If the choice in the 2024 U.S. election had been Harris versus Romney, or vs McCain, or vs Bob Dole, or vs George W. Bush, et. al., in other words, a political contest between two honorable candidates and respected policies, then I could accept the advice of the many MAGA supporters who now triumphantly cackle, “Accept the decision of the American people!” What an hypocritical irony that these same hypocrite MAGAts still refuse to acknowledge Joe Biden’s absolute and thoroughly proven 2020 victory over the now Convicted Felon. They now in 2024 claim that the Convicted Felon won a ‘massive mandate’, yet refuse to acknowledge at all that Biden won the 2020 popular vote by 7,059,422 votes, which is more than three-times the 2024 popular vote victory margin of the Convicted Felon’s paltry (2,289,255 votes) victory over Kamala Harris in 2024.

Indeed, I have no reluctance at all acknowledging that the winner of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election is a Convicted Felon. He who won popular vote by an even slimmer margin than Jimmy Carter did in 1976 (1.5% versus Carter’s 2.0%) and by one-tenth the popular vote margin that the 17% margin that hapless Republican Herbert Hoover won in 1928. As I mention in the ‘Massive Mandate’ fallacy section below, the Convicted Felon not only won fewer than half of all votes cast for president in in 2024 but also that more American voters in 2024 voted against the Convicted Felon than for him during the 2024 election (do see the incontrovertible simple arithmetic of that in the ‘Massive Mandate’ section below).

What I do have trouble with is that a minority but plurality of American voters, like toddlers, willfully or ignorantly stuck their fingers into the political electrical socket in the dim hopes that their doing so will improve their lives.

I’ve recently heard some MAGAts claim that the Convicted Felon’s election victory by a minority yet plurality of American votes casts ‘proves’ that he is the correct choice; that he is the righteousness one; and that any criticism now of the Convicted Felon indicates not that the people who voted for him were wrong but that any critics of him are. Such MAGAts delusionally forget that it was in a fair and free election during 1932 that a minority yet plurality of voters elected Adolph Hitler to lead Germany. History has long proven that a wrong choice, an evil man, even a convicted felon (Hitler: convicted and imprisoned for a coup attempt) can win a fair and free election. History also proves that disaster follows. What could possibly go wrong in America after January 19, 2025? So, let’s examine the fself-evident, unequivocal, and easily proven abysmal facts and reality of the 2024 U.S. presidential election — which are unlike any in the 58 previous presidential elections in U.S. history:

The Self-Evident, Unequivocal, Easily Proven, and Verified Facts

• A minority but slim plurality of American voters reelected as president a criminal who was free on bail while awaiting sentencing. Months earlier, a dozen randomly selected American citizens of the city in which he was raised and spent the first seven decades of life, each of who citizens jurors were deemed qualified and acceptable by the now Convicted Felon’s own attorneys, heard the evidence against him and heard his defense. The result was that they then 34 times unanimously voted to convict him of that many felonies. For more than 250 years, generations of teachers, priest, rabbis, Sunday school instructors, and judges have taught Americans not to trust convicted felons. That untrustworthiness is why convicted felons are barred from serving in the U.S. military, in civil service jobs, in licensed professions, etc. The 75 million Americans who then voted for that Convicted Felon during 2024 ignorantly or willfully shat on those hallowed teachings and traditions. No prior U.S. president in history has even been convicted, nonetheless even indicted, of any felonies. They were honorable men. A fair trial by a jury of his peers have proven the Convicted Felon is not.
  
  (I know at least one of the Convicted Felon’s supporters who claims that these 34 felonies were on “obscure” and “trumped up” charges and “shouldn’t be taken seriously”. That fool never bothered to check the New York State Judicial system’s website, which reports that more than 9,500 felony indictments on these very same charges have been issued during the past ten years — an annual average of nearly 1,100 . By comparison, fewer than 900 murder indictments are made each year New York State. So, murder is an even more ‘obscure’ charge that those of which the Convicted Felon was found guilty. In fact, most of the people whom were convicted by New York State on these same charges service prison time. As for the verbal irony of calling the charges ‘trumped up’, even the Convicted Felon’s former personal attorney testified and provided documentary evidence against him. It is a certainly a felony for an man to disguise as a tax deductible business expense his payoff to silence a porn star to keep his wife (who had months earlier delivered you a son) and the American public from discovering his adultery.)
  
• The Convicted Felon earlier that year also had been declared by another court in his native state to be a sexual abuser. Indeed, more than 19 women have publicly accused him of sexual assault. Indeed, he boasted about such assaults in the 2015 Access Hollywood ‘Grab Them by the Pussy’ audio tape. The million of people who voted for the Convicted Felon amorally don’t care about this.
  
• The Convicted Felon has been barred by yet a third court in his native New York State from ever again managing a charity there “due to a pattern of criminal activity.”
  
• A convicted felon during 1972 was sued for racial discrimination by no less than the Republican administration of President Richard Nixon. (The hundreds of pages of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s evidence against the Felon are readily and easily accessible online in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s public archive).
  
• The Convicted Felon began his political career by spouting the racist ‘birther’ lie that President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. — a fecal lie that was easily, roundly, and totally debunked.
  
• The Convicted Felon is the most prolifically lying politician in U.S. history, according to fact-checking organizations such as Factcheck.com, Politifact, and the Washington Post, as well as according to Canadian and British fact-checking organizations. These organization have verified his lies as the deceits they ares. Neither MAGAts nor other Republican organizations have ever been able to verifiable accuse any Democrat politician of anywhere near the Convicted Felon’s sheer magnitude of lies. (One of the Convicted Felon’s supporters told me that “all politicians lie.’ Perhaps that is true. However, there is an astounding difference between a politician telling a few lies and one who spews a nearly constant diarrhea of deceits (i.e., more than of 30,000 lies, according to the Washington Post’s count.)
  
