TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Nothing has changed, at least for the better, since Trump was inaugurated in 2017. Beginning in that year, there have been more mass shootings than days on the calendar. Domestic terrorism continues to be the greatest danger to the American people in the 21 st century. And your illegitimate president has added to the problem with the use of his personal Gestapo, ICE. Truth: If good, law-abiding men and women fear any law enforcement agency, that organization is composed of imposters. DOMESTIC TERRORISM HAS MANY FORMS Unfortunately, when the words “domestic,” and “terrorism” are placed together, the word violence is automatically added. However, all actions of terrorism do not include violence. Your illegitimate president was given powers by six corrupt and biased members of the Supreme Court unintended by the men who signed the Constitution in 1789. Trump is a mentally ill, old man, who chooses to use those undeserved powers for evil, not for good. Nothing matt...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart ICE is not a legitimate law enforcement agency. It was one of several unconstitutional and “knee jerk” reactions by the incompetent and criminal George W. Bush administration. What it is, is a paramilitary group of thugs and villains who share support for Trump and his fascist goals for America’s future. Republicans call them “law enforcement,” although that is an insult to every good man and woman in history who wore the badge in any nation in the world. ICE REVEALED What ICE has become is Trump’s personal Gestapo. When he speaks, they obey and take violent actions against innocent people with complete approval from the schoolyard bully. [• Historical and Recent Numbers: Over 300 people have died in ICE custody since the agency was created in 2003 (with numbers fluctuating by fiscal year). [• Recent Peaks: ICE reported 33 detainee deaths in 2025, which was the highest annual total in more than two decades. As of October 2026, at least 28 additional people...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Fact: the Republican Party began to take its final breaths in 1981. Today, the Party of Lincoln is nothing but a memory. There are many reasons that this travesty occurred, but at the center are efforts by one extremist group of leaders calling themselves “Evangelicals.” [The term evangelical refers to a worldwide movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the authority of the Bible, the "good news" (gospel) of salvation through Jesus Christ, and the personal experience of being "born”] IF YOU IGNORE THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS CHRIST, YOU ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN Growing up Catholic, and attending Parochial school, I read the Bible, and studied the basic concepts of Judaism, the Religion of Islam, and learned the beliefs of Buddhism, Sikhism, and other less popular faiths. For those of you who have never read the Bible, cover to cover, it is divided into two parts: the Old Testament, and the New Testament. The Old Testament is composed of lege...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I must be blunt, regardless of who this might offend. Trump’s kidnapping and incarceration of innocent men, women, and children in his hastily constructed concentration camps is in fact an effort to “ethnically cleanse” America. Anyone who ignores the obvious truth is too fucking dumb to be allowed their right to vote. Trump is achieving his goal of removing anyone who is not white from our country. His personal gestapo, composed of thugs and villains who are members of his Nazi army, enjoy their use of physical violence and torture simply because they can do anything They are protected by their Fuhrer, and can do anything to anyone they choose, including physical assault and torture. ICE was as moronic a decision as the Patriot Act by another Republican president. It just happens to be unconstitutional, but nobody cares in Trump’s America. Trump is currently seeking the approval of a federal judge to allow “racial profiling” to increase the number of in...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Any action taken at the height of emotion will almost always be a mistake. On October 26, 2001, the signing of the Patriot Act was the first step by a Republican President to move our nation away from the rights guaranteed by the Constitution, and into a fascist regime. Fear remains the right-wing’s greatest weapon in efforts to control all three branches of our federal government. This is where it all began. After your government failed to prevent the attacks on September 11, 2001, they reacted to the disaster with fear tactics. Although the Bush Administration was revealed as a group of total incompetents and a great danger to the future of our nation’s people, they responded with actions which were both desperate and unconstitutional, claiming that terrorism remained the greatest danger to our nation’s people. Every speech “W” made contained multiple references to “9/11.” This is how they passed the Patriot Act. It requires only a cursory examination of the l...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Moscow Mitch McConnell is a modern “Snidley Whiplash.” He is pure evil, a traitor to his country’s people, and the most destructive Senator in America’s nearly 249-year history. Moscow Mitch is serving his 7 th term in the Senate, a disgrace and a detriment to good government. He is the poster “boy” for why term limits are mandatory if our government is to survive. His ultimate crime against America was complete in October of 2020. This action confirmed the end of the only branch of our government not to be corrupted by the most disgusting and useless job in America: politics. Amy Coney Barrett, a Catholic extremist, was rushed through Senate confirmation hearings in September of 2020 when the legendary Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, lost her fight for life. Moscow Mitch broke his own rule and forced her confirmation through the Senate with less than one month before the election. Barrett’s only qualification was a promise to overturn a Supreme Cou...

