The 2024 Presidential Election is upon us. I’m writing this to remind myself of the days we are living. I’ve watched the Democratic Party devolve into a party of deception, suffering, hate, and death; it is not one of joy. I’ll explain further, but let’s start with the Border Crisis.
Our Borders
As you know, for the past 3 ½ years, the Democrats have been promoting and escalating the tidal wave of illegal immigrants flooding the U.S. with a focused effort to place them in the swing states. Making you believe it is solely for compassion and using your hard-earned tax dollars, illegals have been invading America not only through the southern and northern borders but also by busses, trains and planes. The evidence is undeniable, visible on TV, news and the Democrat-controlled government websites: a staggering 700% increase in these regions over just 3.5 years – estimates of 15-20 million coming from all over the world, even from countries that hate us. Immigrants have been coming here for many years, so who knows the total number?
Consider this: In many of these swing states, electoral outcomes are decided by razor-thin margins—sometimes fewer than 10,000 votes. Imagine the impact of hundreds of thousands, potentially millions, of new residents in these pivotal areas.
If an illegal immigrant is granted asylum, they are fast-tracked to get a green card. Then, five years after the green card, they can get citizenship, and they can legally vote. When they do vote, they will vote overwhelmingly Democrat. The Democrats have been giving “free” transportation, housing & hotels, food, health insurance, legal costs, education, etc., which makes them beholden to the Democrat Party for all the free stuff. Once across the border, they are directed to use the CBP One app to input their information.
The evil side of open borders is all the drugs & fentanyl being brought in – which is literally killing Americans. There have been 435,000 undocumented migrants with criminal convictions that have been released by ICE to cities around the United States. Would you want these people living in your neighborhood? The facts are they are raping and killing women. Then there is Tren de Aragua, a gang from Venezuela that has slipped into the US, some arrested recently in Colorado. Plus, there is human trafficking going on.
Perhaps the Dems believe this is just “collateral damage” for the goal of staying in power. It’s evident they don’t care about the welfare of Americans, only the welfare of illegal immigrants. Think about it, we are paying for their medical care through Medicaid and states are begging VP Kamala for financial help to educate illegal imigrants. Kamala is now running billboards near the Border advertising FREE Legal Services for Illegal Alien Criminals. Did you hear that right, criminals. Shockingly, Kamala supports tax-payer funded transgender surgeries for illegal immigrants. The photo below is another migrant caravan that should be arriving before election day.
The illegals are getting massive benefits for stepping into the US. Free groceries through SNAP benefits, free travel on buses or airlines – wherever you want to go, and free housing. Those intent on committing crimes are even welcomed in the US. They are also getting free medical along with transgendering operations if they want it.
Elon Musk and others predict … that if there are another four years of a Democrat administration, the Dems will legalize all illegal immigrants, erasing the concept of swing states. We’ll be a single-party country, just like California is a single-party state because of immigration. America will eventually look just like California. Astonishing, California just passed a law that made it “illegal” to require voter ID when voting in any election. Why? So, it enables large-scale voter fraud, and there is no way to prove it. This is insane! You need an ID to do anything but not to vote in California. One-party rule is not democracy. The people calling Trump a threat to democracy are themselves a threat to democracy. It’s time to wake up before it’s too late. A country without borders is no country.
One last thought. We have some good friends who are “legal” immigrants from places like Venezuela, Australia, the Middle East, Mexico, etc. They’ve gone through a ridiculously long and complex legal immigration process—which needs reform. Most of us have immigration stories in our family histories; I know I do. My ancestor, David Thompson, was a Scottish immigrant who sailed from England and became the founder of New Hampshire.
As people of faith, we are called to show love and kindness to those around us, especially to those who have come from afar. Let’s not forget the wisdom in Hebrews 13:2:
“Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”
The high cost of food and goods
First of all, I am not an expert on economics, but I have taken five semesters of economics. Studying economics can be quite complicated with various factors and formulas.
