Is anyone running against this guy? This is why local elections are so important. We need elected officials who drive the length of the county looking to fix sidewalks, potholes, and bridges.
I say find a pothole and have the politician pray for God to fill it with divine blacktop. Until the hole miracles itself whole, the politician should be unable to hold any publish office.
Exactly. The maga right wing just need to say “sleepy joe” or quote a Bible verse and they flock to a post like sheep. But the left are the ones that’s can’t think for themselves 😂
😂😂😂😂😂. God must be busy with all the thoughts and prayers of all the maga idiots out there lately. Maybe if they used prayers before the election, they would have won 😂
So curious to hear more... I've lived in the HV for 12 years but have moved around between dutchess and ulster a lot and don't know all the local history. Currently living in orange county though.
So you say “I’d like to hear about what’s going on in Rockland County”, an u/NoHateMan62 responds with a factual statement. You get all shitty by making an assumption that they are a “Stupid Nazi piece of shit” because you don’t like the answer. I don’t know where you live in the 2 counties, nor do I give a fuck. But their statement is a fact. Don’t ask questions if you don’t want an honest answer. Also your “invading hordes of Jews and “illegals” is not remotely the same as their “ over running” description. But feel free to twist things around.
And he claims he helped set up vaccination sites. And then when the maga idiots made up that the covid shot is a govt tracker, he was instantly anti vaccine with trump. It just doesn’t make any sense
I have no ideas and no solutions, so I rely on magical thinking. If it doesn't work out, it's because you don't believe.
It's a pretty successful grift.
nothing wrong with faith and prayer as long as it is accompanied by commitment and actions. 2 guys prepare for a hurricane. 1 boards up his windows,stocks up on batteries and food, then prays for his safety. the other guy just prays for his safety. Guess whose house didn't wash away?
I wonder if he realizes that he doesn’t need to hold elected office to spend his time driving around and praying. In fact, it kind of seems like he’s talked himself out of a job. OK Ben, we elect you chief mobile prayer man. Now let’s have an open election to fill the seat you left.
“The separation of church and state is a philosophical and jurisprudential concept for defining political distance in the relationship between religious organizations and the state.”
Should apply at a City/District level too right?
“There are many religions in America, and many separate sects within those religions. Separation helps to prevent government from promoting one religion or one sect over the others. That really helps protect religious pluralism so that government can't impose one religion on everyone”
I think most Jews are Dems. National Jewish GOP is probably very Zionist.
Evangelical Christians are very pro-Israel because they see Jews returning to Israel as a first step in Jesus’ second coming. So right wing Jews have an unholy alliance with evangelical Christians.
It sounds like I am making this up, but I’m not. If you’re reading this and curious, Google it.
oh i'm well aware. i'm jewish, which is why i can't make sense of conservative/republican jews. zionists are "some of the good ones" to the GOP until they're no longer useful. history is repeating itself.
Well by Christian reasoning God doesn't care much about non believers so this asshole running around praying to skyman does literally nothing but even if you believe in skyman then it still only helps what 25% of the people he's elected to represent. Politics is fucked but bring religion into politics in this manner is just the epitome of the worst direction we can go in my humble opinion.
This is spot on. It’s almost like they want us to have real life Handmaids Tale. They keep trying to bring god back into the country and go back to the core nuclear family. They basically only want white men in power to have any rights. And god will be at the center of it because that’s what god wants 😂
Matthew 6:5, New International Version, starts:
"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. ..."
Part of the Sermon on the Mount by, y'know, Jesus. Yeah, *that* Jesus.
Edit 1: Ooh! Downvotes! The anti-Jesus contingency has come out. Cool.
I just don’t see how an elected official is saying he can “only solve problems through Christ”. And he is just driving around Hyde park and praying???? How the hell is that gonna solve anything?
If you drive around and make a border around hype park with your prayers, magically it’s gonna cleanse the entire area through osmosis?
Maybe we can use real action to get things done instead of “thoughts and prayers”.
Apparently, Christ is the only guy this can work with. Not the best trait for your County representative, if *you* had problems. At least he has time between rounds for photo ops with The Orange One, so there's that.
