TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart When I was very young, I believed the lies politicians continue to tell us today: “America is the greatest country in the world.” Our nation is young, and continues to have problems which must be addressed before anyone can consider that claim valid. The fact that not only the worst president in history won two ‘rigged’ elections, but also the worst man in the world, proves that our country is far from ever becoming a great and respected nation. Our government began its decline in 1981, and today is the worst and most corrupt in the world of developed nations. This situation began with Reagan and the destruction of the dream of our Founding Fathers was completed in 2017 with the inauguration of Donald John Trump. Stop pretending: you know what I know. Not a single person willing to tell the truth can find anything good to say about the obese 79-year-old man pretending to be your president. It is an undeniable fact that between 2017 and 2021 Trump committed crime...

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 The issues listed above exist. They receive a great amount of lip service, and nothing more. Washington D.C. was once a great city, a city every American would like to visit. For the majority of my 79 years I was proud to be a citizen of the United States of America. Everything changes. Standing still, accepting the status quo is not possible. Doing nothing is moving backwards. All of the above problems have solutions. However, all three branches of our government are playing politics. Therefore, an entire nation is being forced to accept the current situation, which literally means 340 million people are moving backwards into America’s dark past. Every one of these problems has one simple and fair solution, with the exception of Immigration Reform. This problem can only be solved through lengthy, sincere, and honest discussion and eventual compromise. Placing anyone who is not pure white in concentration camps is moronic and fascist. The remaining issues involv...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart You heard the term and probably dismissed it. It doesn’t apply to or interest you. However, age discrimination is one of the most serious and overlooked crimes in America. America was a capitalistic society, but has become a plutocracy: rule by the super-rich. If a group of Americans do not produce commodities, which result in outrageous profits for their corporations, they are of little or no importance in the 21 st century. I’m not saying that I, or any other older American has no use after the age of 65 or 70. Quite the contrary. Personally, I have become physically disabled, but my mind is as sharp or sharper than it was 20 years ago. However, I know for a fact that if my physical disabilities did not exist, no one would hire me at the disgusting age of 79. But Trump is your president, and he is three weeks my senior. Millions of Americans support an elderly man who is clearly suffering from dementia. In 2009 I was hired by the Decennial Census. After I com...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Okay, don’t allow your emotions to override your intelligence and your logic. Think about my title and be honest about what is happening in today’s America. Our government is dysfunctional, not because the system is not workable, but because the men and women who are simply taking up space in Washington are incompetent, and refuse to listen to the needs and wishes of the majority. As far as the right to vote, just look at the results. In two out of the last three elections, the worst, least qualified, anti-American, fascist won although his victory was secured with the interference of the President of Russia. American voters are the least informed voters in the world. And while we’re discussing changing the way we elect our nation’s leaders, let’s include the Supreme Court. Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Alito, and Thomas have the intelligence of a dung beetle, and are five of the nine most powerful people in our country. Our nation has changed and the truth is fr...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart For most of my 79 years, our nation’s leaders placed morality, and common sense in priority number one. This allowed the world to consider the United States the most respected nation ion the world. Then 9/11 happened. The second worst president in history, along with his Vice-President, who was opportunistic and a war monger, overreacted and altered the moral character and principles of what was once the most envied nation on the globe. The Constitution was placed in a dustbin, awaiting its destruction, as tactics of fear, anger, and hatred were used to secure power for one political party. Under the advice of the devil’s disciple, Dick Cheney, President George W. Bush approved radical and anti-American actions under the guise of protecting our nation from future terrorist attacks on American soil. This was all bullshit, and what became an effective method to control 330 million uninformed Americans, and win reelection. Hundreds, if not thousands of men who were...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart If you hate America and believe in Trump’s motto, “Make America White Again,” you should be celebrating tomorrow, July 4, and every day since January 20, 2017. Although you have been waiting since the 1940’s, your time has come. You have a dedicated fascist leader defiling the White House in Washington right now. You have many right-wing politicians to thank for your rise to power, but you must thank yourselves. On January 6, 2021 you attempted to retain power for your leader, Donald Trump, Although you failed, you were given another chance by a like-minded Supreme Court which violated the intent of the 14 th Amendment and allowed Trump to run for the presidency for the third time in 2024. You conspired with Trump’s American Fascist Party, Vladimir Putin, Moscow Mitch McConnell, and Elon Musk to illegally win the rigged election. You contributed to funding for Russian hackers who gained access to the voting machines in all seven swing states: this according to ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart First, an undeniable fact. Pete Hegseth is woefully unqualified to be Trump’s first Secretary of Defense. Without an iota of experience in any level of government, the well-known sexual predator, alcoholic, and a man who embezzled funds from charities involved with veterans, which he led, was given one of the most important positions on any president’s cabinet. Over the last five months, Hegseth has proven himself to be a moron who has no legitimate reason to be in any form of government. He is an embarrassment to himself, to Trump, and to his country. Trump doesn’t care, but the American people should. Hegseth is loyal to Trump, not to his country, not to 340 million people. He is lying about the effectiveness of the 14 ‘mega bombs, each weighing 30,000 pounds, dropped on Iran last Saturday evening. Although Trump and his cronies united in the last two days to falsely claim that the attacks were completely successful, reports by respected authorities contradict...

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...

This promise gained Trump votes in the 2024 Election. However, it was just another lie from the man who has never told the truth. Legitimate Economists claim that the orange buffoon’s latest tariffs will raise grocery prices, causing more pain for the majority of our nation’s people. He doesn’t care. Everything is always about him. Every economist offers the same opinion: tariffs will destroy the economy and inflation will grow by as much as ten percent. When Trump was campaigning in 2024, he promised to ‘run our country like he runs his business.’ If you knew about Trump’s failures, you would never have voted for him. The only reasons he continues to have a business is because foreign nations rescued him and he used illegal methods to get undeserved loans when his world was falling away. For the latter reason, he is a convicted felon. Trump’s only tactic is no different from the schoolyard bully you might remember in elementary school. He threatens his adversaries, and lies to those f...

