TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart When our Founding Fathers confirmed the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights, they approved protections for the fourth estate. They were given the responsibility for exposing corruption and criminal activity within our federal government. I have the very sad duty to report an irrefutable fact that the fourth estate no longer exists in the 21 st century. Every major news organization in America is owned by a billionaire/oligarch, and supports Donald Trump and his Nazi political party. Not a single broadcast news network, ABC, CBS, or NBC is independent and has the courage to offer the American people the absolute truth about the “real Donald Trump.” Since 2015, the mainstream media willfully surrendered five times more coverage for Trump than all other politicians combined. Why? Sensationalism increases viewership and produces the largest amount of advertising revenue. Anything which happens in America in the 21 st century is about profits, including our gover...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Donny Dictator grew up in a different ‘America’ than yours truly. He was born into a very wealthy family in New York. I grew up poor in West Los Angeles. However, our biggest differences involved what we were taught with words and by example as we grew and became young men. Trump remained in a world of white privilege, while I learned about the real America shared by the majority. I worked hard for everything I have: my education, my home, and my family. Donny Boy was exposed to racism and bigotry from the time he could walk. His father taught him that he was more important, and smarter than anyone else. I was raised by a single mother and my maternal grandparents. They taught me to respect others, regardless of their ethnicity, the color of their skin, or their economic status. I was taught to be humble but confident in my personal abilities. Trump’s entire world was about becoming wealthy and relevant. He learned nothing about what happens in the real America ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Of course, my title’s question is facetious. Trump has never done anything for anyone else in his life. Afflicted with malignant narcissism, he is incapable of having normal feelings of empathy and compassion. Trump has proven one thing over his 79 pitiful and useless years on earth, he has a 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. Every human being asks his or herself one question, multiple times in their lives: “what if I had taken the left fork in the road instead of the right?” As a political writer, having written thousands of articles exposing the “real Donald Trump,” I look back at the 2000 election, the 2016 election and the 2024 debacle. I begin with the 2000 election. Some of you may be too young to remember the contest between Clinton’s Vice-President, Al Gore, ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart It is always fair to ask any professional politician one question: “what have you done for me lately?” They make promises during their campaigns they never intend to keep, and must suffer the consequences of those lies. No one has accomplished less than Donald John Trump, and no one has made more promises he never intended to keep. In 2020, Trump and Moscow Mitch McConnell broke rules they made in opposition to the intent of the Constitution, and completed stacking the Supreme Court with a  ‘super majority,’ six supporting the right-wing’s extremist policies and three performing their jobs as required by the Constitution; all women from ethnic backgrounds not considered “pure white,” in other words, “real Americans.” Trump sought reelection for two reasons, neither of which involves caring for 340 million people. First, he was desperate to remain a free, old man. His many crimes, including treason and violating the Espionage Act, were under scrutiny and faci...

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...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The Truth Lives Here Trump has many deserved nicknames. Old ones include the “orange buffoon.” “Trumpenstein,” and “Putin’s Puppet.” However, he has earned more over the last four years, including “world’s biggest whiner,” the “Coronavirus Killer,” “world’s biggest liar,” “leader of America’s white supremacist movement,” “traitor,” “fascist,” “convicted criminal,” and “sexual predator.” Guess what, and you won’t believe it: this obese old man is running for president on Tuesday. Op-ed by James Turnage