• The Convicted Felon is notoriously the only U.S. president ever to be impeached twice.
  
• Indeed, the Convicted Felon is ranked by historians of U.S. presidencies as fourth worst among the 34 men ever elected to that office. The Convicted Felon meanwhile deliriously or fatuously ranks himself as possible the best president ever.
  
• The Convicted Felon created what American political scientists have since called the ‘Big Lie’. Within days of losing the 2020 Presidential Election, he was informed by his own campaign staff and White House staff that he had lost the election. However, during the more than four years since he has continuously lied to the American public that he had won, despite there being no admissible evidence whatsoever from the more than 3,300 U.S. voting districts in the U.S. to back that lie. William Barr, the Convicted Felon’s own U.S. Attorney General, has succinctly sworn under oath that the Convicted Felon’s claim to won the 2020 Election is “Bullshit!”
  
• The Convicted Felon likewise repeatedly reneged on his public promises to release his tax returns. Yet during 2016, he stated that he would release his tax returns if he won that year’s Republican presidential nomination. Once winning that nomination, he reneged on his promise. Then in 2020, he publicly made that promise again, but again reneged on it. He also made that promise during 2024 and, of course, reneged on it. He is the only president or presidential nominees during the past 50 years to refuse to release his tax returns after repeatedly promising the American public that he would do so. He has also claimed the Internal Revenue Service prevented him from doing so, a lie that the IRS has repeatedly denied.
  
• The Convicted Felon fomented a riot on January 6, 2021, during which thousands of his supporters (many of whom he had been informed were armed with guns and knives) smashed and bashed their way into and sacked the U.S. Capitol Building, the very symbol of U.S. democracy. The riot led to the deaths of five people and injured more than 170 law officers. The riot he fomented was to thwart the legal electoral functioning of the U.S. Constitution. More than 800 of the Convicted Felon’s supporters have been arrested, stood trial in the courts, and were convicted convicted of felonies for that riot and attempted coup. Most have been imprisoned as a result.
  
• The Convicted Felon has stated that if he wins this year’s election, he intends to be “a dictator on Day One.” No U.S. president in history has ever stated such an unconstitutional intent.
  
• The Convicted Felon has been described as a “fascist” and “the most dangerous man in America” by the Army four-star general who, as the most senior military officer in the United States, was the Convicted Felon’s the senior military advisor from 2017 through 2020 and the Chairman of the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff and . Another U.S. Army four-star general who was the Convicted Felon’s White House Chief of Staff during that term has called the Convicted Felon “by definition a fascist” and “a want-to-be dictator”.
  
• The Convicted Felon has publicly stated that he plans to use the powers of the federal government to “seek retribution” on his political enemies. No U.S. president in history has ever stated such a nefarious or unconstitutional intent.
  
• The Convicted Felon was condemned as dangerous by more than 700 former U.S. national security officials, including his own former White House National Security Advisor.
  
• The Convicted Felon failed to receive any endorsements from any previous Republican U.S. president; from any previous Republican party nominee for president; or from any Republican former U.S. vice president or Republican party nominees for vice president. In fact, he is the only former U.S. president in U.S. history never to receive any such endorsements from his predecessors in his own political party.
  
• The Convicted Felon had nominated and worked with 44 White House and Cabinet officials during his first term in office, but 40 of those 44 – including the Convicted Felon’s own former vice president – refused to endorse him during 2024. They know him too well and how unfit he is intellectually, morally, and temperamental for any political office.
  
• As for the Convicted Felon’s 1987 best-selling book, The Art of the Deal, its actual ghostwriter Tony Schwarz, won’t endorse him either. Schwarz in 2016 told National Public Radio, “I helped to paint Trump as a vastly more appealing human being than he actually is. And I have no pride about that.” Schwartz added, “One of the chief things I’m concerned about is the limits of his attention span, which are as severe as any person I think I’ve ever met.” Schwarz said that the idea of a president in an “incredibly complex and threatening world who can’t pay attention is itself frightening.” And that Trump’s insecurity “makes him incredibly reactive whenever he feels threatened, which is very, very often.”
  
• The Convicted Felon is so recklessly deceitful and absurdly imprudent that during his only debate with Kamala Harris he absurdly claimed on live national television that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are eating citizens’ dogs and other pets. “They’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there, and this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame.” His absolutely baseless and idiotic claim was immediately fact-checked and debunked by the moderator, and later by government officials (Democrats and Republicans) in Ohio. Within weeks and ever since, no evidence whatsoever of his absurd claim (or for that matter, his claim to have won the 2020 Election) has ever been found. No one so dim-witted and absurd should ever be given sole control of the thousand of U.S. hydrogen bombs. No one who makes such idiotic claims based upon juvenile and evidenceless Internet rumors should ever be elected to an office in which grave decisions can be made. When you elect a clown as president, the White House becomes a clown circus.

Any one of those 19 outrages would have disqualified an American political candidate during the 235 years since George Washington became the first President of the United States. In the nation of ‘George Washington cannot tell a lie’ and ‘Honest Abe’ Lincoln, that millions of American citizens would vote for someone who perpetrated all 19 of these outrages is a tragic abomination, yet now a dystopian reality. Millions of American voters willfully or ignorantly shat on nearly a quarter millennium of hallowed teaching and American traditions regarding crimes, deceits, incompetency, and risk. (See the Benjamin Franklin quotation towards the end of this essay)

A Surgical Removal of Ethics or a ‘Back Alley’ Job?

