TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart This story may not excite you or awaken your strongest emotions. However, it clearly reveals that your illegitimate president is void of concern for anyone but himself and the super-rich, and lacks integrity, undeserving of the respect of any true American. It concerns the first two vetoes of his second illegitimate presidency. The bipartisan bills are designed to make it easier to build a water pipeline in Colorado and give a Native American tribe more control over a portion of the Everglades. [One of the bills — the Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act — would have added a small village called the Osceola Camp to a section of the Florida Everglades that the Miccosukee Native American Tribe has control over. It would also require the Department of the Interior to take action to protect structures in the village from flooding.] Trump gave his own reason for vetoing the bill, based on vengeance and hatred for anyone whose origin is now western European and whi...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart 50-year mortgages? Would you be willing to pay three times the cost of a new home and never live to see the loan marked “paid in full?” The American Dream has become just that: a dream. According to most leading economists, generation “X” and those who follow, will never have careers with an income which allows them to purchase a single-family home. In my area of the United States, Northern Nevada, new homes are under construction. However, the focus is clearly on building large apartment buildings. The average rent on a one-bedroom apartment in Reno, NV, ranges from about $1,350 to over $1,800 per month. The consensus is that the average salary in Reno is 35-36 thousand dollars per year. I am not a math wizard, but it appears that rental rates on a one-bedroom apartment in Reno are likely to be more than one-half of one month’s wages. The average price of a single-family home is between $545,000 and $578,000. Monthly payments range between $3,200, and $3,900. I...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart At the end of the Constitutional Convention in 1789, our Founding Fathers were aware that their creation was imperfect. Unaware of the inherent evils of mankind, they mistakenly believed that their successors would make the necessary improvements which would make the United States a truly great nation. However, they also displayed great wisdom. The First Amendment is considered the most important declaration of human rights in history by Constitutional scholars. Allow me to refresh your memory. “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.” The first line was clearly the most important to every man attending the convention. Most of the men who signed the Constitution were Deists. A few were Christians. All of them were spiritual. What the...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart It is obvious that Trump has never read the Constitution . Why should he? He has no respect for the Law of the Land , and proves this fact as he constantly violates the Constitution. He is waging a war against Venezuela right now without the consent of Congress. Why should he care? Six members of the Supreme Court are loyal to him, not to their country, and granted him absolute immunity. They are violating their only purpose as they evacuate their bowels on our nation’s most sacred document. [The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the exclusive power to declare war, found in Article I, Section 8, Clause 11, which states Congress can "declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water.”] What Trump is obviously doing involves a law passed in every state in the Union. He, his incompetent Secretary of Defense, and the Pentagon are committing first degree murder. There has been no due process as commanded by...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Anything Trump or one of his cronies, past, or present, tells the press is a lie. The break-up between Trump and his political concubine, Marjory Taylor Greene is hilarious. However, nothing either of them says has even a morsel of the truth. The following statements from Greene are very funny if you know the facts behind the lies. “I hate my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them,” Trump said. Greene said: “That was absolutely the worst statement. It just shows where his heart is. And that’s the difference, with her having a sincere Christian faith, and proves that he does not have any faith.” It gets even better, but I love the remark about Christianity. Not a single right-wing politician is a true Christian. All of them reject the teachings of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. “As a Christian, I don’t believe in doing that,” she said. “I agree with Erika Kirk, who did the hardest thing possible and said it out loud.” Greene said she later told a friend...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart What is Trump really doing? You probably don’t want to hear the truth, and the mainstream media will never tell the truth. Trump is following orders from his handler. He and Putin are complicit and whatever Putin wants, Putin will get. We’ve all listened and read about previous meetings between Trump and Ukraine President Zelinskyy. Trump manhandles him and refuses to respect his position and his efforts to save his country. The schoolyard bully is acting as we might expect, making a complete ass of himself. If you think I am creating a conspiracy theory, read the following. It doesn’t require a cryptologist to understand what this actually means. [Trump's "peace efforts" after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to the White House on Sunday to discuss a possible peace deal to end Russia's full-scale invasion of the country. ["The whole world appreciates President Trump and his team's peace efforts," Dmitriev, who als...