What's Worse: Having No Children Or Being JD Vance?

Since becoming Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential running mate, Sen. JD Vance has appointed himself the founder, CEO and asinine mouthpiece of The He-Man Woman Hater’s Club.

Unearthed and subsequently viral videos of the couch enthusiast (just…kidding?) condemning and attacking child-free women have become an accidental centerpiece of his vice presidential campaign. To date, Vance has called women who either by chance or choice do not have biological children “psychotic,” “childless cat ladies”who are “sad, lonely, pathetic” people, who “should feel like their life is inadequate,” who are “miserable at their own lives and choices they have made” and who should pay higher taxes solely because they are not parents.

Doubling down on his comments while cosplaying Harrison Butker is certainly a choice — one that has made Vance arguably the weirdest vice presidential candidate since Mitt Romney carried around binders full of women.

But Vance inadvertently gave the American electorate a gift — one that extends far beyond memes, gifs and group chat fodder. By being his unapologetic, sexist self, Vance has reminded us all that it’s better to be childless than to have kids and be a bonafide dick.

Case in point: In an interview on the Full Send Podcast , Vance proudly recalled a moment when he verbally chastised his own child for wanting to show off his Pokemon knowledge. During the dude-brah-bro-man conversation, Vance recalled a recent phone call with his running mate, convicted felon and Republican nominee for president: Donald Trump.

“My son, who’s 7, is in the hotel room with me,” he said. “And he’s really into Pokemon cards right now…I mean, he’s really into it. So he’s trying to talk to me about Pikachu, and I’m on the