NonilexJul 30, 2024

#Republican VP nom Sen #JDVance has a history of making disparaging remarks toward people w/o children, a CNN KFile review of his comments shows, including #fundraising off his infamous #ChildlessCatLadies remarks in a series of emails that called Democratic leaders “#ChildlessSociopaths” who “don’t have a direct stake in this country.”

#Trump #MAGA #MaleSupremacy #misogyny #sexism #heterosexism #ChristianEvangelism #extremism #FarRight
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/30/politics/kfile-jd-vance-history-disparaging-people-without-kids/index.html

It’s not just ‘cat ladies’: JD Vance has a history of disparaging people without kids

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance has a history of making disparaging remarks toward people without children, a CNN KFile review of his comments shows, including fundraising off his now-infamous “childless cat lady” remarks in a series of emails that called Democratic leaders “childless sociopaths” who “don’t have a direct stake in this country.”

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Show threadNonilexJul 30, 2024

In Nov 2020, #JDVance said on a #conservative podcast that #childless Americans, especially those in the country’s “leadership class,” were “more #sociopathic” than those w/children & made the country “less mentally stable.” #Vance added that the “most #deranged” & “most #psychotic” commentators on Twitter – now X - were typically childless.

#Trump #MAGA #MaleSupremacy #misogyny #sexism #heterosexism #ChristianEvangelism #extremism #FarRight

Show threadNonilex

In Aug 2021, one month after launching his candidacy for the #Senate, #Vance’s campaign sent #fundraising emails referring to the “#radical #childless leaders in this country” following his appearance on “#TuckerCarlson Tonight” where he made comments deriding #ChildlessCatLadies & leaders running the country.…

#JDVance later tried to clean up his comments on Megyn Kelly’s podcast last wk.

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #FarRight #extremism #MaleSupremacy #misogyny #sexism #heterosexism #Evangelism

Jul 30, 2024 at 7:01pmWeb
Show threadNonilexJul 30, 2024

“Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment. I’ve got nothing against cats,” said #JDVance, adding that his remarks were not about criticizing people w/o children, but rather focused on policy [?] & claimed the #Democratic Party has become “anti-family” & “anti-child.”

A CNN KFile analysis found SEVERAL examples over the course of a few YEARS of #Vance saying similarly disparaging things when talking about people w/o children —usually while targeting Democratic ofcls.

#Republicans #sexism #misogyny

Show threadNonilexJul 30, 2024
“There are just these basic cadences of life that I think are really powerful & really valuable when you have kids in your life, & the fact that so many people, especially in America’s leadership class, just don’t have that in their lives…I worry that it makes people more #sociopathic & ultimately our whole country a little bit less…mentally stable…go on Twitter & almost always the people who are most #deranged & most #psychotic are people who don’t have kids,” #JDVance said in 2020 on a podcast
Show threadNonilexJul 30, 2024

In Sept 2021, #JDVance tweeted that “cat ladies…must be stopped” in response to a report that a higher percentage of Americans fear having children because of #ClimateChange.

In another tweet a month later, #Vance wrote, “Our country’s low birth rates have made many elites #sociopaths.”

#Vance would later fundraise off those 2021 #TuckerCarlson remarks in a series of emails….

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #FarRight #extremism #MaleSupremacy #misogyny #sexism #heterosexism #Evangelicals

Show threadNonilexJul 30, 2024
1 #Vance fundraising email from Aug 2021:
“…I needed to speak DIRECTLY to patriots like you about the serious issue of #radical #childless leaders in this country. We can’t have people who don’t have a direct stake in this country making our most important decisions.
“We’ve allowed ourselves to be dominated by childless #sociopaths - they’re invested in NOTHING because they’re not invested in this country’s children. Fighting back won’t be easy - our childless opponents have a lot of free time…”
Show threadNonilexJul 30, 2024

Another #JDVance fundraising email reads, “Our country is basically run by #childless Democrats who are miserable in their own lives & want to make the rest of the country miserable too… What I want to know is: why have we turned our country over to people who don’t have a direct stake in it?”

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #FarRight #extremism #MaleSupremacy #misogyny #sexism #heterosexism #ChristianEvangelism

Show threadNonilexJul 30, 2024

…In a 2019 speech, #JDVance articulated his belief in the positive impact that children have on society & individual lives. He explained that many of his views on children & society stem from observing how becoming a father can transform young men from being “driftless” to becoming “rooted” & “grounded” members of society.

