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I Wake Up Every Morning Wonder if This is the Day Trump Loses What’s Left of his Little Brain   Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   If you turn off the “boob tube,” once in a while , and read, you are aware that Trump definitely has a problem with clear thought, expressing himself with actual words, and most likely his ability to read anything with complete comprehension.   I was reading an article in the Daily Kos today, written by Cal Dem Syd. She shares my daily interest about Trump’s failing mental acuity. Her premise, and an accurate one based on my observations, is that when the judge in New York decides the amount of money he must pay for decades of fraud related to the inflation and deflation of his properties to protect his wealth, he will lose what is left of his inferior mental abilities.   Last Friday, E. Jean Carroll was awarded 83.3 million dollars after charging Trump with defamation of character. He nearly imploded in front of the cameras. What will be his response if the num

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   When President Dwight D. Eisenhower left office in 1961, he made an address to the American people. The most significant issue from one of the architects who organized and planned the events known as “D-Day,” involved the growth of the “military industrial complex in America. His warning may have been a prophecy about every military conflict in which the United States was involved since WWII: each of which resulted in the surrender of America’s military. The often-repeated phrase, “war is good business” is involved in his admonition. The following are excerpts from President Eisenhower’s final speech to the American people, prior to John F. Kennedy’s inauguration.   “Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime.”      The second: “This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritua

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   The relationship between music superstar, Taylor Swift, and Kansas City Chief star tight end, Travis Kelce, is very upsetting for the fake journalists at FOX “News.” The primary reason is simple: Ms. Swift is more popular and more important than anyone and everyone who is associated with the right-wing propaganda machine.   Some of the paid liars at FOX are incensed and display extreme dislike for Ms. Swift. Why, I don’t understand. These are two people who happen to be celebrities. Everyone should be happy for anyone who finds another person in this world. Jealousy springs to mind, and jealousy is an unfortunate attribute of humans with weak minds.   Speaking of our minds, FOX is a great danger to our nation’s people who have less than average intelligence or simply choose to be ignorant. They have brainwashed this group of people since 1996. In collusion with right-wing politicians, they constantly undermine the credibility of their liberal colleagues whose

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   For as long as I have been a political writer, I have claimed that Ronald Reagan is responsible for two things: our nation’s financial woes and the demise of the Grand Old Party. He not only admitted that his administration supported the super-rich, he bragged about it. He told his party and his wealthy supporters that “greed is good.”   Reagan was also responsible for the demise of the Grand Old Party, completed by Trump in 2017. He demanded complete loyalty and support from every Republican while abandoning the principles and standards of the former Party of Lincoln. He moved his party even farther to the right and extremism with his war on the working class, minorities, women, and non-Christians. Reagan is on my list of the five worst presidents in history. His fiscal policy of “supply side economics,” better known as “ trickle-down economics,” not only reduced the quality of life for most Americans, tax breaks for the super-rich and corporations placed o