Is there really price gouging?
Target CEO Brian Cornell disputed claims that retailers are inflating prices because of corporate greed after Kamala proposed the first-ever federal ban on price gouging in the food and grocery industry. He said there is no room for price gouging in a sector as competitive as retail, where margins are razor thin. “We’re in a penny business,” he said. “It’s a very competitive space.” In other words, what is she talking about? Groceries stores are echoing the same sentiments.
How do we bring down the cost of food?
Families are trying to figure out how to survive with the high cost of food. Should they buy food, medicine, or pay the rent? Even fast-food restaurants are getting expensive. Personally, we have cut back on buying meat because it’s so costly.
Kamala wants to introduce price fixing on food. That might sound good, but in reality, does it really work? Let’s say Kamala sets a price control on milk at $1.00 a gallon, which sounds great to the consumer. Unfortunately, the farmers can’t produce milk at that low cost, so they eventually go out of business and have to lay off people. If you want to see food shortages at the store, long lines to buy food and higher unemployment, then vote for Kamala and her plan.
Artificial prices are unsustainable in a free market system. Nixon tried it before, but we’ve learned our lesson: It doesn’t work. If you move away from the free market system, you have socialism, and America will turn into Venezuela; we are done. Price controls are a scary premise. Perhaps Kamala should take a refresher course on economics about supply and demand. Maybe she is getting ideas from her father, Donald Harris, a retired economics professor at Stanford who also taught classes on Marxist economics and wrote essays and books. Marxism in the US is a frightening thought; it is not the answer.
Why do we have inflation?
The Federal Reserve raises interest rates in hopes of lowering inflation. However, the root of inflation is when we print more money and then go on a spending spree, as the Democrats always do. Printing money and spending it only further increases inflation and contributes to our national debt, which is out of control. A government that hands out cash, benefits, and freebies to illegal immigrants only invites half the world to come to America.
Should we tax the rich to raise more money?
Kamala wants to raise the tax on corporations. If they are taxed too much and their businesses close down, there will be a shortage of food and goods and a rise in unemployment. What about overtaxing the rich? Who will you tax next when the rich are tapped out? Have you ever heard of an economy that has been taxed into prosperity?
What about raising money through tariffs?
Trump has proposed using tariffs and reducing taxes. Wow, that would be nice! While we are at it, let’s eliminate the IRS. The IRS lost a check of ours, and they say they can’t find it. But we see clearly on the cashed check that it went to someone else’s account. We are just getting the bureaucratic runaround from them.
Back to Tariffs. Yes, tariffs are already raising money for America. A tariff is a tax imposed on goods and services imported from other countries. The primary aim is to make imported goods more expensive, thereby encouraging consumers to buy goods made right here in America.
When America imposes a tariff on imports, we receive money from that tax; the revenue can be in the trillions. For example, China is making products with either the Uyghur people forced labor or cheap labor. America is paying our workers a fair wage but just can’t compete with those cheap prices. Therefore, we can penalize them by imposing a tax (tariff) on those products to make things more fair.
America will always face the challenge of finding ways to generate revenue, often through income taxes, tariffs, or a combination of both. We should make it mandatory for students to take an economics class, either in high school or during their first year of college. Americans need to be aware of these challenges so we can make wise decisions when voting.
“But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere”. James 3:17
Lies & Naming Calling
As the speeches, rallies, interviews, and town halls come to a close, a few observations have become evident. The endless cycle of name-calling will eventually slow down, but will the insults and lies ever end?
Some Democrats have resorted to referring to Trump supporters as “Nazis” and labeling Trump as “Hitler,” a comparison made during the last election cycle as well. However, it’s important to remember the gravity of Hitler’s actions; he orchestrated the persecution and extermination of over 6 million Jews under the Nazi regime. Do you not remember Trump’s presidency, which spanned four years? Did you see such atrocities? No, so this parallel doesn’t quite align with historical facts.
