If the Mainstream Media was not Fake News, You’d be Reading this Story or Watching it on Television News

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart

The Fourth Estate no longer exists. After Trump won his second rigged election on November 5, 2024, his 989 oligarchs/billionaires achieved complete control over our nation, and surrendered their souls to their Fuhrer. Every major news outlet, television or print, is owned by one of Trump’s cronies. Therefore, any negative reference to Trump and his Nazi Party is omitted.

Since 1981, facts and the truth have become the enemies of all right-wing politicians. History proves that the men and women who call themselves “conservatives” are in fact radical extremists who accept the basic ideals of fascism. It is also a fact that they are incapable of successfully governing 340 million people.

WHEN IT ALL BEGAN TO FALL APART

1968 was an important year in my life. This was the first general election in which I could vote, having become 21 years old in 1967.

My excitement and joy disappeared in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968 when Robert Kennedy was murdered.

I was confused. I had no idea who would receive my vote. I knew at that moment that I would always be an Independent voter. I was not impressed by any other Democrat, and I did not trust Richard Nixon.

I choose not to reveal my final choice, but I will tell you that it was a decision based on the experience and policies of the man who became my choice to lead our nation for the next four years.

This would be the process I used for the remainder of my life.

EVEN CLOSE VETTING OF A CANDIDATE CAN RESULT IN A BAD CHOICE

I was born in Idaho but lived in Southern California from the age of five until I moved to San Diego in 1977.

In 1966, a mediocre actor, Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Pat Brown and became the Governor of the Golden State.

Although I couldn’t vote for him, I supported Reagan based on his policies and his promise to reform our state’s educational system. He was successful in remaking our state colleges and universities, ending waste and fraud, and ensuring that they would once again be respected and efficient institutions of higher learning.

Sadly, after just a few months in office, the real Ronald Reagan exposed himself. He was a better actor than I thought. He fooled me and millions of others into believing that he would serve all of our nation’s people. Instead, he began the right-wing’s wars on the working class, women, and minorities. His fiscal policy of Trickle-Down Economics placed our nation in debt as the unemployment numbers began to rise. I consider him to be our nation’s third worst president. It was he who began the destruction of our Democratic Republic.

IN 2000 AND 2016 I GOT IT RIGHT

1980 was the last time I have been able to vote for a Republican. In 2000, George W. Bush was nominated. His only “accomplishment was executing more men and women than any other Governor of Texas in history.

Al Gore was experienced and intelligent, and by far the best candidate. What remains most upsetting is how the election ended.

Gore was going to win the popular vote. However, the Electoral College vote would be decided by Florida. Overstepping their rights and power, the Supreme Court stepped in and halted a recount, giving Bush an undeserved victory. When he left office in 2009, he had become the worst president in history.

However, Donald Trump would challenge his title.

In 2016 Trump faced the most qualified candidate in history, Hillary Clinton. With the assistance of his handler, Vladimir Putin, the mainstream media, who gave Trump five-times more coverage than all candidates combined, and FBI Director, James Comey, Trump won the electoral college by three states, and a total of less than 80,000 votes. There is additional evidence that the fact that Mrs. Clinton was a woman contributed to his illegitimate victory.

He won the battle and will be forever known as the worst president in America’s 250-year history.

SINCE 1992 A DEMOCRAT HAS BEEN FORCED TO SAVE OUR NATION FROM ENTERING INTO ANOTHER GREAT DEPRESSION

In 1992, Bill Clinton became our nation’s 42^nd President. He reversed the policies of both Reagan and George H.W. Bush and when he left office in 2001, America’s economy was flourishing.

George W. Bush was sworn in on January 20, 2001. While he and Vice-President Dick Cheney were on vacation our nation suffered the most destructive attack within its shores in history. Although Bush and Cheney were warned that an attack on our country was imminent, they ignored the information offered by our security agencies.

Bush’s failures did not stop there. Like his father and Reagan, he used trickle-down economics as his fiscal policy. When he was finally removed from the White House in 2009, his engagement in two unwinnable wars and a destined to fail economic policy, placed our nation into the Great Recession. America’s national debt had risen to more than 10.6 trillion dollars.

Enter Barack Obama.

ANOTHER RESCUE BY A DEMOCRAT

Obama’s administration was composed of the most experienced and talented individuals in the nation. His policies saved our country from financial ruin.

Although he was forced to increase the national debt to save our nation, when he left office in 2017, America was in full recovery and the economy was in excellent shape.

THE WORST OF THE WORST

In 2017, a new president began a consistent policy of violating the Constitution. Adopting the same failed fiscal policy as his Republican predecessors, and a failure to take timely action in the fight against Covid-19, resulted in a near depression when he was evicted from the White House in 2021. The national debt had reached the unfathomable number of nearly $28 trillion.

ANOTHER DEMOCRAT WEARING A WHITE HAT CAME TO THE RESCUE

Joe Biden was elected in 2020 by a landslide victory. Not only did his fiscal policy save America’s economy, his plan to distribute the Covid-19 vaccine saved countless lives.

In 2025 President Biden left our nation’s White House. America’s economy was booming, and was in the best shape it had been in since 2001.

However, another rigged election allowed a convicted felon, a confirmed sexual predator, a dedicated fascist, a traitor, a man who violated the Espionage Act, and an accused pedophile to reside in our White House. $We already knew his name and his record of failure, Donald John Trump.

You know the rest of the story. In 2025, his actions, including major use of taxpayer money for his own personal pleasure, added another $4,000,000,000,000 to the deficit. America is in serious trouble, and the working class is paying for Trump’s crimes and poor decisions.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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Sources: dailykos.com: Trump Fires Entire National Science Board

theguardian.com: The United States is destroying itself