Don’t fuck with cats, and certainly don’t fuck with “childless cat ladies.” It’s a truth Republican vice presidential candidate J. D. Vance has been learning the hard way in recent days, after comments he made during a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson resurfaced online.
In the interview, he described Democratic politicians and leaders as “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made...the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.”
Vance has since received criticism from all over: from Jennifer Aniston to Gabby Giffords, as well as cat lovers, women who've struggled to start a family, quick-to-pounce Democrats and many more. But the extent of the ire he may have awoken is perhaps yet to be fully understood, especially considering the cultural pull of those who could be proudly among the “childless cat lady” lobby. It will likely take more than catnip to calm these power players down, and rightly so:
