No, I'm Not With Her.

Why I'm Not Voting for Kamala Harris

On July 2nd I said this:

I don’t want anything to do with this election cycle, but there’s too much at stake. It’s the undecided and the uninterested who will decide this election, and I’m not interested in carrying that burden.

My, oh my, how things have changed.

You don’t need a recap of the last month’s political calamity. You know what happened; you saw everything unfold. What irritates me is the gaslighting.

This was the talking point: Putting his ego aside and our country first, Biden’s decision to drop out of the presidential race was courageous and heroic.

Who do they think they’re talking to!?

Biden has been in cognitive decline for YEARS, and those of us who noticed and dared to speak up were called every ugly name in the book. The administration refused a cognitive test even though in March his “mental acuity” was called into question by a special counsel investigating the classified documents case. What does that mean? It means charging him with a crime would be a waste of time since he can’t assist in his own defense. They, the media and Biden’s political allies, have been running cover for him, but thanks to the June 27th debate they had to abandon that ship and start telling something close to the truth.

Heroic, my ass! If it weren’t for the debate, he would still be in the race. They were prepared to lie their way to election day, roll him through the inauguration if it came to that, but the polling wasn’t good and a Trump win was almost certain and it was too late to primary him. The debate gave them the perfect excuse, so now we’re stuck with Kamala.

If Biden were truly heroic or courageous he would have dropped out months ago or decided against reelection, instead, he denied Democrats the right and opportunity to choose their nominee and it has to be Kamala because if she doesn’t run they risk losing every dollar Biden raised.

Kamala Harris ran out of support during the 2020 presidential primary, so she dropped out of the race before the first primary votes were cast. She was an unwanted, disliked, bottom-of-the-barrel candidate, and when it came time to choose a running mate, Biden was under immense pressure to choose a black woman.

Kamala Harris: The vice presidential candidate chosen to manipulate the black vote and the presidential candidate who had to be because money matters more than the American vote. This is American Politics in 2024.

So where do I stand? I don’t like her and don’t plan on voting for her, but I’d like to detail why, for those who want to argue. I have thoughts and opinions on key political issues, but I have a few that are nonnegotiable and this is where I distance myself from Kamala.

1.) Abortion

I’m pro-life with no exceptions. I believe life begins at conception and that sacrificing children on the altar of convenience is evil. I believe women have been sold the biggest lie in abortion: that our bodies are a burden and the thing we’re naturally designed to do is holding us and the rest of society back. I hate the abortion industry and the way it preys on vulnerable and scared women. I hate planned parenthood and I hope I live to see the day when every clinic is shut down.

I also hate politicians who dangle abortion in women’s faces because they refuse to tackle the policies that affect our every day. Kamala Harris isn’t just pro-choice, she’s pro-abortion and she’s still trying to use Roe v. Wade to scare women into voting for her.

Spoiler alert, she can’t do this. Trump hasn’t said much about abortion and understandably so because the same reason she can’t sign a law “restoring and protecting reproductive freedom in every state” is the same reason he can’t sign a national ban into law, as Democrats fear he will: Abortion belongs to the states. The Supreme Court made it clear in 2022 that the right to an abortion does not exist and is not protected by the constitution so the issue goes to the states. Anything she tries to do at a national level would be a 10th Amendment violation and would be struck down almost immediately by a federal judge. She would have to propose a constitutional amendment and seeing as how 41 states either banned abortion outright or have restrictions, I don’t foresee that happening. I voted for my state’s total abortion ban, which is now enshrined in our state’s constitution, so Kamala and I don’t see eye-to-eye on this.

2.) Women’s Rights

For Kamala, women’s rights begin and end with abortion but it’s the current administration, of which she is second-in-command, that tried to gut Title IX by executive action which would have allowed male athletes to compete in women’s sports and use women’s spaces. I say “would have” because there are injunctions in place as lawsuits make their way through the courts. Any law that protects gender identity will never get my support because people’s self-perceptions (not including religion) should never be protected by law. Many states have outright banned males from participating in women’s sports, but the current changes don’t affect those bans. The hope was to introduce a proposal to counter those bans after the election, which Kamala Harris is sure to do.

In the past, she has opposed bills that would protect women’s spaces and in 2022 she spoke out against Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

I will not compromise on this. I will not support any candidate who isn’t committed to protecting women’s sports, spaces, and language. I will not vote for any candidate who participates in gender ideology and supports the mutilation of children.