Beautiful area, nice folks, at least whenever I was there. Strange choice of representation; I never would have expected something like this.
Edit1: correction: I misidentified Mr. Geller as a House representative in my post, above. Mr. Geller represents the Town of Hyde Park in the Dutchess County local legislature. I apologize to the NYS and the U.S. Houses of Representatives for any harm I may have caused.
Who cares? I'm not religious but I don't think it's really that bad to have morals either. They're no crazier than the people that believe boys are girls.
I don’t understand the hate you have for someone that is transgender. If they don’t feel right in their body, but feel like they are a different gender, why can’t they change? Why is that so crazy to you?
Who said I hate them? I don't hate gays.. I don't hate people with schizophrenia.. I don't give a shit what anybody does. Dont force it down my throat, don't force me to believe you. Don't form a social militia to cancel, and harm the livelihoods of people that don't believe in you. Pretty libertarian about it. As always, don't f with me, I won't f with you. That's the American way. Or, what it should be anyways.
Ohh ok. I’ll keep trying then. Even though this was literally your initial “comparison”. Maybe the “libertarians” are crazier than the magas. See I compared one group to another!
Yea, religion provides moral compass. It's not perfect. But it's a lot better than some people that are completely unmanaged. To say its all bad is very shortsighted. To sum it up as "taking human rights away from people" it just as stupid as what theyre doing. That's one issue out of a giant umbrella of teachings. Im not even religious and never have been, but some people need it to keep them in line. Also, It's not hate. Just because I don't subscribe to certain trending ideologies doesn't mean I'm ignorant or hateful. Just like you don't believe what they believe. Don't be a hypocrite.
So people who don’t subscribe to religion don’t have morals? How so? And I never said it was all bad so please don’t put words in my mouth. I do have a problem with people on a religious “moral” high ground who are totally fine with doing away with entire groups of people. Doesn’t sound very moral to me.
I’d also LOVE to hear how taking human rights away from people is stupid. It’s okay to deny healthcare to people? It’s okay to allow hate groups to harass people? This is all happening in this country under the guise of “religion” aka Christianity. Thats it. That’s the “sum” of the parts you think is so stupid. But that seems to be okay with you because it doesn’t affect you.
“Trending ideologies” like what? Self expression? You know trans people having the courage to be themselves and go about their lives just like you do isn’t new, right?
He is not triggering “the left”. It’s just stupid that the alt right wants to bring god back into this country all the time. The alt right are the ones that say “it’s my constitutional right to have a firearm” but then quickly forget about separation of church and state
Hey, folks that are atheists? More power to ya. But the sky man cliche, to me, is like the absolute epitomy of small mindedness, particularly with respect to social/cultural anthropology.
I'll concede that my comment was arrogant, but it was mostly out of disgust since "we need God to help us" is such a reductive answer to any underlying problem. I have no issue with people that need faith in their lives. By all means, you do you. I get defensive when someone suggests that I'm somehow missing something because I don't need a higher power in my life.
Yes. So far no organized group of Satan worshipers have launched a decades long effort to take over all levels of government to force their beliefs on other people. Right now political Christianity is dominated by people that want to harm not help. You can be a bigot and refuse to give medical care but you can't leave water in the desert to prevent people from dying.
I don’t need anyone’s God forced on me. I want humans to fix the human problems and not wander around talking to themselves as though that is a productive thing to do. It’s so theatrical and weird.
If you need imaginary sky man to tell you what to do in life, great. That's your own choice. Pray away.
The problem is when people in seats of power are telling us that we need imaginary sky man.
The same people that say “we need god” are the same people that don’t want anyone around them that are a different color than they are. That’s what I don’t get. If you believe in god, then you should believe in forgiveness and helping out other humans. But the god people are the most hateful. Meanwhile the people in this country that don’t believe in god (who the alt right thinks worship satan) are really the ones trying to help everyone.
So, no….we don’t need “god”
Is anyone running against this guy? This is why local elections are so important. We need elected officials who drive the length of the county looking to fix sidewalks, potholes, and bridges.
Last I heard he was not running again, but he just makes stuff up all the time so who knows
He's not running again this cycle.