We all remember back in 2016, Hillary Clinton said half of Donald Trump’s supporters belong in a “basket of deplorables” characterized by “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic” views. Yes, this was uncalled for.
Recently, President Biden referred to Trump supporters as “garbage.” The endless rhetoric by the Dems and the left news outlets calling Trump a “threat to democracy” and a “fascist” only escalate another potential assassination. There have two attempts already. Trump is not a Hitler, Fascist or a threat to democracy.
You might say, Republicans have also been vocal. I would say yes, but many of the comments appear to be accurate. It makes me wonder, was it really all the rhetoric that caused the attempted assassinations, or was it their Dark Money at work? If Trump isn’t assassinated, they have vowed to continue their lawfare, hoping to put Trump in prison.
Christian Loathing
Did you know that Kamala posed with the founder of an anti-Catholic hate group at the San Francisco Pride festival, along with a drag queen collective. Although she did this before running for President, it tells you all you need to know. The video is disgusting.
More recently, while Kamala was speaking in support of abortion rights, demonstrators shouted, “Christ is King,” “Jesus is Lord,” and “That’s a lie.” Then Kamala smiled and said, “Oh, you guys are at the wrong rally,” which erupted in cheers while Kamala laughed. Then she said, “I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street.” More cheering from the pro-abortion group. Kamala is not a Christian, or she wouldn’t be applauding and supporting the killing of pre-born babies. Instead, rather than surrendering her life to Jesus and following Him as a Christian and adhering to the Bible, Kamala embraces a multifaith perspective (her mother is Hindu, her father is Christian, and her husband is Jewish). With all three intermingled into her life, she embodies the pluralistic and secular values found in America.
Transgendering children
The Democrats are just fine with transgendering children. Meaning, changing the sex of a child, which entails giving a child puberty blockers and permanently, surgically, painfully altering their bodies. What many children really have is gender dysphoria. Research has shown it is most often caused by social media influencers, peers embracing it, and public schools coupled with the LGBT influence. Studies show the majority of them will outgrow the notion that they are born in the wrong body. All they need is mental health not surgery.
Sadly, doctors in America are still providing puberty blockers and surgeries to children. But why? Follow the money; it brings in millions of dollars. Recently, a prominent doctor and trans rights advocate admitted she deliberately withheld publication of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study on the effect of puberty blockers on American children — after finding no evidence that they improve patients’ mental health.
Listen, God has created your child in their sex for a reason; He has not made a mistake. People have made up their standards for life and sexuality. Only God’s perfectly designed plan, as communicated in His Word, should be the standard to which we aim. The world would know God’s plan if they opened the Bible and read it. God-created males and females who are equally valuable and complementary — each displaying aspects of God as their differences work together.
Other issues surround transgenders in our society, such as biological men winning women’s sports titles and transexuals being allowed to use the restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms in schools, stores, and more. Democrats support all of these.
Fortunately, there is hope. When a transgender person accepts that Christ died on the cross for their sins, repent, and eventually step into heaven, God will see them as they were created, who they were intended to be.
Foreign Policy
What kind of President would Kamala Harris be as Commander-in-Chief? The Biden/Harris administration’s foreign policy decisions have pushed us to the brink of a nuclear war than we ever have been before. Nuclear war threatens all of humanity. Reagan and Gorbachev said, “A nuclear war can never be won and should never be fought.” Kamala stood and looked at us through the camera on the debate stage and confidently announced, “There is not a single active duty servicemember deployed to any combat zone anywhere in the world for the first time in a century.” The truth is that there are tens of thousands of service members throughout the world in harm’s way. Tulsi Gabbard, Lieutenant Colonel and Commander in the Army Reserves, said, and I agree, “This should be an immediate disqualifier for her to be our President.” Hear more.
Abortion
The most important issue on the ballot is abortion. Many women want the right to kill their own child up until birth in all states.
