TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Fox News began broadcasting in 1996. The story claims that billionaire newspaper magnate, Rupert Murdoch and former Republican strategist, Roger Ailes, decided to create a television news network devoted to the conservative side of politics. Some of this may be true, but I believe the inspiration began in the 1980’s. Rupert Murdoch is all about the money, and the original idea came from the most popular television broadcasts of that decade. TRASH TV In the 1980’s, daytime talk shows dominated the ratings on weekdays. The phenomenon likely began with Phil Donahue. He was the first to put a microphone in an audience member’s face. He was followed by Sally Jessy Raphael, Rikki Lake, Montel Williams, Geraldo Rivera, Maury Povich, Jerry Springer, Jenny Jones, Oprah Winfrey, and others. No longer were the men and women on stage celebrities, they were guests who fit into the “topic of the day.” Those topics ranged from overeating disorders, to more salacious situations...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart “If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.” If you see something with your own eyes, it is reality, and cannot be questioned or denied. Trump is an idiot, and nothing proves this fact more than when he attempts to convince the American people that what they see is not real, and what he tells them is the only reality. The term is “gaslighting.” ["Gaslighting" (often misspelled "gaslighting") is a manipulative tactic where someone makes a victim question their own reality, memory, or sanity, creating self-doubt, confusion, and dependence, often to gain power, by denying events, trivializing feelings, or twisting facts. It's a form of psychological abuse, making the victim feel "crazy" or like they are "overreacting".] Trump’s biggest problem is that he thinks all Americans are as dumb as he and his followers choose to be. With our birthdays just three weeks apart, I would challenge the orange buffoon t...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Immediately, without an investigation, without discussing the tragedy with any member of a legitimate law enforcement agency, Kristi Noem stood before the television cameras and claimed that the victim who had just been shot and killed by a member of ICE was a “domestic terrorist who had attempted to run over the agents with her vehicle.” Two videos and statements by eyewitnesses rebuked her rash and unverified statement, calling the death of 37-year-old Renee Niclole Good a murder. NO ONE IN POWER CAN BE TRUSTED IN THE 21 ST CENTURY Personally, because I have learned not to trust anyone in our government, and all law enforcement agencies, while placing my trust in regular Americans, like me, I immediately called “bullshit.” Noem is another paid liar whose only true function is to protect her Fuhrer. Here’s what I know from what I read, not from watching the ‘boob tube.’ Trump, his Nazi Party, six members of the Supreme Court, the Pentagon, and 902 oligarchs ar...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart First, a reminder for our government: “this is our country. It belongs to us. You work for us and hiding the truth proves that you are lying about everything.” It is totally fair to judge your government by its own words and actions. When the men and women we elect lie to us, all trust is gone, forever. TRUMP LIES CONSTANTLY Since June 15, 2015, Trump told more than 100,000 lies in front of the television cameras, at his hate rallies, and on social media, likely while sitting on the toilet in the middle of the night. His biggest lie, a lie he knew was entirely false, claiming victory in the 2020 election continues. I find it unbelievable that anyone, any voter, in America is so weak-minded they ignore the decisions of more than 60 state courts, and his own, stacked Supreme Court. 2026: MORE LIES AND THE LEAST QUALIFIED ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY There is no possible way Trump could have chosen a less qualified staff for his second, illegitimate administration. Ma...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Donald Trump never has been and never will be an American President. He is a fascist dictator. The truth is, he never wanted to have a ‘real job.’ He knows nothing about leadership or government, and has never shown any indication that he is willing to learn how to work, and never for the benefit of others. However, after his rigged victory on November 8, 2016, he saw an opportunity to increase his personal wealth, and he did, by 3.7 billion dollars over four, long years. Vladimir Putin recognized the reality that he would have his greatest asset in a position of power. His lifelong dream of destroying America would be sitting behind the Resolute desk. In 2026, Trump is moving full speed ahead in his efforts to create chaos and end the dream of our Founding Fathers. I will say it again: Trump remains an immature, spoiled child, who is and always was the schoolyard bully. Unfortunately, Trump doesn’t read; or maybe he can’t. If he had read “Being a President for ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart First, the big lie about Social Security. Republicans call the program an entitlement. Social Security was originally funded entirely by employers and employees, no taxpayer money was used. However, corrupt politicians have attached additional programs to this retirement fund, and the only reason it may become bankrupt in the near future. [A fter its 1935 origin, the Social Security Act expanded significantly, adding critical programs like Medicare and Medicaid (health insurance for elderly/poor), the federalized Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for needy aged, blind, and disabled, and expanding child welfare and public health grants to states, forming a broader social safety net beyond just retirement. Key additions also included Unemployment Insurance, Disability benefits (within OASDI), and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Key Expansions & Additions: 1930s-1940s (Original Act & Early Amendments): Unemployment Insurance: A national pro...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart We’re a little slow, but when the situation becomes unbearable, the American people eventually stand up and say, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore.” It’s time for ICE to be disbanded. Trump’s personal Gestapo is composed of villains and thugs. The level of violence from this group of less than humans, is escalating rapidly. When Renee Nicole Good was murdered by ICE agents in Minneapolis, the Trump administration began telling outrageous lies in an effort to cover-up the truth. However, eyewitness accounts combined with two videos don’t lie. This was an act of first-degree murder committed by a group of Nazis. On Thursday, two additional innocent American citizens were shot by Trump’s Gestapo in Portland. After the man and woman were rushed to a hospital, their condition unknown, Portland city council member, Sameer Kanal, had this to say.  “You are hearing and you are seeing attempts to justify the unjustifiable, to completely defend the in...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Thugs, villains, criminals, racists, bigots, Nazis: these terms clearly define the men who compose Trump’s personal Gestapo known as ICE. What happened in Minneapolis to 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was bound to happen. ICE has been escalating its acts of violence over the last 12 months. As a group, they continue to demonstrate a total lack of respect for human life. Like all schoolyard bullies, Trump is using ICE to commit crimes against humanity in his name. Trump and his woefully unqualified Director of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, are lying to cover-up what is clearly an act of murder. They claim that this mother of three was attempting to drive her vehicle into members of Trump’s Gestapo. This vile event happened in a residential neighborhood, and the following is an eyewitness account. [A witness to the shooting told CNN her "life is forever changed" after what happened. Emily Heller recounted how she was in the middle of making breakfast wh...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Two television broadcasts I never missed were “60 Minutes,” and “CBS Sunday Morning.” The Sunday morning broadcast is composed of positive stories about real people and a perfect way to begin a Sunday morning. “60 Minutes” was the only news show I watched because it was a hard-hitting broadcast which exposed the truth about people and things happening in our country and around the world. However, Mike Wallace is turning over in his grave today. My mother, brother, and I watched the CBS evening news every evening in the 1950s and 1960s. Walter Cronkinte informed us of the most important events in just 30 minutes. He was rightfully known as the “most trusted man in America.” The new editor-in-chief of CBS News is a woman by the name of Bari Weiss. She constantly reveals her position as a Trump sycophant as she heavily edits every major production from her network. Most recently, she removed a story scheduled to be broadcast on 60 Minutes the following Sunday. A st...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The Constitutional Convention, 1787-1789, was contentious, conflicted, and at times, filled with loud and angry voices. However, intense and honest deliberation resulted in compromise and the creation of the Constitution of the United States of America. The only part of the Law of the Land agreed upon unanimously was the First Amendment. Contained in just 45 words are five rights which are the core of what it means to be an American: Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Freedom to Assemble, and Freedom to Petition. Within the text are voting rights, free thought, and the right to individual action which does not infringe upon the rights of the majority. One of these five rights is an effort to protect the press from retaliatory action from the federal government when illegal or immoral actions were discovered and revealed to the American people. This was an effort to make all Americans aware of any and all corruption and collusion on Cap...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Any American with common sense is aware that Trump is far from the sharpest tool in the shed. He actually believes that he can hide the truth from the American people forever. History proves that the truth will always find its way into the light of day, and for villains and scoundrels, this is their greatest fear. To hide the fact that he is a soon-to-be confirmed pedophile, Trump will wage war against a nation which offers no threat to the United States. If this sounds familiar, other presidents have taken the same actions in the past. Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq were illegal and immoral wars. However, government officials who were heavily invested in the military industrial complex became super-rich while those forced to fight their wars lost their lives and limbs. Venezuela, like most other South American countries, has a major problem with the illicit drug trade. However, fentanyl is not one of those drugs. Trump, who pardoned the biggest drug lord in Sou...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The first report revealed a conversation between Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and Admiral Mitch Bradley. After a missile struck a Venezuelan speed boat, two survivors were seen in the water. Hegseth’s response was: “kill them all.” It was never confirmed that the boat was indeed transporting illegal drugs. Here are the facts, and whether or not the boat was carrying drugs, the action was illegal and immoral. The action after the first missile severely damaged the boat was murder. The individuals in the water were defenseless and offered no threat to the American vessel or anyone else. Hegseth simply added murder to his other crimes of being drunk and disorderly, assaulting women, and embezzling money from a military charity. As for Admiral Bradley, he clearly violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice, UCMJ, by killing a defenseless adversary. These ongoing acts are a choice by Trump unconfirmed by military intelligence. As of today, Hegseth continues ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Between the year of my birth and today, I have moved all the way from a devoted and loyal patriot to someone who despises his country as it exists today. Why?  Because today’s America is not my America: it’s Donald Trump’s dark and hate-filled nation, composed of malcontents who hate the nation of our Founding Fathers. With Trump as your illegitimate leader, the Pledge of Allegiance, the Declaration of Independence, and the First, Fourth, Fifth, and 14 th Amendments have no meaning. Trump is not a leader, qualified, intelligent, or a patriot. He is not and never will be an American president. How has it come to be a reality that one ignorant, arrogant old, white man has destroyed America’s image? His actions have become so vile that our once revered nation will never achieve its former status as long as time exists. My America was hanging on by a thread in 2016. Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Moscow Mitch McConnell, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News are all guil...