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Everyone’s life is a process, a process of learning from our experiences, our successes, and our mistakes. Nearing the age of 80, I hope and believe that I have learned many things about myself and the world in which I live. I cannot hide my physical disabilities. However, I believe that my mind is intact, and although I am nearing the definition of “octogenarian,” my memory of the last eight decades is clear. I am who I am because I followed the rules. I worked hard to care for myself and my family, and although I had my share of failures, I always tried to do the right thing. I am what it means to be an average American. Trump was born into a world which can only be described as “ultimate white privilege.” Not once in his life has he worked a full day. Studying him for the last 13 years, it is obvious that he never attended his classes at a military boarding school, Fordham, or Wharton. He knows nothing about anything, including the English language. Over the ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I have offered proof multiple times that Trump suffers from Malignant Narcissism and has for his entire life. In 2025, we can add the definition of insanity: “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Trump savors texting more than sleep, which contributes to his frequent naps during important government meetings. Old men need their rest, I have learned that from experience. What he chooses to tweet about is repetitive: how bad everyone is who criticizes his fascist policies and whining about the fact that he is the most hated man in the world. On Christmas Day, Trump, who may be the only participant on his failed social media platform, “Truth Social,” sent more than 150 messages to his cult. The subjects were the usual: the 2020 election conspiracy theories to false claims about Somali immigrants. Trump put particular focus on the release of the Epstein files, posting: ["The Dems are the ones who worked with Epstein, not the Repu...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I am definitely not a psychiatrist. However, I read a lot about the failure of our nation to address the many mental health issues affecting hundreds of thousands of Americans, if not millions. Most insurance companies refuse to cover the cost of long-term care. One stands out above the rest: your illegitimate, mentally ill, and self-absorbed fake president. Let’s take another look at his lifelong ailment. Malignant Narcissism: [In the popular conception, malignant narcissism is a form of 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. [Campbell’s Psychiatric Dictionary suggests that malignant narcissism includes traits of narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder. Narcissistic personality disorderTrusted Source causes a person to seek constant acclaim ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart It is no secret that after nearly five years as your illegitimate president, Trump has accomplished nothing of a positive nature. The reasons for this are many, but I have no doubt it began before the orange buffoon reached puberty, if he ever did. There is no information about Trump’s childhood. What we do know is that his parents no longer wanted him in their home and placed him in a local military boarding school at the age of 13. I have no doubt that it was during this time that he became a schoolyard bully. He is a coward, and all schoolyard bullies are cowards, ordering others to do his fighting for him. This continues today. His success as a Manhattan real estate mogul is a fable. The New York business community tells tales of his bribing public officials in charge of inspecting his construction projects, and threatened anyone who attempted to expose his crimes. At least six bankruptcies, and bailouts by Russian oligarchs and the Saudi Royal Family saved ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Can you trust your president? Only if you can pick up 300 pounds of lard in one hand and toss it across the ocean. Trump constantly lies. He is incapable of telling the truth because the truth is his greatest enemy. But, he is not alone. The Pentagon is by nature a fascist group of old men and women who enjoy playing with their very expensive toys. They realize that in peacetime, they are useless. Therefore, it is no surprise that they are obeying orders from their Fuhrer and murdering dozens of people off the coast of Venezuela, claiming they are transporting illegal drugs. They have no proof, there has been no due process. This is not important for Trump and his “Wehrmacht.” Trump and Hegseth are committing murder in the first degree. Our military leaders are guilty of war crimes, and violations of the UCMJ: the Universal Code of Military Justice. The question I have is “why has the mainstream refused to do the right thing and tell the Truth about the criminal...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart You may not understand the importance of Christmas Day to real, normal people. Like the character in Charles Dickens 1843 “A Christmas Carol,” you are the most hated man in the world. Unfortunately, your lifelong affliction with malignant narcissism will not allow you to accept this fact. You lack the compassion and intellect to understand the importance of living a life worth living. You will die a man filled with anger and hatred for everyone but yourself. Because of your actions, millions of people around the world are experiencing a lesser Christmas than they deserve. You are the ultimate ‘Scrooge,’ and after your demise, you will be remembered only for the evil you spread around the planet. Your greatest problem is founded in the fact that you have never matured. You remain a spoiled child, born into the world of extreme white privilege. You have no knowledge of what it is like for most of our nation’s people, and the saddest fact of all is, you don’t care....

