TheWiseOldFart

  The title of this article is an old adage or saying, and it’s true in most of the shops in which people search for items they wish to purchase. However, this refers to MAGA Republicans who continue to choose ignorance over facts and reality. They voted for Trump, and now they will be the first to suffer from their mistakes. Trump was the worst president in history between 2017 and 2021, according to presidential historians. Do they believe that he will be better in 2025? No one can be that stupid, unless you are an uninformed American voter who “learns everything they need to know from television.” Regardless of how uninformed most voters are in America, anyone who spends even a small amount of time reading about politics must be aware of some of the many reasons Trump should not be president or hold any office in government at any level. If the electorate refused to choose ignorance over fact, Trump would never have received more than 10 percent of the vote. ...

    Trump endorsed Mike Johnson to remain Speaker of the House. Initially, co-president, Elon Musk agreed, but later changed his mind. Who is in charge of the former MAGA Republican Party, better known as the American Fascist Party? Texas Republican Congressman Chip Roy is uncertain regarding the leadership of the House, and doubts that Johnson has to votes to win. “I remain undecided, as do a number of my colleagues, because we saw so many of the failures last year that we are concerned about that might limit or inhibit our ability to advance the president’s agenda,” Roy said Tuesday on “Varney & Co.” on Fox Business. Republican Thomas Massie: “I respect and support President Trump, but his endorsement of Mike Johnson is going to work out about as well as his endorsement of Speaker Paul Ryan,” Massie wrote. “We’ve seen Johnson partner with the democrats to send money to Ukraine, authorize spying on Americans, and blow the budget.” Musk re...

21 days from today, America will experience another first. An old, obese, mentally unstable, white man who is not a patriotic American, but is a convicted felon, and a confirmed sexual predator, who committed treason and violated the Espionage Act will become our nation’s 47 th  president. I am not a proud American today, and I will be ashamed on January 20, 2025. What I will remember most about this unbelievable situation is how our nation lost its most important branch of government on October 27, 2020, when the last of three politically biased Supreme Court Justices was sworn in. I will remember how another traitor to the Constitution, Moscow Mitch McConnell, broke his own rule and stacked the Court in favor of right-wing extremism. Among this Court’s ethical violations was declaring that a president was above the law and immune from prosecution, regardless of the severity of his or her crimes. America is now a nation without laws for every citizen. The term “two Americas” has a...

How can we prove that the House of Representatives is dysfunctional? The Freedom Caucus is in control. In January of 2015, a small group of right-wing extremists calling themselves the Freedom Caucus took control of the House of Representatives. There are 435 members in the House, and right-wing extremists control the majority and have since January 3, 2022. Although the misnamed Freedom Caucus only has about 42 members, they are so extreme in support of their fascist leader, Donald Trump, cowardly moderate Republicans surrender to the demands of the few in a sad display of misguided loyalty. You know some of their names: Mike Johnson, Jim Jordan, Steve Scalise, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, and until recently, Matt Gaetz. Knowing these woefully unqualified members of the House are part of this fascist-leaning group gives you some insight into the lack of integrity, morals, and true patriotism among these 40+ individuals. With the Freedom Caucus radicals in contro...

If the 2024 election results proved anything it is the undeniable fact that my claim about the vast majority of Americans voting for what they see and choose to believe on television decides who will lead our nation for the next four years. Most Americans are as ignorant as Trump who proudly claimed that “everything I need to know, I learn from television.” It’s called the ‘boob tube’ for a reason. He is without a doubt one of the most poorly educated and ignorant men in the world. “The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.” Noam Chomsky “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” Groucho Marx Over the last nine years Trump and his party have exposed themselves completely. However, it is undoubtedly a fact that either no one was paying attention, or nobody cared. I ask you to think about one fact which proves that no one claiming to be a Republican is qualified to lead our nat...

I believed it was true during the 2016 campaign. I felt vilified when more than 25 psychiatrists wrote a letter questioning Trump’s mental ability to lead our nation early in 2017. I read reports about many of his mumbling, stumbling speeches during the 2024 campaign, and I realized he was now revealing signs that he is suffering from dementia and a condition afflicting many old men, senility. Over the last couple of weeks, Trump confirmed the fact that his mental faculties are in very steep decline. He is threatening to take control of Panama and the Panama Canal, annexing control of Greenland and making it an American possession, and establishing Canada as our 51 st state. I am not making this shit up. This is your 47 th president elect. Christmas Day on Truth Social, Trump offered the following greeting to all. Trump wished merry Christmas to all “including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama canal”. He poked fun at the Canadia...

