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Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart In about 18 months Trump will be an Octogenarian; and he shows it every day. He rambles on and on at his hate rallies, mumbles words frequently, and has difficulty keeping his balance when walking. The issue this time is garbage. During a recent six-hour hate rally at Madison Square Graden, a paid, self-proclaimed comedian called Puerto Rico “an island of floating garbage.” For some unknown reason, President Biden appeared to refer to Trump’s supporters as “garbage.” At a Wisconsin event on Wednesday, Trump rented a garbage Truck in response to the President’s remark. Recorded video revealed an elderly man doing something he shouldn’t. [A seven-second clip was shared on X by Matt McDermott, a pollster who works on a range of progressive causes as senior vice president of Whitman Insight Strategies. It shows Trump reach toward, and appearing to miss, the garbage truck door before briefly looking unsure on his footing. [McDermott captioned the video: &qu

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Late night talk show host, Jimmy Kimmel, spent 19 minutes offering factual information to Trump supporters. He offered multiple reasons why they cannot trust the very old, very obese buffoon. Unfortunately for the popular host, Trump supporters choose to be ignorant and reject facts. A true Trump supporter spends hours each day watching the right-wing propaganda machine, calling itself “Fox News.” It has never been about the news and definitely not about facts. A loyal Trump supporter will never read or watch any information source which refuses to praise the con man. When confronted with the truth, their response is universal: “I don’t believe that.” The truth frightens them. If Trump can use a 24-hour television network to support his lies, Jimmy Kimmel and other talk show hosts are justified in finding ways to make their viewers laugh about Trump’s moronic and fallacious words and actions. Trump would like everything his way. However, this is a fantasy. Trump

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart In 2020 Trump and Moscow Mitch McConnell finished their efforts to stack the Supreme Court in favor of the radical extremists on the right side of the aisle. With a margin of 6-3, these biased five men and one woman continue to attack the Constitution and allow Trump and his cronies to move our nation closer to fascism. No one will forget one of the darkest days in American history when the current illegitimate Court overturned a woman’s right to make decisions about her own mental and physical health. On June 24, 2022, these traitors to our nation put an end to 50 years of progress for women’s rights and overturned Roe v Wade. Their latest attack is focused on the First Amendment. Right-wing politicians in Virginia were given the right to “purge certain voters from the state’s list of registered voters if they believe they are not legally able to vote.” If you live in Virginia, and have a name which appears to be Latino or Black, beware. Something must be done

If he Talks Like a Fascist and Acts Like a Fascist, He’s a Fascist Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Adolf Hitler was given control of Germany in 1933. He and his Nazi Party were fascists who literally brainwashed an entire nation into believing that they would revive Germany’s economy and lead their nation to a new level of “greatness.” They sacrificed their freedoms and surrendered their basic human rights to a demagogue. All rational thoughts disappeared as Hitler’s propaganda machine convinced an entire country that everything he said was fact and that his orders must be obeyed. Sound familiar? Last Sunday Trump held another hate rally, this time in Madison Square Garden. The event featured six hours of crude and racist rhetoric, and has been compared to a rally supporting Hitler’s fascist beliefs in 1939. Trump’s “people” are denying the undeniable: Trump is a Nazi and would stablish a fascist regime if he is elected. Men who were members of his White House staff between 2017 and 2021 confi

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart If any of the old adages are true, one stands above all others: “Money is the root of all evil.” Therefore, I make a logical allegation: the United States is an evil country. It has morphed from a capitalistic nation to a plutocracy. The super-rich can have any physical possession their desire. However, most are without morals, social responsibility, and principles. This is the only reason why most of our nation’s 801 billionaires support another disastrous Trump presidency. Trump has openly promised these greedy men and women additional tax breaks if the world crumbles and he wins the Electoral College next week. Two of the most egregious are Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. When Trump gave permanent tax breaks to major corporations in 2018, Amazon, one of the most profitable corporations in the world, paid zero dollars in taxes the following year. The owner? Jeff Bezos. The staffs at both the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times expressed their intent to endorse

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Our elections are alone in the world in the fact that they seem to last forever. No other developed nation has such a lengthy campaign season. The longest period of time in any developed nation is three months. Something we all hate are the endless number of political ads on television. Let me preface this story by stating a fact: television ads should not be allowed. What they tell us cannot be accepted as fact, and should not be relevant in decisions related to voting. Okay, now the rest. The FCC has powers and laws which can prevent content on television which is lascivious, promotes violence and criminal activity, and claims that are baseless and in direct opposition to the facts. My question is, why don’t they do something about this travesty? I know the answer and it’s always the same: money. Network television is estimated to receive $12.32 billion in additional income during the campaign season. Combine this amount with the expected amount spent by candi

