Another day, another clip of JD Vance denigrating childless people. Only this time, he’s not targeting cat ladies. Instead, he’s targeting one of the most popular, yet least appreciated and underpaid groups in America: public school teachers.
Vance made the derogatory remarks in October 2021 at a Center for Christian Virtue leadership forum moderated by conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt and the group’s president, Aaron Baer.
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Speaking to the group about public schools in 2021, Vance said, “You know, so many of the leaders on the left – and I don’t want to get so personal about this – are people without children who are trying to brainwash the minds of our children.”
He then targeted Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, who is a lesbian and has no biological children of her own but is a proud stepmother to her wife’s child.
“If she wants to brainwash children and destroy their minds, then she should have one of her own and leave ours the hell alone,” he complained.
The 30-second clip was acquired by Heartland Signal and shared on social media yesterday, where it quickly went viral.
For whatever reason, conservatives seem to really enjoy attacking Weingarten for being a stepmom.
Last year, she appeared before the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on the select coronavirus crisis, where she was reprimanded by M*rg*r** T*yl*r Gr**n* for never having fathered children.
Her rude remarks prompted Congressman Robert Garcia to defend Weingarten and denounce MTG’s lack of decency for making senseless personal attacks against a witness.
When Marjorie Taylor Greene says adoptive parents or in-laws aren’t real parents, you can be damn sure I’m going to object. pic.twitter.com/iNOfso8G3N
— Congressman Robert Garcia (@RepRobertGarcia) 26 April 2023
Vance’s feelings about public school teachers, “without kids trying to brainwash our children’s brains,” couldn’t be more opposite to those of his current opponent, Tim Walz, who worked as a public school teacher before entering politics. (His wife, Gwen, was also a public school teacher. In fact, they met when they were assigned to neighboring classrooms in 1994.)
In his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last week, Walz, who has worked as a geography teacher, football coach and faculty adviser for the school’s first gay-straight alliance, praised public school teachers to thunderous applause.
Vance’s obsession with people who don’t have kids has become not just odd, but downright creepy. And it may explain why his poll numbers are so abysmal and seem to get worse every time he opens his mouth…or unexpectedly walks into a doughnut shop.
According to FiveThirtyEight, his unpopularity ratings have risen again. Nearly 44 percent of people now have a negative opinion of him, compared to 38 percent earlier this month and 28 percent when he was first nominated as Donald Trump’s No. 2. It’s almost as if the more people know him, the less they like him.
We’re going to go out on a limb and say that JD’s recent attacks on childless public school teachers and lesbian stepmothers will do nothing to improve things for the controversial vice president-elect.
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