Stepparents to Vance: Geo Washington, Father of Our Country Only Had Stepchildren; Madison, etc..

[appalachiablue]

'Hey, Vance: George Washington Only Had Stepchildren,' Daily Kos, July 24, 2024.

The Father of Our Country never fathered a child. The man whose face is on the one-dollar bill (and who has a, let’s admit it, rather phallic monument) was not a biological parent. He did, however, become stepfather to Martha’s children when he married her, and he helped raise Martha Washington’s two children from a previous marriage, as well as her four grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.

But that’s not good enough for JD (“Junior Devil”) Vance. J.D. Vance said Kamala Harris has no kids. Stepparents would like a word (WaPo).

In a video drawn from a 2021 interview on Fox News’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” J.D. Vance, now the GOP vice-presidential nominee, said that Harris and other prominent Democrats (including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) “don’t really have a direct stake” in the country’s future because they are “people without children.” In the clip, which has amassed more than 25 million views since it was shared Monday on X,

Vance also refers to Democrats as “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices they’ve made."

So now we have to take down the Washington Monument and rename the nation’s capital (“Trumptown”?) and take the Father of Our Country off our currency, because it turns out he wasn’t really a father, just a stepfather. Others on the right have echoed Vance’s argument: Will Chamberlain, a conservative commentator and former Ron DeSantis staffer, posted on X on Sunday that a “really simple, underdiscussed reason why Kamala Harris shouldn’t be President” is that she has “no children.”

Washington wasn’t the only president to have no biological children of his own.

Madison, Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Harding*, and Hoover also had no children, though most had stepchildren. (For some reason, Jackson isn’t on that list, so see here.) So now we also have to change the $20 bill (which we ought to do anyway; whatever happened to replacing Jackson with Harriet Tubman?)...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/24/2257765/-Hey-Vance-George-Washington-Only-Had-Stepchilidren

[Srkdqltr]

1. Ya, whatever. Giving that many words to his comments is really counterproductive.

[appalachiablue]

4. Disagree, the negative slams against Democratic figures as 'childless, miserable,'

having no stake in the country and inferior absolutely needs countering and pushback.

[Doc Sportello]

7. Absolutely!

Great post too.

[appalachiablue]

9. Thanks, this ugly trash has to be put down.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. The best Trump & JD can do is childish invectives. They look foolish

Kinda like when GHWB called Clinton - Gore "bozos." Childish.

[appalachiablue]

6. It's lame - juvenile, petty, and biased, yep.

[Ocelot II]

3. It's possible Vance himself has fathered a few settees and ottomans.

[hauckeye]

5. Hoover did have children:

Hoover and his wife had two children: Herbert Hoover Jr. (born in 1903) and Allan Henry Hoover (born in 1907).

[appalachiablue]

8. I see that, thanks for the correction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover

[hauckeye]

10. No worries- I grew up in the small town where he's buried

And his Presidential library is there. I was pretty sure I remembered him having sons.