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GOP vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance was slammed this week when a video of a 2021 Fox News appearance emerged in which he smeared Vice President Kamala Harris: He described her as being one of a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that theyve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too. Vance faced an onslaught of bad press, as many commentatorsincluding Harris step-daughter, Taylor Swift fans, Democratic officials, actor Jennifer Aniston, and several conservative women punditsdecried his comment.
Yet Vance, a Republican senator from Ohio, might have had an easy way of dismissing the criticism, for not so long ago, while speaking to a group of conservatives, he blamed the negative media coverage he often received on childless reporters.
It turns out that his remark about Harris was not a one-off soundbite. This dig was part of a larger schtick that Vance has deployed to explain the challenges faced by the conservative movement, including derogatory stories in the media. In 2021, Vance presented the full pitch when he spoke at a conference outside Washington, DC, organized by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a rightwing outfit co-founded by William F. Buckley Jr. to promote conservative thought on college campuses. During this talk, Vance said he had been victimized by childless journalists. But first he noted that the conservative movement was screwed:
We have lost every single major cultural instiution in this countryBig Finance, Big Tech, Wall Street, the biggest corporations, the universities, the media, and the government. There is not a single institution in this country that conservatives currently control. But theres one of them, just one that we might have a chance of actually controlling in the future, and thats the consitutional republic that our founders gave us. We are never going to take Facebook, Amazon, Apple and turn them into conservative institutions. We are never going take the universities and turn them into conservative institutions
We might just be able to control the democratic institutions in this country
This is a raw fact of cynical politics. If were not willing to use the power given to us in the American constitutional republic, were going to lose this country.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/jd-vance-childless-adults-media/
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Skittles
(156,722 posts)yes INDEED
ProfessorGAC
(68,108 posts)I want him to dig as deep & as quickly as possible.
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(53,787 posts)madaboutharry
(40,981 posts)Creepy J.D. Vance. That should be how he is always referred to.
Fozzledick
(3,868 posts)![](/emoticons/cry.gif)
dalton99a
(83,124 posts)Hekate
(93,384 posts)All the many thousands of couples in this country who need fertility help are apparently worthless in his eyes.
NoveltySocks
(366 posts)MacKasey
(1,096 posts)Klarkashton
(941 posts)That kind of bilge is reserved for AM radio hosts and fox news hosts.
BoRaGard
(2,014 posts)republicon whining is is so --- well, it's deplorable.
Grow up and act like responsible mature adults.
Stop whining.
Youre such a fertile stud .
Deuxcents
(18,307 posts)MAGA is all about control. Of everything n everyone. Aint gonna happen, JD. Were not going back.
hatrack
(60,260 posts)Fucking give it a rest.
PikaBlue
(176 posts)Isn't JD a Catholic? Does he believe priests should not be able to vote or that they have no stake in the country or its future? All of this stupidity is giving me a migraine.
Dem4life1234
(355 posts)He's also insulting priests and nuns as a Catholic
Dumbass.
valleyrogue
(678 posts)They are nothing of the sort and never were.
They aren't out to "conserve" but to destroy.
Words matter.