Were those millions of MAGA voters’ senses of morality and ethics surgically removed? Or were those removals ‘’back alley’s jobs? Many MAGAts whom I know bizarrely claim that all 19 of the abominations listed above are trifles, meaningless things, or entirely fabricated, and that anyone who is outraged by those are psychologically suffering from something MAGAts call ‘Trump Denial Syndrome’ (‘TDS’). There is, of course, no such syndrome in any psychological or sociological manual, textbook, reference book, or anyplace else. Instead, ‘Trump Denial Syndrome’ is a form of gaslighting by MAGAts. The American Psychological Association, the Oxford English Dictionary, and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary define gaslighting as a deceiver’s attempt to falsely convince someone that their outrage at the deceiver’s misconduct is instead some form of psychological illness they themselves suffer rather than normal and rational outrage at misconduct. In other words, anyone who claims someone is suffering from Trump Denial Syndrome is actively engaged in a deceit.

Similarly MAGAts – supporters of the Convicted Felon who has publicly described Mexican immigrants to the U.S. as “murderers and rapists”, described most African and Latin American countries “shithole nations”, and who, as I mentioned, the Republican Administration under Richard Nixon sued for racial discrimination – call critics of the Convicted Felon“haters”. It’s an apt term. Although we critics of the Convicted Felon are more tolerant of diversity than he or his supporters, we indeed hate serial liars, reckless fools who espouse evidenceless conspiracy theories, and evilly misguided dolts who smash into patriotically symbolic buildings, wound law enforcement officers, and defecate in government offices. Such abominable actions justify condemnation, censure, opprobrium, and hatred by any true patriot.

You needn’t consult a general, admiral, or diplomat to know that handing sole control of the United States 5,044 hydrogen bombs to a Convicted Felon, someone untrustworthy by definition and according to a jury of his peers, is a blitheringly stupid action only a mob of fools would do. Particularly when you consider that the nation’s top military officer, that now Convicted Felon’s own military advisor for four years, refers to him as “the most dangerous” person in America”. The Convicted Felon’s own former White House Chief of Staff called the Convicted Felon a want-to-be “dictator”; more than 700 U.S. national security officials have condemned the Convicted Felon as “unfit” to be president again; 40 of his 44 own former White House and Cabinet officials – including his own vice president – know he is unfit for office have refused to endorse his election. All living former U.S. presidents, even from his own political party, men who know best the presidency from first-hand experience, have refused to endorse him because they know he is unfit for the presidency. Although ‘Trump Denial Syndrome’ doesn’t actually exist, the insanity of electing him does.

Indeed, I don’t think it is a coincidence that polls show that many, if not most, American citizens who voted for the Convicted Felon in 2024 did not do well in school. Virtually polls and surveys about this indicate that his voters generally have lower educational levels than do voters for Kamala Harris. Sociologists call them ‘low information voters’. Nor is it surprising or coincidental that polls and surveys show that MAGA supporters have trouble distinguishing between real facts and misinformation, and that they prefer superficial or simplistic solutions for complex problems, particularly for intractable problems whose actual solutions that require expertise, nuances, intricacies, or knowledge of history.

The U.S. is a nation with perhaps too many movies about potential or actual wrongdoing by mobs of its citizens. Films such 12 Angry Men in which all but on of 12 jurors in a murder trial agree that the accused is guilty, but are ultimately convinced by the lone juror (portrayed by Henry Fonda) that the accused is actually innocent. Or the Ox-Bow Incident (also starring Fonda) in which an entire town lynches three men they think have killed one of the town’s citizens, only then to discover that the dead citizen is alive. Or High Noon in which a sheriff (portrayed by Gary Cooper) is surprised to discover that none of his town’s citizens will take their moral responsibilities to help him defend himself against a killer. It isn’t hard to Imagine a movie in which someone who has been proven to be a criminal, someone who has blatantly lied that a clear majority of American voters hadn’t previously kicked him out of office, and who incited a riot in which thousands of his supporters smashed their way into the very symbol of American democracy and sacked it in an unsuccessful attempt to thwart the legal and proper functioning of the U.S. Constitution, would bizarrely be elected into office again.

What “Massive Mandate”?

A “massive mandate” is what the Convicted Felon and his MAGA minions screech that they have won. Moreover, they claim the Convicted Felon’s election somehow proves or validates that he was the correct choice all along and somehow demonstrates that that his critics were wrong.

Yet neither did the Convicted Felon win any such thing nor nor did his victory validate anything moral or competency questions about him. Indeed, if you believe MAGAt’s claimed ‘logic that it does, you’ll have a hard time explaining how when Pontius Pilate gave the people of Jerusalem a choice to free either the pious Jesus or the murderer Barabbas, the people overwhelmingly chose Barabbas (Mark 156, Matthew 27:15, John 18:39, and Luke 23:17). Winning an election by not a majority but a plurality of the votes case doesn’t anointed or clear or validate a candidate as correct; he merely the winner of a popular vote, like Barabbas. And even if that candidate received a majority of the votes cases (which the Convicted Felon didn’t) his election vote doesn’t means that the world is flat, that two plus two equals three, that wind turbines cause cancer, or that Haitian immigrants eat Ohioans’ pets. It would be moronic to believe so.