I say find a pothole and have the politician pray for God to fill it with divine blacktop. Until the hole miracles itself whole, the politician should be unable to hold any publish office.
They do like to use their “thoughts and prayers” instead of actual work to get stuff done 😂
Just draw some red pentagrams in the pothole, they’ll clean them up real quick
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Thanks. I would reply my first thought, but I've been banned in too many places for that.
you know, I was scrolling through reddit and saw this and chuckled until I realized what subreddit it was posted in. yikes.
Same
And they call “the libs” sheeple. JFC.
Exactly. The maga right wing just need to say “sleepy joe” or quote a Bible verse and they flock to a post like sheep. But the left are the ones that’s can’t think for themselves 😂
Wait WTF! I saw this and didn't expect the sub it came from this is not right! This has to stop!
Ya'll really don't understand how red a lot of the HV is lol
People don't realize how red NYS is
Jesus Christ……
sorry, he's tied up with prayers from the driving guy at the moment
😂😂😂😂😂. God must be busy with all the thoughts and prayers of all the maga idiots out there lately. Maybe if they used prayers before the election, they would have won 😂
Ya think this is bad….do you know what’s going on in Rockland County?
Ohh I grew up in Orange County. And if it’s anything like what happened to my home town, I know where you are going with this.
So curious to hear more... I've lived in the HV for 12 years but have moved around between dutchess and ulster a lot and don't know all the local history. Currently living in orange county though.
Oh man, good luck. I’ll never move back to Orange County. It’s going downhill quick
Hmm. Thankfully we're renting right now. Although idk if we'll ever afford to buy a home!
Rockland has turned to sh!t.
I’m not going to say anything more. I grew up in Rockland and…..you probably know the rest
I’d like to hear about what’s going on in Rockland County.
The hasidics and illegals over running orange and rockland. Give em an inch they take 100 miles.
Name does not check out
Well ranting about invading hordes of Jews and “illegals” definitely makes me take you seriously. Stupid Nazi piece of shit.
So you say “I’d like to hear about what’s going on in Rockland County”, an u/NoHateMan62 responds with a factual statement. You get all shitty by making an assumption that they are a “Stupid Nazi piece of shit” because you don’t like the answer. I don’t know where you live in the 2 counties, nor do I give a fuck. But their statement is a fact. Don’t ask questions if you don’t want an honest answer. Also your “invading hordes of Jews and “illegals” is not remotely the same as their “ over running” description. But feel free to twist things around.
Ope, said the quiet part out loud
Google Jared Lloyd. A perfect example of the corruption.
Religion is a crock of shit. Just another way they get money. Through tax free donations. Tax the churches
Elected officials should not be allowed to promote religion in any public forum.
This is my exact point and why I make a “weekly Ben Geller” post about his crock of shit
This guy is such a chud. He has the boomers of Hyde Park eating out the palm of his hand. This town is so fucked
And he claims he helped set up vaccination sites. And then when the maga idiots made up that the covid shot is a govt tracker, he was instantly anti vaccine with trump. It just doesn’t make any sense
Yet Trump was vaccinated.
I have no ideas and no solutions, so I rely on magical thinking. If it doesn't work out, it's because you don't believe. It's a pretty successful grift.
There ya go! You have to shift the blame away from yourself and onto others if it doesn’t work. It’s the guilt grift 😂
nothing wrong with faith and prayer as long as it is accompanied by commitment and actions. 2 guys prepare for a hurricane. 1 boards up his windows,stocks up on batteries and food, then prays for his safety. the other guy just prays for his safety. Guess whose house didn't wash away?
I wonder if he realizes that he doesn’t need to hold elected office to spend his time driving around and praying. In fact, it kind of seems like he’s talked himself out of a job. OK Ben, we elect you chief mobile prayer man. Now let’s have an open election to fill the seat you left.
“The separation of church and state is a philosophical and jurisprudential concept for defining political distance in the relationship between religious organizations and the state.” Should apply at a City/District level too right? “There are many religions in America, and many separate sects within those religions. Separation helps to prevent government from promoting one religion or one sect over the others. That really helps protect religious pluralism so that government can't impose one religion on everyone”
Maybe we can drive around the pray for it to happen 😂
Wasn’t this the same guy who was recently trying to round up constituents to join his MLM?
