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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President Donald Trump has sent up to 4,000 National Guardsmen and 800 Marines to Los Angeles to combat and contain what he says is widespread, wanton violence. Remember, this is the man who asked if soldiers could shoot protesters in the leg. Trump is a petty little tyrant who loves to foment violence as he sits behind the safety of his desk in the Oval Office. I am of the opinion that the Toddler King is deliberately trying to stir things up so he can declare martial law. This will allow him to rescind many of the Constitutional protections we have. If this happens, there will be bloodshed in the streets of not only Lost Angeles, but other major cities.
The LA police department is more than capable of handling what have largely been peaceful protests. We must not forget that Trump is opposed to protests. Just today, he warned people that if they protested his big, beautiful birthday parade on June 14, that their opposition would be met with violence.
We must never forget that soldiers are trained to use lethal force to eliminate their enemies. Simply put, they are trained to kill. Soldiers are not peacekeepers. War has never begotten peace. At best, it brings, for a time, a cessation of hostilities. Only peace begets peace.
What troubles me — well, hell, lots of things deeply trouble me these days — is that millions of Americans think it is okay for Trump to illegally use the military to advance his political and personal agenda. Years ago, Polly and I took her parents to Mexico. We took a drive around Juarez, the murder capital of Mexico. As we were driving down the street, three soldiers, armed with assault rifles, came around the corner, scaring the shit out of my mother-in-law. She immediately demanded to be returned to the United States, which I gladly did. Seeing soldiers with assault rifles on Mexican streets is not uncommon. In the United States, however, we don’t often see such things. We live in relative freedom and safety. Trump doesn’t want us to feel free and safe. He wants us to fear whatever “enemy” he has conjured up. Most of all, he wants us to fear him. What concerns me is Trump’s base; you know, the millions of Americans who seemingly are blind or indifferent towards his lawlessness. January 6 showed us what can happen if you stir up a crowd of zealots. Imagine what happens if he does this on a national level? Civil war is possible, even likely, if we do not neuter the MAGA movement and elect leaders who take seriously their pledge to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
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, the orange-haired toddler king, gave another lie-filled press conference today. In a matter of minutes. Trump told numerous lies, uttered threats, and reminded the American people that he is the stupidest man ever to sit in the Oval Office.
The toddler king mentioned his big military parade scheduled for Saturday, warning protesters that they would be met with state-sanctioned violence if they dared to protest his big, beautiful parade. Of course, Americans have a constitutional right to protest peacefully. Evidently, Trump has never read the U.S. Constitution. Either that, or he doesn’t think the Constitution applies to him; that, as president, he can do whatever he wants to do and no one can stop him.
Trump also took several swipes at California Governor Gavin Newsom. In particular, Trump, posing as a forestry management expert, decided to opine on the fires that plague California:
I’ve been meeting with heads of other countries, and they are forest countries. They call themselves Forest Austria and others, and they say we’re a forest nation. We live in a forest, and they don’t have forest fires, and in one case, he said, you know our trees are much more flammable than California, but we don’t have forest fires because we clean the floor. We sweep the floor of leaves of dead debris of trees that fall because after 18 months the tree is like real, it’s like tinderwood, and it goes up, it virtually exposed, Well, we don’t take the trees out. California is a disaster. What they’ve done in California, they don’t do anything, and if you did, you wouldn’t, you almost would not have forest fires, and you could say, you, in theory, you shouldn’t have any forest fires. And we spend billions and billions of dollars a year because uh, people don’t clean the forests, and we’re going to clean the forest, we’re going to start cleaning them.
Trump has been talking about this nonsense for years. Here’s a man who has never mowed or raked a lawn and has no understanding of biology or forestry, yet he thinks he is in a position to give “expert” advice on how to end forest fires.
Let me conclude this post with a personal story, one that would educate the toddler king IF he knew how to read. Yes, I know he can read, but he doesn’t do much of it, and it is clear, at least to me, that Trump lacks basic comprehension skills. Either that, or he has dementia.