As for a “massive mandate”, simply examine the facts of the 2024 popular vote: first and foremost, most American voters in the 2024 Election voted against the Convicted Felon. According to the final popular vote count, Kamala Harris received 75,019,257 votes, Green Party candidate Jill Stein 782,528 votes, Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver 641,289 votes, independent candidate RFK Jr. got 756,393 votes from people who chose not to vote for the Convicted Felon, and other mine candidates got 388,787 votes. In other words, a total of 77,588,254 American voters didn’t vote for the Convicted Felon and 77, 303,573 did vote for him, a difference of 284,681 votes. If you think that isn’t much, consider that it is more than twice John F. Kennedy’s victory margin over Richard Nixon during the 1960 U.S. Presidential Election. Do you really think that anyone whom most American voters voted against really has a mandate?

Secondly, the Convicted Felon failed to get at least fifty percent of the popular vote.

Thirdly, compare the Convicted Felon’s meager 1.5 percent victory margin in the popular vote against those the other 45 men who’ve been elected president received in the prior 58 presidential elections in U.S. history. The Convicted Felon’s popular vote victory margin was the 54^th largest among those 58 elections. Let’s compare his victory margin to other recent presidents or his opponents:

• Jimmy Carter’s won a 2.0 percent popular vote victory margin in the 1976 Election, unseating incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford. Carter’s victory margin was 1.25-times larger than the Convicted Felon’s in 2024.
• Hillary Clinton won a 2.1 percent victory margin against the Convicted Felon himself in the 2016 election’s popular vote. That was 1.4-times larger than the Convicted Felon’s victory margin in 2024.
  (Hillary nonetheless lost the 2016 election due to the antiquated Electoral College, which favors underpopulated U.S. states over states where most Americans live. Wyoming’s 587,618 citizens have 3 Electoral College votes, an average of one vote for every 195,873 Wyomingites. Whereas California’s 39,431,263 citizens have 54 Electoral College votes, an average of one vote for every 730, 209 Californians, nearly four times fewer per citizen than compared to Wyoming citizens. At least prior to 1863, African slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of proportional representation; California citizens and those from other populous U.S. states are counted for far less nowadays by the Electoral College, whose 1789 voting mechanism has never been adjusted for 235 years of population growth.)
• Joe Biden won a 4.5 percent victory margin against the now Convicted Felon in the 2020 election’s popular vote. That was three-times the Convicted Felon’s popular victory margin in 2024. Biden also won more than 50 percent of all votes, unlike the Convicted Felon. Yet MAGAts, who evidencelessly deny the results of the 2020 election, never called Biden’s clearly much greater and repeatedly proven victory margin any mandate at all.
• Bill Clinton’s 5.6 percent popular vote victory margin in the 1992 election was nearly four-times the Convicted Felon’s in 2024 and Bill Clinton’s 8.5 percent popular vote victory margin in 1996 was nearly six-times the Convicted Felon’s in 2024.
• Barack Obama’s 7.2 percent popular vote victory margin in the 2008 election was nearly five-times greater than the Convicted Felon’s in 2024. (Obama’s 3.9 percent victory margin in 2012 was two and a half-times greater than the Convicted Felon’s in 2024).
• If you want to examine actual ‘massive mandates‘, consider Ronald Reagan’s 18.2 percent popular vote victory margin in 1984; Lyndon Johnson’s 22.6 percent in 1964; or Franklin Roosevelt’s 24.6 percent in 1936. Even hapless Herbert Hoover, during whose presidency the U.S. economy collapsed into the ‘Great Depression,’ won a 17.4 percent popular vote victory margin, more than 11-times the Convicted Felon’s popular vote victory margin in 2024. To call the Convicted Felon’s meager 1.5 percent victory margin a ‘massive mandate’, particularly when most U.S. citizens voted for someone else and he failed to get 50 percent of their votes, is political flatulence.

For that matter, too, the Republicans in the 2024 election won the narrowest majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in nearly 100 years, winning even fewer seats there than they had prior to the election 2024 election.

Heil Kakistocracy!

So, what has already resulted from the dystopian 2024 election of the Convicted Felon as U.S. President?

He has long boasted that he “hires only the best people.” Let’s for the moment forget that 40 of those 44 ‘Best People’ people he hired as his Cabinet secretaries and White staff during his first term in office refused to endorse him in 2024 (including the refusal of his own Vice President!) Let us instead state some facts about of the ‘best people’ he is now in 2024 nominating to serve as his new Cabinet Secretaries or White House staff. Their nominations have introduced the American public to the word kakistocracy, which the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Websters American dictionaries define as: “government by the least suitable or least competent citizens”):

• The Convicted Felon’s abortive nomination of former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz for United States Attorney General—a nomination that shocked even Republicans throughout the Capitol. Earlier this year, the firebrand Gaetz narrowly escaped a criminal indictment for drug-fueled sex parties in which he is alleged to have committed the statutory rape of a minor. The U.S. Justice Department decided that nonetheless it didn’t have sufficient evidence to convict Gaetz in criminal court ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ on charges sex trafficking and statutory rape. However, the bipartisan (i.e., Republicans AND Democrats) who serve in the U.S. House of Representative’s Ethics Committee released their own lurid investigative report about Gaetz; a report based upon evidence compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and by the Committee’s own hearings and interviews with witnesses. Its report states the “substantial evidence” that Gaetz engaged in the statutory rape of a minor (viz., the girl who was a junior in secondary school). The minor testified against Gaetz, as did two adult women who witnesses the statutory rape and Gaetz’s usage of illegal narcotics. The FBI also found evidence of Gaetz’s tens of thousands of dollars in payments to prostitutes for sex. “The Committee concluded there was substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules, state and federal laws, and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, acceptance of impermissible gifts, the provision of special favors and privileges, and obstruction of Congress.,=” This was the Convicted Felon first choice of ‘best person’ to be the chief of the United States’ Justice Department and its federal law enforcement agencies. It amply demonstrated the Convicted Felon’s warped judgement and attitude towards law and order. Fortunately for the United States, Gaetz withdrew his name from nomination just prior to the Ethic Committee’s report’ about him was released.
   
