Gerald R. Ford: Shitbird Score 41

Ethical & Moral Breakdown:
Ford's presidency is remembered as a healing moment after Watergate — but that healing came through institutional amnesia. His first major act was pardoning Nixon, setting the permanent precedent that presidents are above the law.

Then, on December 6, 1975, Ford and Kissinger met Suharto in Jakarta. The declassified memcon shows them giving the nod; Indonesia invaded East Timor within hours, using U.S. weapons, with U.S. aid still flowing. The occupation ultimately killed 100,000–180,000 Timorese (per the CAVR truth commission) across 1975–1999 — this ledger charges Ford the invasion-phase deaths on his own watch, at the enabling tier. The occupation's deadliest stretch, the engineered famine of 1977–79, is charged to his successor, who kept the arms flowing through it.

Key Policies & Their Toll:

• Pardon of Nixon (1974) — shielded the presidency from legal consequence; scored as ethics
• Green light for Indonesia's invasion of East Timor (1975) — invasion-phase deaths ~60,000, enabling tier (50%): ~30,000
• Continuation of Operation Condor — thousands disappeared, tortured, executed across Latin America (downstream share)
• Opposed release of Church Committee CIA findings

Toll Assessment:

• Avoidable Deaths: ~35,000
• Unavoidable Deaths: ~100,000

Shitbird Score Breakdown:

• Base Score (avoidable death toll): 31
• Ethics Penalty: +10 (pardon of Nixon, covert support for mass murder)
• Final Shitbird Score: 41

"Our long national nightmare is over."
No, it was just classified and airmailed to Jakarta.