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  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Three of the most useless men on the planet. Three “know nothings” who are completely unfit to hold their positions in Trump’s failed administration. Three men who have not surprised any real American, proving that they are using their jobs to enjoy luxury and privilege they do not deserve, at taxpayer expense. Never forget; excrement runs downhill. TO SAY THAT HEGSETH IS AN ABJECT FAILURE AS HE ATTEMPTS TO RUN TRUMP’S ILLEGAL WAR IS BEING KIND Pete Hegseth is the worst Secretary of Defense, (not “Secretary of War”), in history. He was somewhat good at a few things: getting drunk, embezzling money from charities, and sexually harassing women: but a complete failure as he attempts to lead our nation’s incompetent military. Hegseth is the only man I have ever heard say things which should cause him great embarrassment more than the orange buffoon. He is a joke who has aided in our Pentagon’s efforts to lose a fifth war, three in the Middle East. We could exp...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump’s war is an abomination and a stain on our entire federal government. It proves, once and for all that we, the people, are far down the list of priorities within our federal government. In a unilateral decision, Trump attacked the sovereign nation of Iran on February 28, 2026. Our country was not under attack. There was no evidence that an attack in the future was probable. However, in another thinly veiled effort to misdirect the public’s attention to his extremely close relationship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, he, alone, ordered an unwarranted attack on Iran. Currently, the orange buffoon has wasted more than 75 billion dollars of taxpayer money. Our relationship with Iran and all Muslim nations is far worse than when he began his attacks. AMERICAN SAILORS WERE “COLLATERAL DAMAGE” The USS Lincoln is an aircraft carrier. It was deployed Iran on February 26, just two days before Trump began his war. In July, reports of fatigue, hunger, and a situation ...

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Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Caring for returning physically and mentally injured military and their families: Universal healthcare: complete equality for women: ending racism and bigotry in America: affordable higher education: end escalating gun violence: fair taxation: reforming our corrupt and incompetent government: placing the American people in priority over special interests. These are the major issues which have faced America for more than 50 years, and nothing has changed, with the exception that some of these issues, including income inequality, have become bigger problems over the last five decades. THE THIRD WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY It is no secret to anyone who chooses to be an informed American: the government of the United States of America has become the most corrupt and incompetent on the planet. Our Founding Father’s intention was to have a government which would represent the needs and wishes of the people. However, today, they work for themselves and rule over us, not...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Yes, this old man does not respect or trust law enforcement by any name in the 21 st century. Both our military and law enforcement are fascist by design and necessity. However, in the 21 st century, they have forgotten their purpose and have surrendered their integrity, principles, and morals to the Fuhrer defiling our White House. Criminals, thugs, racists, and bigots: these are the components of a street gang known as ICE. They have the support of federal law enforcement agencies to harass, physically assault, and even murder innocent men and women in service to Donald Trump. HOW MY LIFE HAS CHANGED I was raised by my grandparents and one very special uncle. My mother was a single parent. To care for me and my younger brother, she worked as many hours as she could every week. Fortunately, we lived near her mother and father. I was taught to respect my elders, and every person in authority. That included the police. After my mother finally divorced my abusiv...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Irrefutable facts: Donald John Trump is the leader of America’s Neo-Nazi movement:  the current administration is focused on restoring white supremacy:  America is a racist nation and therefore never will be a “great nation.” Prove me wrong. I don’t want your “belief’s,” I need facts, and I have them. The current leader of what was once the “Republican Party” was raised in New York by a racist father. He learned his lessons well. Raised in an atmosphere of white privilege, his father’s message was clear: being a member of the Aryan race, he was above everyone else, and laws did not apply to him. He was the only person who mattered. Donald Trump believed his father, and became a criminal at an early age, although he was never punished for his crimes. After he received a diploma from Wharton Business College, which he obviously did not earn, he went to work in his father’s business. Fred owned several large apartment buildings in New York. Fred’s primary ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump can never be called “Mr. President.” He never has performed the duties required of our nation’s leader, and he never wanted to be a president in 