3.) Illegal Immigration

I will never forgive the media for trying to Mandela effect us into forgetting that in 2021 Kamala Harris was put in charge of finding the root cause and proposing solutions to the border crisis.

Biden called her the Border Czar. The media called her the Border Czar. “Border Czar” isn’t something you forget, especially when she did absolutely nothing and the problem ballooned under her watch. She was given one extracurricular job and she didn’t do it. With this issue, she’s a walking contradiction. She claims she’s going to be tough on border security while saying on camera she’s going to close detention centers. It’s an election year and the Biden administration decides now is the time to get “tough” on illegal immigration, but it wasn’t the deaths of women or rapes of children or rapid increase in crime that fueled action, it was the thought of losing power. Another awkward truth: if Governors Abbot and DeSantis hadn’t made illegal immigration a blue city problem we wouldn’t be having these conversations.

4.) Separation of Powers

Eventually, Biden’s Title IX changes will make it to the Supreme Court where they’ll be stuck down, for the same reason his student loan executive action was struck down. Biden’s had four executive orders struck down by the Supreme Court, all for the same reason: The executive branch doesn’t write or rewrite laws. Biden’s attempts to circumvent Congress by using unelected bureaucrats to change rules, create new rules, or change existing laws never end well, and every time this happens the Biden Administration and its proxies go on days-long rants about how the Supreme Court is corrupt and we need to expand the bench. Now Biden wants to reform the Supreme Court by proposing term limits.

This isn’t a common-sense proposal, it’s retaliation. On July 1st, the Supreme Court “declared that a President is immune from prosecution when exercising the 'core powers' of the presidency.” This ruling helps Trump, and they don’t like that. There is a reason Supreme Court justices have a lifetime term limit, but we can talk about that another time. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ desire to reform the Supreme Court isn’t to benefit democracy but so they can avoid accountability. Our government was designed with three equal and separate branches for a reason, so we would never have a King and the people would always have the last word. Joe Biden and Kamala want to rule like kings: unilaterally and without opposition. The Supreme Court has spent the better part of Joe Biden’s term holding him accountable and he doesn’t like that. It’s that simple.

Another Spoiler Alert: They can’t do this. The rules that govern the Supreme Court aren’t laws passed by Congress…It’s Article III of the Constitution! They would have to rewrite the constitution, completely restructure the federal government, and then get 75% of the states to ratify those changes, and that would never happen.

I’m not voting for a candidate who thinks or hopes her base is this stupid.

Now there’s the issue of Tim Walz, the current governor of Minnesota. Never mind the media treating him like a gubernatorial grandpa and weirdos on TikTok declaring he’s the cure for their daddy issues (no, I’m not joking), but any candidate whose obvious flaws are glossed over to appeal to my emotions gets an automatic no from me.

Governor Walz turned Minnesota into a “sanctuary state” for gender-affirming care for minors and signed a law protecting abortion up to nine months. The issues of Stolen Valor are better explained by someone more informed on that subject, but this is what seals it for me:

The Gestapo didn’t stumble upon Anne Frank and her family by happenstance; someone called and snitched. Is Tim Walz a Nazi? No, but he’s of the mindset that one should snitch on their neighbors for the greater good. Let’s not forget the way he let Minneapolis burn during the George Floyd riots by neglecting to deploy the National Guard in a timely manner. Friends and families weren’t allowed to gather in parks but he had compassion for looters and arsonists and none of the people who lost their livelihoods and their sense of security. Five days, over $500 Million in damages and two deaths. That’s who he is.

I don’t care about the shade of her skin or her biological sex because neither of those things defines her as a person. Her actions define her. Her policies define her. Her inability to remain authentic defines her. I owe her nothing as a black woman and you can’t use my blackness or my sex to manipulate me into voting for her. I didn’t like her yesterday and I’m not going to pretend to like her tomorrow. I’m not going to abandon my principles or my faith because her “victory” would be historic. I don’t care about any of that. I care about protecting women and children from vulnerable snake oil salesmen with medical licenses. I care about protecting the sovereignty of this nation and I believe in preserving the Constitution and protecting the separation of powers because our goofy founders knew what they were doing.

So if you must ask: No I’m not with her and I have no problem explaining why.