#ChildlessCatLadies #Trump #Vance #MAGA #Republicans #FarRight #extremism #MaleSupremacy #misogyny #sexism #heterosexism #ChristianEvangelism

Show threadNonilexJul 30, 2024

“I care about declining fertility because I’ve seen the role of fatherhood, the positive role that it can play in the lives of my friends & in my community,” #JDVance said…

“I’ve seen people who become more attached to their communities, to thei families, to their country because they have children,” #Vance added.… “we should care about declining fertility, not just because it’s bad for our economy, but because we think babies are good & we think babies are good because we’re not #sociopaths.”

Show threadNonilexJul 31, 2024

Speaking of #AntiFamily, read these excerpts from #FredTrumpIII’s book 'All In The #Family; The Trumps & How We Got This Way' writing about discussions w/ #Trump after he stole Fred & #MaryTrump’s inheritance & Fred worried about caring for his differently abled child:

“When the reporter asked if he thought he might be coming across as just a little coldhearted, given our son's medical condition, my uncle shot back: 'I can't help that. It's cold when someone sues my father."

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#Harris2024

Show threadNonilexJul 31, 2024

"'Those people…,' Donald said, trailing off. 'The shape they're in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.' I truly did not know what to say. He was talking about expenses. We were talking about human lives.”

“Donald took a second as if he was thinking about the whole situation. 'I don't know,' he finally said, letting out a sigh. 'He doesn't recognize you. Maybe you should just let him die & move down to Florida.'”

[the #FamilyValues party leader]

#Trump #hypocrisy
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Show threadThadJul 30, 2024
@Nonilex Not that I expect consistency from this motherfucker or anything, but he also opposes fertility treatments and dismisses step-parents and adoptive parents as not real parents.
Show thread𝓐𝓷𝓭𝔂𝓣𝓲𝓮𝓭𝔂𝓮 𓀤Jul 30, 2024

@Nonilex It's their latest and greatest moral panic: "the great replacement". To prevent it, the #Rapeublicans want to force white women to have lots more babies. No more abortion, no more birth control, no more saying "no".

Women need to say "no" to the #Rapeublicans while you still can!

Show threadCourt Cantrell does not complyJul 31, 2024

@Nonilex Fuck him. It is not a child's job to make a better man out of an asshole. Or a better person out of a parent, period.

You want better men, JD Vance? First, BECOME ONE. Second, invest money in education & community. This is the burden of YOUR lack of responsibility and empathy. Stop dumping it on the backs of women and children.

#FascistGOP
#JDVance
#unadVanced
#DonaldTrump
#Project2025
#Project2025IsTrumpVance
#AmericanEducation and its #destruction
#AmericanMisEducation
#education

Show threadMar :🌻Jul 31, 2024
@courtcan Well said. Not every woman is meant to be a mother. And not every woman wants to be one. Too many children are being horrible abused or dumped into a dumpster at birth thanks to SCOTUS ruling against abortion. Vance needs to go away. Far, far away from our country. @Nonilex
Show threadCourt Cantrell does not complyJul 31, 2024
@mooseandriosmom @Nonilex Vance, Trump, Johnson, Blackburn, Taylor Green, Boebert, Abbott, Noem, Graham, Huckabee Sanders, Hagerty, Scott, Tuberville, Gaetz, Stitt, Jordan, deSantis, so many others: all tossing this nation directly into a boiling pot of authoritarianism, nationalism, militarism, elitism, and fascism. Every last one of them needs to be removed from power without possibility of return.
Show threadRalph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZJul 31, 2024
@courtcan @mooseandriosmom @Nonilex A few of them are all in on Trump because he has something on them. When he goes down, he's going to burn the barn.
Show threadCourt Cantrell does not complyJul 31, 2024
@Ralph058 @mooseandriosmom @Nonilex I hope he takes every last one of them down with him.
Show threadRalph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZJul 31, 2024
@courtcan @mooseandriosmom @Nonilex Well, if he does't, they will no longer be useful idiots for Putin and he will dump on them. I'm sure he has something on Johnson.
Show threadMar :🌻Aug 2, 2024
@Ralph058 He needs to be in prison, but he can take them with him.@courtcan @Nonilex
Show threadMar :🌻Aug 2, 2024
@courtcan I agree. Many of them need to prosecute. @Nonilex
Show threadThinkaholic is 🐸 antifaJul 31, 2024

@courtcan @Nonilex I was a couple months shy of 50 when I married. When people asked me why it took me so long my explanation was "It took me that long to become someone worth marrying."

