Benjamin Netanyahu nominating Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize is akin to nominating OJ Simpson for husband of the year. (From The Daily Show)
The Jeffrey Epstein client list doesn’t exist says Attorney Pam Bondi, after telling the American people it was sitting on her desk to be reviewed. Shock! Another Trump cabinet official lies to the American people.
Congress needs to criminalize law enforcement wearing masks in an attempt to evade identification and accountability. If I have to show law enforcement identification, they should, at the very least: give their name and department and reason for stopping or arresting someone.
The Trump Administration put on a show of force at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. The park was flooded with law enforcement, soldiers, and military vehicles, scaring the bejesus out of innocent park users. Just what Trump wants — fear.
Alligator Alcatraz is testimony to the brutality of the Trump Administration’s war against undocumented workers.
Scores of devout Christian Texans were swept away and drowned in recent flash floods. A tragedy of the first degree, but I can’t help but wonder where God was as his followers were drowning.
I hope Musk follows through on his political threats. Nothing better than a junior high lunch room food fight to distract the MAGA crowd.
Did you notice that many of the tax cuts passed by Republicans don’t take effect until after the 2026 midterm election? Cowards.
Trump does something right . . . Airline passengers no longer have to remove their shoes during TSA screening.
Listening to a non-parent Evangelical justify beating children if they disobey. Here’s hoping he never has children.
Bonus: The IRS ended prohibitions on churches endorsing candidates. Good riddance! Now it is time to start taxing churches and end tax benefits that only apply to ministers.
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 is currently waging a proxy war against Russia, funding Israel’s genocidal war against Palestine, and recently bombed Iran, along with off-book military operations conducted by the U.S. military, CIA, and NSA throughout the world. Explain, then, how anyone thinks the Toddler King deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump is a violent man, a bully. There’s nothing in his behavior or polices that remotely suggests that Trump is a man of peace. He’s not, and anyone who suggests otherwise ain’t paying attention.
Maybe the real issue is one of envy. Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize. Why shouldn’t Trump receive the same? Let me be clear, Obama did nothing to deserve the award, and Trump has done even less. Neither man is what I would call a peacemaker. I’m convinced that Trump is primarily driven by lust, envy, greed, and jealousy. He’s determined to be the “bestest president who has ever lived,” even though his political track record suggests he will go down in history as the worst president ever.
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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Senator Lisa Murkowski has long been a pain in the ass for Democrats. Murkowski will support a Democratic cause now again, but she is best known for feigning concern over this or that Republican bill, only to step in line when it comes time to vote. Murkowski, along with feckless compatriot Susan Collins, continue to “fuck over the American people.”
Recently, local attorney Donald Mitchell set the record straight on Murkowski in an opinion piece for the Anchorage Daily News.
Here’s what he had to say:
Over the past forty years, the Alaska Republican Party has morphed from the party of Jay Hammond and Ted Stevens into the party of Donald Trump and Mike Dunleavy. Watching that happen, Alaskans who are not members of a political party and who collectively are more than half the electorate, and many Democrats, have taken solace in the fact that in 2002 in one of the most brazen acts of nepotism in American political history Frank Murkowski appointed his daughter to his seat in the United States Senate.
Had there been a special election to fill the seat, Lisa Murkowski would have been the last person Alaska Republicans would have elected. But everyone who knows her, including me, will vouch that Lisa is a decent, courteous, kind, and thoughtful woman who has seemingly grown into the job.
But since 2002, Lisa has won four elections only because having no discernible, consistent political ideology enabled her to be all things to all Alaskans, particularly independent and Democratic voters who in three of those four elections saved her from her own party.
In 2004 Lisa won the Republican primary election because Ted Stevens cleared the way for her, she raised $3.5 million mostly from Outside political action committees, and the Alaska Republican Party allowed independent voters to vote in its primary election, most of whom, according to pollster Ivan Moore, preferred Lisa to Mike Miller, a right-of-conservative former legislator who was her principal opponent.
