In the News · Posted 22 minutes ago Usha Vance Defended Husband J.D. Vance's "Childless Cat Lady" Comments, But I'm Not Buying It "What he was really saying is that it can be really hard to be a parent in this country.
" by Morgan Sloss BuzzFeed Staff Link Facebook Pinterest Twitter Mail Another day, another development in the "childless cat lady" saga! Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images As you're probably aware, former president Donald Trump's vice-presidential running mate J.D. Vance recently came under fire for his resurfaced 2021 comments criticizing childfree people .
After blaming the "childless left" for the nation's woes, he shared this preposterous idea: "Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of the children." Kent Nishimura / Getty Images According to Vance, people who are intentionally childfree like me have "no physical commitment to the future of this country." Following 2021 backlash, he appeared on an episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight , where he doubled down and specifically called out several Democratic politicians, including Kamala Harris.
"We are effectively run in this country...
by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too. And it's just a basic fact." Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images BTW, Kamala Harris is a stepmom to her husband Doug Emhoff's two children from a previou.