The only way that Joe Biden can lose the 2024 election is through fraud. He should claim victory before all of the votes have been counted. When he loses, he should file more than 60 meritless lawsuits based on quickly debunked conspiracy theories and wishful but groundless speculation, even though he lost the election by 7 million votes. He should file those lawsuits even though his own Attorney General Garland, his White House Counsel, and his Homeland Security tell him there was no fraud sufficient to change the outcome of the election, even though local Republican election officials who support him and voted for him tell him there was no fraud sufficient to change the outcome of the election, and even though recount after recount and investigation after investigation (including some by Democrat controlled legislatures which support him [such as in New York]) conclude there was no fraud sufficient to change the outcome. When those 60 lawsuits are decided against him, many by Democrat Judges, some of whom he appointed to lower courts and the Supreme Court, he should then verbally attack the judges as being biased. He should call local elections officials and pressure then to just find him the votes and say it won't go well for them if they don't. He should also work to create fake elector slates, pressure his Democrat supporters in Congress to not vote in favor of accepting the proper electors, and pressure Vice President Harris to not certify the election. He should not attend the inauguration and instead hold a rally near the Capitol and urge his supporters to fight like hell and go to the Capitol, otherwise they won't have a country anymore. When his supporters violently attack Capitol police and break into the Capitol to stop the certification of the election, chanting to hang his own Vice President Kamala Harris, and to Hang Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, he should sit in the White House watching with glee, telling aides who urge him to say something to stop the carnage that perhaps they don't love their country as much as the insurrectionists do. He should wait four hours before finally gently telling the insurrectionists to go home, telling them he loves them. During the next four years he should continue to claim the election was stolen from him, that those who invaded the Capitol on inauguration day are political prisoners who should be pardoned, and if elected in 2028 he will be a dictator on day one and there will be retribution against his political enemies.

For me, the last photograph has the most impact. Because that’s a photograph, that tells a story.

How is it that a modern nation can be so broken that it allows its heroes to fall through the cracks of its so-called Welfare System? What does that say about We The People? Are we that shallow, that we support the political elites call for military action, but don’t hold those same political elites accountable for the after care of those we send to do our dirty work?

I’m not normally a buyer of street photography, but if you message me with what you want for that last photograph (B&W), I will do you a deal. I pay you, on condition you find and pay the subject in the photograph. My side of the bargain? I will have that picture hung on the wall of my State Capitol Building.

Lest we forget.