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart As the Antichrist, Trump hates Christmas, almost as much as he hates all non-white people. Today is Christmas Eve, and I think it’s time to review the many “gifts” the majority of Americans received from your illegitimate president in 2025. While running for office in 2024, Trump made promises he never intended to keep, and he kept his “word.” Greedflation is growing and prices on all commodities, including toys for Christmas are far more expensive this year, and the culprit is clearly Trump’s ill-advised tariffs. Tariffs always fail, with a couple of minor exceptions. Doubt my allegation. Look at 1930 and what happened when tariffs added additional grief to the Great Depression. To understand why a second, illegitimate Trump presidency is 100 times more destructive than his first, we must return to 2016 and the truth about his rigged victory and his many failures over the next four years. Insiders with access to Trump and the reality of the 2016 election claim ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Every twisted decision Trump makes adds to a long list of proof that he is the leader of America’s Neo-Nazi movement. His most recent action makes no effort to hide the fact that your illegitimate president considers anyone who is not white inferior to himself and his fascist party. [Andrea Lucas, head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, released a video last week calling for white men who claim they’ve been hurt by diversity policies to file claims to potentially “recover money under federal civil rights laws.”] If this was not so obviously supercilious, I would be laughing right now. As a child, my single mother and her small family were poor. However, we lived in an area of Los Angeles which benefitted from white privilege. Although I was unaware of how racist my country was until the age of 12 or 13, I watched the news and I learned that most Black Americans were not only poor, but disenfranchised by those in power. In 1962, I escaped from my Ca...

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 In 2022, then FBI Director, Christopher Wray, testified before Congress and stated a fact which should have frightened every American, and most importantly all law enforcement agencies. Director Wray offered a single warning: “Domestic Terrorism is the greatest danger to the American people in the 21st century.” No longer could the liars on the right side of the aisle blame Muslim extremists for all of America’s problems. On January 6, 2021, Trump planned, organized, and executed an attempted coup. His Nazi army was led by leaders of various Neo-Nazi groups, including the “Proud Boys,” and the “Oath Keepers.” In 2025, domestic terrorism is growing at light-year speed. However, Trump is ignoring this undeniable fact because he is their leader. You can call what is happening today a second American Revolution or a second Civil War. Regardless, real Americans are currently engaged in a battle to save our nation or surrender to outside forces and the e...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart As an original, white baby boomer, I grew up in an atmosphere of white privilege. I grew up in Los Angeles, and I knew nothing about racism and other forms of prejudice until I was about 12 or 13. I was 16 when I became aware that my Black friends lived in an alternative America. In my junior year of high school, I was allowed to leave a Parochial high school, and attend Venice High, a public institution. The new friends I made, combined with what I learned in my history classes, exposed hidden facts about America’s dark side where prejudice in all forms made the country I love a less respected nation than I had previously believed, and a nation incapable of becoming the greatest in the world. America’s history of extreme racism began more than 400 years ago. The first enslaved Africans arrived in English North America in August 1619, at Point Comfort (now Hampton, Virginia) in the colony of Virginia, brought by an English privateer ship, the White Lion, from a ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Did you really think Trump’s DOJ would obey the law and release undeniable proof that Trump, the world’s most infamous sexual predator, was indeed a pedophile? You must have been living on another planet for the last 10 years. It is an undeniable fact that Attorney General, Pam Bondi, continues to violate the purpose of her position. She has become Trump’s personal attorney. You might remember the name, Bill Barr. He was Trump’s Attorney General in his first term when Robert Mueller’s report was finally released. Barr redacted/censored most of it. I don’t mean a part, or even one-half, most of it. What we learned then is what we know now: anything hidden from the American people is proof of guilt. Trump had a secret communications center constructed in the Seychelles Islands in 2018 where he and his puppeteer could share information during his first illegitimate presidency. Trump definitely conspired with Putin during the 2016 campaign. Today’s actions offer irr...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Every day over the last 10+ months, Trump violated the Fifth Amendment, after the Supreme Court granted him powers not intended by our Founding Fathers. He knows he is above the law and continues to commit the most egregious crimes known to man. Trump and his henchman, Pete Hegseth, along with the consent of the corrupt men and women in the Pentagon, have murdered more than 100 people off the coast of Venezuela in a direct violation of the Fifth Amendment. Fifth Amendment: “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself , nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due p...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart In 1980, I was fooled by a better actor than I believed him to be. As a resident of California, Ronald Reagan had impressed me as our governor. His remodel of our state’s educational system, most significantly our state colleges and universities, was a major influence as to why I, and many other Independents, voted for him in 1980. However, early in 1981, Reagan revealed himself and his agenda. He began the right-wing’s war against the working class, minorities, and women’s rights. He also made me aware of his support for the establishment of Christianity as our nation’s only true religion and his support for our nation’s billionaires. He planted the roots of fascism with a demand that his party offer him 100 percent loyalty. He rejected any efforts to oppose his policies and plans for our nation’s future. The Republican Party’s platform was based on lies and misdirection, and hypocrisy became its cornerstone. [Newt Gingrich notably touted the Republican Party a...