In 2010, Ted Stevens was gone and the Alaska Republican Party no longer allowed independents to vote in its primary election. As a consequence, Lisa lost fair and square to Joe Miller, for whom Sarah Palin, who has no use for father and daughter Murkowski, campaigned and for whom Sarah arranged for the Tea Party Express political action committee to spend $600,000 to get out the vote for Miller. But after reneging on her promise to abide by the results of the primary election, Lisa won the general election because independents and Democrats wrote in her name on the general election ballot.
After being reelected in 2016 by only a plurality in an election in which the Alaska Republican and Democratic Parties did not run serious candidates against her, in 2022 the jig finally should have been up. But two years earlier, Scott Kendall, who in 2016 had been Lisa’s senior campaign aide, orchestrated the passage of an initiative that brought the ranked choice voting system to Alaska.
In “Far From Home,” her hagiographic as-told-to autobiography, Lisa says she told Kendall she thought ranked choice voting was a bad idea, but she then “didn’t have any further involvement,” and “my team insulated me from the issue to avoid the appearance that the initiative was intended mainly for my benefit.” That spin stretches credulity past breaking. But even if true, Lisa was the beneficiary because in 2024, ranked choice voting allowed her to avoid having to compete against Donald Trump and Mike Dunleavy’s handpicked candidate, Kelly Tshibaka, in a Republican primary election she would have lost. Instead, she was elected to a fourth term by the independent and Democratic voters who had been her base since the beginning of the political career her father arranged for her.
But in the predawn hours of July 2 in one deplorable act of political pusillanimity, Lisa shattered her relationship with the independent and Democratic voters who had three times saved her. After the usual performative handwringing and dithering that Alaskans have come to expect, she provided the last vote Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune needed to pass H.R. 1, Donald Trump’s Big Ugly Bill.
The bill contains tax cuts mostly for corporations and the wealthiest Americans that, over ten years, will add $3.3 trillion to the $36 trillion federal debt. And the red ink would be worse if the bill did not eviscerate the safety net that keeps millions of Americans healthy and food secure. Here is what Maine Independent Sen. Angus King told Lisa and her colleagues before she cast her vote:
“Imagine a bunch of guys sitting around a table saying, ‘I’ve got a great idea. Let’s give $32,000 worth of tax breaks to a millionaire and we’ll pay for it by taking health insurance away from lower-income and middle-income people. And to top it off, how about we cut food stamps, we cut SNAP, we cut food aid to people?’ I’ve been in this business of public policy for twenty years, eight years as governor, twelve years in the United States Senate. I have never seen a bill this bad. I have never seen a bill that is this irresponsible, regressive, and downright cruel.”
After she cast the deciding vote, Lisa had the chutzpah to try and garner sympathy by telling the press how “agonizing” her decision to provide that vote had been. She also told NBC News reporter Ryan Noble that she knew when she cast it that “there are Americans who are not going to be advantaged by this bill.” Twelve million adults and disabled children who lose their health insurance, and the millions more who will become food insecure will be merely “not advantaged”? Lisa Murkowski, do you actually believe that?
On this site, Scott Kendall, ever the loyal sycophant, recently argued that Lisa made the best of a bad hand by selling her vote in exchange for the benefits she extorted for Alaska because if she had not done so Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul would have given Senate Majority Leader Thune the last vote he needed to pass H.R. 1 and Alaska would have gotten nothing.
There is a difference between spin and purposeful disingenuity that Kendall’s defense of the indefensible illustrates. Because he knows as well as I do that Sen. Paul would not have provided the last vote except in exchange for massive reductions in federal spending to which Donald Trump would never have agreed.
