TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The mainstream media will never say these words: ‘Trump has declared war on blue and purple states.’ They are afraid of becoming targets for his anger and retribution. They are worthless. The truth: Trump doesn’t give a damn about immigration reform. He is the Fuhrer of the Neo-Nazi Party in America. Trump is attempting to “cleanse our nation of all ethnicities who are not pure white.” Hitler reincarnated is on a rampage, and the question is, “will his lieutenants attempt to assassinate the maniac, like Hitler’s closest allies?” I doubt it. If you spend your days in Washington, you are a coward, refusing to do the right thing and keep your oath to the American people. Trump’s real purpose for violating the Constitution and placing our nation’s military in blue states is to prevent a continuation of mass protests against his fascist policies. His fragile emotional state is incapable of accepting the fact that he is the most-hated man in the world. The truth is, T...

The Saga of the Drumpf Family   Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart You all know it, although I would never brag about it, but I am nine months away from being an octogenarian. Trump is just eight months closer to being way too old to hold any office in any government in the world. Trump’s life experience is far different from my own, and for that, I am grateful. He was born into a life of extreme white privilege and great wealth. I, too, was born into an atmosphere of white privilege, but we were poor and never knew it. However, my life’s path experienced many changes: changes which made me the man I think I am today. Trump’s life never changed. He is the same person today that he was on June 14, 1946. He never learned how to be a good and respected man. He remains a spoiled, rich, white brat who has to have everything his way. His parents really sucked at raising him. This is one of the primary reasons Trump loves his personal Gestapo, ICE. They are nothing like the men and women I knew in l...

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 I had always been a mostly positive person. I believed that most people had good intentions, and because of that single fact, the things I saw happening around me, which were harmful, dangerous, and unfair would be rectified in my lifetime. However, 25 years ago, I began to doubt my own beliefs. I was always aware that the government of the United States was composed of mostly inferior and incompetent men and women. However, I continued to believe that the system of checks and balances created by our Founding Fathers would guarantee that our government would always be relatively successful in the performance of their jobs: to serve the American people. But after the 2000 election and the debacle occurring in Florida by a totally incompetent election committee, the Supreme Court exceeded its authority and decided to award George W. Bush the presidency. I knew this was wrong, but I didn’t understand the ramifications of that one decision and how the future corrupt...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Not knowing something does not make you stupid. No one knows everything, although Trump lies and tells you he does. Ignorance is not normal: it’s a choice. When information is available, but you choose to believe lies and half-truths, you choose to be ignorant. But the facts cannot be denied. In America, watching television news is ignorant. The fourth estate ceased to exist once and for all on January 20, 2025. Half-truths are more dangerous than blatant lies. A story, which contains a small amount of truth, is easy for the uninformed to accept as fact. Television news is a large factor in the dumbing down of America. Only one “information source” is worse: social media. If you spend any time on social media, you will soon become a moron. 99 percent of everything on Facebook, “X” and other fake news outlets is misleading and most often completely untrue. Currently, one issue is revealing the low level of intelligence of most Americans in the 21 st century. Thi...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump has been “above the law” for his entire life. Not once had he been prosecuted for his many crimes until May 30, 2024, when he was pronounced guilty on 34 counts of felonious actions. However, his Supreme Court virtually nullified his convictions, and gave him absolute immunity, preventing the continuation of additional court actions involving numerous felonies, including treason, and violating the Espionage Act. Our government, all of it, and his ignorant cult, are fueling his ego and the fascist dictator is escalating his constant abuse of power. The malignant narcissist is also experiencing dementia, and becoming a raging lunatic. So the orange buffoon completely ignored a decision by a federal judge which prevents him from spending millions of dollars of your tax money to send members of the National Guard into Portland Oregon. However, Trump is ignoring the decision of a federal judge. Not only is this a violation of the Constitution, this is an abuse ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The latest mass shooting occurred in Montgomery, Alabama. Two people are dead and 12 injured, five of them seriously. Since 2017, mass shootings have become a “national pastime.” There have been more injuries and deaths caused by the use of guns than from any natural disaster. I am tired of reading about these preventable situations. The NRA and their Second Amendment Claims are nothing but bullshit, and your government is too cowardly to do the right thing. Anyone who claims that the sale of military-style assault rifles, high-output magazines, and bump stocks cannot be restricted, cannot be prevented from being sold to the general public, is a lying asshole. These men and women not only accept the idea of a rising death toll in America, they promote increased sales, knowing that the NRA gun lobby will continue to fund their campaigns. The latest preventable tragedy happened in the capital city of Alabama, Montgomery, late Saturday evening. When the melee ended...