    I was reading an article in the Daily Kos this morning. It literally mirrored my evaluation of all right-wing politicians over the last nine years. An article by Bill Addis began with the truth. [Everything and all things relating to Trump start with cruelty and stupidity and end in hypocrisy. [In the Trump era, the Republicans have gone out of their way to change their minds because when a Democrat does it, it's an outrage. When it's a Republican, it's business as usual.] If you are a history buff, you know when this all began and these policies were instrumental in the demise of the once Grand Old Party. In 1981, Ronald Reagan refused to allow any Republican politician to have free thought and any opinion other than his own. Loyalty and unity were demanded by the actor turned president. After the Republican Party took its final breaths on January 19, 2017, there has been no dissent within Trump’s American Fascist Party. However, that may change i...

Co-presidents, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are sticking together. However, other members of Trump’s American Fascist Party are revolting, and once again the turmoil is about immigration and xenophobia. The H-1B visa program is important to America’s future. It allows students from foreign nations to attend our colleges and universities and find employment at our major tech companies, including Microsoft and Google. In collusion with right-wing extremists and the fascist manifesto called Project 2025, Trump adopted a severe and unwise stand on immigration. However, in the interests of America’s tech industry, Trump’s co-president, Elon Musk, announced that he supports the H-1B visa program. After his announcement, Trump offered his support for his new friend and ally. However, the most extreme members of his fascist party have been extremely vocal about their opposition and are now in conflict with their party’s leader. Convicted felon and one of the leaders of the most extreme branch of...

I admit to being obsessed. I attempt to follow everything which happens or doesn’t happen in Washington. You may not have noticed, but Elon Musk frequently voices his opinions on multiple issues, and Trump eventually claims that he made the same decision. First, I call bullshit, and second it appears that Musk is the real president and making all of the important decisions. I’m pretty sure Musk doesn’t waste his time chasing a little white ball across the grass and in the sand. Between 2017 and 2021 it was very clear that Vladimir Putin was in charge. Is Musk his protégé? It is more than obvious that Trump’s dementia is advancing, and senility has been an issue for several years. He is too old to be the president of the PTA, nevertheless the leader of more than 340 million people. However, Musk was not on the ballot. What does this mean for America’s future. If our government and the mainstream media were honest, it means that America’s future is in the control of someone who is not an...

One of Trump’s many moronic plans, among Tariffs which will increase prices for consumers, and a national sales tax which will add to the grief of the working class, is a travel ban from several nations into the United States. More than any other industry, this will negatively affect the Tech industry. Microsoft and Google employ students from several nations under the H-1B visa program. It has become difficult to find qualified men and women in our universities who are capable of filling their needs. Much of this problem is the exorbitant cost of higher education in America. Each year American businesses lose some of our greatest minds simply because they cannot afford the cost of higher education. America’s co-president, Elon Musk, has offered his support for the H-1B visa program. However, right-wing extremists with fascist ambitions are demanding an end to the policy. Administrators and faculty from multiple colleges and universities have advised their foreign students to return to...

On November 9, 2016 when the nightmare became a reality, I was very aware that four years of an illegitimate Trump presidency would be very bad. However, I underestimated both his incompetence and his lack of average intelligence. His fake presidency was 100 times worse than I imagined. Trump intentionally divided our nation’s people to a level not seen since the Civil War. He trashed the Constitution on a daily basis as he made it perfectly clear that he would punish all non-whites, the LGBTQ community, anyone who challenged his doomed to fail policies, his belief that women had only one purpose, and displayed his support of a plutocracy, believing that simply being wealthy made you more intelligent and qualified for anything you desired. Then, during the last days of his illegitimate presidency, he committed the most heinous crimes of all. On January 6, 2021, he committed treason as he planned, organized, and executed a failed coup. On January 20, 2021, as he was evicted from the Whi...

  The last two congresses, with control of the House in Republican’s incapable hands, passed the fewest bills into law in modern American history. Right-wing politicians spend most of their time protecting Trump from his many crimes and have no time and no interest in performing the jobs for which they were elected. When they are in the Capitol Building, they spend most of their time contacting current and potential donors for their reelection campaigns. Although they are only required to be in Washington 100 days a year, when they are present their efforts are seldom focused on passing legislation which benefits all Americans. It is fair to claim that the government of the United States of America is the most incompetent and corrupt in the world. Now for your Friday Funny: Congress was actually considering giving themselves a raise. If, in your job, your production nosedived, would you be asking your employer for a raise? The effort to give themselves a rai...

I must be totally honest with you: I did not read the attached article. The title of the story made me think about what is really wrong with America’s leadership, something ignored by the mainstream media, which once again hides the truth from our nation’s people. It made me think about why I am an Independent. The government of the United States is not only dysfunctional, it is the most incompetent and corrupt in the world. Every man and woman who holds a political office, including the Supreme Court, has ignored its primary purpose: to protect and expand the quality of life for all of America’s people. If you sit on the right side of the aisle, the profits of the super-rich and major corporations are priority number one. For the men and women who sit on both sides of the aisle, reelection is their primary goal. Political parties are the problem. There is no logical reason for belonging to a political party. They do not deserve your loyalty or support. The only thing they share is the...