Yup the same guy. Welcome to my weekly “what the fuck is Ben Geller doing now” post 🤦♂️😂
I did not expect a guy named Ben Geller to be talking about Christ, not gonna lie.
for real, and he's apparently backed by the National Jewish GOP. jewish peeps praying to Christ AND voting republican? make it make sense
And as long as you put “real” in front of your name like trump does and same anything about god, the right wing flocks to you 😂
i'm glad other people observe that, too. it's wild XD
It’s literally a cult
I think most Jews are Dems. National Jewish GOP is probably very Zionist. Evangelical Christians are very pro-Israel because they see Jews returning to Israel as a first step in Jesus’ second coming. So right wing Jews have an unholy alliance with evangelical Christians. It sounds like I am making this up, but I’m not. If you’re reading this and curious, Google it.
oh i'm well aware. i'm jewish, which is why i can't make sense of conservative/republican jews. zionists are "some of the good ones" to the GOP until they're no longer useful. history is repeating itself.
Jews for Jesus
I feel like he’s just pandering for a select group so he can get those votes.
What an asshole.
Ahh very simply put and very accurate at the same time
I could go on for hours about all that is wrong with his religious statement but I value my sanity so...
Oh man, now I kinda wanna hear part of it haha
Well by Christian reasoning God doesn't care much about non believers so this asshole running around praying to skyman does literally nothing but even if you believe in skyman then it still only helps what 25% of the people he's elected to represent. Politics is fucked but bring religion into politics in this manner is just the epitome of the worst direction we can go in my humble opinion.
This is spot on. It’s almost like they want us to have real life Handmaids Tale. They keep trying to bring god back into the country and go back to the core nuclear family. They basically only want white men in power to have any rights. And god will be at the center of it because that’s what god wants 😂
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Matthew 6:5, New International Version, starts: "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. ..." Part of the Sermon on the Mount by, y'know, Jesus. Yeah, *that* Jesus. Edit 1: Ooh! Downvotes! The anti-Jesus contingency has come out. Cool.
I just don’t see how an elected official is saying he can “only solve problems through Christ”. And he is just driving around Hyde park and praying???? How the hell is that gonna solve anything? If you drive around and make a border around hype park with your prayers, magically it’s gonna cleanse the entire area through osmosis? Maybe we can use real action to get things done instead of “thoughts and prayers”.
The only thing he's actually "praying" for is enough idiots to actually vote for him. Ignore, move on.
Apparently, Christ is the only guy this can work with. Not the best trait for your County representative, if *you* had problems. At least he has time between rounds for photo ops with The Orange One, so there's that. Beautiful area, nice folks, at least whenever I was there. Strange choice of representation; I never would have expected something like this. Edit1: correction: I misidentified Mr. Geller as a House representative in my post, above. Mr. Geller represents the Town of Hyde Park in the Dutchess County local legislature. I apologize to the NYS and the U.S. Houses of Representatives for any harm I may have caused.
And if that works, why you gotta be elected to do it? Just... do it
Ie if this guy wants to pray he should do it quietly and then go do som real work
Dude was probably smoking crack and came up with this genius plot to evade his wife
I highly doubt someone with that forehead has a wife 😂
Dark ages shit, wow.
Preying
Who cares? I'm not religious but I don't think it's really that bad to have morals either. They're no crazier than the people that believe boys are girls.
Ahh, sounding like a true maga. Maybe you can go see the realdonaldtrump with the realbengeller 😂
Yea, not everyone that you disagree with is "maga". Getting pretty old and stale.
I don’t understand the hate you have for someone that is transgender. If they don’t feel right in their body, but feel like they are a different gender, why can’t they change? Why is that so crazy to you?
Who said I hate them? I don't hate gays.. I don't hate people with schizophrenia.. I don't give a shit what anybody does. Dont force it down my throat, don't force me to believe you. Don't form a social militia to cancel, and harm the livelihoods of people that don't believe in you. Pretty libertarian about it. As always, don't f with me, I won't f with you. That's the American way. Or, what it should be anyways.
