TheWiseOldFart

Trump’s release of the names of some of his cabinet choices and other aides is the only glimmer of hope for our nation’s future. Trump knows nothing about being a leader, and his recent choices of men and women who will serve in the White House know even less about what their positions will require. This means that the harm they intend to place upon our nation and its people will surely be of less gravity than it might have been. Trump proved that he is incompetent by choice and by lack of ability for four long years. His actual accomplishments register a huge zero. It is clear that he and his minions will be equally effective between 2025 and 2029. Either way, I hope that I and Trump fail to survive the end of his horrific presidency. We will both become octogenarians in 2026. I love America but I do not wish to live through another four years of whatever Trump’s nation will be called. It will not be the America in which I lived from 1946 until today. I have no interest in how the “ex...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Yesterday, July 11, 2024, might have been the final day of President Biden’s campaign. Mr. Biden held a solo news conference Thursday evening. After another gaffe at the NATO summit, his team conducted a hasty poll concerning Vice-President Harris’ ability to defeat Trump in November. THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS The President began his news conference defending the recent summit with the NATO Alliance. He stated a frightening but irrefutable fact. The only reason there has not been a WWIII is article five of the Alliance. However, Trump said that he would not support article five of the agreement, which guarantees that if one member of the alliance is attacked, we are all under attack. Trump continues to support Russia’s immoral and illegal invasion of Ukraine, calling Putin a “genius.” Does a “genius” lose more than 300,000 lives and hundreds of millions of dollars in war machines? It is no secret that Putin has ordered the orange buffoon to dismantle the most impo...