2016. In 2024, things had changed. Trump was facing charges for treason, January 6, and violating the Espionage Act, January 20, 2021. He was also broke, having lost the money he profited illegally as your illegitimate president between 2017 and 2021. The irrefutable truth is that he did not become your president. Nothing he has done in 17 months can be called “presidential.” TRUMP WAS DESPERATE TO WIN IN 2024, BUT ONLY FOR REASONS IMPORTANT TO HIM Those of us who watched the darkest day in American history, January 6, 2021, know the truth, and it is undeniable. Trump organized, planned, and executed an attempted, violent coup just two weeks before he was evicted from the White House. Like everything else in his life, the event was another failure. He and his Nazi army should be in various federal prisons today. I...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The Supreme Court did the right thing: at least most of them did. The 14 th Amendment guarantees citizenship to anyone born in any of our 50 states. Your racist president demanded that the six justices he owns uphold his executive order and void this section of the 14 th Amendment. The only responsibility the Court has is to protect the Constitution. The vote was 6-3 with Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito dissenting. Kavanaugh voted with the majority, but agreed only that ‘federal legislation enacted in the 1950s grants automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S.’ It says a lot about America and our corrupt government in the 21 st century. There is no reason why it was not unanimous. NO ONE CAN PICK AND CHOOSE THE PARTS OF THE CONSTITUTION THEY SUPPORT, INCLUDING THE SUPREME COURT You may have noticed that under Trump, his administration, his corrupt members of the legislative and judicial branches, America has become a lawless nation if you are not pure whi...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Nothing about Trump’s self-created persona is real. There are irrefutable facts on full display that the orange buffoon is a very old, obese, mentally deficient pretender who is desperate to remain relevant and powerful. He is intentionally destroying the core fabric of American values. The truth is that Trump’s mental acuity is in steep decline. A combination of his lifelong affliction with malignant narcissism and escalating dementia are apparent for everyone to see and he must be removed from the presidency if our nation is to be saved from extinction. THE UNTOLD TRUTH Trump’s Nazi Party is in chaos. Without his supporters and the reality of a growing number of Republicans who are deserting the once Grand Old Party, right-wing politicians are existing in an atmosphere consisting of uncertainty and fear. Not a single man or woman calling themselves “Republican” today, is concerned about anything other than reelection. The midterm elections are critical for Tru...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart As a political junkie and a lover of history, I am aware that most American presidents and their administrations were nearly worthless. I have experienced 14 of them, and only four made an effort to improve the lives of the people: John Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. Every man calling himself a “Republican” was only concerned with the welfare of the rich and powerful. None of these men reached the depravity and incompetence of the least qualified man in the world, Donald John Trump, and his useless administration. EVEN WHEN HE TRIES TO DO SOMETHING FOR HIMSELF, HE FAILS Immediately, when he walked into the Oval Office on his first day, he created the Department of Government Efficiency. Even the title was a joke. Then he placed the wealthiest man in the world in control of DOGE. Elon Musk is a Nazi from South Africa, and knows nothing about America and its method of governing 340 million people. Trump promised to reduce the national debt by ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I have been trying to understand why Trump chose the least qualified men and women to be on his cabinet and lead our nation’s most critical agencies. I finally realized that this is another display of his lifelong mental illness: malignant narcissism. Trump knows nothing about anything. Therefore, choosing men and women who are even dumber than he is seems normal. FIRING NOEM, BONDI, AND GABBARD WAS A GOOD BEGINNING Real Americans celebrated when Trump fired Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. Three other names came to my mind immediately: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, (not “of War), FBI Director, Kash Patel, and most importantly Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert Kennedy Jr. It appears to me that Kennedy is attempting to kill as many of our nation’s people as possible. He is nothing less than a witch doctor who makes things up as he wakes up each mornin...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I remember the “Million Man March.” Dr. King chose the perfect setting to give his now famous, “I have a dream,” speech. With the Lincoln Memorial behind him, and thousands of men and women in front of him, lining the reflecting pool. The overall image was one of inspiration, hope, and even grandeur. Something is missing from this picture today. The reflecting pool is no longer a soft blue, it is frog green and the paint from the bottom of the pool appears to be peeling as scraps of paint are floating to the top. TRUMP’S LIFELONG AFFLICTION WITH MALIGNANT NARCISSISM STRIKES AGAIN Trump’s ego is the only thing larger than his humongous derriere. He decided to drain the mall’s reflecting pool and paint the bottom “flag blue.” However, when the 14M “job” was complete, the water never turned blue. Algae formed immediately and now it is an awful shade of green. As one tourist described it: “it looks like vomit.” What went wrong? Let’s go back to the beginning ANOTHER...