TheWiseOldFart

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart There are no guidelines, no requirements to offer proof of experience or expertise when any individual files for the right to run for the House or Senate. The truth is, the regulations for becoming a Representative or Senator are minimal. [To serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, you must be 25+, a U.S. citizen for 7+ years, and a resident of your state; for the Senate, you must be 30+, a U.S. citizen for 9+ years, and a resident of your state, with both offices requiring you to be an inhabitant (resident) of the state you represent at the time of election.] In common language, “nearly anyone can become an American lawmaker.” Writing, presenting, and passing legislation intended to serve the American people should be just as simple. However, this is far from the truth. History proves that most of America’s elected officials have been incompetent and uninformed. I am positive that most voters are just as uninformed as the men and women who r...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart “I will end inflation on day one.” “I will negotiate peace in Ukraine on day one.” “I have a better healthcare plan than Obamacare.” “Tariffs with grow our economy.” These are just a few of Trump’s campaign promises in 2024. He never intended to keep any of those promises: they were nothing more than blatant lies. He would never end “Greedflation.” That would upset his 902 oligarchs. Only Putin can end the invasion of Ukraine, and that will only happen when his ambitions become reality. Trump and his party claimed to have a healthcare plan 10 years ago. It does not exist today. On this day, the American people are beginning to experience higher prices on nearly every necessity and discretionary commodity they purchase. Tariffs were a very bad idea in 1930, making the depression worse, and they are a destructive policy today. Free trade always increases the quality of life for everyone in the world. Trump’s only idea of a great economy is how much he can steal fr...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart A President of the United States is not a “King,” a “Dictator,” or any other form of autocrat. The truth is, he is no more important than the janitors who clean the White House bathrooms, he simply has a different list of “to dos.” He is a public servant. A president’s primary function is to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. This includes protecting the rights of every American guaranteed by the Law of the Land. He is also required to make our nation safe and secure for all 340 million people. His ‘job’ is to seriously address the many problems facing our nation and find solutions acceptable to everyone, even if that means compromise. He is not allowed to have prejudices: he was elected by voters residing in the most diverse nation in the world. Trump is the anti-American president. He is the opposite of everything I previously listed. Trump uses his position for personal gain. He doesn’t give a damn about a single c...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump has been murdering passengers on boats off of the shore of Venezuela. He claims they were transporting drugs, but has no proof. He and our cowardly military leaders have been destroying these boats, killing everyone on board. Yesterday, he threatened to send American military personnel into Venezuela to “end the growing illicit drug problem in the country.” Another Republican “president” planning to wage an illegal and unwinnable war. No surprise here. A couple of days ago, he announced his intent to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez . Hernandez was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to 45 years in prison. What the f**k is this moron doing? He appears to be pardoning the worst of the worst, while ordering the murders of innocent people. Nothing would surprise me in 2025. Your illegitimate president is the most despicable person in the world. Someone must forcibly remove him from our White House. He is not welcome in the peopl...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump is completely incompetent, and he doesn’t care. Simply look at the men and women he chose for his administration. ‘Unfit for office’ is a huge understatement. I have reported Trump’s life of failure for more than 10 years. Seldom have I ever understood what he was talking about as he ranted on and on at his numerous hate rallies. When I did find some comprehension, he was either whining about how badly he was mistreated, or attacking someone who disagreed with his fascist and Unconstitutional policies. Today his speech is incoherent and makes no sense. What’s left of his little mind is deteriorating rapidly. Is disgusts me when Trump is referred to as the President. He is not my president and never will be. Only a patriot who loves his or her country and all of its people is an American. Trump is nothing more than an opportunist. He uses people and his position for personal gain and his perverted pleasures. It is no secret that not a single member of Trump...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I just labeled Trump with multiple adjectives which are demeaning and degrading. However, because they are all based on facts: facts he, himself, offered by his own actions and speech: they are not unfair or undeserved. I cannot compete with Trump when the situation involves name-calling, although most of his are simply silly and laughable. However, anyone who disagrees with the schoolyard bully is sure to receive a “nickname.” His “nicknames” are not clever, because he is not ‘clever.’ We all remember “Crooked Hillary,” “Sleepy Joe,” and “Little Marco.” The mental health community reveals the reasons an individual feels he or she has no other recourse than name-calling to defend his or herself. [Insecurity and envy: If we don't believe we measure up to our peers, we may redirect and express this discontentment by directing it toward others in the form of hatred or animosity. In psychology, this masking of our true feelings of insecurity is known as displace...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I have an excellent memory. I have not forgotten that one of Trump’s many unkept promises was to reduce the national debt, much of which he created. He claimed that Elon Musk and his “made-up” Department of Government Efficiency would immediately reduce the deficit by more than two-billion dollars. After the bromance between Trump and Musk ended on bad terms, and although they had fired hundreds of federal employees who actually worked in Washington, the national debt was decreased by less than 100 million dollars. Musk and his “team of young boys” were paid more money than they saved. Over the last eight months, Trump has added to the deficit. Although the national debt is nearly 37.5 trillion dollars, instead of addressing a single problem facing our nation, many of which he created, he is spending taxpayer dollars like a drunken sailor on shore leave. Between 2017 and 2021, Trump used funds from the national treasury to pay for his personal enjoyment, averagi...