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Nonilex Jul 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.”

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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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Nonilex Jul 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.

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Nonilex Jul 30, 2024

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.

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Nonilex Jul 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.

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Nonilex Jul 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

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Nonilex Jul 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….

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