Our Pope ‘O Trash thinks Dixon “probably did” it but ought to be able to stay mayor — and just maybe spend a couple of weekends in jail.

In a Q & A in the current Washington City Paper, the director discusses  newly-convicted Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, teabagging, true love and the plot of his next movie, a holiday flick called Fruitcake, which features a Baltimore family of “meat thieves.”

Waters tells WCP that he actually likes Dixon, and was impressed that she “came to the premiere of The Wire the season they had a character loosely based on her who portrayed her very unfavorably.”

But gift cards? Giving them is essentially like giving money, he says and that’s “a rude gift.”

“It means you’re too stupid to think of anything,” he said, “or the person getting the gift is so dumb that they have no interests.”