We’ve all had a lot of fun mocking JD Vance over his comments about childless cat ladies, but I’ve also felt a hint of something darker even than his mascara in his comments.
Think about it—he went from a broken home, to the Senate, and now to the VP slot on the ticket with a former president. He’s rich and connected to the creepy people he thinks are cool, he’s got a beautiful, accomplished wife and some kids. He’s made it—he’s living what many people think is the American Dream.
And yet he’s a weird, angry dude. And most of his hatred is focused on childless women, and he’s made a bunch of creepy comments beyond the childless cat lady bullshit.
This one is especially weird:
In new leaked audio from 2021, JD Vance says teachers without children “disorient and really disturb” him and singled out American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten for being childless and “brainwashing” children. Vance said she should “have some of her own [children] and leave ours the hell alone.”
And then this:
In response, Vance, who at the time had not yet officially launched his 2022 Senate campaign, suggested that the country needed to “reward the things that we think are good” and “punish the things that we think are bad” — before suggesting that individuals without children should be taxed at a higher rate than those with children.
AKA the child tax credit that was up for a vote in the Senate earlier this month with JD suddenly out of DC that day.
Here’s some first class projection:
Citing a conversation that had recently unfolded on Twitter, Vance described a “ridiculous effort by millennial feminist writers” to talk about why there are good reasons not to have children and how some of them were glad they didn’t have kids and even to encourage “people who had had children to talk about why they regretted having children.”
He ripped these unnamed “mediocre millennial journalists” and suggested that if they’re advocating for women to focus on advancing their careers over making babies, they are “pathetic.”
“Not enough people have accepted that if they put their entire life’s meaning into their credential, into where they went to school, into what kind of job they have ― if you put all of your life’s meaning into that, you’re going to be the sort of person who asks women to talk about how they regret having children,” Vance said.
He added, “You’re going to be a sad, lonely, pathetic person and you’re going to know it internally.”
To be honest, doesn’t that sound like he’s talking about himself? He put all of his life’s meaning into the credential of being a Republican US Senator, and now that he’s got himself potentially a heartbeat from the presidency all he feels is sad and lonely. I wish I could give a damn about his feelings, but I don’t.
This is another comment that makes me wonder about how miserable he himself is:
“Culturally, something has clearly shifted. I think it’s easy but also probably true to blame the sexual revolution of the 1960s. My grandparents had an incredibly chaotic marriage in a lot of ways, but they never got divorced, right? They were together to the end, ’til death do us part. That was a really important thing to my grandmother and my grandfather. That was clearly not true by the 70s or 80s,” he said.
“And I think that probably, I was personally and a lot of kids in my community, who grew up in my generation, personally suffered from the fact that a lot of moms and dads saw marriage as a basic contract, right? Like any other business deal, once it becomes no longer good for one of the parties or both of the parties, you just dissolve it and go onto a new business relationship. But that recognition that marriage was sacred I think was a really powerful thing that held a lot of families together. And when it disappeared, unfortunately I think a lot of kids suffered,” Vance said.
Vance hates his family, he hates his kids, and he hates being tied down. But he can’t get divorced, so he’s just furious all the time–you see it a lot with men who really didn’t want their kids. He’s a bilious cauldron of resentment and unhappiness and who knows what is going to happen once he boils over.
There’s no role for him in the country’s future.
Here’s a song about someone who is hated.