Years ago, I pastored an Evangelical church in southeast Ohio. The church had a tuition-free school for church children. Back then, before I had much environmental awareness, we had a burn barrel we used for burning trash. One day, several of the boys were burning trash. The barrel was full, but they decided to pile some trash on top, light it, and then walk away. Well, some of the burning trash fell out of the barrel, setting the neighbor’s field on fire. Frantically, the boys came running, telling me the field was on fire. By the time I got out there, the neighbor was standing near the burning fire. When I suggested calling the fire department, she replied, “Let it burn.” And so we let it burn. Hours later, the fire petered out, leaving what appeared to be scorched land. However, the next spring, the field was filled with new trees, bushes, grasses, and flowers. The fire cleared away all the undergrowth, allowing for new plants to sprout and grow. Thirty years later, the field is filled with large trees and bushes, all because some foolish schoolboys set it on fire.
Fallen tree leaves and needles are an important part of our ecosystem. They provide nutrients, along with food and shelter for all sorts of animals. Occasionally, due to lightning strikes or human error, these leaves and needles catch on fire. These fires are actually good for forests, as anyone with a fifth-grade science education knows. It’s evident, that President Trump is NOT a good candidate for the game show, “So, You Think You Are Smarter Than a Fifth Grader.”
For more on Trump’s press conference, please watch the following video:
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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If you are unfamiliar with the Reichstag Fire:
The Reichstag Fire was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday, 27 February 1933, precisely four weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch council communist, was the culprit; the Nazis attributed the fire to a group of Communist agitators, used it as a pretext to claim that Communists were plotting against the German government, and induced President Paul von Hindenburg to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree suspending civil liberties, and pursue a “ruthless confrontation” with the Communists. This made the fire pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany.
By John Pavlovitz, as posted by Jill Dennison
In the wake of the unthinkable images and footage coming out of California over the weekend, it’s easy to feel insulated from the chaos if we happen to reside somewhere else in the country, as if our geography protects us.
Watching heavily-armed troops spraying civilians with rubber bullets and bombing them with tear gas for rightly protesting I.C.E.’s indiscriminate round-up of people working in local businesses, sitting in traffic, and showing up for their legal immigration appointments, it’s critical that we remember something.
This isn’t about Los Angeles.
It’s not about the bluest of the blue states receiving the wrath of a vindictive president.
It’s not about an outspoken Democrat Governor being intentionally targeted.
This is about the future of our Republic.
Los Angeles is a test by this corrupt Administration of how much illegality the American people will tolerate, how willing we will be to abide authoritarianism, how easily ordinary people will allow an arm of the government to be weaponized against us. It is a barometer of the intestinal fortitude of our citizenry.
Trump is always looking for his Reichstag Fire; his reason to bring the hammer of the Military down upon the nation. Declaring Martial Law has always been his endgame and his strategy as transparent: create an emergency where one did not exist and propose to bring Law and Order to a lawlessness and disorder of which he is the sole author. As California Governor Gavin Newsom correctly declared on his X account: 1) Local law enforcement didn’t need help. 2) Trump sent troops anyway — to manufacture chaos and violence. 3) Trump succeeded. 4) Now things are destabilized, and we need to send in more law enforcement just to clean up Trump’s mess.
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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Several people have asked me whether I support Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the man deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration? Garcia’s arrest and deportation were deemed illegal, forcing Trump and his merry band of fascists to facilitate the return of Garcia to the United States.
My response is short and to the point: I support the rule of law. If Garcia broke the law, he should be prosecuted. However, it is the Trump administration that broke the law when it detained and deported Garcia without proper court hearings. The Trump administration kidnapped Garcia and shipped him off to a country where he has no legal recourse or standing. This decision by the Trump Administration was punitive and heartless, a denial of laws that have governed our country for much of our history. Of course, this lawbreaking is by design. The goal is to collapse the Federal government, unleashing brute, lawless fascism on the American people.
