Pete Buttigieg Destroys J.D. Vance’s Ugly “Childless Cat Lady” Smear

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

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4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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A vile quote from J.D. Vance just surfaced in which he described Kamala Harris and other Democratic leaders as “childless cat ladies,” and spun out a whole theory based on this absurdity. Then Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg sharply dressed down Vance for poking his nose into other people’s family decisions. With this response, Buttigieg showed that Vance has invited a much larger national conversation—one that won’t help Vance and Donald Trump. We talked to Melissa Gira Grant, a staff writer at The New Republic who closely tracks Vance’s ideas, for help in illuminating what this saga tells us about the New Right’s tortured views on gender, natalism and nationalism. Listen to this episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:39.4	I'm your host, Greg Sargent. This week, a quote from J.D. Vance surfaced in which he described
1:53.4	Kamala Harris and other Democratic leaders as a bunch of childless cat ladies, and spun out a whole
1:59.8	theory of the moment based on this inane notion.
2:03.4	Perhaps the best response to this came from Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg,
2:08.5	who sharply dressed down Vance for poking his nose into the business of other people's family
2:13.5	decisions. We think this is an important moment. With this response, Buttigieg showed that
2:20.3	Vance has invited a much larger national conversation about women's rights, about family planning,
2:27.0	and about, frankly, Vance's own pretty weird views on gender. And this is not a good conversation
2:32.9	for Vance and Donald Trump to have.
2:36.1	Today we're talking about all this with Melissa Gira Grant, a staff writer at the New
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