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[–] [email protected] 146 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Because it's fore-fathers ya dolt! Do I have to explain everything?

I also appreciated this particular nugget in the article:

While Harris has not personally given birth, neither has any other occupant of the White House.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

While Harris has not personally given birth, neither has any other occupant of the White House

Though LBJ once came close after a particularly hearty meal, according to an aide who was present at the meeting

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Doesn't the entire first family live in the White House? Not to mention servants and the like. I get what they're going for, but occupant is one of the few words they could have chosen that could not be more inaccurate.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Did they play golf or something?

[–] [email protected] 133 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Because for the standard conservative there are only two genders, Penis and Baby-Machine

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Explains why so many of them are dicks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Also fun fact: those aren't mutually exclusive either! One can be both a baby machine and a dick!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Also sheds light on their fixation on penises as well. The whole 'buying a big truck to make up for smol pp' is a very conservative tradition

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I was in a Bluegrass duo called Penis & Baby Machine. We were wildly popular in the Appalachians until someone leaked to the press that we weren't blood related.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Didn’t you have that hit “No Pants Vance Lance the Couch Dance”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Nope, never happened! And if it did, it wasn't based on a true story! hides big dollar sign sack of hush money with a tag that says "smooches from Vansey xoxo

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because she's a woman, female, and as far as the right is concerned, her sole purpose in life (besides serving under the men in her life) is to bear children. They think women are breeding cattle, property of the primary man of their life.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

It’s why they hate abortion. It’s like putting your dollar in the vending machine and the baby doesn’t come out.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago

Attacking the 'childless' is just another front of their culture war.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

In another Lemmy post highlighting an article where Pete Buttigieg says America is ready for a gay man to be Vice President, I made this comment:

Still waiting for Americans to be ready for a Trans Atheist Single Childless Woman of Color President.

Obviously, this statement is, at least somewhat, hyperbole, but I made that statement to point out that I'm waiting for us all to grow the fuck up. Until we are able to accept and nurture a society that would willingly elect a Trans Atheist Single Childless Woman of Color as President of the United States Of America, based off of what they can contribute back to humanity as a whole (or, at the very least, I guess the nation state of the USA), then we truly are more akin to a bunch of high schoolers playing a popularity contest for who gets the nuclear access codes than adults participating in a mature and healthy electoral process.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Still waiting for Americans to be ready for a Trans Atheist Single Childless Woman of Color President

Tbh, I'd settle for either one, or even a religious person who keeps their religion out of their politics, including speeches.

As long as that person was also good at the job and had good policy priorities, of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

what they can contribute back to humanity as a whole

You really are right about this, we want good leaders with good plans. Humans, who can be humans. If we can elect religious folks (Biden) who don't push that everyone must be that (I don't feel that he has), it is just the same with a "Trans Atheist Single Childless Woman of Color" because of that same thing. It's good to have diverse leadership. It seems that some of these hate groups are wrapped up in believing something like if we let one in, we let them all in. We're all here, together, and it can be fine.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait till they hear about James Buchanan who was childless and likely gay

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Lindsay Graham has entered the chat

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s not. The media needs something to talk about

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Because, woman. In the land of the free.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Because she's not them.