Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance, who also doesn’t know how to order doughnuts, is coming under fire after an audio clip from 2021 resurfaced in which Vance utters some interesting (AKA offensive and untrue) comments about teachers.
The Ohio senator hit out at teachers who do not have children, saying that childless teachers “bothered” and “confused” him.
In the resurfaced clip, Vance, speaking at a Center for Christian Virtue forum, attacked “leaders of the left” and Randi Weingarten – the president of the American Federation of Teachers – for not having children.
“So many of the leaders of the left – and I don’t mean to take this personally – are people without children who are trying to brainwash our children’s brains. That really confuses and worries me,” Vance can be heard saying in the clip.
So, let’s get this straight: A childless person teaching children bothers Vance, but the increased maternal mortality rate in red states, food insecurity in America, and over 200 mass shootings in 2024 alone don’t make him bat an eyelid – ok, cool, got it!
He continued, “Randi Weingarten, the head of the most powerful teachers union in the country, doesn’t have a single child. If she wants to brainwash children and destroy their brains, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone.”
In a post on X, Weingarten responded to Vance’s resurfaced comments, calling them “disgusting” and adding that the remarks were “sad and offensive to millions of modern families and school teachers, including Catholic nuns, none of whom should be held accountable for their family choices.”
She continued, “Teachers who are just returning to school are helping other people’s children every day. Those who are virtuously serving our community should be praised, not demonized.”
Vance’s resurfaced comments come just weeks after he came under fire for calling leading Democrats “a bunch of childless cat ladies” in a 2021 clip.
He defended his comments, stressing that he was “a real person” and that his comments had been misinterpreted by Democrats.
“I’m a real human being. I’ll make jokes, I’ll say things sarcastically. And I think the important thing is that we focus on politics,” he said.
I know when I think of JD Vance, I think of a super funny joker!
After the remarks resurfaced on social media this week, Vance’s camp reiterated his offensive statement.
According to NBC News, Taylor Van Kirk, a spokeswoman for Vance, said the Ohio senator will “continue to speak out loudly about this crap to protect our children.”
“There is no greater threat to American children than the left-wing indoctrination being spread in our schools by radicals like Randi Weingarten, with the support of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz,” Van Kirk added.
I think the statistics on how many children died or were shot at school tell a different story, but I digress!
And if anyone can cite the “crap” being “spread” by teachers who are just trying to get students to tie their shoes and take spelling tests, please let me know! Do Vance and his supporters really believe that teachers in this country have time to anything else apart from the enormous task of raising our children under impossible circumstances?
Besides, this is the same guy who thinks women have to be housewives, right? Women are best when they’re raising kids, right? Well, about 75% of public school teachers in the US are female!
So what is true now? Should women stay at home? Or should female teachers have children? This time, too, women cannot win!