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart As an original baby boomer, it won’t surprise you that most of what I watched on television growing up in Los Angeles were movies and weekly shows involving cowboys and World War II. I was mesmerized by John Wayne and the way he made every soldier heroic. He created a similar image for the men who built the West in his “B” westerns. Approximately 416, 800 members of the U.S. military lost their lives in the war to defeat fascism. One of the men credited with the “D-day” victory on June 6, 1944, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was elected to the presidency in 1952 when I was just six years old. When I was 10, I watched a large party of his second convention and nomination for reelection. His farewell address in 1961 was a prophecy for what is happening in our nation today. Since August of 1945, when WWII came to an end with the controversial decision to drop nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, incompetent leaders working inside the Pentagon, have lost every war, and...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Beginning in June of 2015, not a single day has passed without the name “Trump” appearing in every legitimate and illegitimate news service, or his old, ugly face appearing somewhere on television and the internet. He and I are the same age, and I have a reason to outlive the old bastard. I want to live long enough to read the news and not see the name ‘Trump’ or his picture anywhere. I truly don’t understand. There is no legitimate reason for the least intelligent, and least accomplished old man in the world to be covered constantly by the media. He cannot put two sentences together. He slurs and rambles. Not once in his pitiful and far-too-long life has he spoken the truth or offered one idea which would be beneficial for the American people and the world. Trump is the source and the example of why America’s people have become ignorant sheep marching to the slaughterhouse. A few, recent lies and irrational thoughts from your illegitimate president. I begin wit...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The mainstream media will never say these words: ‘Trump has declared war on blue and purple states.’ They are afraid of becoming targets for his anger and retribution. They are worthless. The truth: Trump doesn’t give a damn about immigration reform. He is the Fuhrer of the Neo-Nazi Party in America. Trump is attempting to “cleanse our nation of all ethnicities who are not pure white.” Hitler reincarnated is on a rampage, and the question is, “will his lieutenants attempt to assassinate the maniac, like Hitler’s closest allies?” I doubt it. If you spend your days in Washington, you are a coward, refusing to do the right thing and keep your oath to the American people. Trump’s real purpose for violating the Constitution and placing our nation’s military in blue states is to prevent a continuation of mass protests against his fascist policies. His fragile emotional state is incapable of accepting the fact that he is the most-hated man in the world. The truth is, T...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Of course, my title’s question is facetious. Trump has never done anything for anyone else in his life. Afflicted with malignant narcissism, he is incapable of having normal feelings of empathy and compassion. Trump has proven one thing over his 79 pitiful and useless years on earth, he has a narcissistic personality disorder that is highly abusive. People with this personality supposedly get a sense of satisfaction from hurting others and may manipulate people or lie to gain money, acclaim, and other things they desire. Every human being asks his or herself one question, multiple times in their lives: “what if I had taken the left fork in the road instead of the right?” As a political writer, having written thousands of articles exposing the “real Donald Trump,” I look back at the 2000 election, the 2016 election and the 2024 debacle. I begin with the 2000 election. Some of you may be too young to remember the contest between Clinton’s Vice-President, Al Gore, ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump’s ignorant supporters would claim that my title is a lie. If you call ethnic cleansing, political retribution, destroying critical agencies, giving tax cuts to those who don’t need or deserve them, golfing, partying at Mar-a-Lago, and spending more than 10 million dollars of taxpayer money to open a golf club in Scotland, then yes, he is very busy spending your money for his own purposes. Let’s go back in time. In his first week in office in 2009, Barack Obama gathered the greatest minds available and make plans to save our nation’s economy from complete collapse. George W. Bush’s failed economic policies and his choices to place our nation in two costly and unwinnable wars were disastrous and totally incompetent decisions. In January of 2021, after Trump’s coup failed, and he violated the Espionage Act by stealing at least 14 boxes of national secrets as he finally left the White House and moved to Mar-a-Lago, a real President met with his team and create...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart In every administration in my lifetime, the position of Secretary of Defense, now labeled the “Secretary of War,” by your illegitimate president, was critical to our nation’s future and to our relationship with our allies from nearly every other country in the world. As a pollical reporter, I remember the worst. Robert McNamara was hated by nearly every young man in my age group. Those of us who never served on the ground in South Vietnam constantly questioned the justification for a war halfway around the world and felt great anger as we watched our family, friends, and acquaintances arrive home in body bags. Even more evil was George W. Bush’s Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. It is an undeniable fact that he was incompetent, but the fact that he displayed a total lack of concern for the lives of our military in Afghanistan and Iraq earned him the title of worst of all time. This and other actions, approved by Bush, confirmed their attacks by the World Co...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The quality of life for most Americans is in steep decline. Trump refused to keep his number one promise and “end inflation on day one.” We, the people, are beginning to feel the pain from Trump’s moronic tariffs. Most importantly, the average American cannot afford to buy a home or rent a decent apartment in 2025. I live in Northern Nevada. Nevada has a hypocritical, lying bastard of a governor. Joe Lombardo is a “Trump lackey” and kisses his Fuhrer’s humongous ass constantly. He paid ordinary citizens to lie in an ad designed to increase the bank accounts of our state’s home builders. The ad was a big lie, claiming that more availability would lower the costs of homes and apartment rentals. The new apartments near my home are ridiculously expensive. A one-bedroom rents for about $1,700 per month. Incomes in Northern Nevada are far lower than the national average. One-half of all Americans struggle to survive on an annual income which is far below the nat...