In 2017, Arizona Sen. John McCain solidified his reputation as a patriot who put what was best for the American people above partisan politics by turning his thumb down and refusing to provide the last vote Donald Trump needed to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Lisa had an opportunity to join Senator McCain as a solon whose service to the nation will be remembered and admired by future generations. Instead, when political courage counted, she turned out to be just another go-along-to-get-along fiscally irresponsible Republican hack. Speaking only for myself, that failure of moral rectitude will be remembered.
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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Our Toddler King (Donald Trump) and his playdate friend (Elon Musk) are spatting again over Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill — which financially harms the working class and poor, throws millions of people off of Medicaid, and reduces or cancels numerous programs that demonstrably help the “least of these” among us. Musk doesn’t care about any of these things. Remember, much like Trump, Musk has no empathy. Both men care about two things: power and money. Musk is upset because the bill increases the federal debt by trillions of dollars and ends several subsidies that help Musk’s companies financially.
According to news reports, Musk has started a new political party — the America Party. Should we be concerned about Musk’s new party, or is this whole issue nothing more than a playground fight between two men who are bullies? And if we know anything about bullies, they cannot abide threats to their dominance. Trump threatened to deport Musk and stop government subsidies for his companies. Musk, on the other hand, not only wants to destroy Trump, he wants to destroy the Republican Party.
I am all for Musk’s plan to start a new party. First, he will peel off scores of Republican voters, likely handing Democrats victories across the United States. Now we just need someone from the democratic side to do the same. It’s time for an old-fashioned political food fight.
Let me be clear about my position:
Our two-party system is broken beyond repair. Neither party seems capable of competently governing.
Multiple political parties on the ballot are good for American democracy.
I support the end of corporate and PAC donations to candidates.
I support limiting political campaigning to the ninety days before the election.
I support term limits for all candidates — two terms for senators, four terms for representatives, and two terms for presidents.
I previously wrote that I was done with the national Democratic Party. Please read An Open Letter to Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin. As I expected, the Democratic Party voted David Hogg out of its leadership. This was the last straw for me. While I will no longer support Democrats nationally, I intend to continue to support the local Democratic Party as long as their views align with mine.
This has been a simmering issue for me for at least ten years. In 2016, I wrote An Open Letter to the DNC:
Dear Democratic National Committee,
I write to express my outrage over recent revelations detailing how DNC officials attempted to derail Bernie Sanders’ 2016 Presidential campaign. It is evident, based on released internal emails, that Deborah Wasserman Schultz and operatives within the DNC were working behind the scenes to marginalize Bernie Sanders, paving the way for Hillary Clinton to become the Democratic candidate for President. Earlier this year Bernie Sanders complained about attempts by Wasserman Schultz and the DNC to keep him from becoming the nominee. The DNC dismissed Sanders’ claims, categorically stating that both candidates were being treated fairly and equally. Thanks to Wikileaks, we now know better.
I am a diehard Bernie Sanders supporter. As a liberal, democratic socialist, I found Sanders’ policy positions to be the closest to my own. Sanders is the voice of progressivism; Hillary Clinton is the voice of centrist Democratic politics. Sanders is a man of principle; Hillary Clinton is a political opportunist. Bernie Sanders didn’t take a dime from Wall Street; Hillary Clinton made millions off of private Wall Street-sponsored speeches. Bernie Sanders opposes war in the Middle East; Hillary Clinton will continue the blood-spilling policies of the Barack Obama. It is for these reasons (and others) that I support Bernie Sanders.
I am also an atheist. Offensive revelations that Wasserman Schultz and the DNC considered tarring Bernie Sanders with the atheist label suggests to me that the DNC doesn’t realize that most atheists are political liberals who most often vote Democrat. It is also clear that the DNC doesn’t understand that scores of millennials are non-religious. These millennials generally skew to the left — good news for Democrats. Good news, that is, if the DNC stops treating non-religious people as if they have some sort of communicable disease.