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The main reasons I disrespect and even hate Donald Trump, his party, and the mainstream media is the fact they are pathological liars. “IT IS A TRUE saying that a LIE travels faster than the TRUTH. Why? Because the TRUTH never has to travel. The TRUTH was here before the lie began, and will be here long after the lie fades away. The TRUTH always outlasts the LIE... so always stand on the TRUTH.” Anonymous For the mainstream media, their crimes are the worst. They practice lies of omission, the most dangerous of all. Nine and one-half years ago I became a septuagenarian. My insurance company began raising my premiums and lowering coverage. I had seen the ads from USAA on television. I enlisted in the USAF after high school in 1964. My father served our country in the United States Navy during WWII. However, when I decided to sign up, I was told that I did not qualify. This was surprising. Their television commercials guaranteed coverage in situations like mine. I...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The above statement, learning everything you need to know from the “boob tube,” might suggest that anyone who believes this to be true is poorly educated, and probably cannot read. You would be right. What you might not know, is this statement came from your illegitimate president in 2018 during his second year, and first term. In 2025, nothing has changed. When Trump is in the White House, on rare occasion, he is sitting in a room adjacent to the Oval Office watching Fox Noise. His own words and actions prove that he believes the fallacious broadcasts from the original “fake news” network. Trump’s latest focus evolves from a story on Fox. Fox leads the nation in Islamophobia. So when Trump watched a story about Islamic persecution against Christians in the African Country of Nigeria, Trump stumbled back into the Oval Office and placed a call to the Pentagon. [US President Donald Trump has ordered the military to prepare for action in Nigeria to tackle Islamist ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The truth. One word with enormous power: power great enough to bring down corporations, careers, and yes, even dictators. Donald John Trump has never told the truth once in his life, but he understands its power and fears the truth more than anything else in the world. Over the last 10 years, I read thousands of articles about Trump and his life of crime and debauchery. I learned that the crimes committed by Trump are numerous, vile, and of such great magnitude he should have been prosecuted 40 years ago and residing in a 6X8 foot cell today. His most disgusting crimes against humanity involve his 15-year relationship with a now deceased and convicted pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. At one point, Epstein called Trump “his best friend.” It is fair to say that their only interest was a shared desire to find pleasure with the company of beautiful women, and the younger the better. There are limited records, but one speaks volumes. Trump was a passenger on Epstein’s pri...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Not knowing something does not make you stupid. No one knows everything, although Trump lies and tells you he does. Ignorance is not normal: it’s a choice. When information is available, but you choose to believe lies and half-truths, you choose to be ignorant. But the facts cannot be denied. In America, watching television news is ignorant. The fourth estate ceased to exist once and for all on January 20, 2025. Half-truths are more dangerous than blatant lies. A story, which contains a small amount of truth, is easy for the uninformed to accept as fact. Television news is a large factor in the dumbing down of America. Only one “information source” is worse: social media. If you spend any time on social media, you will soon become a moron. 99 percent of everything on Facebook, “X” and other fake news outlets is misleading and most often completely untrue. Currently, one issue is revealing the low level of intelligence of most Americans in the 21 st century. Thi...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart First and foremost, ICE should not exist. Its creation was unnecessary, a “knee-jerk” reaction to the tragedies which occurred on September 11, 2001. They are poorly trained and far from a legitimate law enforcement agency. They have become Trump’s personal Gestapo. Raids, national guard deployment, and the creation of concentration camps, are poorly disguised efforts to ethnically cleanse America, and punish Trump’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 ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart America’s greatest criminal is at it again. The government shutdown is solely the responsibility of Trump and his fascist party. They control all three branches of government, and today, Trump’s Senate rejected a measure to prevent another fiscal disaster for working-class Americans. Trump is in control of everything that happens in Washington today. He is the reason only the most corrupt and useless members of our federal government will continue to receive their paychecks and benefits after September 30. Those who actually work in Washington will struggle to pay their mortgages and other necessities. The malignant narcissist defiling our White House is desperate to prevent the truth from being told by his mainstream media. A misinformation effort is underway attempting to blame Democrats for another failure. [A bright red banner and pop-up message that appeared Tuesday on the Department of Housing and Urban Development's website warns: "The Radical Le...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart God, if there is one, must have a tremendous and somewhat cruel sense of humor. He gave mankind strength, resilience, and in some, great intelligence and wisdom. However, with the exception of a handful of the rarest of individuals, He also placed great weakness in every human being, which is usually triggered by often meaningless and baseless words. Politicians and the mainstream media control their supporters with the use of carefully chosen words and phrases. Throughout the history of the world, tyrannical leaders used words to inspire loyalty and incite violence on their behalf. Love and hate, trust and fear, anger and understanding, apathy and compassion, war and peace, these opposites are frequently twisted in efforts to brainwash the uninformed. Let me digress for a moment. I don’t have heroes. I do have people and their ideas for whom I have great respect. I believe that the greatest lessons in life are the result of listening to wise men and women and a...