• The Convicted Felon then nominated former Attorney General of Florida Pam Bondi to be U.S. Attorney General. Several years ago, when she was the Attorney General of Florida, Bondi’s office had informed the now Convicted Felon that Florida planned to sue him for the fraud of his ‘Trump University’ scam (the Convicted Felon’s native State of New York did sue him about that fraud, a lawsuit that resulted in the now Convicted felon being forced to refund $30 million to the scam’s victims). However, Florida’s threat of a lawsuit against the Convicted Felon disappeared shortly after the now Convicted Felon made a $30,000 donation to a election campaign fund that was supporting Bondi’s re-election as Florida Attorney General. Bondi was later one of the Convicted Felon’s defense attorneys during the first of two impeachment trials. After the 2020 Election, Bondi publicly parroted the Convicted Felon’s obvious and evidenceless lie that he had won that election, which is remarkable because during her 2025 Congressional hearings about her nomination as U.S. Attorney General, Bondi assured the Congress that she makes decisions only upon the basis of admissible evidence.

• The Convicted Felon’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy, a conspiracy theorist, vaccine denier, admitted former heroin addict for ten years, and the victim of a brain worm, has also been publicly condemned by the Kennedy family as unfit for public office. He has no medical, nutritionist, or scientific credentials whatsoever; and is found of telling stories about his transporting and leaving animal carcasses in New York City’s Central Park and ahis meetings with alleged sex trafficker and statutory rapist Jeffrey Epstein and convicted rapist Bill Cosby, among other reprobates. Despite his lack of any medical credentials, Kennedy has denies that the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) caused AIDS, a claim that thousands of medical research reports debunk and none support. Kennedy likewise has falsely linked chemicals present in water sources to transgender identity. He has similarly falsely linked antidepressants to school shootings. I call Kennedy a racist because he believes that the COVID-19 virus was designed to be tolerable to “Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews”, something that no medical or scientific study has ever even indicated. As for his denial of vaccines, the United Nation’s World Health Organization reports that vaccines have saved more than the lives of more than 154 million lives worldwide during the past 50 years. No evidence whatsoever has been produced to back Kennedy’s claim that vaccines cause autism. This totally unqualified person is the Convicted Felon choice of ‘best person’ to take charge of the U.S. public health system.
  
• The Convicted Felon’s nomination of TV talk show doctor Mehmet Oz as Director of the national Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which administers those programs to some 150 million Americans. Oz is a dual citizen of both the U.S. and Turkey and thus the first foreign national ever nominated for a White House position. When Oz ran for a U.S. Senate seat from Pennsylvania two years ago, no less an authority than the 179-year-old Scientific American magazine stated that “Dr. Oz shouldn’t be a senator—or a doctor” because “his brand of misinformation has already tarnished medicine” and “in the halls of Congress, he’d do much worse.” The magazine noted that Oz has “built a tremendous following around his lucrative but evidence-free advice. … His candidacy is a reminder that tolerating and/or enabling celebrity pseudoscience can have serious and enduring consequences. Much of Oz’s advice was bunk before the pandemic, it is bunk now, and there is no reason to assume it won’t be bunk after.” Moreover, a study by the British Medical Journal concluded that fewer than half the claims made on The Dr. Oz Show were backed by “some” evidence, and that fell to a third when the threshold was raised to “believable” evidence.
   
• The Convicted Felon’s nomination of Fox News Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth for U.S, Secretary of State. Hegseth has no experience whatsoever running any organization larger than 50 people, nonetheless the largest in the U.S. government with some 2.1 million employees. Unlike all previous U.S. Secretaries of Defense this century, Hegseth has no experience or formal training in military strategy or international affairs. Hegseths moreover admits that he paid a woman to withdraw her sexual abuse allegations against him. He refuses to removed the confidentiality agreement involved in that payment. And he admits that while married to his second wife he adulterously impregnated another woman. He denies as “anonymous” and fictious reports that he has been drunk while on the job. However, the Congressional committee that held hearings about his nomination says it has signed and identified statements from his coworkers that he was drunk on the job. Hegseth now claims that he has ‘found God’ and won’t drink if confirmed as the United States’ official in charge of national defense.
   
• The Convicted Felon’s nomination of former Congresswoman and Fox News fill-in host Tulsi Gabbart as U.S. National Security Director, who would be in charge of all of the United States’ international intelligence agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency. Tom Rogan, the foreign policy editor of the conservative Washington Examiner states that Gabbard is an “ideological sympathizer” of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, adding that Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence could endanger the safety of the United States. Gabbart has publicly stated that she admires Russia dictator Vladimir Putin and she has been accused of spreading Russian propaganda and misinformation. Republican William Webster, a former federal judge who is the only American ever to be both director of the CIA and the FBI, has written the U.S. Senate about her “profound lack” of intelligence experience and how she fails to have the seasoned leadership necessary for the job. “Effective management of our intelligence community requires unparalleled expertise to navigate the complexities of global threats and to maintain the trust of allied nations,” Webster wrote. “Without that trust, our ability to safeguard sensitive secrets and collaborate internationally is severely diminished.” Despite all that, the Convicted Felon somehow thinks she is the ‘best person’ to run the CIA and all other U.S. intelligence agencies.
  
