TheWiseOldFart

Principles, morals, respect, and trust. Every country, every nation’s leaders, and every individual in every country must possess the first two qualities and earn the latter two. Without these qualities, no country, no individual will accomplish anything of value, anything worth remembering. These things I learned from my grandfather and one of my uncles. I consider myself a good and spiritual man because I have worked hard to be the best person I can be. I am far from perfect, but my search for perfection continues at the age of 78. Education is a tool. If it is used properly, it can aid an individual in his or her search to reach higher levels of spirituality and understanding. Therefore, I believe in questioning everything. If you don’t receive answers which make sense, you should probably discard the information. Why am I writing about myself? The truth is that I am not important enough to have anything written about me. However, the most valuable part of my education has come from...

  If the 2024 election taught us anything, it’s that Russia once again interfered in our election, according to the FBI, and most voters must be educated. It was clear that on November 5, 2024, most Americans voted based on emotions and misinformation on the boob tube, not on facts. It is an irrefutable fact the America has the least informed voters in the world. Early in 2024, the FBI reported that Russia was once again heavily involved in controlling the results of our election. We never heard from them again. Was this election rigged as it was in 2016? The mainstream media no longer deserves the title of “the fourth estate.” It has failed to report what has become rampant crime and corruption in Washington in the 21 st  century. I constantly report the events and actions which occur in our nation’s Capital daily. It’s not hard. The Washington Mafia remains in control of our government. This Mafia hides behind titles including Senator, Congressman, Supreme Court Justice, a...

  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. ...

Once again, this is where I tell you how incompetent and corrupt the mainstream media has become. However, for once I am not focused on how all major networks protect Trump and his party. No. This time my displeasure is focused on Democrats. It seems unrealistic that Kamala Harris could have lost to not only the worst candidate in history, but the worst person on the face of the earth. You have probably read or heard this many times: “What happened to the Democratic Party in 2024?” If the media had been truthful beginning in 2009, the American people would have refused to vote for a single Republican since the 2012 election. Democratic presidents have been the best guardians of our nation since Bill Clinton. They have accomplished 100 times more positive achievements than all Republicans combined since Reagan. However, all television media, the Washington Post and other major newspapers, learned a lesson from FOX News: sensationalism increases viewership, and increased viewership relat...

I’m sure there will be a large crowd in Times Square on December 31 st . However, I don’t know what they will be celebrating. Prior to the November 5 th election, 2024 was filled with hope and a promise to prevent the end of democracy, and the establishment of a fascist regime. However, on the morning of November 6 th , all hope was lost as the questionable results of the 2024 election were splashed across the boob tube. Throughout my 78 years, the coming of a new year was celebrated, hoping that it would be better than the one we were leaving behind. However, 2025 promises changes which will destroy the very core of the nation, the dream of our founding fathers. The Republican Party’s fascist manifesto, Project 2025, will become the playbook for the Trump administration, as he obeys the demands of his puppeteer, Vladimir Putin. We have only ourselves to blame. Anyone who knows the real Donald Trump would have voted against him and for the policies of Kamala Harris. She should have wo...

I do not work for the mainstream media, and therefore I am not required to hide the truth or bow to our corrupt and incompetent government. I can ask the questions and report the truth they cannot or will not. So, here goes. Not one of Trump’s selections for his administration is qualified for anything, definitely not leading some of our nation’s most critical and necessary organizations. However, of all the morons on his naughty or nice list, the greatest fool of them all is now apparently living at Mar-a-Lago. Elon Musk if a billionaire, in fact he is statistically the richest man in the world. Most of the world’s leader believe that Putin is the richest man in the world. However, great wealth has no relationship to great intellect, or even common sense. Like Trump, Musk knows nothing about anything. He is undoubtedly a great engineer, but that’s where his expertise begins and ends. He has no place, no right to be involved in our nation’s government. He has no experience, no associat...

After looking for answers to my questions for more than a month, I hereby claim that there are a sufficient number of questions unanswered to convince me that the 2024 election was rigged in favor of Trump and the “attempted assassination” was staged. First, a question no one in the mainstream media, or the Secret Service has answered: “where’s the bullet?” The scenario was sketchy at best. A young gunman, who had trained himself to use a high velocity rifle, moved into a position which allowed him to attempt the assassination of Donald Trump. This never should have happened. Members attending the rally pointed to the gunman long before he took his first shot. One of his supporters was shot and died at the scene, and two were seriously injured. However, the biggest target, and the most clearly visible, was not seriously injured. In fact, the bullet barely nicked his right ear. In fact, the alleged injury was so minor, it was incapable of altering the trajectory of the lethal projectile...

