TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart For the last 10 years I have written thousands of articles about the greatest failure in American history. Donald John Trump failed himself and his family in his younger years, and an entire country in his old age. At the formative age of 13, his parents were unable to tolerate his behavior. They sent him to a military boarding school. The interesting fact is that it was just a few miles away from his parents’ home. While attending tha military-based prep school, Fordham University, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton College of Business, there are few and in most cases no record of accomplishments or failures. It’s as if he never existed. A part of this is based on the fact that as your illegitimate president, he had all of his academic records sealed. You can guess why. After Wharton, Trump worked in his father’s racist rental property business. When Fred Trump thought it was time for him to venture into the business world on his own, he helped his so...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump are responsible for the demise of the Party of Lincoln. Those who call themselves “Republicans” today are imposters. They have no resemblance to their predecessors. Ten years ago they surrendered their integrity, principles, and morals to Putin’s puppet. They are more appropriately called the “American Nazi Party” in 2025. After years of research, reading and re-reading the history of America’s 249 years, I am positive that Reagan, Bush, and Trump are the three worst presidents in America’s 249-year history. Their actions, demands, and policies forced the demise of the once Grand Old Party. These three old, white men ignored the needs and wishes of the majority of our nation’s people, choosing to serve our country’s wealthiest men and women: billionaires/oligarchs. Reagan, Bush, and Trump share many qualities, none of them positive, progressive, or relevant to making America a great country. All three wannabe dicta...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart America needs a great leader now more than ever. Although John Fitzgerald Kennedy had his weaknesses, his actions as our nation’s 35 th President were nearly perfect. He displayed a willingness to do the right thing as he faced many challenges, never doing what was easy or politically correct. He was the last great president, and was taken from us far too soon on November 22, 1963. You may think that I have lost my mind, but the man closest to becoming great was a man whose ambitions resulted in criminal actions which made people forget his many accomplishments. His name was Richard Millhouse Nixon. America is facing great danger and possibly extinction in 2025. Ours is a nation in both chaos and crisis, and to deny this fact is to choose ignorance over reality. Throughout my life I have been fascinated by the efforts of professional politicians to place every situation in black or white. Their use of antonyms is never ending. George W. Bush created “the Axis o...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in 1935, it was the only perfect bill ever passed by congress. Its funding would not come from the taxpayers. It would be fully funded by contributions from employers and employees. Payments would be based on total contributions until the age of 65. To this day it has never been reported that any individual has lived long enough to receive the total of their contributions. So, it seems that the fund should have a surplus. However, when governments become involved, everyone suffers. After the Social Security Act became law, lawmakers began to embezzle funds which belong solely to the men and women who contributed to the program which was intended to provide retirement funding for all Americans. They added other programs, expecting to pay for them with the contributions of the working class. The correct and honest thing to do would have been the creation of new, separate programs. However, the gov...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart !3 men: only one of them was not an ‘old white man.’ That’s the number of presidents I remember. It would be 14, but I was too young to know what happened in my life when Truman was still in office. I was 10 years old and turned on the television when I came home from 4 th grade and saw lots of people waving signs with slogans “I Like Ike,” and “Four More Years,” among many others. I didn’t know what I was seeing, but I was fascinated. As I listened to one of the men broadcasting the event, I learned it was Dwight D. Eisenhower’s second convention. That day began my interest in politics. It was minimal then, but today, July 7, 2025, I feel it is my obligation to keep those who care about our country’s future informed. The truth is mostly hidden from the people by the mainstream media in collusion with Washington politicians on both sides of the aisle. By the time I was in high school, my interest in how presidents affected our nation’s future had grown. 1960 wa...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Okay, you know me, and if you read most of my rants, you know that I believe without a doubt that Trump is the worst president in history,  for the second time, and no one will ever take that title from him. You may also know that although Richard Nixon made a huge mistake, and deserved to be punished for his crime, I consider him one of the best Republican presidents in modern history. Now I’m going to tell you why. First, I offer you one fact which is irrefutable. Between 2017 and 2021, Trump failed to record a single positive accomplishment. In 2025 he has become more destructive and dictatorial than before. Unlike Nixon, Trump has not been forced to pay for his many, many crimes. That said, let’s compare Mr. Nixon’s accomplishments and how Trump has addressed the same issues today, or if he has simply ignored them. Although Trump expressed his feelings about our military personnel, calling them “suckers and losers,” what a draft dodger would say, he has ...

The Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of our federal government are completely dysfunctional and the situation is irreparable. Our military is useless. It is the largest and most expensive in the world, but hasn’t won a war since WWII. It was unwilling to protect our legislative branch from a violent insurrection, organized, planned, and executed by your illegitimate president. All of these complete failures continue to allow Trump to violate the Constitution every day, and commit the most egregious crimes in American history. In addition to violating the Emoluments Clause, he is holding America’s institutions of higher learning, the Department of Justice, and agencies whose only purpose is to expose government fraud hostage until they comply with his demands. Only in the story of America does a schoolyard bully win against all odds. Our “leaders” are cowards, frauds, and hypocrites. Next Sunday, June 15 th , and although he has no authority to demand their cooperation, Tru...

The annual budget for the Pentagon is nearing one trillion dollars. The first time I wrote this number, I was appalled. $1,000,000,000,000. That is 1,000 billion dollars. No working man could possibly imagine how much money that is. The truth is one-half of their annual budget is wasted, according to a non-profit watchdog organization. A couple examples of our military’s fiscal failures. I researched the F-35 fighter a number of years ago. The project was approved in 1995. Testing was completed in 2021. It was approved for mass production, although I cannot find any information about where or if it is in full production in 2025. [The average flyaway cost of an F-35A (the conventional takeoff and landing variant) is around $82.5 million. The F-35B (vertical takeoff and landing) has an average flyaway cost of $109 million, and the F-35C (carrier-launched) is priced at $102.1 million. These prices are for production lots 15-17, which were delivered in 2023, 2024, and 2025.] The F-35 is th...

      When any politician offers this excuse whenever they don’t want to answer a direct question: I can’t answer that “for reasons of national security,” you know they’re hiding something, and that something is not good. All politicians are professional liars. It begins with their campaigns. They make promises they never intend to keep. They will say anything to get your vote, but when elected forget you exist. Let’s get to the truth. In a Democratic Republic, the people elect men and women to represent their needs and wishes. However, in the 21 st  century we elect rule over us, refusing to serve us. The truth is simple and opposes the intents of our Founding Fathers: politicians consider themselves better and more worthy of living the “American lifestyle” than their constituents. Fascism is alive and well in D.C. It is no longer a secret: America’s federal government is the most corrupt and incompetent in the world. Look at history. R...

  The only way I can accurately describe the three people who are leading our nation backwards today is by using names which are more accurate than Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and J.D. Vance. The Three Stooges made me laugh when I was a child. Their style of “slapstick comedy” was silly, outrageous, and very humorous. In the White House today, we have a new Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe. They are not funny, but they are morons. So, which of the original characters would I attach to the orange buffoon, his co-president, and the worst vice-presidential candidate since Dan Quayle? That question is very fair and the answer is obvious; at least to me. Trump is clearly Larry. He wants to be smart and do smart things, but he is several bricks short of a load. He defers to anyone who praises him; praise which does not deserve. Musk is most definitely Mo. He wants to be in charge, and probably is, but it’s hard to tell. The level of chaos is so ludicrous, it appears that America has no leader. He ...

The undeniable truth is that neither political party exists today. The Party of Franklin Delano Roosevelt is nothing but a memory, and the last Republican president who led the Party of Lincoln was Richard M. Nixon. Yes, Nixon, just check his record. After Ronald Reagan’s victories in 1980 and 1984, cowardly Democrats feared losing elections and began moving away from their liberal principles and more to the right. The party of FDR has never been the same. In that same year, 1980, the election of Ronald Reagan signaled the beginning of the end of the Grand Old Party. Reagan proved that he was a better actor than most people believed. He fooled me and millions of others who were looking for a real leader to take residence in the White House. Reagan informed the entire Republican Party of what his presidency would involve. He was in charge. There would be no opposing opinions or arguments when he declared the party’s position on any issue. In other words, free thought and alternate ideas...

