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[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 146 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month 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

[–] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 15 points 1 month 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.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 10 points 1 month ago

Did they play golf or something?

[–] ceiphas@lemmy.world 133 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Explains why so many of them are dicks.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

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

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month 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

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month 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

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 56 points 1 month 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.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 month ago

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

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 40 points 1 month ago

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

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month 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.

[–] rhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] Napain@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago
[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Lindsay Graham has entered the chat

[–] radivojevic@discuss.online 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago

Because, woman. In the land of the free.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Because she's not them.