TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I can personally attest to the fact that getting old is not easy. I became an octogenarian just three weeks after your illegitimate president.   Until my 77 th birthday, I was physically able to do most of the things I enjoyed and those I needed to do to maintain our home. Sometime in my 77 th year of life, I began to find walking difficult. One month after my 78 th birthday, I fell. This was not new, but this time I was taken to a hospital. The worst three-and-one-half days in my adult life ended with my being sent home and told that I was cured. Reality set in a few weeks later. I was no better than before I went to the hotel of horrors. But that’s another story for another time. I am forced to use a walker or wheelchair all of the time. I cannot stand, or walk without assistance, and the doctors never told me why. Fortunately, my mental abilities remain intact. AM I QUALIFIED TO BE AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT? Growing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s in America w...

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...