  This title is obviously what millions of voters were thinking when they stood in a voting booth on November 5, 2024. Now they know the answer to their question: “Trump is much worse than anyone could have imagined.” Let’s look at one fact offered by the orange buffoon today. Trump pardoned more than 1,500 violent criminals who committed acts of treason on January 6, 2021. They were acting on his orders, but he will never pay for the ultimate crime against our nation. President Biden, understanding Trump’s childish need for revenge, pardoned the men and women who were performing their duties, investigating the insurrection on January 6. Trump has committed many crimes and many acts of sexual impropriety during his sad and useless 78 years and 9 months. The one thing he has never done and never will do is to “do the right thing.” Trump will always follow his own personal rule: “do whatever serves Donald Trump, and fuck everyone and everything else.” Trump will ignore the Rule of La...

  In 2024, the Supreme Court destroyed the most important part of our Founding Father’s creation. Our system of a Democratic Republic was intended to have three “separate but equal branches.” However, in order to prevent any form of monarchy, or autocracy, the least powerful of all three branches was the Executive: the presidency. This all changed in 2024. In 2017 Moscow Mitch McConnell and Trump began to “stack” the Supreme Court with what would become three unqualified justices who had promised to support the right-wing’s extremist agenda. This 922-page fascist manifesto is called “Project 2025.” The first major blow to democracy came on June 24, 2022. This dark day in our nation’s history will be remembered as the most vicious attack on women’s rights in a lifetime. Repealing a decision by a legitimate Court, 49 years in the past, removed a woman’s right to make decisions about her personal physical and mental health. Roe v Wade, federal protection for a woman’s right to...

The Electoral College is the least democratic law in America. It prevents the concept of “every vote must count,” and allows the states to choose our presidents, not the people. It is also one of the primary reasons red and blue states exist, and why our nation is divided to a degree not seen since the first Civil War. Red and blue states are detrimental to democracy but advantageous for presidential wannabees. Their reelection campaigns need only to make perfunctory visits to red or blue states, depending on your party affiliation. The majority of the efforts are focused on swing states, and red or blue states whose social and political demographics experienced a significant change over the previous four years. Although the population of America is approximately 340 million, the only number that matters for a presidential candidate is 270. This is the number of Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. Something you will never hear from an elected official or the mainstre...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I encourage everyone to vote. I continue to read responses like, “my vote doesn’t matter,” or “why should I if my vote doesn’t count?” I understand how some voters feel. I live in a “purple state.” However, if I lived in a red state, I would have no reason to vote. Electoral votes in deep red states usually go to those calling themselves “Republicans.” I admit that when I was first allowed to vote in 1968, I knew nothing about the Electoral College. I assumed that the candidate who received the most votes would be our next president. Little did I know that the states actually choose our nation’s leader. When I did understand the truth, more than 10 years later, I was extremely upset. I had grown up in California, but what if I had been a resident of Mississippi or any other red state? THERE IS BUT ONE WAY TO DEFEAT THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL ELECTORAL COLLEGE First, there would be no “red or blue states” if the Electoral College did not exist. This i...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   The most f**ked up law in America is Income Tax. The Income Tax Code Book consists of 6871 pages. Few of these pages involve the average working man . Most include ways for the wealthiest Americans to avoid paying their fair share. This is the only reason why our nation is more than 30 trillion dollars in debt in 2024.   At the end of the Constitutional Convention there was no provision which required an individual to pay taxes directly to the federal government. All American citizens would pay taxes to the state in which they resided , and the states would pay taxes to the federal government.   On July 1, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a law which would become the Internal Revenue Service. Today, we know this was a big mistake by our nation’s second greatest president. However, it was necessary. Confederate states were no longer paying taxes to the federal government, and fighting the First Civil War was costly, ranging from 28 millio...