I am pleased that Wasserman Schultz has been removed as the head of the DNC. But that action is not enough. Every DNC operative who thought labeling Bernie Sanders an atheist was a good idea should immediately be fired. A failure to take such action shows that Democratic leaders don’t value fairness. The DNC should also publicly apologize to the atheist community for their shameful use of the word “atheist” as some sort of pejorative term. A full-page apology in the New York Times and personal letters to the major atheist groups will suffice.
I plan to vote for Hillary Clinton come November. I will do so for one reason and one reason alone — Donald Trump. I cannot in good conscience do anything that will increase the likelihood of a Trump presidency. These are perilous times, and I must do what is best for my country. Quite frankly, if a centrist Republican was running for President I would likely cast my vote for Jill Stein. In doing so, I would be telling the Democratic Party that until they value me as a voter, they have lost my vote. I want to do this now, but I can’t. I know that if Donald Trump is elected he will fundamentally and permanently harm our Republic. It’s Hillary Clinton’s lucky day. She will get my vote, not because I think she best represents my views, but because Donald Trump is a real threat to national security and social progress. If Clinton wins the election, the DNC might want to consider how to keep my vote come 2020. If liberal, democratic-socialist atheists aren’t welcome in the Democratic Party, then perhaps it is time to start seriously considering third-parties that value people such as myself.
Sincerely,
Bruce Gerencser A Former Right-Wing Evangelical Republican Turned Liberal, Democratic-Socialist Atheist
While my political views have changed somewhat since 2016, one thing is clear: I can no longer support the Democratic Party. I refuse to be bullied into voting for the “lesser of two evils,” so don’t bother trying to badger me into voting for the Democratic standard bearer. It remains to be seen whom the Democrats stand up for in the 2028 Presidential Election, so I may vote Democratic depending on the candidate. We want to blame stupid MAGA Republicans for ‘blessing” us with the worst president in American history, but the Democratic Party certainly played a part in Trump’s re-election by fielding unwinnable candidates (Joe Biden and Kamala Harris). As of today, I am unsettled as to who Democrats should field in 2028. But mark my word, if they trot about another “seniority” candidate as they did with Biden and Hillary Clinton, the Party will hemorrhage voters by the millions. I agree with most of Bernie Sanders’ positions, but he is too old. I’m a big fan of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) — what a firebrand! — but I suspect that many voters will consider her too young for the job. I like Elizabeth Warren, too, but it is unlikely she will run due to her age. Today? I would love to see people such as Katie Porter or Pete Buttigieg run for office, though Buttigieg being gay will likely hurt his electability. What are your thoughts about who the Democratic Party candidate should be in 2028?
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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Rep. Jamie Raskin, a third rate Democrat politician, has no idea what is in our fantastic Tax Cut Bill, nor would he understand it if he did. This DOPE has been consistently losing to me for YEARS, and I love watching his ugly face as he is forced to consistently concede DEFEAT TO TRUMP — And tonight should be another of those nights. Raskin is a bad politician, and a TOTAL LOSER!
— Donald Trump
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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Given the scale and scope of President Trump’s recent achievements—especially the impending enactment of the Big Beautiful Bill, the historic act that will ignite America’s Golden Age—it is essential that we immortalize President Trump’s likeness on Mount Rushmore.
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Like Washington, Trump did not seek his position for glory but out of love for his country, championing American independence and reshaping the presidency with dynamism, clarity, and purpose.
Like Jefferson, he expanded America’s horizons by pursuing new frontiers and breaking away from deep state tyrants.
Like Teddy Roosevelt, Trump took on entrenched interests, reinvigorated American industry, and avenged the working class against bureaucratic bloat and corporate corruption.
The legacy of Mount Rushmore cannot remain frozen in stone; it must evolve to reflect the full arc of American history, including its most recent and transformative chapter.
