The United States is ready for its first woman President —maybe
Golda Meir-Israel. Isabel Perón-Argentina. Margaret Thatcher-United Kingdom. Indira Gandhi-India. Mary Robinson-Ireland. Angela Merkel-Germany.
Those are six of the more than fifty women who have been Presidents. Prime Ministers or leaders of their countries. Currently, twenty-seven women are serving as the leaders of their countries. Two more will be inaugurated in the coming months as both Norway and Mexico have elected women as their heads of state. Mexico, of all places, not only elected a woman, but a Jewish woman. Claudia Sheinbaum will take office in October.
One country that is not on the long list of women leaders is the United States of America. We gave it a try in 2016. Hillary Clinton had a long list of qualifications. She spent eight years as First Lady, then she became a Senator from New York. followed by a term as Secretary of State. She was far more qualified than her opponent, whose largest qualifications were being a reality television host and the owner of a casino that went into bankruptcy.
There were plenty of reasons why Clinton lost the election, but certainly, misogyny came close to topping the list.
It looks like we’re about to give it another try. President Joe Biden announced that he will no longer seek re-election. He said he’ll be supporting Vice-President Kamala Harris. It looks like the rest of the Democrats have jumped on the Harris train. Here are her qualifications: Years as a prosecuting Assistant District Attorney in San Fransisco, six years as Attorney General of California, four years as a Senator from California and now the last three-plus years as Vice-President. A damn good resume!
But, it didn’t take long for misogyny to raise its head—less than one day.
Laura Loomer is a far-right political active, but mostly an internet personality. She also claims to be a journalist, but that’s more than a dubious claim. She spends most of her time on Twitter/X, sucking up to Donald Trump. When she heard of Sunday’s events, it took her a short time to have this oh-so-lovely response:
Did you know that Kamala Harris was once an escort and that she got her career started giving blow jobs to successful, rich, black men? She sucked Willie Brown’s penis while he was a married man in exchange for political power. Here she is “dating”’ Montel Williams in 2001, who appears to be holding hands with more than one woman at the same time on the red carpet. You can see Kamala has had no issue being a side piece, escort, and all around hoe over her “career”. We already have enough political wh0res in Washington DC occupying Congress. We don’t need a real wh0re in the White House.
Then she followed up with this:
It’s time for Republicans to start talking about Kamala Harris's sexual history and the reason why she likely doesn’t have any children of her own. I’m willing to bet she’s had so many abortions that she damaged her uterus. A woman who has no biological children of her own should not be allowed to make decisions in the White House for your children. Republicans need to run with this messaging and ask why a woman with no kids of her own and just a scarred up uterus is so obsessed with wanting to kill your babies. Kamala has zero investment in the future but she wants to determine our future.
Like I said—oh-so lovely. And that’s all on day one. It may be hard to believe, but it’s probably going to get worse. One hundred —five days until November 5. Buckle up folks. If you think 2016 was bad—you ain’t seen nothing yet. Yeah, America is ready for a woman President—-maybe.