TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart At the end of the Constitutional Convention in 1789, our Founding Fathers were aware that their creation was imperfect. Unaware of the inherent evils of mankind, they mistakenly believed that their successors would make the necessary improvements which would make the United States a truly great nation. However, they also displayed great wisdom. The First Amendment is considered the most important declaration of human rights in history by Constitutional scholars. Allow me to refresh your memory. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The first line was clearly the most important to every man attending the convention. Most of the men who signed the Constitution were Deists. A few were Christians. All of them were spiritual. What the...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Anything Trump or one of his cronies, past, or present, tells the press is a lie. The break-up between Trump and his political concubine, Marjory Taylor Greene is hilarious. However, nothing either of them says has even a morsel of the truth. The following statements from Greene are very funny if you know the facts behind the lies. “I hate my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them,” Trump said. Greene said: “That was absolutely the worst statement. It just shows where his heart is. And that’s the difference, with her having a sincere Christian faith, and proves that he does not have any faith.” It gets even better, but I love the remark about Christianity. Not a single right-wing politician is a true Christian. All of them reject the teachings of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. “As a Christian, I don’t believe in doing that,” she said. “I agree with Erika Kirk, who did the hardest thing possible and said it out loud.” Greene said she later told a friend...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart osed of professional liars; they are also hypocrites. One incident when President Biden fell asleep was broadcast dozens of times on their right-wing propaganda machine. The ir own comments would have embarrassed them if they had any pride or any respect fo r th emsleves .   Beginning with pictures from Trump’s felony trial in New York , Trump has been taped as he fell sound asleep m ultiple times . The most recent occasion was during a cabinet meeting while his minions were offering unwarranted praise for their Fuhre r.   Because it was Trump, Fox made a falla cious claim that he had been working all night. I have no idea whether or not it was the same night, but on one occasion he sent m or e than 750 messages to his followers on Truth Social over a period of five hours.   Trump is too old and feeble to be the President of the United States. His mental faculties are clearly in steep decline. For the record, Trump’s schedule in the Ova...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart You’ve heard the story: Trump recently pardoned the former President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was convicted of trafficking 400 million pounds of cocaine by a jury in a federal court. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison. The question is, why? Trump has no answer. However, one possibility has been recently revealed. During his trial, Hernandez hired a Republican lobby. The amount of money exchanged was undisclosed, however, it was referred to as “significant.” When corruption in politics is the subject, the rule of thumb is “follow the money.” Did Trump promise members of his party to take action on Hernandez’ situation? Was this payback for illegal actions taken on his behalf by one or more of his oligarchs? What I know for certain, is: “somethings rotten in Denmark, and it ain’t the cheese.” To this day, Trump’s only response was: The US president said Hernández had been "treated very harshly and unfairly" in a social media post anno...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I have not been this disappointed in the mainstream media since the story of a rich, 18-year-old white girl, who was allowed to go on a graduation trip to Aruba in 2005, went missing. Fox “Fake” News covered the non-story every day for over one year. I feel for Natalee Holloway’s family, but at the same time, several low income or poor young black girls went missing every week and their story was never on television news. Fox continues to display its apathy about non-whites in America. The latest idiotic action by the fake, right-wing extremist broadcasts is about a man who hated America, was unknown by most, and lived by spreading hatred, who was shot and killed in Utah. His name is now a household word: Charlie Kirk. Once again the mainstream media follows Fox’ example. Trump’s fascist minions are attempting to use Kirk’s death to divert  attention to the fact that your illegitimate president is very likely a pedophile. They are also attempting to misdirec...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart First, it is a fact that former FBI Director, Christopher Wray, stated that Domestic Terrorism is the greatest threat to the American people. However, one of Trump’s stooges offered his own idea and definition of Domestic Terrorism. The murder of Charlie Kirk was unacceptable in my America. However, he was not a national celebrity, not a great athlete, not a legendary educator, not a longtime public servant, or a revered spiritual leader. He was another opportunist spewing his message of hatred and violence against everyone who is not pure white in America. Yeah, he’s one of those. The right-wing is desperate to misdirect the American people and their demand to learn the truth about Trump and his close friend, who just happened to be a pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. Therefore, they are attempting to portray Kirk as a hero, even a saint. Here are just two examples of the divisive rhetoric he offered his cult. Charlie Kirk, “Called Martin Luther King Jr. a “myth” and...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The murder of Charlie Kirk was very wrong. Violence accomplishes nothing other than the procreation of more violence. Sadly, mankind lacks sufficient intelligence to learn this over thousands of years watching innocent people die for nothing. However, I will tell you the truth about the underlying causes for this tragedy, something no one in the mainstream media has the courage to stand up in front of the television cameras and 'tell it like it is.' Here it is: Charlie Kirk was not a good man. Like Trump, he lied, misrepresented the truth, created conspiracy theories, and spread the orange buffoon’s messages of anger, hatred, and revenge, while inciting violence. I offer you a few of Charlie Kirk’s “lowlights.” Said gun deaths are “unfortunately worth it” to preserve the Second Amendment. Called transgender identity a mental disease, needing “brain treatment.” Quoted scripture about homosexuality as an “abomination” deserving death. (From the Old Testame...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart If the American people learned one thing over the last ten years, better known as “the Lost Years,” is the fact that justice and the law have very little in common. For example: the intent of section three of the 14 th Amendment is clear. Anyone who engages in an insurrection, or aids and abets the act of insurrection, may not seek public office in any election. That’s the law. My wife and I watched all three hours of the darkest day in American history, and what occurred cannot be labeled in any other manner than treason with the performance of an attempted coup. However, a corrupt Supreme Court offered their own interpretation and subverted the rule of law, redefining the meaning of justice, Trump’s act of treason was dismissed and every American is now suffering from the immoral decision of five men and one woman. This same Court, bastardized by Trump and his Nazi Party, you’re your illegitimate president absolute immunity, guaranteeing that the worst man in...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart There is an important historical point in America’s 249-year history which I hope will be recognized by everyone in the future. I call it the “Pre-Reagan Period.” Reagan not only moved our nation in a 180-degree turn, away from a progressive direction and into our darker past, he also encouraged dishonesty, refusal to work with their brothers and sisters across the aisle, and the end of transparency in government. There are few, very few in Washington today who have a genuine patriotic attitude and the courage to speak truth to power. One of these individuals is Jasmine Crockett. Ms. Crockett is a congresswoman from the state of Texas. Last Sunday, she made a speech to her supporters and held nothing back, unlike most of our nation’s cowardly politicians. She not only lambasted the worst president in history, she told the truth about six members of the Supreme Court who are directly responsible for Trump’s ability to destroy everything good about our nation. “We...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart When Trump declared his intention to win the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 2015, I decided that I needed to know more about the New York businessman. Although most of his biography was public record, I wanted to know more about the man other than what I saw on television and read about in various publications. I knew that after he received his diploma from Wharton in 1968, he joined his father’s real estate business. Digging deeper, I discovered that what later became the “Trump Organization” was extremely racist. When Black men and women filled out rental applications for one of Fred Trump’s properties, the agent reviewing their applications was instructed to put a large, red “C” at the top of the application. Digging even deeper, it was Donald Trump who left a successful business outside of Manhattan and moved into the more glamorous and lucrative world he always dreamed about. I learned that he married first wife, Ivana, in 1977. They were div...