— Republican Representative Andy Ogles
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 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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It shouldn’t surprise us that President Donald Trump lied to the American people when he said “no new wars.” Trump is a pathological liar who cannot tell the truth. He lies numerous times a day on social media, press announcements, speeches, and interviews. According to the Bible, Trump’s perpetual lying will land him in Hell someday; not that I care. I am far more concerned about the HELL Trump is causing in this life.
Yesterday, Trump ordered the U.S. military to bomb Iran, this after Israel’s repeated bombings. Iran has weakly responded, causing little to no harm to Israel or the United States. Today, Trump announced a ceasefire between Iran and the United States/Israel. Peacock-proud as a big-dicked man at a nudist colony, Trump suggested in a social media post that “regime change” might be on the menu.
Here’s what David Packman had to say about Trump’s declaration of war:
Make no mistake about it, Trump and his administration have imperial ambitions, and that includes regime change for any country that dares to cross Trump’s rabid pursuit of raw power and wealth. You gotta know you are on the wrong side of history when former national security advisor John Bolton agrees with your course of action. Bolton has called for regime change in Iran for years.
Trump’s latest immoral, illegal bombing of Iran is a reminder that the “endless war” continues, with no end in sight. As long as the U.S. mainland remains untouched by the ravages of war, Americans will continue to approve of the “fighting them over there, so we don’t have to fight them here” endless war. Some day, though, our peace and tranquility will threatened by terrorist attacks. We can’t keep bullying people we disagree with without some sort of retaliation. As a young boy, I tried to catch a mouse that was in our garage. I chased him all over the garage until I finally cornered him. As I reached down to pick up the mouse, he bit me. There’s coming a day when the United States will corner an inferior enemy and, with no place to turn, our enemy will “bite” us.
Trump wrongly believes that violence against a nation deemed our enemy will bring peace. It won’t. Violence never brings peace. It brings a cessation of hostilities until the next war breaks out. Only peace begets peace. If the United States is truly interested in peace, nuclear disarmament is the first step in the process. It’s hypocritical for the United States to demand disarmament while refusing to do so themselves. It’s hypocritical to decry the possibility of Iran building and using a nuclear weapon when the United States is the only nation to ever use an atomic bomb on civilian population centers. Instead of demanding that the world do what the U.S. says and not what it does, perhaps peace would be better served if the United States led by example.
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 removes all his clothing in the gym locker room and takes a shower before swimming. Also showering with Trump are six men of various shapes, sizes, and colors.
Trump surveys the other men as he showers, thinking to himself, “my dick is bigger than theirs. In fact, my dick is bigger than every man in the world.”
This is how the greatest president, businessman, and deal maker who has ever lived views everything.
Are undocumented immigrants lawbreakers? Sure, in the strictest sense of the word. When I drive our car 65 mph in a 55 mph zone, I am breaking the law. Back in my Limewire days, I downloaded thousands of songs. Doing so was illegal. I have broken the law numerous times over the years, actions which could have landed me in the county jail or with a fine. I suspect most Americans could say the same. When convenient, we play loose with the law. If we get caught, we pay the price.
I view most undocumented workers the same way. Being here illegally is a “crime” in the same way speeding is. Should they have their lives uprooted and lose their jobs and homes, all because they came to the United States years ago? No, and we need to find a way to legalize the immigrants who are here illegally. This is especially true for immigrants who have lived in the U.S. their entire lives. My God, we are deporting children. Sorry, but this sickens me.
Undocumented immigrants who commit serious crimes should be arrested, prosecuted in a court of law, and, if warranted, deported. However, immigrants who haven’t committed a crime or who have minor dings on their records should be given an opportunity to be here legally. We NEED them, and we are about to find out what happens if the Toddler King gets his way and deports millions of immigrants.
Think about your own life. Have you ever broken the law? Imagine being removed from your home and sent to a prison in a foreign country. Imagine no due process. Imagine being separated from your spouse, children, grandchildren, and extended family. You are at the mercy of a man who hates your guts; a racist who only wants “good” immigrants; you know — white people.
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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