The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser

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  • Quote of the Day: Hunter Biden May be a Gun-Toting Drug Addict, But He’s Right About the Democratic Party

    I’m not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I’d take away from what happened in NY yesterday.

    1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away.

    2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It’s a question mark.

    3. Conviction beats caution. The candidates who said hard things about rent, about who pays for what, about Gaza, they won. The triangulators lost.

    4. Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper.

    5. The middle is not a strategy. It’s an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something.

    6. Don’t fear the base. Court it. The Democrats who ran from their own voters lost. The ones who ran toward them won.

    7. If you want to lead a party you have to be willing to fight inside it. Mamdani didn’t ask permission. He took the field.

    The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.

    — Hunter Biden, son of former president Joe Biden , as reported by Crooks and Liars

  • Bruce’s Ten Hot Takes for July 27, 2023

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    Joe Biden knows more than he’s letting on about his son Hunter’s foreign business dealings.

    If Joe Biden suddenly froze during a press conference, the right-wing media would scream about his fitness for office.

    The left-wing media goes out of their way to minimize President Biden’s physical decline, much like Republicans did with Ronald Reagan 40 years ago.

    Ozempic (semaglutide) is now causing gastroparesis (stomach paralysis) in some people. Welcome to my world. You will now lose weight without taking a drug. I call it the vomit, nausea, lack of appetite diet.

    Most weight loss programs don’t work, yet Americans spend billions of dollars trying to be slimmer, trimmer people.

    Ohio students now attend public school 182 days a year, yet baby boomers only needed 154 days a year to get a similar education. I suspect the reasons for this are nonessential classes and parental work schedules.

    If Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow is hurt and can’t play, their season is over.

    Ukraine (and NATO) is obfuscating and minimizing the carnage and death in its conflict with Russia.

    Memo to MSNBC talking head Nicole Wallace: you need to rethink your use of the phrase “historic day of news” every day on your program. Someone associated with Donald Trump getting indicted is not “historic.” It’s just another say in the USA.

    2,000 Americans under the age of 25 suffer cardiac arrest every year. This was happening long before COVID-19 vaccines.

    Bonus: The only absolute right seems to be the freedom of religion.

    Bruce Gerencser, 69, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 48 years. He and his wife have six grown children and thirteen 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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