti-trans rhetoric—specifically the claim that “there's only two genders.”
For those who don’t recall, that photo can be seen here:
Just three people who understand that there’s only two genders 😄 pic.twitter.com/uWz0Kwbcwj
— Rep. Lauren Boebert (@RepBoebert) November 30, 2023
Boebert captioned the image, “Just three people who understand that there's only two genders 😄,” a message widely interpreted as a direct nod to the controversy surrounding Chappelle’s past remarks.
He described his frustration with how quickly the moment was politicized:
“And then she posted the picture before I could even get from there to the show and says something to the effect of, ‘Just two people that know that it’s just two genders.’ Just instantly, like, weaponized or politicized. So I got to the arena, and I lit her ass up for doing that. And she should never do that to a person like me.”
In response to the NPR interview, Boebert told TMZ she did not use Chappelle’s jokes and defended her post as “stating facts,” while also referring to transgender identity as “a joke.”
Chappelle, for his part, has insisted that his work is not intended to be “malicious or even harmful,” arguing that politicians have taken it further than he ever intended and that he does not see his comedy through a partisan lens.
What he didn’t address, however, are the repeated instances where he has returned to the same subject matter, whether joking about identifying as a woman to enter a women’s prison or suggesting his 2022 Hollywood Bowl attacker was a “trans man.”
So what exactly is the distinction here, now that it’s no longer just his audience reacting?
Trans and trans-allied social media commenters were similarly unimpressed with Chappelle’s recent realization that his jokes helped fuel broader attacks on the community.
You can view the commentary below:
Throughout the interview, Chappelle returned to a familiar argument: that nuance in comedy and public discourse is being lost, and that people are increasingly pushed into rigid political binaries.
Posted two days ago, you can check out the controversial interview here:
- YouTubeNPR
He also conveniently pointed to a recent $15 million gift to a public radio station in his hometown in Ohio, describing it as a potential space for more open, less polarized dialogue.
The comedian framed his critics as part of a broader cultural shift:
“Art is a nuanced endeavor. I have a belief that they are trying to take the nuance out of speech in American culture, that they’re making people speak as if they’re either on the right or the left.”
Asked by Martin if Donald Trump is funny, Chappelle paused and replied, “Maybe if he wasn’t president,” which is interesting, considering how selectively he seems to apply that understanding of context to his own work.
We've met the parents-in-law, we've met the Fockers, we've invited a few little Fockers into the world, and now, the Circle of Trust is ready to get a little bit bigger with a Focker-in-Law.
Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro are back as Greg Focker and Jack Byrnes in the Focker universe as the somewhat maladjusted, sensitive guys with an overbearing, former interrogator father-in-law who have learned over the years how to coexist, if not even trust each other a little bit.
In the latest film, Skyler Gisondo joins the cast as Greg Focker's son, Henry, all grown up and ready to marry none other than Olivia Jones, a former investigator and interrogator, played by Ariana Grande.
In the movie trailer, the family goes through a series of antics-filled scenes, including Grande being interrogated with a lie detector test, and Stiller and Grande going head-to-head.
You can watch the trailer here:
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The movie trailer inspired many questions, like how much time has passed between Little Fockers and Focker-in-Law, as well as which other former cast members will return to the screen.
But while there were a lot of early questions about the movie, what drew a lot of people's attention was Ariana Grande's voice.
Those who have been following Grande's career know that for the past three years, she filled the role of Glinda in the movie adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked.
As a coloratura soprano, it was important for her to protect her voice, so she spoke more softly, carefully enunciated her words, and spoke in a higher register than where her voice naturally sits. Doing this kept her vocal cords healthy and prepared for the soprano role.
That said, some people were frustrated by Grande's voice and appearance during this time, some even accusing her of being "fake" while she remained committed to her role as Glinda.
Now that Wicked is complete, Grande has gradually started to shift back into the appearance everyone knew her for before the musical, including gradually transitioning her hair color back from white blonde and using her natural speaking voice.
X user Tom Zohar admitted what a lot of people were already thinking:
"Genuinely gasped hearing [Ariana Grande] speak without the Glinda voice for the first time in three years."
Some fellox X users took the opportunity to pick on Zohar, pointing out that, duh, Grande had been preserving her voice for Wicked.
But most X users understood Zohar's reaction, having found it jarring themselves to hear Grande's voice shift back to its natural tone.
Though this was a jarring transition for some people, Grande's vocal shifts are simply signs of a committed performance artist. Because she had to perform as a highly operatic soprano, it was important for her to protect her voice so as not to potentially strain or even injure her vocal cords.
It'll be exciting to see what Grande commits herself to next, but it's fun to see her take on a role that's light like Focker-in-Law.
Things haven't exactly been going great at America's airports since dear dictator took over.
There were those horrifying plane crashes in early 2025, the TSA debacles of recent weeks, and another crash on March 22 at New York's LaGuardia airport.
So pilots flying over DC's Reagan National Airport making cat sounds to air traffic controllers doesn't exactly inspire confidence, right?
That's precisely what happened over one of the nation's most vulnerable airports recently, however, with the pilots having to be reprimanded by the controllers to stop "meowing" into their radios.
Reagan, you may remember, was the site of one of those horrifying crashes in 2025, when an American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter.
So it's not exactly surprising the air traffic controllers didn't find the pilots dog and cat noises funny.
