“BE WARNED — IF YOU ARE TRANSPORTING DRUGS THAT CAN KILL AMERICANS, WE ARE HUNTING YOU!”
— President Donald Trump
What’s illegal are the drugs that were on the boat, and the drugs that are being sent into our country, and the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs. That’s what’s illegal.
— President Donald Trump
This is not a war. U.S. forces went out and committed murder. There was no armed attack on the United States that would allow for the U.S. to use force in self-defense. There is no armed conflict between the United States and any cartel group or any Latin American country. A foreign terrorist designation of any of these groups does not change that. It does not authorize force against those groups. The killing of all 11 of these men was illegal. This was a premeditated murder of suspected criminals — by definition, civilians — based on the facts provided by the administration themselves,
— Sarah Harrison, former Pentagon legal expert
The Trump administration is now murdering suspected drug traffickers without due process. It should trouble all of us that Trump is using the military to blow up boats suspected of carrying drugs, killing everyone on board. These unilateral actions against alleged traffickers are illegal and immoral. Yes, I know that Trump has declared “war” on drug traffickers, but this is not an official declaration of war. Only Congress has the power to declare war. What we currently have is a rogue state doing what it wants to kill an alleged enemy. Evidently, the rules of war do not apply to this rogue state; Trump believes might makes right.
There’s little that can be done to combat Trump’s murderous ways. It is up to a Republican-led congress to reel Trump in, but by all accounts, they have no intention of doing so. Sadly, many Republicans love Trump’s bravado. They want to see him use even more violence to advance the MAGA agenda, not less. Lest you doubt this to be true, consider the fact that a Fox News host said that the answer to our homeless problem is to euthanize them. Yep, he wants the government to commit the mass murder of homeless people. The MAGA crowd claims Christianity as their chosen faith, but there’s little in their behavior that suggests they know anything about the life and teachings of the Prince of Peace.
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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Listen to the Trump Administration and MAGA talking heads, and you might conclude that Charlie Kirk was a “good man.” President Trump would have us believe that leftists are to blame for Kirk’s murder, but extant evidence suggests that Kirk’s rhetoric and bigotry likely played a big part in his death. After carefully examining what Kirk said and did, it is hard not to conclude that he was a Christian Nationalist; a man willing to say anything — even if it is a lie — to advance his agenda. A good man, he is not.
Podcaster Stephen Woodford recently released a video detailing Charlie Kirk’s character and beliefs:
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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By now, I’m sure you know right-wing shit-stirrer Charlie Kirk was murdered by Tyler Robinson. I shed not a tear for Kirk. His rhetoric and bigotry cannot be ignored as a contributing factor in his murder. While I certainly feel sorry for Kirk’s wife and children, I refuse to ignore what led to his death. (And it goes without saying, as a pacifist, I oppose all violence, including political.)
What follows is a list of hateful, bigoted things Charlie Kirk has said in the past.
[Kirk called the Civil Rights Act] “a huge mistake.”
“Black women like Joy Reid, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Michelle Obama … used affirmative action because they do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. So they had to steal a white person’s slot.”
“The perverse gift of the Chinese coronavirus is that it has given Americans an up close and personal look at the horrors of big government — and, by extension, socialism.”
“Conservatives are branded bigots and we are falsely accused of hate speech when we express traditional values and ideas that have made America the greatest country on Earth.”
“Democrats have long been the party of voter fraud.”
“We’ve been conditioned to see a video of white people in MAGA hats standing in front of a Native American and assume that the white people are racists.”
“Americans needs to understand that the election of Donald Trump has forestalled our slide into the abyss of cultural Marxism and the surrendering of our national heritage and identity to that of the global community.”
“Historically, Democrats have shown they are willing to do just about anything to win elections. Republicans must quit taking the high road and fight back with everything we have.”
“We have to teach goodness to our infants.”
“Rick Warren promoted the vaccine and BLM in 2020 while he was pastor of Saddleback. Typical modern preacher — they get mad when you get involved in conservative (biblical) issues but enthusiastically use the church for secular left-wing aims. Shouldn’t ever be called a ‘pastor.’ For the last decade he’s done serious harm to Christianity and the country.”
“I think it’s worth (the) cost of unfortunately some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal.”
“Brazil has become a key battleground in the global clash between the power of the people and the tyranny of a corrupt globalist machine. TPUSA is honored to host President Jair Bolsonaro in Miami THIS FRIDAY for his first public event following the recent Brazilian elections.”
“The higher the building, the more liberal the voter. It just is. The closer to the ground you are, the more conservative you are.”
