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Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart America needs a great leader now more than ever. Although John Fitzgerald Kennedy had his weaknesses, his actions as our nation’s 35 th President were nearly perfect. He displayed a willingness to do the right thing as he faced many challenges, never doing what was easy or politically correct. He was the last great president, and was taken from us far too soon on November 22, 1963. You may think that I have lost my mind, but the man closest to becoming great was a man whose ambitions resulted in criminal actions which made people forget his many accomplishments. His name was Richard Millhouse Nixon. America is facing great danger and possibly extinction in 2025. Ours is a nation in both chaos and crisis, and to deny this fact is to choose ignorance over reality. Throughout my life I have been fascinated by the efforts of professional politicians to place every situation in black or white. Their use of antonyms is never ending. George W. Bush created “the Axis o...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I admit to vacillating between optimism and pessimism. I realize that Trump and his Nazi army are intentionally creating chaos in Washington and every state in the Union. However, now, more than ever, our country needs a great leader. Great leaders are rare, and even more unusual in a country whose freedoms allow the worst in people to rise to the surface. America’s very existence is in jeopardy. The executive branch is controlled by Putin’s puppet and every action Trump has taken in the last six months and 14 days is listed in the right-wing’s fascist manifesto called Project 2025. One half or the legislative branch is loyal to Trump, not to our nation’s 340 million people. Six of the nine Supreme Court Justices are traitors. They are ignoring the intent of the Constitution in support of their fascist leader. It’s very hard to be optimistic. Both political parties are hiding one fact from the American people. Trump was not fairly and honestly elected in 2016 or...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I care. I have been warning the American people in print newspapers, blogs including The Las Vegas Guardian Express, the Guardian Liberty Voice, and my own Ask Reverend Jim and TheWiseOldFart for more than a decade that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have a master plan to end the United States and create a fascist state. Most of our nation’s citizens choose ignorance over fact. As long as they can purchase the latest i-Phones, buy Taylor Swift concert tickets, fill their stomachs with take-out or delivery food, and waste money they don’t have on “things,” they are happy to remain uninformed. Like Trump, they “learn everything they need to know on television.” For those who have ignored how quickly all three branches of our government have become corrupted, and the truth that the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments have already been shredded, read this article and weep. America is one step away from becoming a fascist nation ruled by the worst man in the wo...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The 2016 election was rigged. The 2020 election was described “as the most fair and secure in history” by Trump’s own Election Czar. In 2024, several tech companies found reasons to believe that Putin instructed his computer hackers to gain access to the voting machines in all seven swing states, allowing Trump to accomplish the impossible: win all seven, and therefore the presidency. The odds of his winning all seven states are about 100 million to one. Today, Trump is spending your tax dollars to have his supporters build new voting machines which can be controlled by him, his puppeteer, and anyone who supports Trump’s fascist agenda. He and his Supreme Court are planning to revoke the 22 nd Amendment and allow the worst president in the history of the world to seek a third term at the ancient age of 82. Trump is a pathological liar, and very rarely tells the truth. However, during the 2016 campaign he told the truth, although he couldn’t resist spinning the ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOLdFart In 2016 and 2024, Trump made many promises during his hate rallies. However, he has never kept a single one. In 2025, his focus is even more on himself and his wallet. Trump believes “what is good for him is good for the country.” From his violation of the law, using ICE as his personal gestapo, attempting genocide in America, to his failed and moronic military parade honoring his own birthday, Trump is an embarrassment to all other dictators past and present. Of course, this is what we should expect from a man with lower than average intelligence. No honest person can deny that Trump has become America’s first dictator, a Fuhrer. But this could not have happened without the assistance of a corrupt and biased Supreme Court. Proven by the absurd length of boring, self-serving speeches, Trump’s greatest pleasure is standing before his supporters and receiving undeserved adulation and loyalty. He is the living example of everyone inflicted with malignant narcissism...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Professional politicians continue their baseless claims that America is the greatest, richest, and most envied country in the world. Of course these are all lies. The quality of life for the majority of all Americans is not on our government’s list of priorities. Here are some of the reasons the United States is last in quality of life on a list of developed nations. Worst Healthcare in the World. It is true that America has some of the best doctors and healthcare equipment in the world. However these services are only available to about 10 percent of our nation’s people: millionaires and billionaires. Ours is the only nation without universal healthcare for all. If Trump’s “Big, Beautiful, Bill” is passed, at least 50 million men, women, and children will lose the minimal healthcare they have today. Education is No Longer a Priority Nearly every other democratic nation offers its citizens free or affordable higher education. Every year some of our finest minds ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart On a quiet Sunday morning, in one of the most beautiful places on  earth, a fascist dictator launched a cowardly attack which would alter the future of the entire world. In Europe, a ruthless and ambitious dictator was invading nation after nation and replacing democratic governments with fascist rule. On December 7, 1941, Hawaii was an American territory. It would not become a state until 1959. However, the Emperor of Japan knew that a large percentage of America’s naval forces were docked in one place, and a single, carefully planned attack would cripple or destroy a devastating number of ships designed for war. The next day, the greatest President in American history, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, announced that the United States would join our allies in the fight to defeat fascism. On that day, the end of WWII had begun. When the bullets stopped flying, and bombs no longer ravaged structures and took the lives of innocent men, women, and children, in what m...

