Here’s a fun little fact for you. Did you know that, despite all evidence to the contrary, the US is run by “childless cat ladies”? Forget the statistic that, up until fairly recently, there were more men called John running big companies than women. Forget the fact, while there may be a record number of women in government at the moment, they still make up just over a quarter of members of Congress. Forget the tiny little detail that the US has never had a female president. It is very clear that it’s actually the cat ladies who are in charge.

This little nugget of wisdom comes to you via Donald Trump’s running mate: Senator JD Vance. The man who may very well become the vice-president of the US once told Fox News that the country is governed by a dastardly deep state comprised of cat lovers. His exact words from the 2021 interview with then Fox News host Tucker Carlson:

We are effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by 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 the country miserable, too. And it’s just a basic fact if you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC – the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. And 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 comment, made when Vance was running in the GOP Senate primary in Ohio, has resurfaced now for obvious reasons. This is no longer just some writer spouting a bunch of factually incorrect culture war nonsense in the hopes it will convince a bunch of misogynists who wish it was still........

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