TheWiseOldFart

Trump will always be the biggest joke played on our nation. The slogan he adopted is a major part of that joke. MAGA has proven to be an anagram for “Make America Garbage Again.” This is a reference to the time before Franklin Delano Roosevelt when the United States government was completely controlled by the wealthiest men in America. That is exactly what is happening today: the destruction of every accomplishment over the last 60-70 years. Over my 78 years, Republicans were known as the “party of regression,” and it is even worse today. It has moved so far away from the Party of Lincoln, it has become an organization composed of fascist philosophy. It is Trump and his party who ignore the needs of all Americans. They and the oligarchs who own them, are responsible for Greedflation, why America is the only nation without universal healthcare for all, allowing the cost of higher education to rise to a level unreachable for most of our country’s people, and denial of the fact that all p...

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 ...

The greatest law ever passed. That was Social Security in 1935. However, your corrupt government used our money; the money we and our employers contributed, to fund other programs for the sole purpose of securing votes from the uninformed. Let me make this perfectly clear: the government is using our money, money we placed into a retirement account, to fund other programs they used to get votes. Call it embezzlement or thievery, it doesn’t matter. Your incompetent and corrupt government is composed of criminals and grifters. Look at the list of programs your government uses to play politics with your money. Supplemental Security Income Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Food and Nutrition Assistance Housing Assistance Low-Income Home Energy Assistance General Assistance Earned Income Tax Credit At 78, I have adopted a personal policy I dislike, but have no choice but to face the truth: trust no one with great wealth and/or great power. Op-ed by James Turnage If you follow my blog,...

Trump is destroying our country and his traitorous party continues to support him. Democrats are verbally denouncing his actions, but are doing nothing. Yesterday 10 Democratic Senators voted in favor of the disastrous funding bill to prevent a government shutdown, including Chuck Schumer. This offered proof once and for all that Democrats are worthless cowards who will never do the right thing regardless of the consequences. Their careers are more important than their country. All politicians who call themselves “Republicans” serve their Fuhrer. They are allowing Trump to destroy democracy, and eventually the country of our Founding Fathers. They are fully aware that Putin is the orange buffoon’s handler. The bottom line is that the midterm elections are more important than ever. As a lifelong Independent, I don’t want to vote for anyone. It appears that I’m wasting my time and energy. No one in power gives a damn about the future of the United States of America. I hate it, by I may b...

Co-presidents Musk and Trump aren’t good at much. Trump’s entire life is a history of failure. Musk’s Tesla vehicles caught fire, his SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft has blown up twice, one of his Cyber Truck’s exploded in Vegas, and he is now destroying every part of our government which was actually working. All three branches of our government are corrupt, biased, and support the right-wing fascist manifesto, Project 2025. They are good for nothing. The people who actually worked in Washington and accomplished things based on our most important issues, are now looking for new jobs. Trump’s life has been a disaster. When he took office in 2017, one of the first things he did was to seal his educational records. We know that daddy Fred bought deferments which prevented him from being drafted into the military during the illegal war in South Vietnam. It is very clear that he also paid for his diplomas from military boarding school, and Wharton Business College. Trump is the worst public s...

A short list of reasons why America will never be a great country.   In the general election, your vote may not count. As long as the Electoral College exists, states will choose our presidents. The popular vote means nothing. Therefore, if your candidate does not win the majority of votes in most states, your opinion does not count. I believe this is a violation of the intent of the First Amendment. The United States is the only developed nation which fails to provide universal healthcare. At least one-half of all elected officials in Washington do not believe that you should have the same access to healthcare as they do. In support of billionaires/oligarchs, they consistently vote against any measure which would provide the best healthcare available for all Americans. Most developed nations provide free or low-cost higher education for all of their people. Not America. Only the wealthy can afford to attend a college or university in 2025. Each year we lose thousands of our nation...