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Two ads I frequently see on television should be unnecessary. They are asking for our help and are deserving. One is St. Jude’s Hospital, and the other is for the Humane Society. How is it possible that a newborn child begins what will probably be a short life suffering from cancer. They are the only pure humans. They have committed no sins, no crimes, and yet they face a painful and miserable short life. The same is true for our dogs and cats. They ask for almost nothing in return for an all too short life, offering us unconditional love and companionship. And, yet, some people mistreat them and even abuse them. As I watch them, I think about all the evil in the world today. Four names always come to mind. Each of them is a cruel and uncaring dictator whose only interest is in their personal pleasure. They live lives of kings while the people they are intended to serve and care for suffer and all too often struggle to survive. Knowing this, I am positive that t...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Some of you know that I am a novelist. My 10 novels are all works of fiction. However, not in my wildest dreams, or even those of the great Stephen King, could we create a story similar to what is happening to our country in the 21 st century. On December 7, 1941, the United States formally entered WWII. We joined our allies in the fight against fascism and the most evil man in modern times, Adolf Hitler. The second World War lasted until August of 1945 when America became the first and so far, only nation to use nuclear weapons against another country. Today, the United States has its own madman in complete control of our nation: Donald John Trump. Although he has not been formally anointed as the ‘Fuhrer of the United States,’ it is a fact which our government and the mainstream media will not admit to the American people. Hitler was guided by his own fascist manifesto, Mein Kampf. Trump’s manual is called Project 2025. Hitler used his “Gestapo” to kidnap Jew...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The Constitution no longer exists. Trump has violated the Bill of Rights and more, and to allow him to “get away with this,” is criminal and can be labeled as treason. His super majority in the Supreme Court continues to surrender their powers to the worst man in the world. The Constitution guarantees everyone in America access to "due process." Thousands of men, women, and children, whose only 'crime’ was searching for a better quality of life, are currently being held and tortured in concentration camps across America’s red states. Nazis are thriving in 21 st century America. The Constitution forbids our government from using our military against its own people. Trump is placing the national guard and regular military forces in blue states. By the way, where was our incompetent military during the January 6 insurrection? Sitting on their fat asses, watching it on television, like the master, Donald John Trump. Trump is violating the First Amendm...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Since 1981, the former Republican Party consistently hides the truth about their party’s failures and “spins” facts in desperate attempts to hide the truth that their entire party is incompetent. Facts prove that our nation’s most recent history confirms that all Republicans are incapable of governing our nation. Clinton rescued the failures of Reagan and Bush 41. Obama saved our nation from the Bush 43 administration’s total incompetence. Biden saved thousands of lives with the creation of a plan to distribute the Covid-19 vaccine, and his plan to save our economy prevented a second Great Depression after the failure of Trump to take the lead in the fight against the deadly coronavirus. The first eight months of Trump’s disastrous second term reveal the greatest failure by any president in America’s 249-year history. His lack of knowledge, common sense, and experience, are destroying the very core of what made America a c...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart First and foremost, ICE should not exist. Its creation was unnecessary, a “knee-jerk” reaction to the tragedies which occurred on September 11, 2001. They are poorly trained and far from a legitimate law enforcement agency. They have become Trump’s personal Gestapo. Raids, national guard deployment, and the creation of concentration camps, are poorly disguised efforts to ethnically cleanse America, and punish Trump’Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump’s ignorant supporters would claim that my title is a lie. If you call ethnic cleansing, political retribution, destroying critical agencies, giving tax cuts to those who don’t need or deserve them, golfing, partying at Mar-a-Lago, and spending more than 10 million dollars of taxpayer money to open a golf club in Scotland, then yes, he is very busy spending your money for his own purposes. Let’s go back in time. In his first week in office in 2009, Barack Obama gathered the greatest minds available and make plans to save ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump’s ignorant supporters would claim that my title is a lie. If you call ethnic cleansing, political retribution, destroying critical agencies, giving tax cuts to those who don’t need or deserve them, golfing, partying at Mar-a-Lago, and spending more than 10 million dollars of taxpayer money to open a golf club in Scotland, then yes, he is very busy spending your money for his own purposes. Let’s go back in time. In his first week in office in 2009, Barack Obama gathered the greatest minds available and make plans to save our nation’s economy from complete collapse. George W. Bush’s failed economic policies and his choices to place our nation in two costly and unwinnable wars were disastrous and totally incompetent decisions. In January of 2021, after Trump’s coup failed, and he violated the Espionage Act by stealing at least 14 boxes of national secrets as he finally left the White House and moved to Mar-a-Lago, a real President met with his team and create...