Will 'Crazy Cat Ladies' be this election's 'deplorables'?

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It was damaging.

Maybe in itself not as much as the "deplorables" but because it drew attention to Shady Vance ...to know Shady Vance is to hate him because of his dangerous ideas, and because of ass-kissing hypocrisy...as the VP pick.

Vance is probably an ableist prick just like his crony, Trump.

I guess I would be a "crazy cat man" since I have a cat and I am not married.

If not "Crazy Cat Lady" how about Trump saying Kamila Harris decided to turn black?

https://youtu.be/D42FDn3MGRw?si=Qwn70gGPGXFVLhm3




Radical deplorable.

The remark about deplorables was way more damaging. The Democratic Party has always identified as a the Party of the Common Man, much like the Labour Party in the UK, but Hillary's comment was inarguably élitist and did lasting damage to the Democrats. Just by itself, it probably cost the Democrats the election in 2016, and may still do so in 2024 unless Democrats can reach out to the voters who took offense at that, especially small business owners, socially conservative Blacks, and a great many Christians belonging to groups that had "traditionally" been Democratic e.g. trade unionists.

The Crazy Cat Lady thing is good for a laugh but not much more

My cat had to be put down over a week ago. So when do I go back to being the normal non-cat lady?

@lostonearth35: I'm so sorry for your loss!

I hope it sinks Trump's campaign. Trump's campaign should have been sunk a long time ago, though. The instant the Access Hollywood tapes were released he should have been done. But somehow the righteous holier-than-thou conservative Evangelicals who call me depraved and a degenerate for wanting to date other women, turned around and worshiped a man who bragged about sexual assault.

I can't see how the deplorable statement isn't true. I don't trust myself being alone in a room with a Trump supporter, especially a male one. I don't know how he justifies going all out in supporting a sexual predator and I don't want to find out.

The thing about Vance's statements, though, is that they're straight-up shaming us for being childless - an already strange obsession for the right. It's good to encourage having children, I suppose... But the way the right goes about it is completely wrong. The way that a government should encourage is not by shaming us women for having freedoms, it's instead by doing a number of things, just a few (there are many more) I'll list below:

1. Improving women's healthcare research and improving the safety and decreasing the risks of childbirth.
2. Making healthcare more accessible, and less expensive.
3. Making it so we can afford to live to begin with, so having a child can even be something we can envision.

But of course, the right doesn't want to solve any of that. It's inconvenient to them to fund things and make standard of living better for us on the ground when it might cost their billionaire donors a penny more. So instead they seek making a hostile culture toward us and also going down the road of authoritarianism (taking away our reproductive rights and freedoms). Screw them.

Specifically on the "cat lady" remark... I had that same remark lobbed at me very recently in an attempt to dismiss what I was saying. We weren't talking politics, we weren't talking children, we weren't talking anything like that. Just randomly had that thrown at me in a conversation and I'm like WTF. I just love having sexist remarks made at me to dismiss my opinions. /s