TheWiseOldFart

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Like your illegitimate president, I will be 80 years old this year if I live for another six months. Unlike Trump, I have grown. I learned from both my accomplishments and my mistakes. I recognized how the little changes in my life made a big difference and why I am the man I am today. My life has been filled with good times and bad. I did my best, but that was not always good enough. I never gave up, and as I enter the last chapter of my life on earth, I am satisfied that I did the best I could. I learned that no one is perfect. Trump and I may be the same age, chronologically, but he and I are extremely different, and only one of us has accomplished anything of value in his life. Trump clearly made a choice in his early teens that he would pursue a life of pleasure, rejecting a path which might have accomplished something of importance; something of value. Simply put, he refused to reach maturity. This is sad because he was born into extreme white ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart America’s economy grows when consumers purchase goods and services produced by corporations. For more than 200 years capitalism fueled our nation’s growth. In 2025 capitalism expanded into a plutocracy/oligarchy. America is no longer in control of the government, it is ruled by 902 of the richest men and women in the world. However, both capitalism and a plutocracy rely on discretionary spending. [Discretionary spending refers to non-essential costs for wants rather than needs, like dining out, entertainment, hobbies, vacations, or luxury goods, which can be adjusted or cut from a budget. It contrasts with mandatory spending (rent, groceries, utilities, insurance) and represents flexible funds for personal enjoyment, lifestyle enhancements, or strategic investments, distinct from basic survival costs.] Rich people are not usually intelligent. Their success is the result of a single talent, a single ability, which expanded into greater wealth than any one person ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Sadly, this is a true story, and there is no end. My beautiful and incredible bride of more than 30 years always does the right thing. She obeys all the rules, even when they make no sense. On December 26, we will celebrate her birthday. This year she is required to renew her driver’s license. This has become a very important issue. I am disabled and cannot drive. She is the only person who can do our grocery shopping. Because she is a “certain age,” the Nevada DMV requires an eye test and a physical exam. It is also necessary that she appear in person; it cannot be accomplished online. Getting the appointments and completing the examinations took more than two weeks. When they were completed, she went online to make an appointment at the only DMV in the Reno/Sparks area. There were none available until January 29, 2026. She called the office to ask about alternative procedures. They informed her that they do not allow “walk-ins.” She was shocked. Two more phone...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart You do not need to read the news to know what Trump’s reaction will be to the November 4, 2025 elections. No old man in the world is more predictable than Donald John Trump. His own words: “I have never done anything wrong,” speaks volumes. “A man who refuses to learn from his own mistakes is a fool.” No elementary school teacher, high school teacher, or college professor is a better teacher than the past, including our own actions and words we may regret. World War II was a joint effort by nations who believed in democracy and basic human rights and freedoms to defeat the ambitions of a tyrannical and vicious madman seeking world domination. In 2025, the old, obese, mentally deranged man defiling our White House is closely following his own fascist manifesto, Project 2025. Trump has physically destroyed a huge part of the home he has been privileged to occupy until January 20, 2029. A very old man who lives in the past, who has no “taste” and no respect for our...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart It’s easier to list the traits which do not apply to your illegitimate president based on a life filled with failures than positive qualities. However, I can find adjectives and nouns which expose the real con man who has fully revealed himself over the last 10 years. He was born into a very wealthy family deeply embedded in white privilege. He was never required to perform anything which might be defined as “work” throughout his pitiful and useless life. Listening to and reading his rambling, incoherent, and often illiterate speeches offer irrefutable proof that although he has a diploma from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business College, he attended very few classes, if any. Because of his mental diseases, malignant narcissism, and escalating dementia, his mind is a virtual “wet rag.” His thought process is uncertain, ranging from rage and a desire for revenge against anyone he perceives to be an enemy, and his need for adulation and relevance. At ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump’s supporters are suffering from Trump’s many failed and destructive policies. Most remain loyal members of his cult. These are “Trump’s people,” and the only men and women in America who do not reject his attempts to replace democracy with fascism. I doubt most Americans are aware that today the United States is a plutocracy/oligarchy. Trump and his 902 billionaires/oligarchs control everything in America today, without exception. Fact: a plutocracy cannot be sustained in a democratic society. Only a fascist regime can maintain the status quo. This is why Trump fears and even hates well-educated and informed Americans. The truth is his greatest enemy, and only those who choose ignorance over fact could possibly support Trump after all the damage he has done to their futures. We cannot forget the facts. In 2020, Trump was solely responsible for the massive number of American lives lost related to Covid-19. His ignorance and apathy could have prevented the l...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The Mainstream Media failed again. Several statements from representatives and leaders of the 189 countries represented at the United Nations, told reporters from many nations that they found Trump’s disjointed speech at the United Nations hilarious, totally unrelated to the purpose of the event, and an embarrassment for the American people. Not a single reputable American news agency reported this fact. Why do they support Trump and not the American people? I can only put his rambling and incoherent speech in the context it deserves. Trump attacked every other nation in the world and bragged about accomplishments he never had. Period. Once again, he displayed his lifelong mental impairment, malignant narcissism. In a previous article I offered my readers some of the “lowlights” of Trump’s speech. I have written thousands of articles about Trump’s failures since 2015, but none revealed the fact that he is too old and lacks the mental acuity to lead our nation mo...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump is not concerned with the welfare of most of our nation’s people. His focus is solely on seven percent of all Americans: billionaires and multi-billionaires. Multiple promises were made to the working-class in 2024. But, as it was in 2016, they were all lies. Greedflation continues to grow here in Nevada and across the United States. The invasion of Ukraine continues to escalate, and taxes have been raised on working Americans, and lowered for the super-rich. Unless an Act of God happens in the next three days, our federal government will shut down on Wednesday. America is the only nation which passes an annual budget, and later requires an agreement on the “debt ceiling,” and how those funds are allocated. In 2025 our government is undoubtedly the most corrupt and incompetent in the world. A couple of days ago, a meeting between your illegitimate president and leaders of the Democratic Party was scheduled to discuss a possible prevention of that shutdown....