A little background on Kamala. Did you know that in 2015, a whistleblower presented video evidence of Planned Parenthood discussing fees for aborted baby tissue and organs for profit? Shockingly, Kamala Harris defended Planned Parenthood and instead prosecuted the whistleblower, David Daleiden. Disgusting video.
In August, Planned Parenthood was at the Democratic National Convention stage, saying, “‘Women are not free unless they can abort children.” What? Also, remember how Planned Parenthood was in a mobile unit stationed near the DNC handing out free abortion pills and vasectomies? Kamala is in lockstep with the abortion giant. She has spent the last 3 years crisscrossing the nation with the sole intent of visiting abortion clinics and praising them for killing American babies. God is looking down on our country; He sees women who are killing their children.
Think about it. Your tax dollars are supporting a system responsible for the deaths of nearly a million babies each year in the US, with up to half a billion dollars in funding directed to Planned Parenthood annually. Semantics, making a word not sound so bad, like abortion. The Dems do it all the time. Abortion is not healthcare, nor is it a reproductive right; it is the act of ending a life. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz align with these practices, supporting abortion up until birth for any reason, and often the reason given is convenience. Every 89 seconds, a child is killed at Planned Parenthood. Semantics again – pro-choice. Pro-choice is a lie – it is no choice for the women who have suffered through the trauma of an abortion and who are grieving the death of their baby. Pro-choice is no choice for the baby. Abortion is not healthcare. Real doctors don’t intentionally kill one human being to provide proper care to another human being. They say the abortion pill is just medicine. A drug that intentionally kills an innocent child in the womb is not medicine.
Did you know that Christians right now are being arrested for peaceful protests of singing hymns, offering prayers, reading scripture, or speaking words of compassion to women outside abortion facilities? Many of these Christians find themselves thrown into and entangled in a biased legal system that is intent on silencing their voices and violating their First Amendment rights. They endure the burdens of legal battles, shouldering the weight of court fees, lengthy travel for hearings, and being away from their families during trials. Despite this, Christians remain resolute, facing ungodly judges and skeptical juries with an unshakeable belief in God’s desire for life.
Many of our fellow Pro-Life believers are currently languishing in prison. They were found guilty under the FACE Act, which was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994. Those in prison are praying Trump will be elected and make good on his promise to pardon them. Sadly, Kamala Harris, as president, would ramp up the prosecution of free speech pro-lifers, and she would love to send all of them to prison. The ungodly mainstream news won’t ever mention the stories of Christians being persecuted, nor will they ever mention their noble sacrifice and steadfast faith and how many unborn babies were saved from a scheduled gruesome death. Trump has said he would put an end to the persecution and imprisonment of pro-life Americans.
There are many other rights that women want: equal pay, protection against violence, protection from biological men in women’s sports, men in the locker rooms, etc. However, Kamala Harris doesn’t care about these topics instead bowing down in homage to one thing –the right to kill your baby. God doesn’t give you the right to kill your baby. We are in trouble when we start calling good “evil” and evil “good”. God Himself does not endorse an activity that He hates.
The policies and topics I’ve been discussing clearly demonstrate a complete lack of empathy or concern for babies, children, women, or Americans. Far-left-leaning policies, driven by a relentless hunger for power, speeches fed by puppet masters, Dark Money promoting evil causes, and elite billionaire Democrats chipping in, reveal a willingness to sacrifice us, the American people, regardless of the cost or collateral damage. There are already new reports in the news of the Democrats cheating in the elections (again). In heavily controlled Democratic cities, many businesses have already boarded up their windows in case they are upset by the Presidential results (the Democrats are the only ones who riot).
Prepare yourself, it will be a scary, dark world if Kamala is elected. Marxism is already seeping through the cracks. This corrupt path the Democrats have been on will never earn my vote because it will ultimately lead to the fall of the United States, a country I dearly love. I pray your eyes are opened to see what is happening. Your vote affects me, my family’s life, my friends and my neighbors. May God help us and never cease to pray for America.
“There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.” Proverbs 6:16-19