The ‘Cat Lady’ Conundrum

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and many corners of the internet have been nothing less than celebratory at the prospect of a reinvigorated Democratic candidate.

Yet amid and , something surfaced yesterday on X that punctuated my own cautious optimism: a three-year-old clip of JD Vance talking about Harris on .Vance—who has since been chosen by Donald Trump to be his running mate—tried to make the case that some of the most visible democrats at that time were “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 this country miserable too.” And it didn’t stop there.

Vance, who was at the time running for U.S. Senate, started to name check. “You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigeg, AOC [Alexandria Ocasio Cortez].

The entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. 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?”This content can also be viewed on the site it from.The cat lady clip has been viewed more than 15 million times on X since it was excavated and posted on Monday and understandably, people are disgusted by it.In the year 2024, we shouldn’t have to spend a lot of time explaining why Senator Vance’s beliefs are fundamentally flawed.