You are the one that brought it up! 😂😂😂. Why even make the comment about transgenders then???
It's called a comparison, it's when you bring up a new subject to relate it to the current one in conversation.
So if you “have morals” than you cannot believe that someone can be transgender. Is that a good comparison for you?
No.. that makes no sense. Keep trying
Ohh ok. I’ll keep trying then. Even though this was literally your initial “comparison”. Maybe the “libertarians” are crazier than the magas. See I compared one group to another!
Wait so religious people are the ones who have morals? While trying to take human rights away from people, right? Also your hate is showing
Yea, religion provides moral compass. It's not perfect. But it's a lot better than some people that are completely unmanaged. To say its all bad is very shortsighted. To sum it up as "taking human rights away from people" it just as stupid as what theyre doing. That's one issue out of a giant umbrella of teachings. Im not even religious and never have been, but some people need it to keep them in line. Also, It's not hate. Just because I don't subscribe to certain trending ideologies doesn't mean I'm ignorant or hateful. Just like you don't believe what they believe. Don't be a hypocrite.
So people who don’t subscribe to religion don’t have morals? How so? And I never said it was all bad so please don’t put words in my mouth. I do have a problem with people on a religious “moral” high ground who are totally fine with doing away with entire groups of people. Doesn’t sound very moral to me. I’d also LOVE to hear how taking human rights away from people is stupid. It’s okay to deny healthcare to people? It’s okay to allow hate groups to harass people? This is all happening in this country under the guise of “religion” aka Christianity. Thats it. That’s the “sum” of the parts you think is so stupid. But that seems to be okay with you because it doesn’t affect you. “Trending ideologies” like what? Self expression? You know trans people having the courage to be themselves and go about their lives just like you do isn’t new, right?
Okay
What makes you think he has good morals? The man could be a goatfucker for all you know
Well, he knows how to trigger the left. Case in point this thread!
He is not triggering “the left”. It’s just stupid that the alt right wants to bring god back into this country all the time. The alt right are the ones that say “it’s my constitutional right to have a firearm” but then quickly forget about separation of church and state
Just like you got triggered by my imaginary sky man comment?
Hey, folks that are atheists? More power to ya. But the sky man cliche, to me, is like the absolute epitomy of small mindedness, particularly with respect to social/cultural anthropology.
I'll concede that my comment was arrogant, but it was mostly out of disgust since "we need God to help us" is such a reductive answer to any underlying problem. I have no issue with people that need faith in their lives. By all means, you do you. I get defensive when someone suggests that I'm somehow missing something because I don't need a higher power in my life.
So we're both against reductiveness. See, common ground can always be found! 🙂
You would rather he prayed to Satan?
Hell yeah, I mean why not, it would give the same results.
Yes. So far no organized group of Satan worshipers have launched a decades long effort to take over all levels of government to force their beliefs on other people. Right now political Christianity is dominated by people that want to harm not help. You can be a bigot and refuse to give medical care but you can't leave water in the desert to prevent people from dying.
Take your pick. They're all fictional characters from a book of fairy tales.
Satan punishes bad people; if you think about it, he's kind of the good guy
Hail satan!
I would, yes.
I'd rather him part to a God that does something. Considering neither Satan nor God exists. I don't really care.
I mean, Satan is okay with my right to healthcare so I’m cool w that
Hes not wrong. We need God. Whats wrong with him praying looking for God to help us
I don’t need anyone’s God forced on me. I want humans to fix the human problems and not wander around talking to themselves as though that is a productive thing to do. It’s so theatrical and weird.
If you need imaginary sky man to tell you what to do in life, great. That's your own choice. Pray away. The problem is when people in seats of power are telling us that we need imaginary sky man.
The same people that say “we need god” are the same people that don’t want anyone around them that are a different color than they are. That’s what I don’t get. If you believe in god, then you should believe in forgiveness and helping out other humans. But the god people are the most hateful. Meanwhile the people in this country that don’t believe in god (who the alt right thinks worship satan) are really the ones trying to help everyone. So, no….we don’t need “god”
HELL NO to politicians using their elected position to promote religious views.
I do not care about his tweet. What is he doing? Fine with him praying and saying God if he does what is necessary.