Not Donald Trump, that’s for sure.
Trump has issued a record number of executive orders since becoming president. But, there’s a dirty little secret behind Trump’s orders; he doesn’t write them. It’s clear, at least to me, that he doesn’t even know what the orders say. That’s why he has a staff member read and explain the executive orders to reporters. Trump couldn’t explain these orders if he had to. Trump is being “managed” behind the scenes by people determined to put as much of Project 2025 into effect as possible.
Does anyone seriously think that Trump has the intellectual capacity to write his executive orders? This is a man who doesn’t know the difference between Alaska and Russia; a man who, in any other setting, would be considered mentally unfit to be president. If Joe Biden showed early signs of cognitive decline, what shall we say about Trump spouting all sorts of craziness and nonsense every time he has a press conference or delivers a speech?
Trump is a pawn in a war against the American people, one being waged by oligarchs, billionaires, libertarians, right-wing preachers, and ideologues who see Trump as a means to an end. Privately, they know he is a stupid man, a buffoon who can be manipulated to advance their respective agendas. These workers of darkness and evil use Trump’s pettiness, vindictiveness, and jealousy to tear down our democracy and replace it with a Christian theocracy.
It’s shocking how quickly they have gained their objective, and unless Congress and the Supreme Court stop these enemies of democracy, political and social collapse is sure to follow. November 2026 will be our first opportunity to neuter Trump. Whether we succeed depends on whether voters finally see Trump and MAGA as an existential threat to our republic, and vote accordingly. If Republicans hold on to their control of Congress, it is doubtful our country will survive. Cynical? Pessimistic? You bet. I have no time for people who can’t see Trump for who and what he is. It’s been ten years since Trump came down the escalator. We may not have known who and what he was back then, but we sure as Hell do now. No excuses. You can’t hide behind your ignorance. You have had ten years to size up Trump. And what troubles me the most is that millions of Americans would STILL vote for the man if he were running for office today.
Bruce Gerencser, 68, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 47 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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I agree. While I believe that Trump cannot be running things himself, I also believe much of his deranged orders are completly his. They are too stupid, insane, and unworkable to be coming from someone else. Vance and the others are letting him destroy the nation on purpose. That way, when they take over (and I believe it will be before his first term is up) it will seem they are the rational ones bringing sanity back to government. Vance will lift some tarrifs, play kissy face with some allies, maybe ease up on deportations of workers to make businesses and farmers happy. He will quickly forget about renaming centers, carving his face everywhere, or useless White House renovations. Meanwhile, books will quietly be banned, LGBTQ rights will slowly dissappear, workers will lose protecrions, the environment will be exploited, women will be pressured into giving up their rights, and the Constitution will be destroyed in back room deals. Christianity will reign supreme. And most Americans won’t give a damn because it will seem peaceful and normal after the chaos of the past year. I only hope Vance’s unlikeability and the Republicans ignoring the needs of their constituents will hurt the whole administraition’s chances of re-election.
I agree. These ideas come from him, but someone else has the ability to write them. Trump’s writing style is semiliterate at best, just look at his Untruth Antisocial posts. To some extent, I think that groups like the Heritage Foundation are feeding their wish list to Trump.
And some of the stuff he signs is nothing more than a cover sheet with a stack of empty pages behind it to make it look like it is significant. See https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/embarrassing-detail-noticed-on-paper-as-trump-drops-classified-documents/ar-AA1GRVQz .
True enough. He is one of the laziest people ever. He’d rather be out cheating at golf and having the taxpayers cover his costs. I wonder how much time he spends watching his Fox Nwws coverage.
Just as Leonard Leo has co-opted the courts, quite simply the Heritage Foundation is running the White House. Oh some of Trump’s pardons are his own and some of his hire and fire is based on how Trump himself perceives a particular person’s loyalty. The Heritage Foundation is getting a sugar boost from being able to get Trump to sign their crap into de facto law. Please note, a Democratic President could hit CTRL-Z on all this crap. They aren’t going through congress even though they have a trifecta.
The good is that Trump won’t be around much longer. If he lives his entire term, yes he could meddle in policy as he did during Biden’s term. Unfortunately for the United States, the gamed Supreme Court won’t go away that easily. In addition the conservative Senate will likely be a problem for the next 50 years. Simply put each state gets 2 Senators, and there are a lot of small conservative states that allows conservative domination. Ironically, red states get the most federal handouts and the GOP seems to want to put the kibosh on this. It is entirely possible that voters may decide not to bite the hand that feeds them.
Can’t wait until the orange prolapse is reunited with his first wife.
No, he doesn’t write those things, he can’t even read them. The guy’s dumber than a box of hair.
I’m actually surprised he hasn’t ‘succumbed to his health conditions’ or fallen off a roof somewhere, like last week when he was prancing around on the roof. The decision to turn the People’s house into Maga Lardo, though… that’s him. I’ll bet there’s not a can of gold spray paint to be had within 400 miles of him. What a classless lout.
I’m going to be extremely honest with you. As bad as some of Trump’s antics have been, I don’t believe the REAL threat is him, or some kind of fascist, American theocracy. Yeah, I think we ARE on the brink of some weird plan, backed by oligarchs, elites, etc. But towards a globalist end. This has been talked about and in the making since at least the 1960s. Just read about Agenda 2030, and about Klaus Schwabb, the socialist (communist) leader of WEF, about “Smart Cities” and the myriad way they want to change the way the whole world lives, 🌎 under a very “benevolent” guise, of course. Without our say!! Globalism would be the end of democracy. We in Canada 🇨🇦 have had more brushes with this, as our Liberal Party has become more of a socialist Party, since the Justin Trudeau Era. As goofed up as Trump is, in so many ways, at least he is one obstacle standing in the way of this globalist plan coming into fruition for the rest of his term. A lesser of two evils.
