TheWiseOldFart

If the people of Iowa cared, I would feel sorry for them. However, they continue to reelect two of the worst, self-serving Senators in American history: Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst. Grassley is the senior Senator from Iowa. In his situation, it is valid to use the word “senior” in more ways than one. The press, mainstream media, late night comics, Trump, and his failed party made age an issue in 2024. This was a smoke screen. He is 82 years of age, and I believe he is too old to be our president. Trump is 78 ½ years old, and mentally impaired. He is equally unqualified to lead our nation. However, the “winner” in this discussion is Chuck Grassley. “Grassley, who will turn 91 this fall, has spent seven terms in the Senate championing ethanol and Iowa pig farmers and throwing sand in the gears of the government whenever he gets the chance.” (This part of the article comes from March, 2024. He was reelected at the age of 91). This one story should be the most embarrassing thing about Io...

You might know the name. She surpassed Oprah Winfrey as the most respected woman in America. She is brilliant, a great patriot, and always says and does the right thing. Several groups encouraged Michelle Obama to run for the presidency in 2020. I have no doubt she could have won a huge victory. However, after living in the White House for eight years and privy to how ugly the world of politics can be, she declined. After Trump’s illegitimate victory in the Electoral College in 2016, she was courteous and kind to Melania Trump, performing her duties as the outgoing First Lady. Now that Trump will once again become our nation’s most controversial and unpopular president, she is no longer required to play nice. True to her beliefs and principles, she announced her refusal to attend Trump’s illegal inauguration on January 20. America’s biggest traitor should not be allowed a return to the White House. America is just another young country which will not survive its first 500 years. Our na...

If you read my rants frequently, you know that I never have and never will refer to Trump as my president. He is not an American by definition, and he will never serve all 340 million Americans. He will care for the citizens in states which elected him and rule over the rest. Without a single qualification, no experience, including the time between January 20, 2017 and January 20, 2021, and no desire to perform the duties required by his job description, he does not deserve respect from any real American. Respect and trust must be earned, not given freely, and he has never accomplished anything in his 78 years and seven months, which resulted in a positive result for anyone other than himself. I live in a swing/purple state. Here in Nevada, I feel a lot of tension. Trump caused more harm to America in four years than I imagined. I predicted a great division, and massive destruction. However, he was far worse than I believed possible. His last year was his worst. He refuses to read anyt...

  Trump will never be my president. The title of President of the United States has a definition which includes certain necessary attributes which make him or her worthy of the most powerful and important job in the world. However, never forget that he or she is nothing more than an elected public servant. I view a president as the most qualified person available for that title on election day. He or she must have years of experience in federal and/or state government. He or she must have above average intellect, able to make the best possible decision in every situation with the assistance of his or her closest and most trusted advisers. He or she must have exceptional moral character, and be the most principled person in the world. He or she must have unbridled love for his or her country. He or she must be the ultimate patriot. It is obvious that Trump fails to possess a single attribute I just suggested. What he does possess is extreme levels of anger, hatred, and a passion for...

President Biden, President Elect Donald Trump, and former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton attended Jimmy Carter’s funeral on Thursday. One of them was unwelcome. According to several attendees at the event, Trump and third wife Melania were shunned by the Bidens, the Obamas, the Bush’s and the Clintons most of the time. If this surprises you, I don’t understand why. Trump has verbally attacked each of them on at least one occasion. I don’t think a single person who has ever met Trump likes him. In fact, he is the most hated man on the planet. Not one person I speak with regularly would enjoy having Trump in their presence at any time. He is a crude, rude, old man who demands absolute attention from others and has never shown empathy or even respect for anyone else in his pitiful life. Respect must be earned, and there is not a single occasion when Trump’s words or actions offered a reason why he should be respected. In my humble estimation, if someone is not r...

On Thursday, January 9, 2025 America won two victories. Trump and Moscow Mitch’s stacked Supreme Court denied Trump’s appeal to halt his sentencing after being convicted on all 34 felony counts in the infamous hush money trial. On the same day, an Appellate Court denied a motion to keep the American people access to the Select Committee’s final report on the January 6, insurrection. Today, Trump will forever be known as a convicted felon. This criminal will be the first inaugurated felon in our nation’s history. This brings me to ask a question: “how far has our nation fallen?” We celebrated real presidents including Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and John Kennedy. In just 10 days a lifetime criminal will receive the same honor and recognition. The January 6 report will reveal Trump as America’s greatest traitor. He will take the oath of office in 10 days, and every word will be a lie. On January 20, America will become the only democratic nation in history to cr...

  I guess I have to say it again: “if Trump’s piehole is open, he’s lying.” In another of his rambling speeches, filled with gibberish and unintelligible phrases, Trump offered another lie. Why? Because the majority of Californians reject a Trump presidency and will never accept him as their leader. It is clear that Trump is Beelzebub on earth. In a speech made from his fat, old, rich, white man’s playpen, Mar-a-Lago, Trump blamed the horrific fires occurring in Southern California on a shortage of water caused by Governor Gavin Newsome’s policies. He also claimed that President Biden has used all available FEMA funds and there are none left for him when he takes the oath of office in just 11 days. That oath will be nothing but another lie. Of course, both allegations are blatant lies. Newsome has never received a bill to sign related to water restrictions in California. He literally does not know what he’s talking about, regardless of the subject. Remember, he actually suggested t...