A few headlines and a few stories which prove that Trump has lost what little was left of his little brain. He is so far off the rails of normalcy and common sense, he must not be allowed to take the oath of office on January 20, 2025. “Trump tells 37 people on death row with commuted sentences to ‘go to hell’” This was the headline in the Guardian. Trump obviously takes joy in the suffering and deaths of others. This is not only unpresidential, it is inhuman to display such bloodlust. After a real president commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 men on death row in federal prisons, Trump was livid, and said the following. [He then turned to those shown clemency by Biden in a decision announced on Monday: “ … to the 37 most violent criminals, who killed, raped, and plundered like virtually no one before them, but were just given, incredibly, a pardon by Sleepy Joe Biden. I refuse to wish a Merry Christmas to those lucky ‘souls’ but, instead, will say, GO TO HELL!”] Trump’s ‘Border Czar...

I’m not part of the deceitful mainstream media, so I’m not going to pull my punches: many of those who voted for Trump will suffer the most, and I have no sympathy for them. No one should vote for a candidate who lies and uses television to make fools out of them. An entire industry could face ruin if Trump keeps his promise to conduct mass deportations. His goons will not be concerned about Hispanics who are here legally, they will only care about the origin of the birth. The agricultural industry cannot survive without workers who are willing to literally break their backs caring and harvesting their crops. It is no secret that many of these men and women are not legally in our country. In multiple interviews some of the owners of these farms tell us that they have tried to hire young men and women who were born in America to work for them, but none of them are willing to work that hard for so little money. Add to this Trump’s moronic idea to place large tariffs on imports. Some nati...

i If you’ve listened to one Trump speech, you’ve heard them all. Regardless of how they begin, they will always include fear, anger, hatred, and a suggestion of violence in his name. Unable to accept the slightest criticism, Trump is a vengeful man who is incapable of compassion for his fellow man. He has a mental defect known as “malignant narcissism,” and this prevents him from possessing normal human attributes. After Trump was gifted the presidency by the Electoral College in 2016, with the assistance of Vladimir Putin, James Comey, and the mainstream media, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported an 800 percent increase in hate crime. Between 2017 and 2021, every time Trump opened his pie hole, he offered his supporters the beliefs of men and women involved in the Neo-Nazi movement across America. Unless you were visiting another planet between 2015 and today, you are aware that his idols are Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Putin. Read this definition, and tell me you can find one part...

Republicans are wrong about nearly everything in the 21 st century. The biggest pile of bullshit they try to feed the American people is the lie about Social Security and Medicare: they are not entitlements. There are several definitions of the term, none of which apply to the programs Social Security and Medicare. [The right to receive a benefit or privilege, often granted by law or contract. For example, you have a legal entitlement to speak to a lawyer if you are arrested.] [The feeling that you deserve to receive something, without having to work for it or earn it. For example, "celebrities who have an arrogant sense of entitlement"] [A program that provides benefits to a specific group of people. For example, medical aid for the elderly and poor.] Fact: Social Security was originally entirely funded by the employer and employee through payroll deductions. Medicare was similar, although the percentage of deductions were smaller, and there was no way to anticipate the rid...

The House reneged on its past policies and decided not to hide the ethics investigation into Matt Gaetz actions, claiming “for reasons of national security.” He is far worse than anyone would have believed. His drug use is far more pervasive than we were led to believe. He spent huge amounts of money paying for sex. Not only did he frequently have sex with young, underage women, he transported some across state lines. One more thing which confirms the idiocy of the people of Florida. They elected and reelected the criminal. In January, with their “Don” returning to the White House, the Washington Mafia will be intact. Never, never forget that your “stable genius” president nominated a man without morals and principles for the office of our country’s top law enforcement officer. The big question is the same question real Americans ask about Donald Trump: why are they not in a federal holding cell awaiting trial for their many crimes. I know of cases where law enforcement uses the slimme...

A draft dodger, a bully, a womanizer, a con artist: these are all terms which can accurately be used to describe Donald John Trump. Words which cannot be attached to Trump are caring, compassionate, kind, intelligent, generous, or leader. Like all egomaniacs, Trump enjoys having power over others, but is incapable of accepting even minor criticism from anyone. A little-known fact about Trump’s first illegitimate presidency has been ignored and probably hidden from the American people by the mainstream media, adds to the analysis of the real Donald Trump. After the federal execution of Billie Allen in 2003, not a single death row inmate had been executed by the federal government until 2019-2020. Trump approved of and even hurried the deaths of 13 federal prisoners. After his controversial reelection last November 5 th , he pledged to increase the number of executions after his inauguration. In an obvious response to Trump’s blood lust, President Biden recently commuted the death senten...