This man is ignorant as hell. He’s out there claiming women who don’t have children don’t have a stake in America. Women without children have nieces and nephews and friends with children who they care about. Now he’s calling Jennifer Aniston creepy and disgusting for her comment about his opinion on childless women.
Maybe he’s secretly still a never trump guy after all.
He is a True Believer on Christian Dominionism, and he is 100% all-in on what he says. He truly believes that Democrats, and people who don’t adhere to traditional family values and traditional family structures, are an existential threat to the U.S.
His public persona is something that he has adjusted over the past decade, to fit what his aspirations are. He doesn’t actually believe any of this crap*, but much like his new boss, he says it (and even double-downs on it) because it resonates with the people from whom he wants support: conservative, evangelical white Christians, most of whom are all-in on Christian Dominionism.
*- Note that he talks about how women should focus on traditional roles, and how families are “better” when they are supported by solely the husband working, while his own wife is a high-powered lawyer, who only quit her job when JD became Trump’s running mate.
I heard him say some real shit about children should have the right to vote, as their parents tell them to.
That’s kinda not how it works. What a dumb ass.
Can you imagine? How many kids are in foster care? Who tells them how to vote?
What about adopted kids?
What about foreign adopted kids?
IVF kids?
Blind or deaf children?
Disabled?
Autistic?
On and on and on.
That is the most ridiculous thing I think I’ve ever heard a political candidate say.
Trump spouts nonsense, we can hear it easily.
Vance may be more dangerous.
Has he ever … actually met a child? I mean, if someone had given four-year-old me the right to vote, I would’ve voted for Reagan, much to the chagrin of my Democratic parents, because I thought he was handsomer than Carter. Children aren’t blank slates with no opinions of their own, and children of conservative Republicans, I suspect, are especially likely to diverge from their parents’ views. Unless the idea is that the parents are supposed to cast the votes without actually consulting the child (in which case, it makes no sense to say the child has the right to vote), I don’t think this is necessarily going to work out the way he expects…
Given that it wasn’t even a thing until the past couple of weeks, and was created in direct response to (and opposition to) a statement by Vance, I think it’s hard to argue that it’s not a political slogan.
And how many kids, let loose in private in a voting booth, will vote counter to the way their parents tell them?
Though I wouldn’t be surprised if Vance thinks that votes shouldn’t be private, but should be overseen, to make sure that everyone votes the “right” way.
The cats are in no way optional. Just ask them.
I do have markers, and a tshirt or two that don’t already say something (though usually the something isn’t political.) But my artwork is not that great, and my handwriting is atrocious. And the tshirts that already have cats on them aren’t really designed well for writing anything on them.