“To all college students who have their professors switching to online classes: Please share any and ALL videos of blatant indoctrination with @TPUSA. … Now is the time to document & expose the radicalism that has been infecting our schools.”
“I can’t stand the word ‘empathy,’ actually. I think ‘empathy’ is a made-up, new-age term that does a lot of damage.”
“We have been propagandized by liars and fakers in the media to believe that America is a vicious, racist country and indiscriminate attacks on black people by whites happen all the time. But the numbers tell the truth. Black attacks on white people happen 3X more often than white on black crime, despite blacks being only 13% of the population. Why won’t the media just tell the truth? Why lie when those lies result in innocent people dying?”
“Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.”
“The American way of life is very simple. I want to be able to get married, buy a home, have kids, allow them to ride their bike till the sun goes down, send them to a good school, have a low crime neighborhood, not to have my kid be taught the lesbian, gay, transgender garbage in their school. While also, not having them have to hear the Muslim call to prayer five times a day. That’s important.”
“Democrat women want to die alone without children.”
“We don’t have enough people in prison in America. We need a lot more prisoners.”
“Ignore the geriatric haters in the US Senate. Sec. Kennedy is advancing the people’s agenda and We the People have his back 100%.”
“Thanks to chain migration, Muslims are now a majority in Michigan’s Dearborn Heights (named after a Revolutionary War general). Now, local police have rolled out the country’s first-ever police badge with Arabic script. When you get conquered, you get a new language.”
“Marriage and motherhood make women happier, because of course they do.”
“Indoctrinating 5-year-old kindergartners that they can be something other than a boy or a girl is child abuse and should be illegal.”
“If people are voluntarily leaving 6 to 7 months into a presidential term to go back to their home country, maybe they weren’t actually fleeing oppression the way they say they were.”
“The Democrat Party is the party of crime. Write it down. They have normalized the idea that our cities are dumps and violence is just part of life. This is one of their key pillars in transforming America into a third world hell hole.”
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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Letter sent to the editor of the Defiance Crescent-News.
Dear Editor:
Our republic was saved from Donald Trump’s worst tendencies during his first administration by Republicans who understood what unchecked power could do in the hands of megalomaniac. Over the course of four years, they were replaced by feckless true-blue believers willing to bow to Trump’s delusional demands.
Today, the three branches of government are dominated by devotees to Trump and Project 2025. Loyal to the man, instead of the people, these servants tirelessly work to advance the whims of their leader. No regard is given to the U.S. Constitution or the rule of law. All that matters is obeisance to their savior Donald Trump. He alone, they say, can deliver us from communism, socialism, atheism, liberalism, and anything that paints White American Christians in a bad light.
In their minds, the United States is a Christian nation governed by the teachings of the Protestant Bible. Well, some teachings anyway. Trump-loving Christians ignore the verses that talk about how they should treat strangers and enemies; they ignore verses that explicitly condemn the Trump administration’s immoral treatment of undocumented workers and LGBTQ people. They worship what I call a Jesus of convenience; a Jesus that is used to advance political and social agendas instead of saving souls and transforming society.
It remains to be seen if our country will survive Donald Trump. Democrats fiddle while Rome burns, offering muted responses to Trump, if any at all, waiting until the time is “right.” If they can’t see the flames erupting through the roof, they aren’t paying attention. Protests and letters to the editor have their place — I’ve been writing letters for almost 50 years — but they alone cannot bring political and social change. The solution remains what it has always been: voting. As long as we are a democratic republic, voting remains the only means to effect change. If most Americans don’t vote, we can’t expect lasting change.
Trump plans to roll back progress to the Gilded Age of robber barons. The rich now control the reins of government more than ever before. One of their own now sits at the head of the table, acting like he’s a mob boss. All that matters to Trump is power and money; things Jesus expressly condemned. And if you stand in Trump’s way or dare to challenge his actions, he will bring the full force of the government down upon your head.
Bruce Gerencser Ney, Ohio
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 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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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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I mean, when you have low IQ people like Crockett, I wonder if she’s any relationship to the late, great Davy Crockett, who was a great, great, a great gentleman. But you have this woman, Crockett. Very low IQ person. Somebody said the other day she’s one of the leaders of the party. I said, you’ve got to be kidding.
Representative Crockett replied:
He just knows how to throw that insult. But it’s a common insult when it comes to people of color. He just threw the same insult at Charlamagne tha God, and so I want people to see him and understand who he is. This is a person that has a problem with people of color, period. I don’t care how many Black MAGA are out there with their hats.
When we look at who it is that he’s kicking out of this country, it is people of color. When we look at who he always disrespects and says are low IQ, even though, when you look at his cabinet, this has to be the most incompetent cabinet we have ever had in the history of this country.
