A List of The Most Ignorant Things J.D. Vance Has Ever Said

In a resurfaced 2021 interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, then-Senate-candidate Vance lamented that the U.S. was being run by Democrats and “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.” He cited Vice President Kamala Harris as an example and has been dragged for this remark ever since. Vance later said folks took his words “the wrong way.”

In 2021, Vance attacked Randi Weingarten—president of the American Federation of Teachers—because “she doesn’t have a single child.” Vance stated: “If she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone.” In a statement to NBC News, he doubled down on his ignorant comments.

Vance believes abortion is never acceptable—even in cases of rape or incest. He also thinks that cops should help police patients’ medical decisions. Before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Vance was worried that if abortion became illegal in his state of Ohio then “every day George Soros [would send] a 747 to Columbus to load up disproportionately Black women to get them to go have abortions in California.”

He added: “And of course, the left will celebrate this as a victory for diversity—uh, that’s kind of creepy.” Who says that?

According to the New York Times, in 2020 Vance did address a “climate problem in our society” and supported the use of solar power. However, when running for Senate in 2022 he changed his stance. During his tenure, Vance deemed the Inflation Reduction Act “dumb” and has worked to repeal federal tax credits for electric vehicles.

In 2022, while speaking at a high school, Vance said that people leave their marriages due to violence as a “trick” of the “sexual revolution, per Vice News. He also said that “modern society’s war on families” is the reason “domestic violence has skyrocketed in recent years.” Actually, there was an uptick in domestic violence as a result of the 2020 pandemic.

Last month, JD Vance paid a trip to a donut shop in Georgia. The exchange was wholly uncomfortable, with his opening line being the “zoo has come to town.” The employee who was serving Vance asked not to be filmed. The politician continued the awkward exchange by saying: “I’m JD Vance. I’m running for vice president.” The server replied plainly with “Okay,” making it clear they’d rather be doing anything than interacting with Vance.

Last year, Vance did an interview with podcaster Jack Murphy and suggested that the right “seize the institutions of the left. And turn them against the left.” Vance stated: “We need like a de-Baathification program, a de-woke-ification program.”

Vance also said that if Trump were to become president in 2024 he should “fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.”

During a July rally, Vance made a quip about how Democrats call everything he does racist—and used a bizarre example to try to make his point. “Democrats say that it is racist to believe...well, they say it’s racist to do anything,” he stated. “I had a Diet Mountain Dew yesterday and one today, and I’m sure they’re going to call that racist too. But—it’s good.” No one knew what he was talking about—Vance included.

Back in 2021, Vance said that people with children deserve more votes per election, which only reiterated his outlandish obsession with child-rearing. “Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of those children.” He continued his rationale with: “If you don’t have as much of an investment in the future of this country, maybe you shouldn’t get nearly the same voice.”

Vance wasn’t a member of Congress yet when an unruly mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. However, he still spread Trump’s lie that the lawmakers should have fought the results.

“If I had been vice president, I would have told the states, like Pennsylvania, Georgia and so many others, that we needed to have multiple slates of electors, and I think the U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there,” Vance said to ABC News this year.

“That is the legitimate way to deal with an election that a lot of folks, including me, think had a lot of problems in 2020. I think that’s what we should have done.”