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Over the last nine years, anyone who follows politics and political figures knows that if Trump or his cronies said it, it was a lie. Desperate to win the 2024 election, Trump’s television ads have become more vicious, composed of more outrageous lies than ever before, and if you know the facts are so fallacious they are almost hilarious. I believed that his biggest lie would always be his baseless claims that he won the 2020 election. However, with election day just one week away, his whoppers have reached a level never attained by great imaginations like Walt Disney or Stephen Kiing. Over the last nine years, every plan for our nation’s future in the fascist manifesto, “Project 2025,” originated at one of Trump’s hate rallies. His supporters simply compiled his beliefs into a 922-page document designed to destroy the country I have cherished for 78 years. Trump told one of his biggest lies when he claimed that he knows nothing about it. Last Sund

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart It is no secret that I believe the Electoral College is in direct opposition to the spirit and intent of the Constitution. The EC allows the states to choose our presidents. As long as it exists millions of American voters have no voice in who will lead our nation for the next four years. Here's why that makes a difference, and why Republicans are desperate to keep the EC. If the popular vote, the vote of the American people, decided the outcome of the election, not a single right-wing politician would have occupied the White House since 1993: that’s 31 years. Since 1993 there have been two Republican presidents: George W. Bush and Donald Trump. In 2000 Al Gore won the popular vote. The Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount and declared Bush the winner. In 2016, Hillary Clinton received three million more votes than Trump. However, a total of less than 80,000 votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin gave Trump a very slim victory in the E

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart This past weekend Trump and Kamala Harris held two large rallies. They shared one commonality: both were in states they are unlikely to win. That’s where the similarity ends. Trump was in Madison Square Garden, located in New York City. New York generally despises the old man. More than 19,000 people attended the event which some people referred to as a reenactment of a 1939 rally in support of Adolf Hitler. It has recently been confirmed that Trump is a Neo-Nazi with plans to re-make America into a fascist regime with himself as its Fuhrer. There were plenty of attacks on real Americans. Racism was the dominate theme. Joining Trump on stage were members of his family, including trophy wife, Melania, and brainless sons, Donald Jr. and Eric. Several discredited “celebrities” took the stage, including Rudy Giuliani, and Elon Musk. It was a victory for all citizens who hate their country and would shred the Constitution. Kamala Harris was in Texas. Her crowd was es

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart If our nation loses its collective mind and gives Trump four more years to destroy our country, within his first year fascism will replace democracy, and Vladimir Putin will be the person controlling everything which happens in America. Freedom in every form will be quashed by Trump and Putin. Free thought, free speech, and free and fair elections will no longer exist. Trump’s failures destroyed our economy. Nearly 300,000 jobs were lost permanently. The national debt rose by eight trillion dollars. And nothing of importance was accomplished for the majority in four, long years. Trump intentionally divided or nation to a level not seen since the first Civil War. Lies and conspiracy theories replaced the truth and facts as millions of our nation’s people chose to be ignorant. Throughout all of this, FOX News continued to lead the way, producing more lies than Trump himself. It exposed itself once and for all as a right-wing extremist propaganda machine. Truth was

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart If ever there were two more opposite presidential candidates in American history, I don’t remember who they might have been. The first comparison is clear: Trump is not loyal to America; Kamala Harris is a patriot who supports the Constitution. If this fails to help you decide who should receive your precious vote, I offer more. Trump is a lifetime criminal and sexual predator, recently convicted of 34 felonies. Harris prosecuted criminals and made California safer for everyone. Trump failed to continue the economic recovery begun by President Obama, and after his failure to lead America in the fight against Covid-19, another depression was in sight as the unemployment rate soared. Harris and Biden rebuilt our economy to a level not seen since the Clinton administration. Inflation is in steep decline. Nations around the world fear another Trump presidency. Harris and Biden have reestablished a close relationship with our allies. NATO has become stronger over the

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Fascism and the current plutocracy. America’s dirty, little secret. Thanks to today’s fake Republican Party, the United States of America is in the control of less than one percent of our nation’s population: billionaires. A country controlled by the rich is called a plutocracy. The dirty little secret is that a plutocracy cannot be maintained without complete control over a nation’s future: this is called fascism. A large percentage of Americans hate billionaires. They have many good reasons to feel such strong emotions. They created greedflation, and support the worst, least-qualified, obese, old man in the world and his return to the White House. Three of these depraved, greedy men choose to place themselves in positions of notoriety, and therefore scrutiny, are Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk. All social media sites are more harmful than beneficial. What was once the era of information has become the era of misinformation thanks to the

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart No surprise, it happened in the strange state of Texas. I sometimes think we should have supported their wish to secede from the Union. In southeast San Antonio, a 63-year-old-man by the name of Jesse Lutzenberger arrived at his polling place to select his choices for the 2024 election. He was wearing one of Trump’s red MAGA caps. He was asked to remove the hat. Texas’ laws forbid wearing any item which promotes one candidate over another in the voting area. He initially complied. However, when he finished voting, he placed his hat on his head as he was walking out of the voting area. A 69-year-old volunteer immediately began to escort him out of the building when Lutzenberger started punching him in the face and chest. The volunteer was treated by EMT’s and sent home. Lutzenberger was arrested at his home and was charged with several crimes. He is in jail with a $30,000 bail required for his release. This is all Trump’s fault. Recently the orange traitor was he

