J.D. VANCE IS SO SEXIST THAT HE'S EVEN SEXIST WHEN TALKING ABOUT IRAN'S URANIUM

J.D. Vance traveled to Hungary to shore up the campaign of fellow fascist Viktor Orban. While there, he answered questions on the tarmac about the ceasefire in the Iran war, and he said something peculiar:

The vice president ... mentioned that Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Iranian Parliament, noted that his country’s 10-point proposal to end the war included “Iran’s right to enrichment.”

“I thought to myself, you know what? My wife has the right to skydive, but she doesn’t jump out of an airplane because she and I have an agreement that she’s not going to do that because I don’t want my wife jumping out of an airplane,” Vance said in reaction to Ghalibaf’s comment.

What?

This is a bizarre analogy, but it would be more or less unremarkable if there weren't that I-am-the-master-of-my-domain twist at the end. Usha Vance, mother of three (and one on the way), doesn't skydive because her husband doesn't want her to? He makes that decision? Even if these weren't carefully chosen words, why did his brain immediately go to the idea that this is primarily his choice?

Donald Trump's treatment of women reflects the fact that he's an amoral monster -- a sexual assailant and a man who demeans every female reporter who asks him a tough question -- but while he gave us the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade, it's his underlings who advocate broad-spectrum sexism. Pete Hegseth wants to purge women from the upper ranks of the Pentagon just as he wants to purge people of color. And Vance -- well, you remember this 2021 pronouncement:

We are effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too. And it’s just a basic fact if you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC—the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. And how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?

And this:

In 2021, he told a Christian group, “So many of the leaders of the left, and I hate to be so personal about this, but they’re people without kids, trying to brainwash the minds of our children.” Did he really “hate to be so personal”? Come on. The comments were directed at Randi Weingarten, the leader of the powerful American Federation of Teachers. Weingarten, he added, “doesn’t have a single child. If she wants to brainwash and destroy the mind of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone.”

Weingarten is the stepmother to her wife’s adult kids....

This was back when Vance was speaking in favor of a system that would give extra votes to families: an additional vote for each child, controlled by the parents. Vance could have dispassionately advocated this cockamamie scheme, which would advantage Republicans by diminishing the votes of those pesky childless women, who tend to be strongly Democratic. But he made it personal, because, presumably, these women (and Buttigieg) repulse him.

Vance is a manosphere dude in the Executive Branch, a man who, like his boss, thinks women deserve humiliation for failing to breed men's children. This attitude peeks out even when he's talking about enriched uranium: The mother of my children isn't jumping out of any airplanes!

If Vance wins the presidency in 2028, I think we'll see a national abortion ban. Trump, who's probably been the reason for a few abortions in his life, regards a full ban as a political third rail. Vance might also -- but I think his contempt for women will override any political considerations. I hope we never find out.