It's Not Just "Childless Cat Ladies": JD Vance Once Described Childless People as "Sociopathic"

[Uncle Joe]

New details have emerged about Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance's past comments that continue to plague the Trump campaign, with the Ohio senator having made repeated remarks over the years denigrating people without children as "cat ladies" and "sociopaths." We speak with ProPublica reporter Andy Kroll, who has reported on Vance and says he is "demonizing huge swaths of Americans" and embodies a "really extreme version of conservative politics."

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[Warpy]

1. Look, the guy hates women, we all know that

Right now, he's focusing on hose of us who couldn't or didn't have children, no matter whether or not the reasoning was sound. He'll be on to women who get fat after childbirth or something equally stupid. Just wait. It's all going to add up to the fact that he hates women, all women, even as he feels entitled to go through life being cared for by women, his every need met.

[Uncle Joe]

2. I haven't seen the movie or read the book but it sounds to me like Vance is projecting

his own internal sociopathy coming from a son; whose mother wasn't there for him.

For all practical purposes she was "childless."

I believe it was Colbert making a joke the other night that with his beard Vance resembled Don Jr. so perhaps he was looking for a daddy figure which *rump filled quite easily as both are heavy at projecting their own internal demons.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yes it is about his abandonment issues.

Rejected by his mother.

His own children trigger all of these issues.

[Warpy]

4. Well, Mom can be absent for a lot of reasons

Sometimes it's drugs, including alcohol. Sometimes it's being a constant committee woman, sometimes it's illness, sometimes it's too many other children, 3 of whom are in diapers, some women seem to feel as soon as the kid's potty trained, her job is done, some work full time, and some are just neglectful. JD's got a lot of company out there, but they didn't all turn into misogynistic sociopaths. In fact, remarkably few do. I think JD was likely born with a loose screw, never developed insight, and externalizes all his problems.

Your comment about JD standing in for Junior is interesting, that dynamic's going to be a barrel of laughs.

[Uncle Joe]

5. I don't disagree with the premise of your post.

The main point being Vance is projecting his own internal demons, just as *rump does.