TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart All “Republican” politicians are part of what makes America a far worse country than any other in the world. I have a long list of names which prove my allegation, but let me offer a few of the most obvious: Moscow Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Mike Johnson. None of these individuals care about you or me. Since 2017 they offered their loyalty to Trump and Vladimir Putin, ignoring the responsibilities they owe to the voters who made huge mistakes by surrendering to them their valuable votes: the only power average citizens possess. Yesterday a situation arose within the once Grand Old Party which proves that not a single man or woman on the right side of the aisle is worthy of occupying a seat in our federal government. Lindsey Graham has held a seat in the Senate since 2002. Normally, I would say that he “represented the people of South Carolina for the last 23 years.” However, in 2017, Graham abandoned his morals, integr...

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 It’s an old, and sometimes successful tactic, albeit temporary. However, desperation makes the guilty take any action to avoid closer inspection by the authorities and the American people. Trump and his incompetent supporters are attempting to move the discussion about Trump’s very close relationship to Jeffrey Epstein out of the light of day with attacks on real Americans. Anyone who follows what happens in Washington, simply reading the headlines or seriously engaged in efforts to find the truth, will tell you that Tulsi Gabbard is a moron seeking attention and relevance without success. Gabbard is a Trump worshiper, and is suggesting that the investigation into collusion between Trump and Putin in the 2016 election was a fabrication created by President Obama. Of course this is completely false. However, she is desperately attempting to misdirect the attention Trump is receiving for his many crimes in 2025 and in the past. Let’s get right to it. A plethora of...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The place in which I reside on this day July 2, 2024, is not the United States of America. You can call it “Trumpland,” the “Fascist and Disunited States of America,” or any other name which is accurate and truthful. Whatever that name might be, it has no resemblance to the America I loved in my early years. I grew up in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Patriotism was absolute. Our brave men and women had recently defeated the spread of fascism. The most evil man in world history was dead and his army defeated. After Harry Truman made the controversial decision to use nuclear weapons against the men, women, and children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese Emperor begged the alliance to accept his surrender. Every American celebrated the end of WWII for the days, weeks, and months which followed. No one is celebrating America today. Instead of patriotism, there are historical protests against our illegitimate president and his fascist army. Even Trump’s most ardent sup...

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...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Moscow Mitch McConnell is a modern “Snidley Whiplash.” He is pure evil, a traitor to his country’s people, and the most destructive Senator in America’s nearly 249-year history. Moscow Mitch is serving his 7 th term in the Senate, a disgrace and a detriment to good government. He is the poster “boy” for why term limits are mandatory if our government is to survive. His ultimate crime against America was complete in October of 2020. This action confirmed the end of the only branch of our government not to be corrupted by the most disgusting and useless job in America: politics. Amy Coney Barrett, a Catholic extremist, was rushed through Senate confirmation hearings in September of 2020 when the legendary Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, lost her fight for life. Moscow Mitch broke his own rule and forced her confirmation through the Senate with less than one month before the election. Barrett’s only qualification was a promise to overturn a Supreme Cou...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Our Founding Fathers created a new form of government calling it a “Democratic Republic.” Their primary reason for leaving England inspired these courageous men to form a nation ruled by the people. Between 1787 and 1789 at the Constitutional Convention their focus was on issues which would guarantee the rights of all citizens and prevent any rule by a king or any other autocrat. Before they moved to the New Land, King George III declared that the Anglican Church would be the British Empire’s one, true religion. Our Founding Fathers were wealthy and influential men, and for each of them, this was the last violation of their rights they would be forced to endure. Each of them believed in freedom of and freedom from organized religion. To accomplish their lofty goals, they formed a government, calling it a “Democratic Republic.” The people would elect a president as well as the men who would form a legislature. There would be a third branch which would have a sing...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump has millions if not billions of enemies. People around the world hate the fat, old fascist. This is why his greatest fear is the truth. Large protests are never frivolous. There is always an issue of great social injustice involved. The primary reason Trump fears and hates protests reveals his great fear of the truth. Trump’s personal gestapo, known as ICE, is composed of poorly trained thugs who share their Fuhrer’s hatred for all non-whites. ICE was another ‘knee-jerk’ reaction by another failed Republican administration in 2003. It was not needed, and is not part of our nation’s border control system. It is a rogue agency Trump is using to force all non-whites out of America. One right-wing extremist, who is likely more disgusting than Trump, is Florida’s Nazi-loving governor, Ron DeSantis. This is how much he hates the First Amendment.  “If you’re driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle and threatens you, y...

