Friday Smiles 392: Childless Cat Ladies explained

 

It's Friday, which means it's time to join Friday Smiles, hosted by Annie (at A Stitch in Time).  Let's visit Annie and the other wonderful ladies who also share their smiles each Friday.   

Last Friday I was unable to leave a comment on any blogger/blogspot blog.  I wasn't going to play this week because I had/have no idea if I'll be able to leave comments.  However, after reading comments from my international readers last Friday, I became aware I broke one of my rules for writing: know your audience.  My international audience, for the most part, was not familiar with the phrase Childless Cat Ladies.

I'm sure even the most sheltered person in the world knows who Donald Trump is.  He is a former U.S. president and running for that same office again this year.  However, many of you don't know who J.D. Vance is.  He is Donald Trump's vice presidential running mate.

  That's him above.  In my opinion, he believes anyone old enough to procreate should do so about every 10 months.  To him, family values is how many offspring you can produce.  Now you want to know where I got Childless Cat Ladies.  Here is what he said (and I couldn't make this up even if I tried):

In a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson, Vance said, "We're effectively run in this country, be it the Democrats, be it our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies, who are miserable at their own lives and the choices they've made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too."

He verbally attacked Kamala Harris, who is also running for president of the United States.  Harris doesn't have any biological children, but she has been the stepmother of her husband Doug Emhoff's two children (who call her Mamala) for a decade. 

He went on to say:

"It's just a basic fact — you look at Kamala Harris — the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.”  “And how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it?"   

The quote, "basic fact" that Vance describes is actually not factual.  For years, Vance has promoted policies that incentivize families to have children and penalize those who do not.  He's called the drop in birth rates in America a "civilizational crisis."  He's even suggested that people with children should get more votes in elections than people who don't have children.

He supported another senator, Josh Hawley's child tax credit proposal from a few years ago.  Hawley called it a marriage bonus, that married couples at the same income level as single parents would receive what he called a 100% marriage bonus.  And I suspect that's very much in keeping with Vance's focus on the ideal family as being one where mom stays at home with the kids, Dad goes to work, and they're getting by on a single income.

One final claim by Vance:

When you go to the polls in this country as a parent, you should have more power. You should have more of an ability to speak your voice in our democratic republic than people who don't have kids.

Now you know where Childless Cat Ladies first appeared.  And you see where women of all ages, childless, cat ladies or not, are rearing their heads against Vance's beliefs.

 

I think you get the gist of crazy cat ladies.  I'll comment when Blogger lets me.  Until then, please join Bleubeard, Squiggles, and me at Friday Smiles.  And be sure to start your weekend with a smile.