• The Convicted Felon’s nomination of conspiracy theorist Kashyap ‘Kash’ Patel as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Patel sells his own brand of ‘K$H’ branded merchandise, including supplements that he says detoxifies the body of the negative effects COVID-19 vaccines. He is the author of a children’s picture book titled The Plot Against the King, in which children are taught about a massive government conspiracy against ‘King Donald.’ He is also the author of an adult book entitled Government Gangsters, a partial memoir in which he criticizes the ‘deep state’  and lists 60 people who, he believes, are members of this ‘deep state’ (including Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, U.S. Attorney General and Obama era Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, Robert Mueller, and the Convicted Felon’s previous U.S. Attorney General William Barr). Patel has claimed that the federal government was behind the January 6, 2021, riotous attempted coup, a claim that has since been totally rejected by the bipartisan Congressional report about that event. Barr wrote in his own memoir of the first Trump presidency that Patel would become FBI director only “over my dead body.” Former Director of the FBI (under Presidents Carter and Reagan) and former Director of the CIA (under Presidents Reagan and Bush senior) William Webster wrote the U.S. Senate that Patel’s “record of executing the president’s directives suggest a loyalty to individuals rather than the rule of law — a dangerous precedent for an agency tasked with impartial enforcement of justice.”

• The Convicted Felon’s nomination of Linda McMahon as U.S. Secretary of Education. She served as Director of the U.S. Small Business Administration during the criminal first term in the White House and has been a donor to his 2016, 2020, and 2024 presidential campaigns. McMahon has absolutely no experience or training as a teacher, pedagogue, or academic, except for a period of a little more than 12 months on the State of Connecticut’s Board of Education, a position she resigned shortly before the Hartford Courant reported that she had lied claiming that she had a teaching degree. McMahon and her husband Vince, founder of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), producers of fake sporting events, are currently being sued by several former young men who worked for the WWE and claim that they were sexually abused there; that the McMahon knew this; and that she did nothing to stop it. Vince McMahon himself is currently under investigation by the FBI and Connecticut State Police based on a lawsuit by Janelle Grant (a friend of mine and former neighbor of mine, as is Mr. McMahon) who claims that he sexually abused and kept her as a sexual slave for himself and other WWE executives. (Why do so many of the Convicted Felon’s ‘best people’ have allegations of sexual assault in their backgrounds?)
  
• The Convicted Felon’s nomination of entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivak Ramaswamy to run a new federal agency he has concocted, the ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (‘DOGE’, which probably not coincidentally is the name of Musk’s cryptocurrency company, ‘Doge Coin’). Musk spent $268 million on the Convicted Felon’s 2024 election campaign. Musk’s companies currently receive tens of billions of dollars in government subsidies annually, creating a glaring conflict-of-interests in his nomination. The Washington Post this year reported that Musk, who entered the U.S. on a student visa, founded his fortune by working in Silicon Valley while not attending classes, an immigrant violation of a U.S. student visa. The conspiracy theorist Ramaswamy claims that the January 6, 2021, riotous attempted coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol was “an inside job” organized by the federal government and also that federal agents directed the September 11, 2001, terrorists attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. He has stated that the president should rule by executive degree rather than rely upon the U.S. Constitution’s three branches of government. He has pledged to fire 75-percent of all federal employees and has stated that the federal voting age should be raised to 26 (which would disenfranchise nine-percent of all U.S. voters).
  
• The Convicted Felon’s nomination of South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. In her memoir entitled No Going Back, Noem boasts that her killing her pet dog and her pet goat by shooting them in their heads when she no longer had any use for them demonstrated her sense of commitment to make tough decisions. However, animal shelter and animal rights advocates responded that her being committed into a psychotherapists care would have been a better decision. In 2018, Governor Noem released a campaign to fight methamphetamine narcotics abuse in her state; an awareness campaign that she officially named, “Meth. We’re on It”. In her memoir, Noem also writes about her meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jung-Un, something in reality that neither happened nor was even planned. Noem likewise in her memoir writes that she was once slated to meet with French president Emmanuel Macron. The French government has responded that it had neither invited Noem nor had any record of any scheduled meeting with her. Or as I once told China’s leader Mao Tse-tung, “We all make mistakes!”

If those are the Convicted Felon’s ‘best people’ for these highest government positions, then the United States of America apparently is a Third-World banana republic if nobody better can be found. In reality, there are likely hundreds, if not thousands, of other people better qualified for these key positions.

The Doubly-Impeached Circus Returns

What does the Convicted Felon plan after January 19, 2025?

• The Convicted Felon has announced that once he is again in the Oval Office, he will immediately begin to deport up to 11 million undocumented immigrants. Whipping up Hitleresque right-wing hysteria, the Convicted Felon histrionically claims that undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”; that they come in an “invasion” from foreign “prisons and jails, insane asylums; and “savage gangs”; that they have “occupied” parts of America and that their strongholds are “a war zone”; and they are inflating U.S. housing prices, plus “stealing American jobs” while also living off of government welfare payments. One only has to substitute the word Jews to hear the echoes of Hitler’s right-wing extremist propaganda. In the real world, unlike the Maga fantasy world, the U.S. Justice Department and its Federal Bureau of Investigation have been reporting for decades, during Republican and Democrat presidencies, that illegal immigrants are 40 percent less like to commit crimes than are white Americans born in the U.S. (such as the Convicted Felon himself). The U.S. Health and Human Services Department likewise has been accurately reporting for decades that illegal immigrants don’t receive any government welfare payments; that only legal immigrants or undocumented immigrants who have legally registered with the federal government and been approved for asylum request hearings are temporarily entitled to such payments until their hearings. No evidence has ever been presented that U.S. housing prices increase due to the tenements in which many, if not most, undocumented immigrants live (i.e., most Americans don’t want to live in such hovels). Facts be damned; the racist Convicted Felon (who indeed was sued by the Republican Nixon Administration during 1972 for racial discrimination) does care about factual reality when he can instead invent boogiemen for his followers to hate. Thomas Homan, his appointee to be ‘Border Czar’, has already announced that the deportation policy of family separation (i.e., parents separated from their children) will resume, a policy that President Biden ordered ended. Several Nobel Prize-winning American economists, in addition to the pro-business Economist magazine, have stated that the Convicted Felon’s mass deportation will not only cost the federal government tens of billions of tax dollars but also have a disastrous effects on the U.S. economy.
  