Trump is a weak and powerless schoolyard bully who obeys his master, Vladimir Putin. The enormous damage he has done to our nation over the last 10 years cannot be accredited solely to one obese, very old man who is in advanced stages of dementia. Our entire government, the media, and Trump’s oligarchs continue to hide the truth from the 340 million people who in reality are the United States of America. The fact that the American people are suffering from a dysfunctional government, composed of corrupt politicians, a Supreme Court which ignores its singular responsibility, and an illegitimate president whose loyalty belongs to the Russian president explains how the demise of America has become a reality. If you choose to assume that my allegations are part of a conspiracy theory, you are sadly mistaken and misinformed. This story began early in 2016. Our government was informed by all 12 security agencies that they were investigating their belief that Vladimir Putin was attempting to ...

Elon Musk was another bad joke played on the American people by Donald “the Destroyer” Trump. No one with half-a-brain would believe that a Billionaire engineer knew anything about economics at the federal level of any government. This is one of the primary reasons Trump will always be the worst president in history. A failed businessman could not possibly lead a nation of 340 million people. He had never been in government at any level. This is what happens when voters are uninformed. Musk announced that he was leaving the Trump administration at a joint news conference on Friday. Before the television cameras they displayed an atmosphere which indicated the separation of brothers from another mother was not only cordial, but very friendly. Now for the truth. Behind closed doors, aides reported a growing gap between the fascists. [Trump was often at odds with Musk. The billionaire’s eccentric humor often confused the president, who told his aides that Musk was “50 percent genius, 50 p...

Want to read a fake headline? Here it is. “Republicans demand ‘crippling’ sanctions on Russia after brutal drone onslaught in Ukraine: ‘Take action.’” Please! It is no secret that every man and woman who calls themselves a “Republican” in 2025 is lying. They are loyal to Trump, and therefore loyal to Vladimir Putin. They may be able to con millions of uninformed Americans, but not this wise old fart. On Friday, Trump engaged in a phone conversation with his puppeteer for more than two hours. Now Trump is trying to tell the American people that they “disagreed” about how to end the invasion of Ukraine. Bullshit. Putin was obviously informing Trump about actions he could take to make it appear that Putin was capitulating to Trump’s demands. It’s called a “smokescreen.” Trump has been Putin’s most valued asset since 1987. If you doubt me, look it up. In 2018, congress voted to place sanctions against Russia and Vladimir Putin for interference in our 2016 election: Trump vetoed them. Recen...

In 2018, Trump should have been impeached for the first time. He was impeached in 2019 and again in 2021. The fact that he was not impeached during his first or second year in office proves that our government is totally corrupt, and that the United States is a nation without laws. Trump refused to divest himself from the Emoluments Clause, continuing his foreign business interests. At the end of his four-year term, Trump Corp made a profit of 1.7 billion dollars. [The Emoluments Clause, a crucial part of the U.S. Constitution, aims to prevent corruption and undue influence on government officials by prohibiting them from accepting gifts or benefits from foreign or domestic entities without congressional consent. While it doesn't explicitly outline specific punishments for violations, potential consequences include legal action, impeachment, and the loss of credibility.] Above all of his crimes, including violations of the Emoluments Clause, his most egregious and arrogant is accep...

