Republican Vice Presidential candidate appeared on host Kristen Welker’s Meet the Press to practice his accordion hands and try to explain away his boneheaded comments about women who have chosen, for reasons that are none of his goddamned business, to remain childless. Rather than just saying “Look, Kristen, I may have been wrong for thinking that way” JD blamed the women who were rightly offended by his implication that he thinks their choices on childbearing should be subject to his approval and a basis for future legislation, and suggested that they were too dense to get his sophisticated humor. It was just a joke. Yeah, JD, that is gonna work, first dis them as being somehow less than patriotic for not adapting your opinions on family planning, suggest that policy proposals might be forthcoming to whip them back into line and then, when the backlash inevitably comes call them stupid for not realizing that you were saying all that crap in jest!
JD also stressed during the interview that he was a “real person” and a “normal human being”. Hoo-boy, when you are running for Vice President and have to go on defense against charges that you are abnormal and not a real person you are definitely in trouble:
“In an interview with NBC that aired on Sunday, host Kristen Welker asked Vance if he regretted lashing out at “childless cat ladies” in an interview with Fox News.
“What do you say to those women who hear some of your comments, including the childless cat lady comments, which you’ve been asked about, but who feel as though you won’t represent them?” Welker said.
“I made a sarcastic comment years ago that I think that a lot of Democrats have willfully misinterpreted, but what I’ve simply said is that I think that it’s really a profound change that’s happened in our country, where we become anti-family, and I would like to change that,” Vance explained.
The GOP candidate used his wife to make a point.
“She has three beautiful kids and always felt like she was having to balance being a good mom with being the kind of litigator that she wanted to be,” he asserted. “I just want women to have more choices.”
And there we have JD’s biggest problem, that a journalist hates his guts so much that he or she writes the line “The GOP candidate used his wife to make a point” after the month he’s had.
But Welker’s job apparently is dependent on making nice to the worse humanity has to offer, so she gives him one last chance to simply apologize and, as much as possible, put the remarks behind him…
“But do you regret what you said, Senator?” the NBC host asked again.
“Look, Kristen, I’m going to say things from time to time that people disagree with,” Vance opined. “I’m a real person. I’m going to make jokes.”
Sure, JD, you’re a real person and of course perfectly normal, though some might argue that a normal person would grab the offered life ring when drowning.
Here’s the interview, judge his normality for yourself:
WATCH: Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) says he regrets that people took his 2021 childless cat lady comments “the wrong way.”@kwelkernbc: “Do you regret what you said?”@JDVance: “I have a lot of regrets, Kristen, but making a joke three years ago is not at the top ten of the list.” pic.twitter.com/c5gWaA6LTT
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) August 25, 2024
I vote “weirdo”.
Yep. Actual, normal human beings feel the need to explain to others they are normal human beings. You know, when you have to explain this to…almost everyone now, you have lost not just the battle but the entire war.
If I had an ideology that had the majority of the nation stating some version of “Dude, you’re freaking weird”, I’d take a very close look at my ideology. And I get it, we’re all snowflakes, we’re all different and that individuality often looks weird to others. But random guy-on-the-street folks are stating vance is a “weirdo” (up to and including magats f.f.s.): it’s the first thing out of people’s mouths. He’s at a whole different level of weird (and I hope folks are paying attention to the proj. 1825 crowd–they think he’s perfect) and that’s when you need to start the naval-gazing and perhaps chart a new path in life.
Hey hillbilly…when you’re in quicksand…keep struggling.
First off….she is a terrible, terrible two faced, hypocritical, closet Republican who is on a Democrat supportive station, MSNBC. I can’t stand her! Second, JD Vance is a wack job! Why ANYONE would vote for DJT as POTUS and JD as VP has to be trippin’! Harris/Wolz ALL THE WAY TO THE WHITEHOUSE!
Welker is a damn lightweight. How hard would it be to follow up with, “Exactly HOW is the country ‘anti-family,’ Senator?” Then she could have pointed out all the bills aimed at helping middle-class families that were opposed by Republicans. But I guess that’s asking for too much.
As Dylan said in a song long ago…she’s just a pawn in their,(her billionaire bosses), game.
Everytime I see JD Vance, the soundtrack from “Deliverance” plays in my head.
“I just want women to have more choices.” Um, what??? No, eyeliner guy, you want us to have less choices so stop the hypocritical pretense.
It got worse when his wife comes out and says he didn’t mean all childless people aren’t deserving of a vote, he didn’t mean the ones who tried but couldn’t have children, implying that he only meant those who chose not to.
“I just want women to have more choices.” Yeah, right.
‘Hoo-boy, when you are running for Vice President and have to go on defense against charges that you are abnormal and not a real person you are definitely in trouble.’
Nooooo, that’s NOT weird at all.
I see he’s sitting on a normal chair, can’t trust him near a couch.
Allegedly.