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 Republicans are idiots, cowards, and traitors to the American people. As I knew they would, Trump’s senators passed Trump’s big bill, which will lessen the quality of life for our nation’s most needy and reduce taxes for his 813 oligarchs. America is mirroring Germany in the 1930’s. But why should Trump care? He is not an American. Trump is loyal to Vladimir Putin and continues to praise his idol, Adolf Hitler. He cares about Donald Trump, exclusively, and the power and wealth his position as America’s illegitimate president offers him. Red state voters, who blindly vote in support of right-wing candidates, live in the poorest states in the Union, and Trump’s policies will result in enormous harm to their future. Let’s call it what it is. In 1981, the once Grand Old Party began to separate itself from their democratic counterparts. Reagan demanded loyalty without dissention, or the audacity to question their leader’s actions. By 2000, the necessary tools to allo...

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...

From 1789 until today, our government promised its citizens “free and fair elections.” For the most part, it was a promise kept until 2000. Beginning in 1981, the ugliest profession became increasingly vile and destructive. The ambitions of professional politicians drove our two political parties into a frenzy, placing reelection ahead of the public interest. The desire for power replaced any intent to “do the right thing” for the people of their country. Before I continue, let me repeat myself. The two reasons our legislative branch is dysfunctional are supported by fact, and are undeniable. Our Founding Fathers admitted to the imperfection of their efforts at the Constitutional Convention. Letters after its completion written by Jefferson, Madison, Adams, and others confirmed their naivete. They believed that their successors would improve upon what they had begun, and the results would become the creation of the greatest country in the world. Unfortunately, that never happened. I ha...