Seven Questions with Nicolette Landry

 

[Screenshot via The Guardian]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: We don't want this to become a J.D. Vance hate site, but if this guy won't STFU, well...

In yet another unearthed audio clip, this time from a 2021 podcast, the current Republican veep nominee described a childfree life (but just for women!) as a "path to misery."

At about 39 minutes into the recording, when asked what he saw inside elite institutions like Yale Law School that made him view them as corrupt, Vance answered: “You have women who think that truly the liberationist path is to spend 90 hours a week working in a cubicle at McKinsey instead of starting a family and having children.”

Vance added: “What they don’t realize – and I think some of them do eventually realize that, thank God – is that that is actually a path to misery. And the path to happiness and to fulfillment is something that these institutions are telling people not to do.

“The corruption is it puts people on a career pipeline that causes them to chase things that will make them miserable and unhappy,” Vance said. “And so they get in positions of power and then they project that misery and happiness on the rest of society.”

Minutes later, Vance adopted the perspective of a hypothetical professional woman to answer Sharma’s question about where “the racial and gender resentment comes from.”

“OK, clearly, this value set has made me a miserable person who can’t have kids because I already passed the biological period when it was possible,” Vance began, “And I live in a 1,200 sq ft apartment in New York and I pay $5,000 a month for it.”

There are definitely some people who feel like they cannot have children because they work too many hours and spend too much money on rent! Do Vance's policy positions do anything to address these problems? Nope!

Which is why he can't stop talking about the invented miserable and childless straw-women who live in his stupid little head. It's a desperate misdirection in the hopes that people won't notice that it's his party and their anti-labor, anti-family policies, anti-choice policies which create the circumstances where women who want to have children can't and women who don't want to have children are forced to.

We see you, Vance. 

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