  Yesterday President Musk held his first cabinet meeting. Donald Trump was also in attendance. Over the last 37 days a controversy existed in earnest. The concern was, “who is in charge in Washington?” Now we know. Co-presidents, Musk and Trump, were making the decisions. About that there was no doubt. However, it was clear that in every critical situation, Trump deferred to his brother from another mother. During yesterday’s meeting, Musk was in control, while Trump continued to mumble something on a few occasions. What makes this both interesting and disgusting is that every day Musk remains an active part of Trump’s administration is a violation of the Constitution. He is not an elected official, He has not been confirmed by the Senate. His “agency,” DOGE is non-existent. It is nothing but a fairy tale. Most importantly, Trump has given Musk access to classified information and Musk does not have a security clearance. None of this matters to Fuhrer Trump. By their words and act...

On January 20, 2025, the United States of America took its last breath. A country cannot exist without laws: laws which are equally applied to all of its citizens without exception. On January 20 of this year America’s most destructive convicted felon was sworn in as your president. In no other nation in the entire world would a man who committed treason on television for more than three hours be allowed to remain free. To allow him to run for the presidency was one of the greatest crimes in history and will go unpunished. The greatest dangers to America are entities which control our legal processes, and possess the responsibility to protect the Law of the Land, the Constitution. Both have been corrupted and are now members of the treasonous American Nazi Party which supports Trump and his anti-American supporters. The two most important positions in the Department of Justice are the Attorney General of the United States and the Director of the FBI. A little background about the two i...

The only word which describes Washington today is chaos. This chaos was created intentionally by two men who hate their country. Thousands of men and women are living in fear, not knowing what will happen to them and their families as Musk continues mass firings. Musk, claiming to be the richest man in the world, although most with the knowledge achieved from reading facts believe that Vladimir Putin is by far the wealthiest man alive, has no interest in the average American worker. His only goal is to increase his already bloated and undeserved personal wealth. Trump has never displayed any interest in the plight of another human being in 78 years. One issue under great scrutiny is Social Security. America’s two greatest villains are already planning cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. However, Social Security is extremely unique, and if they make any changes to America’s only retirement program, it will be the commission of the greatest crime in our nation’s history. I doubt that the two ...

Trump is now supporting his form of “selective immigration.” It won’t surprise you, the immigrants he wants to bring to our shores are pure whites and very wealthy. I smell Musk in this suggestion. Although the continent of Africa is predominately Black: north, south, east, and west, most of the wealth in South Africa remains in the control of white men, the same white men who supported apartheid. Trump would love to have more white oligarchs who are grateful to him for their ability to rape the working class simply for personal ambitions and avarice.   However, the word from South Africa is “no thanks.” Although these pure white billionaires would pay zero tax in the United States, no one wants to live in Trump’s America. I apologize. To call what is happening today Trump’s “America” is an insult to his 45 predecessors. Although many of our presidents were less than adequate, Trump will forever be labeled as the “worst of the worst.” Allowing Trump to be our 45 th and 47 th pres...

Just 17 days.  That’s how long Trump has been pretending to be a U.S. president. There are protests in America’s streets. It’s only the beginning. America has not experienced this much unrest and chaos since 2017. Trump’s worst brings out the best of America. From Trump’s own words, his Project 2025, and Musk’s two fascist salutes to his supporters, it is an undeniable fact that in control of America are two devout Nazis. From removing government employees whose only purpose was to investigate corruption, fraud, and criminal actions, to restoring high prices of prescriptions for seniors, every act by your illegitimate president is designed to harm the majority, and protect the rich and powerful. This is part of a plan to make the plutocracy permanent and establish a fascist regime which will guarantee the wishes of our 756 oligarchs. Every villain needs a central figure to blame for his inadequacies. For Trump, his victims are immigrants, most significantly Hispanics. Other actions...

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...

The military of the United States of America is justifiably described as the “largest and most expensive in the world.” After reading and writing about the Pentagon for more than 10 years, I have one word to describe our nation’s military leaders: “incompetent.” First, the cost. Multiple watchdog groups claim that 50 cents out of every dollar allotted to the Pentagon is wasted. After what I have learned, they are correct. It may be more than 50 cents since Afghanistan and Iraq. Most importantly, the most powerful military force in the world has lost every war since WWII. Thousands of lives and trillions of dollars have been lost; all for nothing. On Wednesday a preventable tragedy happened in the skies above Washington D.C. An American Airlines passenger aircraft collided with a military Blackhawk helicopter, killing 64 in the airliner, and three crewmen aboard the Blackhawk. Regardless of the explanations yet to come, what the hell was a military aircraft doing in the path of a schedu...