We’re talking about people that literally have the ability to drop bombs or order that bombs be dropped, or make recommendations that bombs be dropped, and they literally don’t know how to get the Signal chat. Right? So we’re talking about low IQ individuals, but so long as they say that this guy is their guy, and usually if they work for a certain news network, that’s the only qualification that’s necessary.
By the way, Crockett has more education than Trump. She is a lawyer.
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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Sydney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the “HOTTEST” ad out there. It’s for American Eagle, and the jeans are “flying off the shelves.” Go get ’em Sydney! On the other side of the ledger, Jaguar did a stupid, and seriously WOKE advertisement, THAT IS A TOTAL DISASTER! The CEO just resigned in disgrace, and the company is in absolute turmoil. Who wants to buy a Jaguar after looking at that disgraceful ad. Shouldn’t they have learned a lesson from Bud Lite, which went Woke and essentially destroyed, in a short campaign, the Company. The market cap destruction has been unprecedented, with BILLIONS OF DOLLARS SO FOOLISHLY LOST. Or just look at Woke singer Taylor Swift. Ever since I alerted the world as to what she was by saying on TRUTH that I can’t stand her (HATE!). She was booed out of the Super Bowl and became, NO LONGER HOT. The tide has seriously turned – Being WOKE is for losers, being Republican is what you want to be. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
— Donald Trump, as reported by The Mirror
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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Last week’s Job’s Report was RIGGED, just like the numbers prior to the Presidential Election were Rigged. That’s why, in both cases, there was massive, record setting revisions, in favor of the Radical Left Democrats.
Those big adjustments were made to cover up, and level out, the FAKE political numbers that were CONCOCTED in order to make a great Republican Success look less stellar!!! I will pick an exceptional replacement. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAGA!
— Donald Trump, as reported by The New Republic
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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As the Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues apace, and MAGA grapples with the gaslit reality they live in, the Trumpr Administration continues to negotiate so-called trade deals, which are negotiated and implemented using pure executive fiat, under emergency powers, under an emergency declaration which has no rational basis, while everyone pretends this isn’t an example of a constitutional coup. It’s actually an exercise in sedition, if one were to avoid putting a finer point on it.
The mechanism is breathtakingly brazen: declare a fake national emergency, invoke emergency trade powers designed for genuine crises, bypass Congress entirely, and conduct billions of dollars in international agreements through personal presidential decree. When Japan agrees to invest $550 billion based on Trump’s “Strategic Trade Agreement,” they’re being asked to legitimize constitutional fraud that exists only through Trump’s personal authority rather than constitutional process.
Our allies aren’t stupid. They understand perfectly that what Trump is doing is illegal. The Constitution explicitly grants Congress the power “to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations”—not the president. Foreign governments have constitutional lawyers who can read Article I, Section 8 as clearly as anyone. They know there is no emergency, no “unusual and extraordinary threat” that justifies bypassing Congress to negotiate trade policy through executive decree. They must be horrified by how few Americans seem to care that their government operates through systematic constitutional violation.
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Congress could terminate these fraudulent emergencies at any time under the National Emergencies Act. Instead, Republican leaders have chosen to become active accomplices in constitutional destruction. They literally suspended the flow of time itself—declaring that calendar days would not constitute calendar days—to avoid voting on Trump’s fake emergency tariffs. When that proved insufficient, Speaker Mike Johnson simply shut down the People’s House entirely to prevent oversight votes. Senator Markwayne Mullin confessed the conspiracy on the House floor: “What we’re simply trying to do here is give President Trump cover.”
This demonstrates what a fundamentally unserious country we’ve become, with a political economy increasingly designed toward the maintenance of Trump’s personal power rather than constitutional governance. These vulgar arsonists in Congress have voluntarily transformed from co-equal branch into presidential protection service, abandoning their constitutional duties to serve one man’s authority. Every avoided vote, every suspended timeline, every shutdown of democratic process serves the same seditious purpose: eliminating constitutional constraints on executive power.
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Every trade deal negotiated through fake emergency powers establishes irreversible precedent that the presidency can operate beyond constitutional constraint by simply declaring emergencies. Trump has converted emergency powers designed to protect the republic into tools for dismantling republican government itself, while Congress provides the accelerant and courts provide the legal cover.
This is sedition: the systematic subversion of constitutional government by those sworn to preserve it. The American republic is being destroyed by constitutional arsonists who have discovered that the most effective way to eliminate democratic constraints is to declare them emergencies that require bypassing democracy itself. Our allies watch in horror as we demonstrate the complete transformation of American governance from constitutional republic to personal rule.
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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