TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Under orders from their Fuhrer-in-Chief, the United States military has been sinking Venezuelan boats and killing civilians. Trump claims that they are drug smugglers, while the government of Venezuela says they were pleasure craft. Members of the National Guard are invadeing blue states as Trump attempts to enact martial law to prevent protests against his fascist policies. Maybe Trump wants to give the Pentagon a much-needed victory They couldn’t defeat the North Koreans, were forced to retreat from Vietnam permanently, and lost to the Taliban and Iraq’s army before the conflicts began. Our military is not trained to fight in those types of wars. Hell, they couldn’t stop Trump’s Nazi army from invading the Capitol Building on January 6. Martha Gellhorn, a famous war correspondent, once wrote: "Governments are all bad everywhere, only differently bad. I've known that for a long time". This quote reflects her long and varied experience covering con...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart For my readers, I offer the absolute, undeniable, irrefutable truth: Every time a representative from the Pentagon or a professional politician avoids a direct answer to a question from a member of the legitimate press, and uses these words: “for reasons of national security,” he or she is covering up corruption or hiding something which would encourage the American people to lose trust in our military and/or the federal government. On this day, August 10, 2025, the complete truth about President Kennedy’s assassination, the events and failures which led up to the cowardly attacks on September 11, 2001, and the results of the 2016 and 2024 presidential elections remain a secret, hidden from anyone who is not a member of the worst and most incompetent government in the world. Younger Americans may choose ignorance over fact, hoping that our nation’s leaders are loyal Americans who care about the future of the United States of America. I am 79 years old, and I can...