It’s composed of 922 pages of instructions designed to end democracy in America and remove the First Amendment from the Bill of Rights. Included in the Fascist Manifesto are suggestions about how to abolish the Department of Education, recreate our country’s already failed healthcare system with provisions which would offer care exclusively for the white, wealthy and powerful, and a guideline to remove any historical facts about slavery, homophobia, and efforts by women to obtain complete equality with men. It also contains plans to make Christianity the only true religion in the United States. Trump and his American Fascist Party are destroying everything of value which made America the most respected nation in the world. The principles, morals, and ideals of our Founding Fathers will be nothing but a memory long before Trump completes his first year as your illegitimate president. The one tactic used by your illegitimate president since 2015 does not belong to him, but to one of his ...

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...

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...

I’m not going to be nice, but I will tell you the truth. All Republicans are stupid and racist. They use terms such as “deep state,” refer to President Biden’s extremely successful economic policy as a “virus,” label all social programs ‘socialism,’ call progressives ‘elitists,’ and the most idiotic of all, use “woke” without understanding its meaning. They have no idea what they are saying, they simply mimic their Fuhrer’s illiterate speech. The most laughable is “woke.” The word’s origin comes from the Black community and its constant fight for justice and equality. [It has been traced all the way back to “Scottsboro Boys,” a protest song recorded by Lead Belly in the 1930s advising Black people to “stay woke” and be aware of racist policies in the deeply segregated South.] The right is aware that “woke” in the 21 st century simply refers to social injustice. If you are “woke,” you care about others as much as you care about yourself: you embrace feelings of compassion and understan...

If you believe as I do and as our Founding Fathers did in 1787-1789, that the First Amendment is the most important phrase every written, and is the optimal guide for the creation of the United States of America, this article will create great sorrow and enormous fear for us all. If you refuse to believe that Trump is the leader of the Neo-Nazi movement in America, you must also be a fascist. This is the headline which inspired me to write this article. “Trump admin cracks down on pro-Palestinian protests at colleges” In case you have forgotten, here is the First Amendment.” “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech , or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” I have been warning every America for the last 10 years that Trump is Putin’s Puppet, and his only goal is to be America’s Fuhrer. His family ...

Let me begin with a crude but accurate statement defining Trump and Musk: they are old, white men who are liars, and full of shit. A simple assessment of their actions proves that their efforts have a single purpose: to place even more money into the bank accounts of our nation’s 813 Oligarchs/Billionaires. Fair taxation has always been overlooked in America. History proves that our government has always placed the profits of the super-rich in priority above the welfare of the majority, with the exception of the FDR presidency between 1933 and 1945. If America’s most wealthy citizens paid their fair share of taxes in the past and present, our nation could fund the same programs found in every other developed nation and still have a surplus. Consider this fact: in 2018, Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy supporters greatly reduced the percentage of taxes paid by the one percent. For example: In 2018 Walmart and Amazon paid zero dollars in taxes, while pocketing billions of dollars in prof...