• The Convicted Felon also has publicly announced that he will begin imposing high tariffs on foreign nations, falsely claiming that foreign nations, rather than American companies pay those tariffs. Anyone who has ever passed an Economics 101 course knows that foreign nations never and don’t pay tariffs; that American companies that import foreign goods do. Economists estimate that the Convicted Felon’s tariff plan will cost American companies such as Walmart, Costco, Sam’s Club, Lowes, etc., hundreds of billions of dollars and increase the average American household’s costs by $2,500 to $5,000 annually. For such reasons, Republicans have opposed tariffs for more than a century. The traditional Republicans still do. The Prime Minister of Canada, the United State’s major trading partner, has said that the Convicted Felon’s tariff plan could “devastate” the Canadian economy (the U.S. already charges Canada higher tariffs than Canada does the U.S.). The President of Mexico, the second largest trading partner of the U.S., also opposes the Convicted Felon’s plan. An estimated 40-percent of the produced sold in U.S. supermarkets is grown in Mexico; most U.S. pickup trucks are built in Mexico; and Mexico’s Modelo lager is the top selling beer in the U.S. Walmart reports that 70 percent of the products is sells are from foreign nations.
  
• The Convicted Felon also has announced his intention to overturn the federal government’s policy of hiring and promoting workers on their objective merits rather than loyalty to any political party or politician. More than 100 years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican, promoted and helped enact through Congress the ‘Civil Service’ meritocracy which the Convicted Felon now plans to destroy. The Convicted Felon has stated that he instead plans to require government employees to be loyal to him rather than to the U.S. Constitution, and that this will be the new criterion for hiring and promotion in the government. The last Western nation leader to enact such a plan was Adolf Hitler in 1933.
  
• The Convicted Felon also has announced that he plans to use the U.S. Department of Justice as a means to seek “retribution” on his political enemies, reversing that department’s post-Watergate policy of political neutrality and objectivity. Only one previous U.S. president has ever abominably created a political ‘enemies list.’ However, Richard Nixon did so in secret, then resigned the presidency in disgrace.
  
• The Convicted Felon also has announced that he wants to U.S. to renege on its Panama Canal Treaty, which Presidents Carter and Reagan enacted with that nation. The Convicted Felon wants the U.S. to retake control of the Canal, even if by force. And the Convicted Felon has announced that he wants to purchase Greenland from Denmark, despite the fact that throughout this decade the Danes and Greenlanders have said Greenland, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark is not, nor even will be, for sale. Denmark is a fellow NATO nation and one which believes that Greenlanders themselves should control their own destinies. The Convicted Felon says he will not rule out military force to acquire Greenland or the Panama Canal. (What a concept! A U.S. military attack on the Danish province of Greenland would be an attack on Denmark, a founding member of NATO. Article Five of the NATO Treaty mandates that any military attack on a NATO nation is to be considered an attack on all NATO nations, including the United States of America. So, should the Convicted Felon order a military invasion of Greenland, he would automatically trigger war with Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, the Netherland, North Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Plus, the United States would theoretically be declaring war on itself!)
  
• The Convicted Felon also has announced that he intends to reduce military aid to the Ukraine, which Russia murderously invaded three years ago. Every Republican and every Democrat who has been U.S. President during the eight decades since World War II has adamantly opposed Russian aggression or invasions of other nations. In 1994 in Budapest, the President of the United States, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Ukraine, and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, signed an agreement stating that all of them agree that each is a separate and sovereign nation and that none of them would invade the other. Russia murderously breeched that agreement first when it seized the Ukrainian province of Crimea in 2014 and later again when it invaded the Ukraine in 2023. In the 1960s, U.S. President Kennedy, a Democrat, and in the 1980s President Reagan, a Republican, were noted for their condemnation of Russian international aggression and backing of aid for nations that Russia has aggressed. Unlike them, the Convicted Felon has repeatedly complemented Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, more than any other American politician, nonetheless president, in history.

Navigating the False Narratives

To navigate the Convicted Felon’s dystopian kakistocracy, I’m taking guidance from three diverse analysts:

1. Douglas Massey, professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University, who wrote, “Trump won a clear victory, in a free and fair election, in both the Electoral College and the popular vote. A majority of American voters seems to have embraced his dark message of a nation in decline, with its false narrative of a failing economy, rising crime, predatory minorities as well as an existential threat from left-wing radicals.” Massey noted that, “Trump’s campaign was openly racist, xenophobic and authoritarian and his supporters appear to be willing to jettison democracy in support of an autocratic demagogue who promises to ‘fix everything’ while pandering to their angers, resentments and prejudices.”
   