I am a pacifist, although in today’s America, it’s very hard to keep vile and destructive emotions subdued. I am fully aware that violence is never the answer. No war has ever been “won,” and no disagreement is ever resolved with a fist. Leaders must lead by actions, by example. Words are simply breaths making a sound as they exit the mouth. They mean nothing. In 2025, America’s “pseudo-leader” is an old, obese, brainless, and spoiled man-child. He is nothing more than a schoolyard bully. Every word coming out of his piehole is composed of anger, hatred, and the incitement of violent actions in his name. On Thursday, while speaking in Utah, a right-wing extremist Trump supporter was murdered by a lone shooter. This heinous act is unforgivable. The truth is irrefutable and the reason for a huge increase in hate crimes and other forms of violence must be placed on the narrow shoulders of one old man who suffers from a lifelong ailment known as malignant narcissism. His name is Donald Joh...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Three Justices on today’s Supreme Court are performing as intended by the Constitution. They are upholding laws which are supported by the Law of the Land, and refusing to rewrite laws according to their personal beliefs. The remaining six are clearly biased and therefore corrupt. The last justice appointed to the current Court is Amy Coney Barrett. When the legendary Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, passed in October of 2020, Moscow Mitch McConnell broke his own rule, forbidding the sitting president from filling a Supreme Court vacancy during an election year. He rushed her confirmation hearings through the Senate, stacking the Court in support of right-wing extremism. Barrett was confirmed by a vote of 52-48. Every Democrat and both Independent Senators voted against her confirmation. Susan Collins was the only Republican to vote ‘nay.’ A little history and why Barrett should never have been confirmed. Barrett is a religious extremist. Her beliefs will always in...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart “He took my toy.” “Mom, he’s making faces at me.” “He won’t share with me.” These are all things a bratty, spoiled little child might say, and this is how Trump and his people are running our country. They have all learned to whine about everything which doesn’t go their way. When they do something wrong, which often happens, they blame someone else for their failures. I refused to accept this type of behavior from my children, and I sure as hell will not accept it from any elected official in control of my future. A perfect example of how immature and unfit Trump’s administration has become happened yesterday. I swear on my walker, this is 100% true. [Attorney General Pam Bondi fired a Justice Department employee on Friday accused of flipping off National Guard members deployed to Washington D.C. as part of President Donald Trump's effort to mitigate crime in the city, a Justice Department official confirmed.] This is additional proof of how fragile the mal...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart One thing about 2025 which was true in 2017 is the real Donald Trump. He doesn’t want to be your president. He fails to perform the job for which he was illegitimately elected every day. His only reason for seeking another term was to prevent soon-to-be charges for his many crimes. He simply didn’t want to wear an orange jumpsuit for the remainder of his pitiful and useless life. “Key responsibilities of the President of the United States include executing and enforcing laws, managing the federal bureaucracy, appointing officials, conducting diplomacy, and suggesting legislation. The President also plays a crucial role in national security and foreign policy.” Trump is focused solely on two things, neither of which is listed above: ethnic cleansing and taking revenge on anyone who opposes his unconstitutional actions. His illegal and immoral gestapo, ICE, is carrying out his orders to remove anyone who is not pure white from our country. Trump continues to harm ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Republicans don’t understand the word “work.” Back in 1981, Reagan began the right-wing policy of spending less time working, and more time for personal reasons. Ronald Reagan turned 70 years of age just two weeks after his inauguration in 1981. He was clearly incapable of maintaining a work schedule required of a man responsible for more than 300 million people. He took lengthy afternoon naps to “recharge his batteries.” George W. Bush took naps, but he was more famous for his long vacations at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. After his inauguration on January 20, 2001, he left for a “much needed” vacation. A committee focused on information acquired by various national security agencies, came to a decision on January 26, 2001. They made a suggestion to the new president which included a serious consideration related to future terrorist attacks and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. It would oversee the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Although it is true that Trump is, obese, suffering from mental and physical deficiencies, what is not is the definition of a ‘man.’ He possesses a single tactic as your illegitimate president. He attempts to bully his adversaries and leaders of other nations. Sadly, in several situations, he is succeeding. Universities, Law Firms, and Presidents, Prime Ministers, etc., are bowing to the schoolyard bully. The truth is defeating a bully requires little effort. All anyone must do is look in his eyes and say “no,” and “get the fuck out of my way.” Trump is a regressive, and those who look backwards are destined to fail. His entire six months and eight days as your illegitimate president have been focused on taking revenge against anyone who opposes his fascist agenda. “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” ― Confucius Trump, like he did in 2017-2021, will destroy himself, His malignant narcissism is far more powerful than what little mind he h...