Prior to the second illegitimate presidency of Donald John Trump, America was back on a path of compassion, understanding, and acceptance. Trump hates DEI for what it stands for: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. As the leader of the Neo-Nazi movement in our country, his plans for the future are dark, composed of anger, hatred, violence, and extreme racism. Dystopia: “an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.” The current disaster is the backdrop for what will surely become a dystopian society. This is the plan laid out in Project 2025. The last sentence is Trump’s personal image of what the United States should become: the same dark place he spoke of in his first inaugural address. Although he claims to know nothing about Project 2025, every plan, every idea originates from his many hate rallies and the promises he made to his “basement dwellers.” What he doesn’t say is that when this becomes re...

The government of the United States is the most corrupt and incompetent in the world. Now that this fact has been disclosed, let’s go back to election year 2024. A single story was reported early in 2024 which was never revealed during the remainder of a critical election year. The FBI reported massive efforts by Vladimir Putin and the best hackers in the world to interfere in our upcoming election; for the third time. Your corrupt government was complicit and refused to inform the voting public of this egregious attack on our democracy. Over the remaining nine months, Trump was crushed in the single debate between the leader of the Neo-Nazi movement in America, and Kamala Harris, attendance at his hate rallies was in rapid decline, while Ms. Harris was filling stadiums in swing states, and speaking about the issues; telling the truth. In 2016 the majority of Putin’s efforts to place his puppet in the White House were on social media, the worst thing to happen to the truth in world his...

Putin, Trump, and Musk won: democracy is nothing but a memory today. America is now a fascist country under the control of Fuhrer Trump, and his master, Vladimir Putin. Trump’s Nazi Army has defeated the most powerful military force on the planet. If you read the three attached articles, and are witnessing the fact that our corrupt and cowardly military leaders are doing nothing to end Trump’s unconstitutional actions, they did nothing on January 6, and you know I’m right but don’t want to admit it. The truth is unconscionable and it is your fault if you voted for a traitor last November. I’m going to tell you something you won’t like, but it is an undeniable fact. If you were born after 1960, you have no idea what America was like before you were born. My generation, original baby boomers, has been criticized and made fun of by the idiots on late night television and stand-up comics for years. What you don’t know is that we grew up extremely patriotic and proud of the nation we were f...

      I have been writing articles about American politics since 2012. I know that what I learned altered the way I once thought about my country, our people, and the men and women who spend their days in Washington. The details are contained within the thousands of articles posted in newspapers and blogs. Today, April 11, 2025, I can tell you one fact I have come to accept; one fact which truly disappoints me. The men and women who control our major corporations, the men and women we elect and are chosen to serve on the Supreme Court, the men and women who lead our military, the men and women who provide healthcare, and the majority, the average American citizen are collectively the stupidest people on God’s green earth. The nation created by our Founding Fathers was far from perfect; they made many mistakes when they signed the Constitution in 1789. However, letters written by Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Washington ...

Present at Trump’s inauguration were several oligarchs. In total there are 813 billionaires/oligarchs in the United States. Our nation’s economy has been based on capitalism for centuries, but devolved into a plutocracy between 2017 and 2021. All three branches of our government are controlled by right-wing extremists who are owned by Trump and his oligarchs. This is exactly the same situation in Russia. Putin and his oligarchs have been in complete control of an entire nation for decades. Anyone who dissents is punished. Trump is attacking everyone who disagrees with his fascist policies, or investigated his failed coup attempt on January 6, 2021.          Recently Trump added another tactic used by both Adolf Hitler and Putin. He barred legitimate news agencies from the White House. Coincidence? Not on your life. Okay, maybe you don’t care about Trump’s lies. In 2015 he was asked about Putin. His response was: “I never met the man.” Records...