We hear about it all the time: national security. Stories about espionage, computers being hacked by foreign nations, individuals selling national secrets, and more, spike the interest of our nation’s people who are concerned about events which might affect themselves and their loved ones in the future. Politicians, attempting to hide their crimes and the crimes of their fellow congressmen, constantly claim that we, the people, don’t have a right or need to know, “for reasons of national security.” Our government will never tell you about the number of spies our country has around the world in key spots to learn information critical to America’s survival. However, the number would surely surprise most of you. It’s one of the oldest military tactics in history. Is all of this a cover-up for things more sinister and frightening? I ask this question because events over the last 10 years appear to reveal just that. The major policy of our government has become the prevention of our nation’...

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...

During the 2024 campaign, billionaire/oligarch, Elon Musk donated at least 270 million dollars to Trump’s campaign. After Trump’s illegitimate inauguration on January 20, 2025, it was immediately clear that Musk was Trump’s co-president. An unauthorized agency was created for Musk called DOGE: the Department of Government Efficiency. In reality Musk and his children were nothing more than a “firing squad,” removing thousands of men and women who actually work in Washington from their positions in critical government agencies. As of yesterday, May 28, 2025, the bromance is over. The co-conspirators attempting to destroy our country are separating and the divorce will certainly be unpleasant for them, but cheap entertainment for the rest of us. Let me be perfectly clear about how much I am enjoying this break-up. I despise both of these old, white racists. They are unfit to hold any office in the government of the United States of America. They have no interest in improving the lives of ...

  It is an irrefutable fact: Donald John Trump is a traitor who also violated the Espionage Act. Because a corrupt and biased Supreme Court gave him total immunity and a path to a second illegitimate presidency, he is openly committing crimes against America every day in 2025. Our corrupt government allowed a convicted felon and the greatest criminal in American history to defile our White House for a second time and he’s far worse than the first. That was expected by anyone who loves this country. Donald Trump us not an American President because his loyalty is not to all of our nation’s people. Trump is the Don of the Washington Mafia. Not only is Trump following the right-wing’s fascist manifesto, Project 2025, this week he engaged in a two-hour phone call with his puppeteer, Vladimir Putin. Without a single live brain cell and suffering from malignant narcissism, Trump is nothing more than a tool for Putin and his 813 billionaires/oligarchs. Our government is allowing Don Trump...

When presidential historians and other politicos attempt to rate our nation’s 47 presidents, there are always a large number of opinions. As a writer who has been involved in American politics since 2012, I feel qualified to offer my opinion, based on years of reading historical fact and current articles from legitimate sources written by the world’s most respected journalists.   My assessment of our presidents is focused on the 13 men I have experienced in my nearly 79 years. I rate them by applying how well they served all of our nation’s people, their abilities to make decisions which positively affected all of our nation’s people, their loyalty to our country and their willingness to do the right thing every time, regardless of political consequences. Of the 13 men who affected me and those I love since 1956, I believe that only one could be considered great, five were good, and four were a disgrace to the principles and values of our founding fathers. The remaining three were ...

  Our nation’s leaders at every level, and in every enterprise, act like they are afraid of Trump. He is a senile, very old, obese man with limited intellect and no friends. Not even Vladimir Putin and Elon Musk are true “friends.” They use his desperate need for praise to use him for their own benefits. Fact, President Biden accomplished more than any other president in four years since Bill Clinton in eight years between 1993 and 2001. Most importantly to most Americans, his economic policies were nearly as successful as Clinton’s. Don’t use the usual right wing bullshit about inflation. There was no “inflation,” it was pure Greedflation by our greedy billionaires. I refer you to two articles containing information never reported by the cowardly television news. “The Biden Administration Handed Over a Strong Economy” “Treasury Releases New Analysis Highlighting the U.S. Economy’s Historic Post-Pandemic Recovery Driven by the Biden Administration’s Policy Agenda” If you read, you ...

      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 national debt in 2025 is estimated to become $35,000,000,000,000. That’s a lot of zeroes and they will never be erased during my granddaughters’ lifetimes. Throughout our country’s nearly 249 years, it was not unusual for our presidents to leave office with the nation in debt. However, the numbers were miniscule compared to what has happened in the 21 st century. In 1981, Ronald Reagan’s policy of “trickle-down economics,” simply defined, this was a fiscal policy which gives money to the super-rich in the form of enormous tax cuts, hoping that they will become “job creators.” When Reagan left office in 1989, America was nearly one-trillion dollars in debt, and the unemployment rate was 5.5 percent and escalating.  George H.W. Bush succeeded Reagan, served for one term, and added more than three trillion to the national debt using the same, failed fiscal policy. Bill Clinton’s fiscal policy improved the situation. Over eight years, the national debt rose by just over one trilli...

Here’s the picture. I was born in July of 1946, making me an original ‘baby boomer.’ When I began my school years, I was sent to a Catholic elementary school. The first thing we did every morning, before prayers, was to stand, face the American flag in the corner, place our right hands over our hearts, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. This was two years before the words “under God” were added to the oath. My mother had a large family, and there were family gatherings frequently. I enjoyed them, but did not understand everything they talked about. Three of my uncles had returned from serving in WWII; one did not. Although I don’t remember them talking about what they did and saw during the war, politics and the state of our nation were frequent topics of conversation. Although politics were frequently discussed, my family was very patriotic. Movies on television were often stories about battles on the land, sea, and air during the war. John Wayne was an American hero, although he av...