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I may be an old man, but I know two things: I have seen or heard all the great individual men and women who created the greatest music in history, and the bands who thrilled us, and I have lived long enough to see our nation’s federal government become the most corrupt and incompetent in the world. I am aware that I was naïve before my junior year in high school, 1962, but for the most part, I trusted my government, our military leaders, law enforcement, and the priests serving me and my fellow parishioners in our church. I also believed that most of America’s wealthiest men and women and the corporations they owned cared about the quality of their products and the people who worked for them. As I near my 80 th birthday, I no longer trust anyone in our nation who has outrageous wealth and/or complete power over my life. The truth is both disheartening and unacceptable. NOT A SINGLE PERSON IN OUR GOVERNMENT IS WORTH THE SALARY THEY RECEIVE The ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Do we get what we pay for? Between 2023 and 2024, the presidential candidates spent 1.8 billion dollars to secure a job which pays $400,000 per year. Congressional candidates spent 3.8 billion. Their jobs pay $174,000 each year. In 2025, the Pentagon received a budget of $831.3 billion. In 2026 that number rose to $838.7. Trump is asking for $1.5 trillion in 2027. On February 28, 2026, Trump began a war against the sovereign nation of Iran. As the illegal and unconstitutional war continues, the estimated cost will reach one trillion dollars. Guess what: by all accounts, Iran is winning. Trump and his generals failed to achieve their goals. This is the first war lost by Donald Trump, and the fifth on a growing list for the Pentagon since WWII. Fact: America has the largest and most expensive military in the world and it is incapable of winning wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Iran. Any war in the Middle East is clearly unwinnable. WHEN WILL OUR ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Since the 1980’s, America’s federal government began to discard and ignore its intent and purpose. Although our Founding Fathers created a system of “checks and balances” with three “separate but equal branches:” the executive, legislative, and judicial: politics began to replace purpose with dysfunction. If you study history, and read the letters written to their constituents by those attending the Constitutional Convention between 1787 and 1789, you will have a greater understanding of the intentions of Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Monroe, Madison, and the rest. FREEDOM OF AND FREEDOM FROM RELIGION Our Founding Fathers considered the First Amendment the most inclusive and important guarantee of human rights, and the protection of freedom and equality for all, ever written. "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 ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I often think about what makes America less than it should or could be. I know all the good things: I love history and our Founding Fathers stated their reasons for creating the United States of America better than I could ever explain them to you. ACCORDING TO ME, HERE ARE THE WORST OF THE WORST I won’t use individuals, you know who they are. The government of the United States has become the most corrupt and incompetent in the world, and there are plenty of guilty individuals on Capitol Hill. I will list organizations and groups I consider to be the most harmful to the image and future of America. I trust no one with great wealth or power. I could have chosen our incompetent military leaders in the Pentagon, all law enforcement agencies, many religious leaders, and other groups I despise for their failures to do what is right without reservation. However, I narrowed it down to just four. PROFESSIONAL POLITIICANS BELONG TO THE WORST PROFESSION IN THE WORLD If a...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I had a dream, at least I wish it was nothing but a bad dream. In this dream, I fell asleep on November 7, 2016, and when I woke up, my surroundings told me it was the beginning of another, ordinary day. However, the events of that day and what I heard on television told me that I was no longer in the United States of America. The date on my computer was January 19, 2017. The primary story on television news was about the events of January 20, and the inauguration of our nation’s 45 th president. However, the picture displayed on the screen showed Donald Trump, not Hillary Clinton. What the fuck? This was not possible. Not only was Hillary far ahead in the polls, Trump was a joke, He was the least qualified man in history to seek the office of President of the United States. He was a complete failure in the private sector, and the Manhattan real estate community was aware that he was a white-collar criminal. He had a reputation as a sexual predator who had been...