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart It is always fair to ask any professional politician one question: “what have you done for me lately?” They make promises during their campaigns they never intend to keep, and must suffer the consequences of those lies. No one has accomplished less than Donald John Trump, and no one has made more promises he never intended to keep. In 2020, Trump and Moscow Mitch McConnell broke rules they made in opposition to the intent of the Constitution, and completed stacking the Supreme Court with a  ‘super majority,’ six supporting the right-wing’s extremist policies and three performing their jobs as required by the Constitution; all women from ethnic backgrounds not considered “pure white,” in other words, “real Americans.” Trump sought reelection for two reasons, neither of which involves caring for 340 million people. First, he was desperate to remain a free, old man. His many crimes, including treason and violating the Espionage Act, were under scrutiny and faci...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart DOGE was another stupid idea which became a reality because an idiot is allowed to violate our nation’s White House. Trump claimed its purpose was to reduce the deficit by trillions of dollars. However, this idea failed. What actually happened made the United States a more dangerous place to live. Men and women who performed jobs necessary to ensure safety and security in America were reduced and dissolved. Domestic terrorism, the result of Trump and his fascist party’s failure to lessen gun violence in America, has been the greatest danger to the American people for a decade. Trump sanctioned DOGE’s firing of healthcare officials, research scientists, men and women who protected our people from government corruption, and those who kept our commercial airlines safe. I worked for a commercial airline for 10 years at LAX. Much of my days were spent in operations. My function was to ensure that every aircraft was supplied with the fuel it required, and the cargo an...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump is a very dumb man. If you don’t like my blunt words, stop reading now. By his own words and actions it is obvious that he did not earn his degree from Wharton. I have no doubt that Daddy Fred bought his diploma in the same manner he purchased deferments which prevented Trump from doing his duty and serving in Vietnam. This is why he had all of his academic records sealed in January of 2017. 99 percent of the world’s economists agree that placing outrageous tariffs on imports is moronic. However, there are two things everyone should learn about the old man defiling our White House. Trump has no idea how to administrate America’s economy. He is a serial failure in the business world, and a seven trillion-dollar budget is far beyond his comprehension. The second reason is based on his only tactic in the business world. Trump is a schoolyard bully. Tariffs are a tactic only a bully would use, not a man educated in an Ivy League business college. Trump’s tarif...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The story of an “Antichrist” is found in the Old Testament in John 1, 2, and 4. However, John states that the Antichrist is not singular, but includes many who deny the teachings of Jesus Christ and seek to take his place on earth. I am convinced by his words and actions that Trump is indeed the Antichrist of the 21 st century. He opposes everything taught by Jesus Christ in the New Testament. [Love: Jesus' teachings place love at the very center, urging followers to love God and love their neighbors as themselves. This love extends to enemies, demonstrating a radical approach to compassion and forgiveness.] Trump preaches anger, hatred, violence in his name, and revenge. He has spent his first five months in office seeking revenge against anyone he perceives as his enemy. This need to spite those who disagree with his fascist policies is the direct result of his lifelong disease, Malignant Narcissism. Malignant Narcissism: “Malignant narcissism is a form o...