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The GOP is whining because after Trump’s former Chief of Staff, John Kelly, confirmed his appraisal of his former boss as a definition of the term “fascist,” Kamala Harris agreed. The truth hurts. One of their facetious claims is that it could encourage another assassination attempt on their former president. I remain skeptical about the credibility of the first two. I have never read an explanation for one legitimate question: where did the bullet go after it allegedly struck Trump in the ear? Did he use the professional wrestler’s trick of using a razorblade to cut his own ear? Trump’s own words prove that he is a Neo-Nazi. Fascism: “a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition.” Trump’s stacked Supreme Court made all of this possible. Trump’s plans for America’s future contained in Project 2025, are a compilation of Tru

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart No one is reporting one fact about the 2024 election. As they did in 2016, the mainstream media is clearly supporting another illegitimate win for Donald Trump. In 2016, the media covered Trump and his hate rallies five-times more frequently than all other candidates combined. On the rare occasion they covered Hillary Clinton’s campaign they continued to talk about her use of a private e-mail server while Secretary of State. It is an undeniable fact that the media was a large factor in Trump’s controversial victory in the Electoral College. It is becoming more obvious every day that the mainstream media is once again supporting Trump. The big story of the week, which should have been front page news on every newspaper, and the internet, came from Trump’s former White House Chief of Staff. Former Marine Corps General, John Kelly, claims that Trump is the definition of a fascist who praised Hitler and the “good things” he did. His allegation was supported by sever

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart A fact no one can dispute and no one will talk about. Our founding fathers guaranteed protection for the free press with a single purpose in mind: to force government transparency and prevent corruption. It has been known as the “Fourth Estate” for 248 years. However, the facts prove that it has not existed for more than two decades. America and American businesses have become inextricably linked. The United States is about money, not the welfare of its people. Look at the last two years. Campaigning for the presidency began early in 2023 as Trump increased the number of his hate rallies. When the election is over, billions of dollars will have been spent to secure a position which pays $400,000 per year with an additional expense account of $50,000 annually. The 2024 campaign season is expected to cost 15.9 billion dollars, exceeding the old record in 2020 of 15.1 billion. The media’s share of this ridiculous sum is estimated at 12.32 billion dollars. Understan

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart It is a dirty little secret the mainstream media and politicians on both sides of the aisle don’t want you to know. However, those of us who are avid and even obsessive readers found an article published for a single day revealing Trump worship of the greatest villain in world history. Friends of Trump’s first wife, Ivana, claim that she told them that Trump read Adolf Hitler’s 1930’s speeches every night before he went to sleep. There was another article by Politico revealing a meeting the couple attended in Moscow at the invitation of Vladimir Putin and the KGB in 1987. It is obvious that Trump and Putin’s relationship began 37 years ago, not after his pitiful inauguration in 2017. Trump continues to maintain a close relationship with his handler today. He supports the illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine, and praises him for being a “strong leader” who has his adversaries murdered. Recently it was revealed that during a private conversation, Trump exposed

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Facts prove that the accomplishments of President Biden make him the best president since Bill Clinton. He also accomplished more than Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush for all Americans. Trump accomplished nothing for all 300+ Americans in four years. Presidential historians have labeled him the worst president in history. Who are you voting for? I support Kamala Harris in 2024. Op-ed by James Turnage Find my novels on Amazon    

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Project 2025 and Trump are linked forever. Every proposal in the 922-page document has been promised by Trump during his vile and vicious hate rallies. Every plan in the document is based on the precepts of fascism. I have accurately called Trump a “fascist” for more than nine years. I am now joined by many of the men and women who know him best. Retired Marine Corp General John Kelly was Trump’s Chief of Staff. He was asked about Trump’s agenda for 2024. “Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It’s a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy,” Kelly said. “So certainly, in my experience, those are the kinds of things that he thinks would work better in terms of running America.” General Mark Milley was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump’s failed administration.

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart One of the darkest days in American history occurred on June 24, 2022. On this day a Supreme Court, stacked by Trump and Moscow Mitch McConnell, voted to repeal Roe v Wade. Women no longer received federal protection for their Constitutional right to choose how to protect their own physical and mental health. We knew that overturning a nearly 50-year-old decision by a legitimate Court would have serious repercussions, but the six justices who voted for the repeal of Roe v. Wade didn’t care and were woefully unfit to sit on the highest Court in the land. Just over two years later, the statistics are dismal, and statistics do not lie. One of these statistics voids the claims of one of the owners of today’s fake Republican Party, the Christian Religious Right. More babies are dying during childbirth or just after now that Roe v Wade is no longer federal law. About 247 infants are losing their fight for life each month. That is nearly 3,000 babies lost each year, an