Vance's rhetorical record on people without kids gets even worse

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It didn't seem possible for Republican Sen. JD Vance's rhetorical record on American families to get much worse. Then a new recording reached the public.

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There are different explanations for Vance’s unpopularity, but it seems likely that his lengthy record of condemning Americans without children has contributed to his troubles. Unfortunately for the GOP ticket, that record is still growing. NBC News reported:

Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice presidential nominee, attacked teachers who don’t have children in remarks in 2021 that resurfaced Tuesday. In his public comments, he reserved specific criticism for Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers.

“You know, so many of the leaders of the left, and I hate to be so personal about this, but they’re people without kids, trying to brainwash the minds of our children,” Vance said at a forum in October 2021, about a year before he was elected to office for the first time.

He added, in reference to the AFT leader, “If she wants to brainwash and destroy the mind of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone.”

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......There’s also been extensive reporting of late about Vance suggesting that parents should have greater voting rights than Americans without children, and federal tax policies should “punish” those without children for their “bad” choices.

Mother Jones’ David Corn, meanwhile, uncovered a speech in which Vance said he receives unflattering media coverage because he thinks most journalists are “childless adults.” HuffPost added a report of its own, shining a light on comments the Republican senator made in 2021 about the need to “go to war” against the idea that women can decide not to have children, suggesting that someone who focuses on building their career instead of making babies will be “a sad, lonely, pathetic person.”

About a month ago, Trump told Fox News that he’d encourage voters concerned about Vance to “listen to his words.” The trouble, of course, is that whenever people do listen to Vance’s words, his problems get worse.

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1. What a Disgusting, and Dangerous Mysoginist!

Women are equal people first! You bag of sewage -whether they are mothers, childless by choice, or situations, etc!

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2. He's a total republicon

sad

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3. Vance is finding out that using the rhetoric from

Right wing radio ranters isn't popular outside that sphere of dimwits and psychos.

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4. JD Vance's obsession with childless women needs to be looked into by professionals. It's simply creepy at this point.

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JD Vance’s obsession with childless women needs to be looked into by professionals. It’s simply creepy at this point.

Newly resurfaced comments from a Center for Christian Virtue leadership forum in October 2021 show Vance criticizing the teachers’ union president, Randi Weingarten, for not having her own children.

“So many of the leaders of the left—and I hate to be so personal about this—but they’re people without kids, trying to brainwash the minds of our children.”