At one point, a controller can be heard scolding:
“You guys need to be professional pilots."
Another hilariously insulted one of the pilots, telling him "This is why you still fly an RJ,” an abbreviation for "regional jet" or what we civilians might call a "puddle jumper." Nothing like a highly-specific drag!
The Federal Aviation Administration, however, doesn't seem to find it funny.
Speaking to ABC News, the FAA confirmed that the pilots' behavior was in violation of rules prohibiting “engaging in non-essential conversations when they’re below 10,000 feet.”
However, some have said that "meowing" and "woofing" on this particular frequency, which is a sort of open "party line" in case of emergencies, is a long-standing aviation tradition.
But of course the incident comes amid the ongoing turmoil at the FAA since Trump took office. The FAA and air traffic controllers were one of Elon Musk's biggest targets for "DOGE" budget cuts.
Air traffic controller firings were thankfully stopped by former Real World star and FAA Secretary Sean Duffy, but tons of other FAA staffers were let go.
And the U.S. has had a dire shortage of air traffic controllers for years that many say the Trump Administration's actions have only worsened.
Of course none of that negates the elephant in the room: This audio is absurdly hilarious, especially once the insults kick in.
And on social media, there were plenty of jokes about the meowing pilots to go around—including theories that the pilots are furries.
Not everyone found it funny, however, especially some of those who work in aviation.
The FAA has announced it has launched an investigation into the matter. Hey, at least our aviation system's collapse is funny!
A new biography of MAGA Republican President Donald Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. brought another incident with a dead animal to public light just as he was testifying on Capitol Hill this week.
RFK Jr. had previously disclosed his attraction to playing with dead creatures via anecdotes about a dead bear cub, a freezer full of roadkill, and a deceased whale that he or family members shared.
Trump's public healthcare head is not a biologist or taxidermist, nor is he medically or scientifically trained.
Yet while on a road trip, as his children waited in the family minivan, RFK Jr. decided to remove the penis from a roadkill raccoon to take it with him to "study later."
The incident was described in the new book RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise by Isabel Vincent, a Canadian investigative journalist for the New York Post. The unauthorized biography is based in part on Kennedy’s own journals
Written by RFK Jr. in 2001, the once secret diaries detail extramarital affairs, internal struggles with "lust demons," odd behavior, and his personal insecurities. Kept hidden in a decoy ledger labeled "Cash Accounts," the journals were taken by his second wife Mary Richardson Kennedy as "insurance" during their divorce proceedings.
Two years after her separation from RFK Jr., Richardson Kennedy reportedly died by suicide in 2012.
In a November 2001 journal entry, RFK Jr. wrote:
"I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road-killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members [brother Douglas Kennedy and cousin Bobby Shriver] have turned out to be. My kids waited patiently in the car."
On Thursday, TMZ tried to speak to HHS Secretary Kennedy about the alleged incident, asking:
"Secretary, what did you do with the raccoon’s dead penis? Where is it now?"
Kennedy laughed before being whisked away by his security detail.
Speaking on the The Daily Beast Podcast, Vincent shared:
"In his diary, [RFK JR.] talks about stopping with his kids. He’s got his kids in a minivan. He stops. He sees a dead raccoon. He stops, leaves the kids in the van, and cuts off the penis of the raccoon in order to study it later."
Host Joanna Coles asked:
"What do you think he did with the raccoon penis?"
Vincent replied:
"I think he froze it, like he froze a lot of the roadkill that he would find and then study it."

Kennedy’s daughter Kick said in a 2012 interview with Town & Country magazine that in 1994 her dad grabbed a chainsaw and scurried to a Massachusetts beach when he found a dead whale washed ashore. In violation of a 1972 federal law, RFK Jr. cut off the whale's head, tied it to the roof of their minivan, then drove with his family the five hours back to their home in New York.
Kick Kennedy shared:
"Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet. We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us."
RFK Jr. himself admitted that back in 2014, he saw a bear cub carcass on the road, stopped and put it in his vehicle, then dumped it in Central Park "as a prank" which later backfired when it made the news.
While recounting the story in 2024, RFK Jr. said:
"I was like, 'Oh my God, what did I do?' Luckily, the story died down after a while and it stayed dead for a decade."
In a January 2025 letter to Senators asking them not to confirm her cousin as HHS Secretary, former First Daughter Caroline Kennedy said RFK Jr. had a "troubling history with animals" and "perverse" behavior involving wildlife.
She said he would delight in showing off to others by putting live baby chicks and mice in a blender to feed his pet hawks, calling it a "perverse scene of despair and violence" that he engaged in, to her knowledge, from adolescence and well into adulthood.
After the latest raccoon penis revelation, the Kennedy reject needs to zip it. The man is a dangerous loon.
— 🥒🐸🌮🦋 Anemia B (@anemiab.bsky.social) April 17, 2026 at 7:18 AM
There are terms—and diagnoses and treatment—for humans with an unhealthy fascination for dead things, poor impulse control, and a compulsion to mutilate animals, but self-taught scientist isn't one of them. Neither is Health and Human Services Secretary either—usually.
People were once again appalled yet unsurprised by RFK Jr.'s unhinged proclivities.










RFK Jr. testified before the House Ways and Means Committee this week, defending his tenure at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Kennedy also appeared before the House Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies on Thursday afternoon.