The men and women who call themselves “conservatives” in the 21 st century are lying. True conservatives no longer exist. These liars and hypocrites talk a lot about “fiscal responsibility,” but their words are nothing more than hot air. They will continue to support and protect the outrageous wealth of our nation’s billionaires/oligarchs, while removing funds from the men and women who need them to perform the jobs for which they were elected. One fact proves everything I claim about the once Grand Old Party: Donald Trump is the most expensive political toy in history. Between 2017 and 2021, Trump used taxpayer money to constantly live the life of a real billionaire. The America people funded his play time with six million dollars every month he pretended to be your president. In a single term, he spent about 288 million dollars of your money. His failed fiscal policy of “trickle-down economics” added more than eight trillion dollars to the deficit. That number begins with a “T,” and...

Trump and his first administration were incompetent, ignorant, unqualified, arrogant, losers, and nothing more than pretenders. If you remember how horrific they were and how badly they failed their responsibilities, you are beginning to experience “Trump 2.0.” First, a personal comment. In my 78 years I have learned that great wealth and intelligence are not synonyms. Most of our nation’s 813 billionaires are men and women who had one talent, but fail to have a general knowledge about anything else, and have absolutely no common sense. That said, the orange buffoon’s second administration is filled with billionaires and wannabes. Politicians like Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and Tulsi Gabbard failed to perform in their first jobs, and are now taking their incompetence to the executive branch. It is laughable that a complete airhead like Gabbard is now your Director of National Intelligence. I doubt she is able to spell ‘intelligence.’ Noem is the Secretary of Homeland Security. This is a...

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 ...

After Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, most of the world’s nations realized that only a world war would halt the advance of fascism. A single madman was intent upon placing the world under the rule of his Nazi Party. Only after the United States was attacked on December 7, 1941 did America join the rest of democratic nations to halt the spread of fascism with the intent of destroying Hitler and his Nazis from shaping the entire world according to his personal ambition. I ask a question no one else will: “the previous situation is being repeated today by two old, white Nazis with lesser intelligence. Why have all nations attacked by these two greedy men not targeted them for removal by any means possible?” I will offer you one irrefutable reason. With few exceptions, most of the world’s leaders in the 21 st century are weak, and even cowardly. Only vicious and murderous dictators like Vladimir Putin and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman are willing to murder their opponents to remain in p...

I was a ‘latch key kid’ in the 1950’s. My brother and I were never in danger because our apartment was very close to our school. Next door to our small apartment building was an old house, followed by the convent, the rectory, the Church and the school. The first television we had was 9 inches wide and 9 inches tall. Of course the picture was in black and white. Television was our family’s major source of entertainment. If I was home, the television was on, even as I did my homework. I’m sure that I was one of millions of young men and women who fantasized about living the lives of the characters on the screen. Some things never change, at least not entirely. Two of my favorite movies, and one of the greatest television shows in history inspire me to dream again, even at the age of 78. For as long as I can remember, I held in my mind an image of what a President of the United States should be. The first president I remember was Dwight Eisenhower. I turned on the television when I came ...

If Musk wants to end government waste and remove government employees who fail to perform their jobs, he is looking in the wrong direction. In a building known as the “Capitol,” there are 535 men and women who do nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing for our nation’s people. Their base salaries cost taxpayers $90,090,000 each year. We don’t need any of them. Add Trump to this reality and another $400,000 could be saved each year, not counting the more than six million dollars he wastes each month golfing and partying at Mar-a-Lago. That would save our nation at least $162,490,000 every single year. Let’s stop the hypocrisy, Musk. You don’t give a fuck about our nation or our people. Op-ed by James Turnage If you follow my blog, you will be an informed citizen    

  Trump is three weeks older than yours truly. He has been using “other people’s money,” including taxpayer’s, for decades to live the lifestyle of a real billionaire. He is totally unaware of what life is like for a 78-year-old man and his 74-year-old wife in 21 st century America, and he doesn’t care. I can tell you: it is very, very difficult. Add together multiple factors and you will begin to understand the challenges faced by most of America’s older citizens. Everyone over the age of 70 has physical impairments: major or minor. Whether we face chronic ailments from the result of aging, or physical challenges, every older American faces impediments to their daily life. Sadly, a large percentage are fighting mental disabilities which make life nearly unbearable for themselves and their loved ones. What none of us should struggle with is the ability to purchase the necessities required to live a healthy, comfortable, and safe lifestyle. My bride and I have a single source of in...