Marriage doesn't make men better; (many) women choose to marry better men. And what creeps like Vance hate is that women HAVE that choice — to wait for a man who's worth marrying, to leave a man who isn't right for them, or to eschew men entirely. Because they know that women who CAN choose won't choose them.

Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Jul 31, 2024
@pooserville @courtcan @Nonilex I never understood the whole 'incel' nonsense... Just seems to be a bunch of whiny frat-boys who totally lack the self-awareness to realize that the reason they can't find anyone willing to shag them is because they're utterly self-absorbed, very stupid, probably neglect basic personal hygiene, and that most normal people could have a more insightful conversation with a ham sandwich.
Show threadCourt Cantrell does not complyJul 31, 2024

@bytebro @pooserville @Nonilex I think with "incels," it comes down to never having learned to make a genuine emotional connection with another human, no matter what type of relationship. Something in childhood was missing or never got fully developed -- resulting in a severe attachment disorder and leading to a sense of entitlement as well as a lack of empathy.

That's what's broken about Trump. He stopped developing emotionally around age 3-4. And I'm not being hyperbolic. He's missing basic

Show threadCourt Cantrell does not complyJul 31, 2024

@bytebro @pooserville @Nonilex ...emotional skills that develop and strengthen around age 5 and beyond.

None of which excuses him or Vance or "incels" or anyone else who feels entitled to other people's bodies or wants to remove women's choices. But the lack of those fundamental emotional skills is where a lot of this authoritarian and fascist bullshit originates -- which should be extra motivation for the rest of us to fight them HARD...and, in the meantime, teach our children well.

Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Jul 31, 2024
@courtcan @pooserville @Nonilex I hear you. It doesn't seem even to be an ASD 'disconnect' thing (with which I might relate), it's more like 'I'm amazing, so everyone that doesn't understand that must be evil'. Maybe it really does come down to a kind of psychopathy...
Show threadPNW DebJul 31, 2024
@courtcan @bytebro @pooserville @Nonilex We know that after the birth of his younger brother his mother nearly died and was unavailable to him. I think that may have something to do with it.
Show threadCourt Cantrell does not complyJul 31, 2024
@DebR @bytebro @pooserville @Nonilex I don't doubt it. It doesn't excuse him, but it does explain a lot of things. He most definitely has not done the work as an adult.
Show threadPNW DebJul 31, 2024
@courtcan @bytebro @pooserville @Nonilex It absolutely doesn’t excuse his behavior, but it could be the reason for a lot of his behaviors.
Show threadSmittyAug 1, 2024
@courtcan @bytebro @pooserville @Nonilex have any of you looked at these maga women? They look mean and nasty and frankly wierd. Lines of hate carved into their faces.
Show threadCourt Cantrell does not complyJul 31, 2024

@pooserville All very well said. And your intensity of self-reflection is a quality sorely lacking in many of us. 🤘🖖

@Nonilex

Show threadCoach Kolektiva DieselAug 1, 2024
@courtcan @Nonilex "It takes a village..." Not all the villagers need to physically bear the children to have a stake in the future.
Show threadCourt Cantrell does not complyAug 1, 2024
@sundiesel @Nonilex EXACTLY. 🤘🤘🤘
Show threadशिवदम् ⓋJul 30, 2024
@Nonilex What I wanna know is why "christians" support a guy who hires (then hushes) porn stars, and a guy who has sex with a couch.
Show threadsamiamsamJul 30, 2024
@Nonilex I don't have kids but my taxes support public schools and I want kids to have free breakfast and lunch year round so....
Show threadusspacenutJul 30, 2024
@Nonilex this is rich coming from the people who are completely apathetic about children dying, starving and getting shot in school.
Show threadTheosuwbJul 30, 2024
@Nonilex ahhh, whatever …🎃🦶
Show threadशिवदम् ⓋJul 30, 2024
@Nonilex This, from the guy who's running with the most deranged & most psychotic presidential candidate (who has kids) that this country has seen. Got it, JD.
Show threadशिवदम् ⓋJul 30, 2024
@Nonilex Anti-family... This, from the party that doesn't want to support childcare, children's health, the health of mothers....but DOES support more guns in homes. Right.
Show threadSteve Oh 🇺🇸💙✊🟰🗽🇺🇦Jul 30, 2024
@Nonilex I find it interesting how these right-wing #nutbags seem always having to “clean up” their (fascistic/misogynistic/racist…) comments they’ve previously made. 🤔