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart This is for the very old man in the White House. I have a can’t fail plan which would save our government more than 96 million dollars each year. It would also greatly improve the efficiency of all three branches of our federal government immediately. In the beginning of our country, all members of the federal government were basically volunteers: they refused to accept monetary remuneration for their services to our new nation. Including yourself, 435 members of the House, 100 Senators, and 9 Supreme Court Justices, we are currently wasting a minimum of 96 million dollars in base salaries alone. Adding benefits, that number is well over 100 million dollars. Let’s face it, we taxpayers are not getting what we pay for in the 21 st century. A volunteer government would remove the need for term limits. Most of our founding fathers served only a single term, making way for new ideas and new ways of looking at a growing nation, as they returned to their jobs in the ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The working parts of our government have been temporarily laid off. Trump claims that he will fire a large number of them before they have an opportunity to return to their jobs. Meanwhile, approximately 565 men and women who make large salaries and do nothing for our nation’s 340 million people, members of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, continue to receive their wages and benefits. The United States has the most corrupt and incompetent government in the world. Millions of Americans, including yours truly, were conned in 1980. We gave our votes to a second-rate actor who promised to lead our country with integrity, intelligence, and honesty. Like all Republicans, he lied. Immediately after his inauguration on January 20, 1981, Ronald Reagan declared wars on the working class, women, and minorities. A short time later, he virtually made Christianity our nation’s “one, true, religion.” His fiscal policy was abysmal. The only Americans benefitti...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart History proves that Donald John Trump has been an evil and selfish person for every minute of his pitiful life. I hope that “what goes around, comes around,” or as it says in the Bible, he “Reaps What He Sows,” becomes a reality. In my 79 years, I witnessed the most evil men in my life eventually suffer for their crimes: serial killers, including Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gasey, and others caused thousands of men and women to suffer from their actions. I must include men who were not serial killers by definition, but did cause enormous pain and suffering for millions of our nation’s people: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald John Trump. However, none of the latter three were ever punished for their crimes against the American people. There is no doubt that America’s justice system has failed. If you are rich, and/or powerful, you will never pay for your crimes, even if one of them was treason. No man has caused more harm to our nation in ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump’s supporters are suffering from Trump’s many failed and destructive policies. Most remain loyal members of his cult. These are “Trump’s people,” and the only men and women in America who do not reject his attempts to replace democracy with fascism. I doubt most Americans are aware that today the United States is a plutocracy/oligarchy. Trump and his 902 billionaires/oligarchs control everything in America today, without exception. Fact: a plutocracy cannot be sustained in a democratic society. Only a fascist regime can maintain the status quo. This is why Trump fears and even hates well-educated and informed Americans. The truth is his greatest enemy, and only those who choose ignorance over fact could possibly support Trump after all the damage he has done to their futures. We cannot forget the facts. In 2020, Trump was solely responsible for the massive number of American lives lost related to Covid-19. His ignorance and apathy could have prevented the l...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart In every administration in my lifetime, the position of Secretary of Defense, now labeled the “Secretary of War,” by your illegitimate president, was critical to our nation’s future and to our relationship with our allies from nearly every other country in the world. As a pollical reporter, I remember the worst. Robert McNamara was hated by nearly every young man in my age group. Those of us who never served on the ground in South Vietnam constantly questioned the justification for a war halfway around the world and felt great anger as we watched our family, friends, and acquaintances arrive home in body bags. Even more evil was George W. Bush’s Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. It is an undeniable fact that he was incompetent, but the fact that he displayed a total lack of concern for the lives of our military in Afghanistan and Iraq earned him the title of worst of all time. This and other actions, approved by Bush, confirmed their attacks by the World Co...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart America’s greatest criminal is at it again. The government shutdown is solely the responsibility of Trump and his fascist party. They control all three branches of government, and today, Trump’s Senate rejected a measure to prevent another fiscal disaster for working-class Americans. Trump is in control of everything that happens in Washington today. He is the reason only the most corrupt and useless members of our federal government will continue to receive their paychecks and benefits after September 30. Those who actually work in Washington will struggle to pay their mortgages and other necessities. The malignant narcissist defiling our White House is desperate to prevent the truth from being told by his mainstream media. A misinformation effort is underway attempting to blame Democrats for another failure. [A bright red banner and pop-up message that appeared Tuesday on the Department of Housing and Urban Development's website warns: "The Radical Le...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart To any American with common sense, it is obvious that Trump supports a government shutdown. He is making an attempt to blame Democrats. However, progressives/liberals do not control a single one of our nation’s three branches of government. One thing, which has bothered me since I learned about the idiotic policy of a “debt ceiling,” Is how this punishes the only men and women who actually work in Washington. Those responsible for failing to perform the jobs for which they were elected or appointed will continue to live normal lives. Three unnecessary, corrupt, and incompetent groups will continue to receive their salaries and benefits: the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of our government. These are the most overpaid men and women in our nation’s capital, living lives of luxury and privilege at taxpayer expense, although they do nothing for all 340 million Americans. I offer you one example of how unfair this bullshit is. I cannot deny that the TS...