If the courts decide Garcia is here illegally AND a criminal, then I support whatever outcome the courts decide. Again, we (allegedly) are a nation of laws. We have a border and immigration problem, one that has been festering on and off for decades. The difference now, of course, is that the Trump Racist Collective has turned people of color — legal citizens or not — into enemies of the state.
It is up to the federal courts to decide the disposition of Garcia’s case. It will be interesting to see what the U.S. Supreme Court decides. If the court concludes that Trump and his fellow racists are right and Garcia does not have equal protection under the law — including habeas corpus — his deportation is the least of our problems. Without the rule of law and the consent of the people, our republic ceases to exist.
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’s deeply troubling that a Muslim [the man mentioned is actually a Sikh) was allowed to lead prayer in the House of Representatives this morning. This should have never been allowed to happen. American was founded as a Christian nation, and I believe our government should reflect that truth. May God have mercy!
— Representive Mary Miller, as reported by Huffington Post
Sikhs and Muslims practice two separate and distinct religions, and conflating the two based on how someone looks is not only ignorant but also racist. America was founded on the principle of religious freedom. It is disgraceful that someone who has such disdain for our nation’s values can serve in the halls of Congress.
— Statement by The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
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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Prices are down, income is up, our Border is closed, gasoline is CHEAP, inflation is DEAD — Our Country is BOOMING! Companies are pouring into America like never before!
AMERICA IS HOT! SIX MONTHS AGO IT WAS COLD AS ICE! BORDER IS CLOSED, PRICES ARE DOWN. WAGES ARE UP!
President Donald Trump, as reported by Raw Story
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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PRIDE MONTH ALERT: The Rainbow Beast Is Coming For Your Kids!
WARNING: Corporate America and government institutions are launching their annual siege on childhood innocence—and this year’s Pride Month agenda is more aggressive than ever.
KEY EXPOSURES:
Child Targeting: Libraries hosting drag shows for toddlers, schools replacing math with 57+ gender ideologies, and corporations selling Pride-themed cereal/toys to normalize the unthinkable.
Institutional Surrender: Churches flying rainbow flags over communion tables, HR departments enforcing pronoun cults, and Disney/Nickelodeon pushing “Gomorrahn storytelling.”
Pagan Conquest: “It’s ritual child sacrifice—with glitter and hashtags. ‘Give us the children!’”
WHY IT MATTERS:
Schools now prioritize DEI indoctrination over reading, writing, or science.
Libraries have become drag indoctrination centers—try hosting a “Heterosexual Heritage Hour” and watch the mob arrive.
Corporate Ads parade “two bearded men in lipstick adopting kids” as Hallmark-style propaganda.
THE BIG PICTURE:
This isn’t about “tolerance.” It’s a state-corporate-pagan alliance to reprogram society. They’ve swapped biology for “identity constructs,” swapped scripture for Harvey Milk sermons, and swapped parental rights for government-sanctioned grooming.
PARENTS: WAKE UP.
Are you raising your child—or offering them to the rainbow beast?
— Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith, as reported by Crooks and Liars
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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This series, titled Trump Dump, features outlandish, untrue quotes from Donald Trump, MAGA supporters, and Right Wing media. If you come across a quote for this series, please send it to me with a link to the news story that contains the relevant quote.
I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States. Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy — Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK, who fervently supported Crooked Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent FOOL, and our WORST EVER President, who came close to destroying our Country. If I wasn’t elected, it would have been GONE by now! Sleepy Joe didn’t have a clue as to what he was doing, but Springsteen is “dumb as a rock,” and couldn’t see what was going on, or could he (which is even worse!)? This dried out “prune” of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that’s just “standard fare.” Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!
— President Donald Trump, as reported by Huff Post
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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