The aim of Christianity is globalist, at heart. Many Christians in the west understand this as they attempt to evangelize the world and establish Jesus at king. Christianity—if the Bible is to be believed — is theocratic — no King but Jesus.
Unfortunately, many Christians now think that the political power and change is the best way to advance a theocratic agenda. That 80% of voting Evangelicals voted for Trump three straight times will tell you exactly where many American Christians are today. Add to this the fact that these right-wing voters tend to be heavily armed should concern all of it.
You might want be study up on Project 2025 and the right-wing Christians behind it. However they might package and explain their agenda, what they are promoting is a mix of libertarianism, fascism, authoritarianism, and Christianity.
As for Trump, the only thing he stands in way of is anything that keeps him from power, money, and McDonald’s.
I’ll look into it for sure. (Project 2025). The globalism thing fits in with the end times “one world government” of the very bad guy before the return of Jesus, (according to Biblical eschatology)…as the Bible makes it clear that man will never be able to set up God’s kingdom on earth, in terms of physical “kingdoms”, that we are “not of this world”. There were those who wanted to seize Jesus and make him king by force, back in the day. But that was not the plan, that sort of “physical” kingdom. It was a different kind of kingdom, a higher one.
Trump was playing with the idea 💡 of taking Canada, he was looking up to a former U.S. President who had been of expansionist thought, thinking that Making America Great Again would include taking over one of it’s most faithful allies’ territory. But America’s greatness never did hinge on size of geographical territory. America’s greatness had to do with it’s goodness, with the heart ❤️ of it’s people.
What “goodness,” exactly? I challenge the notion the United States is neither great or good. We can do both, but history is replete with illustrations that suggest that we are generally hypocrites on the matter.
Compared to most countries in the world, even to this day, the freedom and standard of living is better. While the States were making comedy movies and being the superpower and influencing the whole world over with its music, Coca Cola, etc. there were people in Uganda living under Idi Amin and all the unspeakable horrors of that regime. I have friends in Pakistan today, 🇵🇰 who are in danger of being falsely accused under “blasphemy laws” because it’s a Muslim ☪️ nation. A person can be accused of “blasphemy” if some guy doesn’t like you and without a trial, you can be killed in the street. I know Persian people in town here who immigrated recently, who told me that their country is fed up of living under a dictator who has been killing innocent people. Women not wearing full black burka in public were getting shot. Communist countries don’t give you any right to assemble, to protest, have free speech. You can’t be a Bible following Christian in China, only a state-approved one, hence the Underground Church. I could go on and on, but leave it to say that, with all of it’s imperfections, the United States 🇺🇸 has more freedoms , democracy, fairness and opportunities, etc. than so many places in the world.
You didn’t answer my challenge to your claim that the United States is “good.”
There have untold number of courageous, selfless, inventive, creative folks who sacrificed and who have helped make life better for so many. Abraham Lincoln, Sitting Bull, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Helen Keller, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, brave men who fought during WWII and countless, countless others all throughout the panorama of America’s history, there is such beauty there.
When we struggle with depression 🫥, sometimes it’s hard to see the good around us. It’s a struggle to not just see the bad. That’s a normal part of depression. That’s when we need friends around us to lift us up, encourage us. It doesn’t mean we’re always in that frame of mind, but it can come in bouts. You’re in good company, some of the best folks who ever lived had their struggles with this. That ain’t a character issue, it’s just being human. And it seems to happen to those who care alot about things.
Terri: “When we struggle with depression 🫥, sometimes it’s hard to see the good around us.”
Zoe: Is this your answer to Bruce’s question?
Right. She never answered my question. A claim that the United States is good is different from certain citizens are good. Of course, there are lots of good people in the United States, as is the case for every other country in the world.
Politically, however, the United States has a long history of violent, selfish behavior. Today? We have a president who thinks violence and selfishness are positive character traits. Sadly, tens of millions of MAGA voters agree with him.
I noticed Bruce. Interesting, eh? 😉
Please do not psychoanalyze me or anyone else.
Being overly hard on oneself is no good, either. At some point, you gotta receive grace, and self-forgiveness is huge. If you did your best, and it was all you knew how to do at the time, be happy and move on. Know that you put your best foot forward to the extent you knew how, and don’t let regret steal your joy. We are ALL growing and learning! It’s to enjoy the journey!
There’s LOTS of goodness in your nation’s history, Zoe! And more so than even history has written!
Do you know where Zoe lives?
Didn’t mean to psychoanalize. Was just trying to encourage. Because on your blogs you’ve said how you can be too hard on yourself. And that the kids of former parishioners have even told you that. And I’m like, in their generation, and am basically telling you the same thing.
Okay, I’ll tell you what I really think. I said that because of my lifelong obsession with revival history, I guess sorta like a ‘storm chaser’. And while all those people in the list were blessed and blessings, some unknown person once wrote, a long time ⌛️ ago,
“sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers—and it was not there. . . . . in her fertile fields and boundless forests—and it was not there. . . . .in her rich mines and her vast world commerce—and it was not there. . . . in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution—and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”
I believe this to be true.
You are counting the hits, not the misses,giving you a faulty view of the American people and its government.
Our entire history is bathed in the blood of innocents. There’s never been a time in my life that the United States wasn’t at war with someone — either directly or through proxies. The United States is built upon a foundation of violence, bloodshed, genocide, theft, and slavery.