Now that Vice President Kamala Harris is probably going the subsequent Democratic nominee for president, many are looking at what Trump’s working mate, Senator J.D. Vance, has stated prior to now about girls, and particularly feminine politicians who select to not have organic kids. Spoiler: it isn’t nice.
In a recently resurfaced quote from simply three years in the past, Vance informed fellow far-right conservative Tucker Carlson, “We’re successfully run on this nation by way of the Democrats…a bunch of childless cat women who’re depressing at their very own lives and the alternatives that they made, and they also wish to make the remainder of the nation depressing too…You have Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, all the way forward for the Democrats is managed by individuals with out kids. How does that make any sense once we’ve turned our nation over to individuals who haven’t got a direct stake in it?” (This cat woman line wasn’t a one-time factor, both. He’d mainly stated the identical throughout an earlier speech.)
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So, a few issues! First of all, you need not have youngsters to care about the way forward for the nation, and there are many individuals with youngsters who’re making horrible selections for the nation. But additionally, Pete and Chasten Buttigieg adopted fraternal twin babies in August 2021. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may need youngsters some day (if she needs to). Kamala Harris cares deeply for her two stepchildren, Cole and Ella, who affectionately name her “momala,” and it is fairly impolite to dismiss their relationship and her beloved household simply because they are not associated by blood.
(And not that it issues almost as a lot, however not one of the individuals he name-checked have cats. Like, I get that “cat woman” is a time period greater than a descriptor of 1’s pets, however it simply goes to indicate that when Vance calls feminine politicians depressing cat women, he would not know what he is speaking about, as a result of they are not depressing, and so they have no cats. AOC has a canine.)
