MUST SEE CHILDLESS CAT LADY MEMES!
Since Donald Trump announced JD Vance as his running mate, my colleagues have done an incredible job reporting out the Ohio senator's atrocious views that include calling Democrats a "childless cabal" and supporting abortion criminalization. Taken together, Vance makes for one deeply alienating personality, the kind of character that makes you physically uncomfortable, if not downright ill. But I was especially irritated this morning seeing Vance defend Trump's racist questioning of Kamala Harris as a Black woman. Here's what he told CNN: "She is everything to everybody, and she pretends to be somebody different depending on which audience she is in front of. I think it’s totally reasonable for the president to call that out, and that’s all he did."
Except, no. As we wrote at the time, Trump, a white man, was telling Black journalists that his Black opponent was not Black. This is textbook racism. Vance's defense of his ticket-mate is further despicable as it comes from a father to three biracial kids. Now, Vance's kids might be too young to understand how awful their father is. But how does Usha Vance tolerate any of this? Well, considering her husband's equally despicable response to the white supremacist attacks against her, perhaps tolerance is the wrong way to look at this. It probably has a lot more to do with prestige—and what some are willing to do to get it. Feeling nauseous? I'm sorry. Feel better with these childless lady cat memes. —Inae Oh |
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The GOP pick for VP has repeatedly criticized women without biological children as "childless cat ladies." Now, they're pouncing on him. |
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TEXT BY JULIA MÉTRAUX, VIDEO BY SAM VAN PYKEREN
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Fred Trump III, Donald Trump’s nephew, very much hopes for a bipartisan national effort to better support the needs of disabled people, a passion driven by being the father of a disabled son. That’s why he tried—when his uncle was president of the United States—to use his family ties to push for disability rights.
Fred did manage to have a White House meeting with disability advocates that his uncle Donald attended. Later on, he was met with comments by Donald that Fred “should just let” his son, Donald Trump’s grandnephew, “die”—an anecdote he recounts in a new book, All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way. |
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Her sophomore novel interrogates money's role in life's cascading traumas—and whether one ever really escapes their family. |
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