If I had an iota of respect for Trump, I would never use such an expletive. However, his choice to violate the Constitution, to ignore the law completely, is pissing me off in ways I never imagined in my most frightening nightmares. What is happening in Los Angeles is Trump taking a huge shit on the Law of the Land. It is a crime to use our nation’s military to wage battle against its own people. Trump ordered National Guard troops to quash the protests against his racist immigration polity in the City of Angels. That did not solve the problem. He is now ordering about 700 United States Marines to do whatever is necessary to halt American citizens from exercising their First Amendment rights. When will this shit end? If our military “leaders” continue to bow to the Nazi in the White House, how can America be saved? When Rodney King was beaten so badly that he was near death in 1991, the four police officers involved were tried in 1992 and acquitted by a racist jury. President George H....

Your illegitimate Dictator-in-Chief is one of the dumbest humans on the planet. A cursory examination of his actions and words confirm that Donald Trump is a poorly educated old man with a very low level of intelligence. His failures at everything, beginning with an almost immediate loss of the 421 million dollars his father gave him to start his own real estate empire, and culminating with his justifiable reputation as the worst president in history, prove that the man pretending to be your president today is a con man and a complete fraud. Only a blithering idiot would suggest shining a bright light into your ass, or drinking bleach to kill Covid-19, and only a moron would deny scientific fact, including the disastrous effects of escalating climate change. Trump’s first 85 days in office have been focused on the destruction of the accomplishments of his predecessors. Only fools destroy the good and celebrate the bad. His childish efforts to take revenge on his adversaries are the act...

“Stupid is as stupid does.” Not only is Trump incapable of solving our nation’s most serious problems, he doesn’t care. He does not represent you or me, he works for his oligarchs. Voters claim that their reason for giving their precious vote to Trump was based on his promise to end inflation on day one. He lied, again, when he told the American people that he cared about them. Prices are increasing once again, as Trump lies, claiming that they are lower than they were on election day. The only necessity which declined in price and availability is the price of eggs, but that was inevitable. Trump is so stupid, he thinks that I am stupid. I have watched his failures for more than a decade. He shares one thing with the second worst president in history, George W. Bush. Both of these men who grew up in an atmosphere of extreme white privilege, failed at everything they attempted, including their illegitimate presidencies. Trump will lie, claiming that he is a “great businessman.” However,...