   Massey bluntly predicts that, “Once in power with a supine Republican-controlled Congress and judiciary, Trump will govern despotically as a populist based on his uninformed and increasingly delusional understanding of the nation and its challenges, wreaking havoc on the American political economy and the global political order.
   
2. Francis Fukiyama of Stanford University, the former neoconservative political theorist who wrote the 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man, in which he argued that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies and free-market capitalism may signal such a combination is the ultimate in humanities sociocultural evolution, believes the Convicted Felon is a threat, “to the rule of law. He’s been very clear in the last few months and weeks that he’s really out for revenge. He wants to take revenge on all the people that he believes have been prosecuting him and or persecuting him. And I think that this is where Schedule F [the Convicted Felon’s proposal to politicize the civil service] really matters.” Fukiyama expects Viktor Orban of Hungary to provide for the Convicted Felon, with “this kind of steady, slow erosion of one check and balance against executive power after another.”
   
3. Heather Cox Richardson, Professor of History at Boston College, perceptively notes that despite the apparent cohesion of the MAGA minions, “Civil war has broken out within the MAGA Republicans. On the one side are the traditional MAGAs, who tend to be white, anti-immigrant, and less educated than the rest of the U.S. They believe that the modern government’s protection of equal rights for women and minorities has ruined America, and they tend to want to isolate the U.S. from the rest of the world. They make up Trump’s voting base.” On the other side of tis Republican civil war are the new MAGAs who appear to have taken control of the incoming Trump administration. Led by Elon Musk, who bankrolled Trump’s campaign, the new MAGA wing is made up of billionaires, especially tech entrepreneurs, many of whom are themselves immigrants.
   
   “Richarddson writes, “During the campaign, these two wings made common cause because they both want to destroy the current U.S. government, especially as President Joe Biden had been using it to strengthen American democracy. Traditional MAGA wants to get rid of the government that protects equality and replace it with one that enforces white male supremacy and Christianity.
   
   “New MAGA—which some have started to call DOGE, after the Department of Government Efficiency run by Musk and pharmaceutical entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy—wants to get rid of the government that regulates business, especially technology, and protects American interests against competition from countries like China.” Richardson points out that the New MAGA wing, stridently advocates increased immigration by people immigrants skilled in technologies, yet the traditional MAGA wing abhors all immigration and demands that those skilled jobs go to white Americans like themselves despite their having inferior qualifications for the jobs compared to immigrants.

A Warning from Benjamin Franklin

So, what do I plan to do and say and expect during these next four years?

Now that a stupid, gullible, or malfeasant minority yet plurality of American voters have recklessly waded into a political swamp, I expect ‘reptiles’ to feast, good government to rot away, and the greedy hands of the Convicted Felon and his atrociously unqualified and incompetent nominees and appointees, to sink the U.S. economy into the mire. International chaos economic and political chaos to result. I expect dictators Vladimir Putin, Xi Jingping, and Kim Jong-Un to be emboldened by the Convicted Felon’s election. They will markedly increase their aggressions.

During the next four years, the Ukraine will fall to the murderous Putin.

Xi Jingping will, at worst, attempt to invade Taiwan and, at least worst, make the South China Sea a Chinese tollgate for the economies of Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, New Zealand, and Australia. Xi Jingping knows that as China’s population ages declines due to the legacy of that nation’s former ‘one child’ policy, China’s economy will stop growing and contract, and by 2030 he might no longer have the political strength any more to launch an invasion of Taiwan, which is the only way in which he can keep his promise to the Chinese people that Taiwan will again become an integral part of China under his rule. U.S. Intelligence Agencies have publicly reported that Xi Jingping has told the Chinese military that they must be prepared by 2027 for an invasion of Taiwan. His clock is ticking.

I expect Kim Jung-Un to break free of any constraints Russia and China have had on him and to invade South Korea. I expect he will do this after Russia conquers the Ukraine. And particularly if China were to launch an invasion of Taiwan. He knows that the U.S. and its allies would be hard-pressed defending Taiwan and have even greater trouble then simultaneously defending of South Korea. If Kim Jung-Un invades South Korea, I think likelihood of tactical nuclear weapons being used would greatly increase. . If tactical nuclear weapons were to be used, tens of millions of Koreans from both sides of the current Demilitarized Zone would die, as would tens of millions of Japanese downwind.

How the Convicted Felon – a narcissistic, impulsive, elderly man apparently with attention-deficit disorder, whom America’s top military officer has already called “unfit” for office and “the most dangerous man” in the nation, and whom more than 700 U.S. national security executives condemned, would react to such events is to be seen. (I expect than any of the 13 other U.S. presidents since World War Two would do a much better job than he would do.) The facts I’ve compiled here about the Convicted Felon and his kakistocracy make me fear for my native country’s physical survival, as well as that of the world! As a child in the U.S. during the 1960s, my elementary school made my classmates and I practice ‘Duck and Cover’ nuclear defense drills. I am nowadays fortunate that my wife and I have another home off the coast of West Africa, an island that isn’t a potential nuclear target.

History report that during the writing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787, a Philadelphia hostess named Elizabeth Willing Power asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” The 2024 election indicates that the American people can’t keep it. These next four years will tell.

During these next four years via social media, I will vociferously continue to point out not only the feckless Convicted Felon’s deceits, misdeeds, criminality, and incompetence, but those of the MAGAts who support him. I hold the people who voted for him directly to blame for all that will happen and its consequences. If you voted for the Convicted Felon, then you’re responsible for what he does. Indeed, if you are celebrating or taking ‘credit’ for his election, then you will certainly be to blame if anything bad results because you caused his election. With your vote comes responsibility and liability.