The media won’t say it. Democrats are cowards and won’t say it. Trump is not a man, he is a puppet: specifically Putin’s puppet, and has been since 1987. In 1987 the KGB invited Donald Trump and his wife, Ivana, to visit Moscow. They accepted, and spent several days in the Russian capital. In the late 1980’s Putin was a high-ranking officer in the spy organization. The next record we have is in 2013. Trump was a part-owner of the Miss Universe Pageant. He took the pageant to Moscow. A former MI-6 agent, Christopher Steele, investigated the three days and wrote a dossier describing Trump’s actions. He claims that Trump and Putin met at least once to plan the 2016 election. He also wrote about Trump’s encounter with two prostitutes which involved urination. We know that while he was pretending to be your president, he communicated with Putin frequently. Some of those conversations may have been through a secret channel created in the Seychelles Islands by Erik Prince, the bother of forme...

The FBI informed American voters that Russia was once again attempting to interfere in our elections about a year before the election. Since that occasion, I have not read a single article from any member of our government or the mainstream media informing the American people about the extent of their efforts or the how those efforts were used. They know. Why don’t we? One article I did read not long after the debacle on November 5 th stated that a well-respected tech company believes that Russian hackers, who may have been partially funded by Elon Musk, were heavily involved in the seven swing states. What is the truth? I know one thing and one thing only. If our election was rigged, our government will never admit the fact that they are too incompetent to do anything about it. They will accept a fascist as our nation’s illegitimate leader for the second time. Trump will never be my president, and his country will never be mine. Op-ed by James Turnage Please follow my blog   ...

I saw the signs, but ignored them. I wanted to believe that the American people were beginning to move forward and join all developed nations, moving bravely into the 21 st century. I have been wrong before, but this one is both painful and frightening. Statistics are not something I trust, most of the time. The mainstream media is no longer interested in facts, their goal is to increase advertising revenue. However, some facts, produced from statistical analysis after the election, are undeniable. The results of the 2024 presidential election proved that there are more of them than us. The number of people who share Trump’s beliefs in racism, misogyny, anger, hatred, violence, and revenge, or in a single word, “fascism,” is greater than the number of people who believe in the principles of what it once meant to be an American. What does this mean? It’s simple and extremely sad: my America, the country I loved and respected throughout most of 78 years, ceased to exist nine years ago. ...

I continue to find it difficult to believe that Trump’s victory was legitimate. Several of the results and the reasons Trump was crushed in 2020 require answers to big questions. Add to this Trump’s relationship with Elon Musk, whose wealth offers him the ability hack into voting machines and other electronics and the big question becomes: “Was the 2024 election rigged for Trump as was the 2016 debacle?” Between Putin’s efforts and Musk’s wealth, it would have been easy for the best hackers in the world to rig the election. Let’s begin with some results in 2020 and the reported results in 2024. The Popular vote. In 2020 there was an historic voter turnout. When the final votes were counted, Trump lost the popular vote by more than seven million ballots. The official results in 2024 pointed to a Trump victory in the Popular vote. How could millions of voters have changed their minds about Trump during the last four years, considering his criminal convictions, treason on January 6, and h...

Since the recent election I listened to numerous “experts” blame Democrats for their huge losses. I am not a huge fan of either party. However, this is some of the most moronic bullshit I have ever heard. If voters did their job and vetted the candidates honestly instead of listening to the lies on the boob tube, they would learn that Democrats have accomplished many things for the majority. Republicans bow to billionaires. If voters were informed instead of brainwashed, they would realize that the mainstream media hides the truth about the political parties. Millionaires support Trump, and the media is therefore biased in his favor. I continue to have suspicions that this election, like the 2016 debacle, was rigged by Vladimir Putin Op-ed by James Turnage  

It may surprise some of you, but votes in the 2024 election are still being counted. This is not unusual. On Monday it was reported that Trump’s popular vote has dropped below 50 percent. Think about it. I said it in November of 2016, and I repeat my statement today: Trump will never be my president because he is not an American. In his own words he opposes every virtue which makes America a respected nation and its people the envy of most countries in the world. I have learned many things in my 78 years. First, everything changes. If the changes are progressive, everyone benefits. If they are regressive, most people suffer. America has not moved bravely into the 21 st century. Millions of our nation’s people continue to harbor racism, bigotry, and misogyny. If you believe in the principles included in “the American way of life,” your thoughts and beliefs are also progressive, or as today’s fake Republicans call us, “damn liberals.” In the world of developed nations, America is 15 th ...

Rules are broken. The Constitution is a list of rules, promises, and guarantees. However, Trump violated the Constitution every day between 2017 and 2021 and congress nor the Supreme Court did anything to punish our nation’s biggest traitor. Recently exposed is Trump’s plan to employ Hitler’s use of Germany’s military to destroy the lives of an entire race of people he despises. Hitler waged a personal war against the Jewish people. Trump will use our nation’s military to complete his promise of Hispanic mass deportation and possible genocide almost immediately after January 20 th . They voted in large numbers for the orange buffoon and will now suffer for their stupidity. I have labeled Trump a fascist for more than a decade, and he continues to prove my allegations. It is now an undeniable fact the fascism arrived in the White House on January 20, 2017. It was in the form of an obese, old, white man who loved to hug the flag, sold bibles to enhance his personal wealth, and continues ...

