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Bruce’s Ten Hot Takes for August 12, 2025

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Donald Trump thinks Alaska is Russia. Either that, or Trump plans to trade Alaska for a golden shower (pee) tape.

Karoline Leavitt is a liar. Every day, she stands before the American people and paints turds with faux gold paint. I’ve yet to hear her give a press conference without lying. But, she loves Jesus, right?

Congress can put an end to Donald Trump’s use of emergency orders to advance his fascist agenda, but they won’t. Congress fears what Trump might do to them if they oppose his policies, so they silently sit by while he burns our democracy to the ground.

Trump has no idea what his executive orders say. He’s has an “explainer” who explains to reporters what his executive orders mean. He’s cannot do this himself. A man of letters, he is not.

U.S. citizens and legal immigrants are being arrested without warrants by masked agents of the federal government. This is patently illegal and unconstitutional. Congress has the power to end these arrests, but they won’t.

Dean “Superman” Cain is now an ICE agent. Border problems solved, right?

Sherrod Brown plans to run for the Senate again. This is a perfect example of what we don’t need in Ohio. Brown, along with fellow Democrat Marcy Kaptur, ran centrist campaigns in 2024, alienating liberal and progressive voters. I found their Republican-lite political ads infuriating. I will vote for neither of them the next time around.

Marci Kaptur will be eighty and Sherrod Brown seventy-six when they are on the ballot again. Term/age limits, anyone?

We will never be able to trust labor statistics from the government again.

Am I the only one who wonders who is really running the government? Trump’s not. He seems clueless most days. I suspect the white Christian nationalists of the Heritage Foundation (Project 2025) are in charge of the federal government.

Bonus: Pete Hegseth’s favorite preacher is megachurch pastor Doug Wilson — a racist Christian nationalist. This should scare the shit out of all of us.

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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Trump Tells the World America Loves God, Invoking God’s Blessing on Bombing Iran

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Donald Trump claims to be a Christian, but his immoral, violent, misogynistic, racist, anti-Biblical behavior suggests otherwise. Anyone who says Trump is a Christian has no idea of what it means to be a follower of Jesus. It sickens me to watch Evangelical preachers fawn over Trump, ignoring his behavior, choosing, instead, to trade piety and morality for raw political power. No matter how badly Trump behaves, no matter how many lies he tells, many Evangelicals believe Trump has been chosen by God for such a time as ours.

Today, Trump stated in his press conference, God, I just want to say we love you, God. Gag me with a spoon. Trump doesn’t love God. His God-talk is all about pretense and manipulation. Evangelicals are so stupid that they cannot see that Trump is using them to advance his wicked agenda. Oh, he threw Evangelicals an abortion bone and let them play with toys at the White House, but the moment they are no longer of use, Trump will dump them like they are one of his wives.

I heard that Trump received a private message from a world leader after his press conference. It said:

Donald, if you love me, keep my commandments.

Jesus

Trump allegedly said to Pete Hegseth, “Who does this motherfucker think he is? I am President Donald Bigley Trump, the leader of the free world. I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and no one, not even this Jesus guy can stop me.”

Jesus replied with a one-sentence message, “Pride goeth before a fall, Donald.”

The fall of House Trump will one day come about. It remains to be seen what carnage and bloodshed will follow.

Indeed, we live in perilous times.

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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Bruce’s Ten Hot Takes for June 1, 2025

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth thinks the United States can fight a war with China and win. In my lifetime, the United States has lost numerous wars against lesser enemies. Yet, Hegseth thinks the U.S. can defeat an enemy that is its equal, and in some instances, its superior.

Does it surprise anyone that our predator-in-chief is thinking about pardoning Diddy — another sexual predator and all-round perverse man?

Former President Joe Biden says he can physically whip Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, the authors of the book Original Sin. Sure, Joe, sure. Take a lesson from former President George W. Bush, and fade into the background of life. Get treatment for your cancer and enjoy what days you have left with Jill and your family. Trying to convince the public that what they saw and heard in your debate with Trump is a waste of time. I speak for millions of Americans who thought due to your age and health, that you should only have been a one term president. And then your debate with the Orange King left no questions about whether we were right to ask/demand your resignation.

One Democratic insider recently said that Joe Biden was a better president for working class people than FDR. Really? You want us to believe that Biden in his four years of office accomplished more for working class people than Franklin Delano Roosevelt did during his sixteen year term?

As I predicted, Trump and his co-president Elon Musk had a falling out, and Musk has gone home to play with his toys, having not cut 1-2 trillion dollars from the federal budget as he promised he would do. He did, however, succeed in interjecting chaos into virtually every governmental agency. And he may be gone, but his chaos agents remain throughout the federal government.

It is startling how many conspiracies Trump buys into. Just today he re-messaged a message that claimed Joe Biden died in 2020 and was replaced with a clone. What’s next for a Trump? Believing he won the 2020 election or his dick is a foot long?

The sudden rise of AI and its widespread use by private businesses and public agencies scares the shit out of me. I am reminded of the words of Wendell Berry when he talked about the advancement of technology: “Just because we can do something doesn’t mean we should.”

The murderous Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people continues unabated. Scores of innocent civilians — including women, children, and babies — are killed almost every day, yet the United States and its N.A.T.O allies stand idly by as they sell Israel billions of dollars of offensive weaponry, while at the same time hypocritically praying for the “peace of Jerusalem.” As Thomas Merton said (loosely quoted), “War never brings peace. Only peace begets peace. War might bring a cessation of hostilities, but it will not bring peace.”

The United States is the largest arms seller in the world, with almost 50% of world sales to over 100 countries. Yet, many American political leaders say that we are a peaceful nation; that we only wage war when attacked or provoked. Our national C.V. suggests that we are a violent, bloody people who use our military might to advance our agenda — justified or not.

I added up all the odds of this or that killing me or giving me cancer, and I’ve concluded that I died in 1927.

Bonus: MAGA Republicans who currently control the Ohio legislature are trying to make it illegal for Ohio cannabis users to travel to Michigan to buy marijuana. Why do Ohio cannabis users drive to Michigan to buy blunts, gummies, and bulk marijuana, especially when there are dispensaries near their homes? Simple, Ohio’s cannabis products are 50-70% more expensive than Michigan’s.

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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