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...

In America, a president’s primary function is to improve the lives of all of his or her nation’s people, and guarantee their safety and security. Trump is not an American president. During the last five days the Antichrist has destroyed all of the good accomplished by President Biden over the last four years. His choices to be his closest advisers are a gang of unqualified billionaires, criminals, alcoholics, sexual predators, and Neo-Nazi supporters. Not a single man or woman in the Trump administration will be qualified to hold the position and the department they will be leading, including Trump. The White House will be staffed with clowns and pretenders. We were fully aware that the Antichrist had no heart, and with his most recent actions, we know he has no soul. He has become “Trump the Destroyer.” Every action he claims as an accomplishment is in reality harmful to our nation’s people and the future of our country. By biblical definition, Donald John Trump is the Antichrist. Man...

I have feelings of overwhelming sadness today. I woke up this morning thinking about my life and how it was so very different from the obese old Nazi is now pretending to be your president. Trump was born on June 15, 1946. The day I came into this world was just three weeks later on July 7, 1946. Our paths never crossed. Trump’s path led him into the depths of everything which is wrong with the world today. He was born into a world of wealth and extreme white privilege and taught to hate anyone who was not like him. Money was his family’s god and achieving greater wealth was the family’s only goal. My family was probably considered poor when I was born in Lewiston, Idaho. However, my mother’s family was very warm and loving. The Catholic Church was at the center of their lives, and they lived according to those deep beliefs in what they were taught, a high moral standard, unbreakable principles, and respect for others,  The word “hate” was not in their vocabulary. Now that both of ...

    Republicans don’t know or don’t care that the citizens of the richest and most populous state in the Union, California, are Americans. In fact they are true Americans while Republicans offer their fealty to Trump and his puppeteer, Vladimir Putin. I grew up in Los Angeles. I will always be grateful to have lived in the greatest city, the greatest state, until I was in my early 40’s. No other state offers such a variety of lifestyles. No other state offers the opportunities available in California. I lived in Los Angeles when many terrible fires occurred in Malibu, Laurel Canyon, and other wooded areas when the Santa Ana winds blew in from the east. However, I could never imagine the tragedies which are devasting such beautiful areas of Southern California today. As of today, Monday, January 13, 2025, more than 12,300 structures have burned and 24 lives have been lost. And the winds will be worse today according to Los Angeles weathermen. H...

  I guess I have to say it again: “if Trump’s piehole is open, he’s lying.” In another of his rambling speeches, filled with gibberish and unintelligible phrases, Trump offered another lie. Why? Because the majority of Californians reject a Trump presidency and will never accept him as their leader. It is clear that Trump is Beelzebub on earth. In a speech made from his fat, old, rich, white man’s playpen, Mar-a-Lago, Trump blamed the horrific fires occurring in Southern California on a shortage of water caused by Governor Gavin Newsome’s policies. He also claimed that President Biden has used all available FEMA funds and there are none left for him when he takes the oath of office in just 11 days. That oath will be nothing but another lie. Of course, both allegations are blatant lies. Newsome has never received a bill to sign related to water restrictions in California. He literally does not know what he’s talking about, regardless of the subject. Remember, he actually suggested t...

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...

    I was reading an article in the Daily Kos this morning. It literally mirrored my evaluation of all right-wing politicians over the last nine years. An article by Bill Addis began with the truth. [Everything and all things relating to Trump start with cruelty and stupidity and end in hypocrisy. [In the Trump era, the Republicans have gone out of their way to change their minds because when a Democrat does it, it's an outrage. When it's a Republican, it's business as usual.] If you are a history buff, you know when this all began and these policies were instrumental in the demise of the once Grand Old Party. In 1981, Ronald Reagan refused to allow any Republican politician to have free thought and any opinion other than his own. Loyalty and unity were demanded by the actor turned president. After the Republican Party took its final breaths on January 19, 2017, there has been no dissent within Trump’s American Fascist Party. However, that may change i...