Across America there is a new four-letter word used by tens of millions of Americans. That word is “M-U-S-K.” His fascist efforts to destroy the lives of working-class Americans is undoubtedly the greatest crime in Republican’s war on the majority since Reagan in 1981. Things the super-rich don’t care about: what other people think of them, the fate of anyone other than themselves, if their actions destroy lives, if America succeeds or fails, and if their efforts to become more wealthy harm others. This is a perfect description of Musk and the other 812 billionaires/oligarchs in America, supported by Trump’s American Fascist Party. It's not that Trump and Musk don’t know that the vast majority of Americans are angry and disappointed by their vile actions, they simply don’t care. These are two, old, white men who lack average intelligence. Here are some of today’s headlines on Google. “Trump doesn’t rule out military intervention in Greenland — again” (Inflation takes a backseat to ...

  \ One story of little or no significance proves that Trump is a senile old man who lacks average intelligence. He is vindictive, moronic, and has reverted to being childish. He is exposing the fact that he was a “spoiled rich kid” who enjoyed the highest level possible of white privilege. Musk’s history is similar. He grew up in a form of even greater white privilege, known as “apartheid.” He began his life in South Africa. Now he is running the government of the United States of America, although he has no experience in government at any level. Musk is an engineer whose business empire is falling apart. He is too busy playing the role of an important person. On Saturday, the orange buffoon repealed the security clearances of men and women he considers “enemies.” They include President Biden, and Hillary Clinton. At this point in the story it must be noted that Musk has no security clearance. The action was retaliation for President Biden’s decision to r...

Okay, before you go ballistic about my title, I have a preponderance of evidence which proves that white men are the reason for American never becoming a “great country.” (Trump is simply the worst of the worst). Fact number one: most men my age who are white hold onto prejudices they had when they were much younger. Our generation was about “success,” and success meant making lots and lots of money. We were taught to be “politically correct,” at least in public. Christianity was the only valid religion. Black people possessed a lower level of intelligence than whites. And women were expected to “remain in their place.” One more thing: any type of sexual relationship other than heterosexual was forbidden by the leaders of every Christian religion. They preached their hate messages every time they stood behind a pulpit. Until the age of 16, most of my life was surrounded in an atmosphere of white privilege. In my last year of parochial education, there was a single Black student in the ...

I challenge to you prove me wrong: “the government of the United States is the most dysfunctional and corrupt in the world.” I offer you two reasons which prove my allegation, although there are dozens more which confirm what I have learned over the last 13 years. Let’s take a look at the only perfect law passed by our government in its history: the Social Security Act, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 14, 1935. It was simple and it worked. Every American would have a retirement program. It was funded by employers and employees without additional funds from the national treasury. The amount received was based on the average income over the working life of each individual. I know of no one who received the total of their contributions prior to his or her death. Why do Republicans call it an “entitlement” and seek the end of the program? The more important question is “why is the fund in the red.” Of course, you know the answer. Our incompetent government added other p...

Two weeks from next Monday is the worst and most insulting holiday in America. I bitch about it every year, but thanks to the illegitimate reelection of the Antichrist, and based upon the evil he casts on our nation, I couldn’t wait two more weeks to write another rant. Presidents Day is not only the dumbest idea for a holiday I could ever imagine, it is an insult to the few great presidents who deserve to be honored. When I was a school-age boy, many years ago, we honored two very deserving presidents: Abraham Lincoln on his birthday, February 12, and George Washington on his, February 22 nd . I will not pay homage to Andrew Jackson, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and definitely not the worst in history, Donald Trump. There are many others who should not be remembered for anything other than the harm they did to our country, and the level of incompetence they displayed every day they were in office.. In my lifetime, I was blessed with only one great presid...

  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...

This list I give you does not come from the government, or the mainstream media. It comes from facts based on my 78 years of experience as a citizen of the United States of America. The American people have more enemies than friends. Based on the way Trump mistreated our allies between 2017 and 2021, and what he plans to do to them beginning in January, 2025, we will be hated by some of our closest allies. It will be unsafe for any American citizen to travel outside of our own country. However, we have much more to worry about right here in the “lower 48.” The most frightening enemy to the vast majority of Americans is its own government. After the results of the 2024 election, which I have reason to believe were definitely rigged, again, the quality of life for most will begin to decline. All members of our government will hide the truth for the same old bogus reason: “for reasons of national security.” Why don’t they just call it what it is: incompetence? Over the last nine years, al...