By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com

Are you as anxiety-riddled as I am, waiting for final unofficial results that declare Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the next president of the United States?

Those of you who are, I want to offer this bit of advice.

Let’s calm down. I keep telling myself that very thing, with little impact on the angst that keeps roiling with my gut.

Election officials in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada and Georgia need to get it right without worrying about getting it out in a hurry. Thus, for them the first priority is to ensure the votes are counted accurately. Am I unsettled because we don’t know yet whether Joe Biden has actually been elected? Sure, I most certainly am unsettled.

Then we have the issue of Donald Trump’s concession. More to the point: He hasn’t conceded. White House aides say he won’t concede. Trump signaled Thursday an utter disdain for the democratic process when he threw out myriad conspiracy theories he said are designed to “steal” the election from him. Indeed, Trump’s disdain extends to our very representative democracy. He lied brazenly, openly and without a shred of shame.

What if he doesn’t concede? What if we approach inauguration day and President-elect Biden prepares to take office and Trump still hasn’t vacated the office. A Biden campaign aide put it well, saying that the “people decide who is the president” and the government has ways of “removing trespassers from the White House.”

We must arc back to the anxiety that builds while we await the final unofficial results. I am just a single American voter, a patriot, someone who loves this country with all my heart. I want a change to occur and I am supremely confident that it will occur.

I just need to practice the advice my head keeps preaching to my heart.

Just be patient, man.

By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com

We knew all along that Donald Trump lacked the underpinnings of decency and dignity to assume the role of president of the United States.

Now we get to witness the flailing, feckless futility of a man on the cusp of losing an office he had no business occupying in the first place.

Joe Biden is poised to be declared the 46th president of the United States of America. He will deliver a victory statement perhaps tonight, or maybe in the next day or two.

Donald Trump? He is fomenting the lie for the ages, that illegally cast votes propelled Biden to victory. Moreover, aides close to Trump say the Sore Loser in Chief has no intention of conceding defeat to Biden.

This is a dangerous and pitiful example of what history will record as the most freakish political aberration in American history. Ponder this for a moment: The president of the United States seeks to undermine the very basis of our representative democracy by alleging corruption in the election process that continues to unfold before our eyes.

It gets worse. Republican officeholders who have aligned themselves with Trump are giving him a pass; some of them are endorsing the dangerous conspiracy nonsense that Trump is spouting.

How does that saying go? That silence is an expression of complicity? Yep. That’s it. They are bringing shame onto themselves and allowing the disgraceful charlatan who has masqueraded as president to do the same thing.

Despite all of this, I want to offer a bit of good news.

First, each court that gets a legal complaint from Donald Trump alleging illegality in the voting process is going to waste zero time in deciding whether to accept or deny it. They know that time is not on their side, that the clock is ticking toward the inauguration of a new president, so they have to act in rapid-fire order.

Second, it is my fervent hope — and growing belief — that the U.S. Supreme Court, if it even accepts a complaint, will deliver a quick decision that will end this charade once and for all.

Third, Biden’s victory comes with a mandate to govern that Donald Trump never acquired. He will have rolled up a handsome majority of ballots cast. Biden’s Electoral College victory appears headed to matching the electoral win that Trump scored four years ago.

Lastly, the president-elect will conduct himself with the class and grace that has been missing from the presidency for the past four years.

First things first. Donald Trump might need to get escorted from the White House by federal marshals. I would pay real American money to see that event take place.

It would be the final disgrace that Donald Trump could bring to the nation’s most exalted public office.

By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com

My fellow Americans, those of you who watched Donald Trump just a little while ago on national TV were handed a reason to believe that this individual must lose the presidential election and be ushered out of the White House as soon as humanly possible.

Joe Biden stands on the verge of winning the election. He is just a few electoral votes away from scoring the most important presidential election victory in our lifetime.

Trump, however, has now contended while standing in the White House press briefing room that Democrats, the media and the Biden campaign have conspired to steal a duly conducted free and fair election.

Donald Trump has just uttered arguably the most dangerous lie during his tenure as president of the United States.

This individual is utterly without shame, without conscience, without decency. He has alleged that illegal votes have been cast against him; there isn’t a shred of evidence of anything coming close to what Trump has alleged.

Donald Trump has denigrated neutral polling organizations, local elections officials who belong to both political parties, the media (naturally!) and the former vice president of the United States who is likely to defeat him in his bid for re-election.

Is there a more blatant case for removing this guy from office? Can there be any rationale for keeping him in office?

“If you count the legal votes I easily win,” Trump said, providing no evidence. “If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us.”

“I’ve already decisively won many critical states, including massive victories,” Trump said.

Allow me to restate the obvious. There has been zero evidence of “illegal votes” being cast. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a president who is out … of … control!