Trump told his supporters that within an hour after his inauguration he will pardon every man and woman who was convicted of various crimes related to the January 6, 2021 attempted coup. No one convicted of a crime related to the insurrection was never charged for their true crime: treason. Although Trump planned, organized, and executed the violent attack on our democracy, he has never been charged with the crime he committed. I watched all three hours of the darkest day in American history, and there is no other word for what my wife and I witnessed. The United States has been a nation without law for more than four decades, and if Trump actually keeps one of his promises, it will offer proof once and for all that anarchy rules America. However, only the rich and powerful are above the law. Not a single American with enormous wealth and/or great power, including professional politicians, has ever been fairly punished for his or her crimes. Remember: Trump was impeached twice for caus...

I remember how I felt on this day, eight years ago. I had not fully recovered from the disastrous results of the 2016 rigged election, but I was trying to be positive.   I hoped that Trump might not be a s dangerous and destructive as I anticipated. I was very naive.   When I watched the “lowlights” of his very sparsely attended inauguration, wh at little hope I had began to disappear. He spoke in negative te rms, telling everyone how horrible the United States had become. What he was ac tually doing was telling the American people how unpl e asant  he planned to make life for the average m an and woman in America.   A few days later, he issued his first executive order. Of course, it violated the Constitution. Trump attempted to ban all Muslims from entering our nation, with the exception of his friends in Saudi Arabia.   A short time after that, I learned that he was violating the Emoluments Clause. Trump retained control of his foreign business intere...

Trump will never change. He will remain a liar, a hypocrite, and a self-serving fascist until he dies: probably not soon enough. This new year has already experienced multiple tragedies, including a senseless attack, an act of pure domestic terrorism, which killed 15 and injured more than 30 men and women in New Orleans. A second act of domestic terrorism occurred in Las Vegas, in front of Trump’s hotel when a Green Beret detonated explosives inside of a Tesla truck, killing himself and injuring seven others. Trump being Trump claimed that the tragedy in New Orleans was committed by an illegal immigrant. He obviously did not or could not read the story. He based all of his allegations on the name of the perpetrator: Shamsud-Din Jabbar. The truth is, the terrorist was born in America and was an army veteran. Even Fox News was forced to correct Trump’s lie. “When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly ref...

  The title of this article is an old adage or saying, and it’s true in most of the shops in which people search for items they wish to purchase. However, this refers to MAGA Republicans who continue to choose ignorance over facts and reality. They voted for Trump, and now they will be the first to suffer from their mistakes. Trump was the worst president in history between 2017 and 2021, according to presidential historians. Do they believe that he will be better in 2025? No one can be that stupid, unless you are an uninformed American voter who “learns everything they need to know from television.” Regardless of how uninformed most voters are in America, anyone who spends even a small amount of time reading about politics must be aware of some of the many reasons Trump should not be president or hold any office in government at any level. If the electorate refused to choose ignorance over fact, Trump would never have received more than 10 percent of the vote. ...

21 days from today, America will experience another first. An old, obese, mentally unstable, white man who is not a patriotic American, but is a convicted felon, and a confirmed sexual predator, who committed treason and violated the Espionage Act will become our nation’s 47 th  president. I am not a proud American today, and I will be ashamed on January 20, 2025. What I will remember most about this unbelievable situation is how our nation lost its most important branch of government on October 27, 2020, when the last of three politically biased Supreme Court Justices was sworn in. I will remember how another traitor to the Constitution, Moscow Mitch McConnell, broke his own rule and stacked the Court in favor of right-wing extremism. Among this Court’s ethical violations was declaring that a president was above the law and immune from prosecution, regardless of the severity of his or her crimes. America is now a nation without laws for every citizen. The term “two Americas” has a...

I believed it was true during the 2016 campaign. I felt vilified when more than 25 psychiatrists wrote a letter questioning Trump’s mental ability to lead our nation early in 2017. I read reports about many of his mumbling, stumbling speeches during the 2024 campaign, and I realized he was now revealing signs that he is suffering from dementia and a condition afflicting many old men, senility. Over the last couple of weeks, Trump confirmed the fact that his mental faculties are in very steep decline. He is threatening to take control of Panama and the Panama Canal, annexing control of Greenland and making it an American possession, and establishing Canada as our 51 st state. I am not making this shit up. This is your 47 th president elect. Christmas Day on Truth Social, Trump offered the following greeting to all. Trump wished merry Christmas to all “including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama canal”. He poked fun at the Canadia...

One of Trump’s many moronic plans, among Tariffs which will increase prices for consumers, and a national sales tax which will add to the grief of the working class, is a travel ban from several nations into the United States. More than any other industry, this will negatively affect the Tech industry. Microsoft and Google employ students from several nations under the H-1B visa program. It has become difficult to find qualified men and women in our universities who are capable of filling their needs. Much of this problem is the exorbitant cost of higher education in America. Each year American businesses lose some of our greatest minds simply because they cannot afford the cost of higher education. America’s co-president, Elon Musk, has offered his support for the H-1B visa program. However, right-wing extremists with fascist ambitions are demanding an end to the policy. Administrators and faculty from multiple colleges and universities have advised their foreign students to return to...

Every year Republicans create a possible government shutdown. The “debt ceiling,” a situation which only exists in America, is an issue which is highly volatile, created by right-wing politicians, although they agreed to the yearly national spending budget at the beginning of the year. There is no other situation which offers irrefutable proof that the government of the United States of America is composed of men and women with a low level of intelligence, incapable of governing 340 million people. The two words which accurately describe the failures taking up space in Washington are ‘incompetent and corrupt.’ There are no “Republican” politicians in our nation’s capital. These pretenders abandoned the principles and morals of the Grand Old Party on January 20, 2017. Not allowed to think for themselves, they obey the demands of Donald Trump without question. However, there is a change in the way decisions are made in 2024. A new player, another self-serving super-rich and incompetent w...