I wonder how the citizens of Germany reacted to Nazis marching in the streets in 1933. I can tell you that they not only got used to it, by 1935 they cheered. This could very well happen in America with Trump as your illegitimate president. On Saturday afternoon, a group of men dressing black, armed with deadly weapons, and carrying flags displaying swastikas marched through the streets of Columbus Ohio. This is just the beginning. January 6, 2021, the 2024 campaign, and the results of the election offer irrefutable facts that Trump is the leader of the Neo-Nazi movement in America. Trump’s 922-page Project 2025 is a Nazi Manifesto given rebirth by Trump and about 100 loyalists from his previous failed four years between 2017 and 2021. Trump promised his people that the 2024 election would be the last in which they would be required to or allowed to vote again in a free and fair election. A vote for Trump was a clear vote in support of burning the Constitution and replacing democracy w...

Our 16 th President was a “seer.” In 1838 he predicted America in the 21 st century. [In a January 1838 speech to a group in Springfield, Illinois, Lincoln stated: "At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."] On November 5 th , the American people made their choice, and the choice is clear: the majority prefer an end to democracy and the establishment of fascism in America. I doubt that 75 percent of the men and women who voted for Trump were aware of the truth, and were unaware of Trump’s plans for the destruction of our nation. America has the least informed citizens in the world. The truth is, none of this matters now. America’s people have surrendered their freedoms to Putin’s Puppet. The media and the most corrupt poli...

Let me try to understand this. In 2020, Joe Biden crushed Trump in the popular vote by seven million ballots. That would mean that for Trump to win the popular vote in 2024, about four million voters would have had to abandon Kamala Harris to vote for the worst possible candidate in history. I couldn’t believe this no matter how may illegal drugs I was given. The 2020 election proved that real Americans hated the worst president in history. Any Democrat could have defeated him. We know that Harris had a small lead in at least 3 and maybe four of the swing states in 2024. Somehow Trump won all seven swing states? What is our government hiding from us. Once again, I claim that Trump is an illegitimate president. The FBI reported that Russia was once again interfering in our election early in 2024. However, it never revealed the details. More importantly, why would any real American vote for any candidate supported by our nation’s biggest enemy, the President of Russia? If I sound suspici...

  Thousands of individuals in my part of Northern Nevada checked to see if their votes were counted at the registrar’s office. Many of them were not. Did this happen in other “swing states?” What about the bogus bomb threats? How long were the voting machines unattended? I am not a conspiracy theorist, but something is definitely suspicious about the outcome of the November 5 th election. The final poll showed Kamala Harris ahead nationally by three points. That is a very large number on voting day. Ms. Harris had momentum. Her rallies were twice as large as Trump’s in every swing state. The only Republican president to win the popular vote prior to last Tuesday since 1992 was “W” in 2004. He barely defeated John Kerry in his re-election effort. Trump lost the popular vote by more than three million in 2016, and eight million in 2020. Is our government hiding something from us, again? Common sense tells me that there is no way Trump legitimately won all seven swing states. The odd...

  Okay, when Trump announced his choice of Little Marco Rubio to be his Secretary of State, I chuckled. Rubio is known as “the laziest senator in Washington.” He was expected not run for reelection in 2016. However, Moscow Mitch McConnel was desperate to retain Republican numbers in the senate and convinced him to remain on the ballot. When I read that Trump planned to nominate Rubio for Secretary of State, I assumed the orange buffoon had found a sense of humor, so I laughed a little. These two hate each other, and have since the 2016 campaign. As Trump began to announce other choices for his White House staff, I thought he was planning a modern version of the 1933 Marx Brothers movie, “Duck Soup.” I laughed even harder when I heard that Elise Stefanik would be his choice for U.N. Ambassador. When I read that a Fox personality was his choice for Secretary of Defense, I laughed so hard tears began to fall. Pete Hegseth has no experience in government and his views are harsh, ...

All hope is lost. If you don’t believe me, here are just a few headlines from 11/13/24. “Women are stockpiling birth control as second Trump term looms” “Trump reportedly creating 'warrior board' to purge 'woke' generals” (They’re all suckers and losers according to the orange buffoon) “The Recap: ‘Liddle Marco’ to run US diplomacy, dog killer to run the border” “How Trump’s pledge to scrap the Department of Education could impact America's children” “Trump picks Mike Huckabee, pro-Israel conservative, as ambassador” “Republicans win the House, NBC News projects, as Trump's party takes full control of Washington” These are just a few from Google’s front page and the Daily Kos. There are thousands more in publications across the nation. Fact: Ignorant voters chose a fascist: a vindictive man who preaches anger, hatred, and violence constantly. Between 2017 and 2021, Trump changed America by moving our nation backwards. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Earlier this yea...