One would think that if the left would slow down for a few seconds to hear what they’re actually saying, then maybe they would start singing a much different tune, but it is simply not meant to be.
A perfect example of this revolves around the Democrat/Hollywood left attacks on Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee, over comments he made in September 2021 during a Tucker Carlson interview about how “childless cat ladies” who were “miserable at… the choices they’ve made” were “effectively running” (and ruining) the country:
Vance made the remarks in 2021 on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, referring to Vice President Kamala Harris, now the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, as one of the “childless cat ladies” running the nation who “want to make the rest of the country miserable too.”
The Ohio Republican added, “If you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.”
Five days before that interview and in comments conveniently not shared by his critics, Vance – who was a candidate for Senate at the time but not yet the nominee – was speaking at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and relayed a similar message, except in this one he was clear what type of childless women he wasn’t talking about:
“A lot of people are unable to have kids for very complicated and important reasons…there are people of course for biological reasons, medical reasons that can’t have children. The target of these remarks is not them.”
During that same speech, he also asked “Why is this just a normal fact of American life, that the leaders of our country should be people who don’t have a personal and direct stake in it via their own offspring, via their own children and grandchildren?”
In an interview with Megyn Kelly late last week, Vance didn’t back down from what he’d previously said, and elaborated more on his position, explaining that “This is about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming anti-family and anti-child”:
“I know the media wants to attack me and wants me to back down on this, Megyn, but the simple point that I made is that having children, becoming a father, becoming a mother, I really do think it changes your perspective in a pretty profound way.It’s not a criticism of people who don’t have children.I explicitly said in my remarks, despite the fact the media has lied about this, that this is not about criticizing people who for various reasons didn’t have kids. This is about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming anti-family and anti-child.”
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Because his critics including Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign think this is a gotcha moment with him on the issue of women and children, they’ve also pounced and seized on comments Vance made during a 2021 interview with Charlie Kirk in which he said people who have kids should have a lower tax burden (a point he also reiterated here). The official Kamala HQ Twitter/X account and other pro-Kamala Twitter/X users shared it:
First things first: It wasn’t a “leaked” video. It’s been available for over three years now. Secondly, what Vance described is the child tax credit:
ABC News also tried a similar tactic, and got called out for it as well:
Further, as Megyn Kelly explained, the type of people Vance was referring to “should not be our leaders”:
It’s “weird” indeed.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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