If you saw a recording of Trump’s explanation for placing a 90 day pause on his moronic tariffs, I hope you had as great a laugh as I did. First, he was definitely lying. However, his explanation, although it was a lie, was so convoluted and moronic, I was forced to reevaluate my opinion about his intellect. It is clear that your illegitimate president, Dumbass Trump, is dumber than a bag of rocks. Or maybe not. The stock market crash was followed by a record surge when on Wednesday Trump announced a 90-day delay in the implementation of his tariffs, with the exception of China. Anyone who purchased stocks at their lowest point made billions when Trump placed a moratorium on his tariffs. Is this fraud? Is this stock price manipulation. Trump and his oligarchs must be fully investigated, but will it happen? America has become a nation without laws for the rich and powerful. Was the tariff situation a ‘smokescreen,’ and if so, will an obvious act of insider trading be ignored by the most...

The deed is defined by a single word, tariffs. Although your poorly educated and illegitimate president was warned about the danger and the futility of levying tariffs on other nations, allies and enemies alike, the arrogant old man levied tariffs on 185 nations last Wednesday. At least one of these nations has zero population, but he and his morons were unaware of those facts. It must be noted that although 185 nations were involved, Russia and Saudi Arabia are not included. Trump owes his entire existence to the leaders of these two countries. Russian oligarchs and the Saudi Royal family literally bailed him out of possible bankruptcies multiple times. They own him. Last Saturday hundreds of thousands of American citizens protested Trump, Musk, and the entire “Republican Party’s” failures. Handmade signs offered demands from “Hands Off,” to “Impeach Trump.” Although Trump has been the most hated man in the world for at least 10 years. The level of disgust previously levied against hi...

Claiming that wisdom comes with age is only partially accurate. We tend to long for some of our past. Physical pain and limitations are frustrating. However life teaches us how to handle these difficulties. For some unfortunate men and women aging includes mental challenges: these are far more difficult to endure. Life is an experience and the greatest teacher of all. One of the most valuable lessons I wish I had learned 50 years ago involves physical possessions. If I had to guess how much of the money I earned was wasted, I’m pretty sure the number would be at least 50 percent. Not being a wealthy man, my biggest expenditures were automobiles: they were much cheaper in the 1970’s. I always found money in my budget for a car payment. Although we didn’t have cellphones and the desire to have the latest version each year, we did have our vices. While 60 percent of all Americans struggle paycheck to paycheck in the 21 st century, the other 40 percent waste money we need to survive. Unti...

One of the prime directives of the Republican Party’s fascist manifesto, Project 2025, was to dismantle the Department of Education. No intelligent or well-educated man or woman who loves his or her country would ever support Trump, Musk, or his Nazi-loving supporters. Trump’s own failings are the reason he hates educated and informed people. Above all he fears the truth and men and women who are far more intelligent than he. I can swear on your bible that Trump is the author of what is a modern adaptation of Mein Kampf. Every idea in the vile and destructive document originated from a promise Trump made during one of his hate rallies. Project 2025 is a 922-page document with step-by-step instructions which if followed closely, will end democracy forever, and establish a fascist regime ruled by one Donald John Trump. Remember this: immediately after his pitiful and illegitimate inauguration on January 20, 2017, the malignant narcissist had all records related to his education sealed. I...

Trump has been making promises he never intended to keep since 2015. I write a lot about his complete failure to keep his promise to end inflation on day one. He has ignored the situation for nearly three months. Another of his biggest promises in 2024 involved “ending surprise medical bills.” His co-president, oligarch Elon Musk, just fired most of the men and women whose purpose was to protect patients from being “ripped off” with unnecessary treatment costs from medical professionals. By my count, this is his 522 nd broken promise over the last 10 years. Trump lacks the knowledge and will to accomplish anything for all 340 American people. Everything he does is focused on increasing his personal wealth and power. He is without a doubt Putin’s Puppet: he owes the Russian president his very existence and has been indebted to him since 1987. Trump is not my president and never has been. He is totally incompetent, but his unwillingness to do the right thing for all of America’s people ...