JD Vance, who is running for
a senate seat.
Is now saying that, all of our
country's problems, really revolve
around the fact that we have
leftists who haven't had children.
He believes that, leftists who
haven't had children, don't have
any real stakes in the game.
They don't really care about
the future of the country.
They've got no worries about
the future, because their offspring
don't exist.
Because this is how conservative
minds work.
They think that if you
don't have kids,
you don't care about the planet.
You don't care about being happy.
You don't care about humanity.
It's just about kids.
And then he proceeds to list
a number of people,
who he deems leftists who aren't
actually leftist at all.
JD Vance has blamed America's woes
on the childless left.
Singling out vice president
Kamala Harris,
didn't know she was a leftist.
Transportation Secretary Pete
Buttigieg, certainly didn't know he
was a leftist,
his father is a Marxist professor.
He's leftist, but
not not his son Pete Buttigieg.
Senator Cory Booker, not a leftist.
And also, Congresswoman Alexandria
Ocasio Cortez, who is still
a fetus, but is a leftist as well.
But you know, she hasn't
had children yet.
So, she's the problem.
She's the problem.
Okay.
And again, it's because you don't
have stakes in the game.
Right. So,
here's what he had to say.
By the way, Kamala Harris does have
two stepchildren for
what it's worth.
>> No, they don't count.
It has to be biological.
>> I guess so.
The childless left he argues,
have no physical commitment to
the future of this country.
Yet offer an elite model,
for the American business and
political class, this guy.
Why is this just a normal fact of
life, for the leaders of our
country to be people who don't have
personal and direct stake.
In it via their own offspring.
The Democrats are talking about
giving the vote to 16 year olds.
This is the part they got.
Let's do this instead,
let's give votes to all children in
this country.
But, let's
give control over those votes
to the parents of those children.
Meaning, more voting rights to
individuals with offspring.
Because, by the way, they're also
people on the right, who have opted
out of having children.
You know why?
Because we happen to live in one of
the richest countries in the world
that offers zero support,
in having kids.
Zero support, no social safety net,
no mandated paid family leave.
No help with childcare, really?
I mean, some states might have some
programs.
But, If you've going to go back to
work and you can't
afford childcare, what do you do?
Okay?
I mean, there's just no support.
And so, he
doesn't really address that at all.
The only way that he really like
kind of touches on that, is when
he's like applauding a right wing
leader in Hungary, Viktor Orban.
Which I'll get to in just a minute,
but Cenk, why don't you jump in.
As someone who has children who
apparently, cares about the future
of this country far more than I do.
>> Okay, so in my experience
actually is relevant here in that.
Previously, I did not have
children.
[LAUGH] And, I can tell you that,
I will want to vote both times.
Where both when I didn't have kids
and when I did have kids.
And I've also got to say that,
having kids didn't necessarily,
make me a better voter.
I had plenty of information before
I had kids.
I had plenty of information after
I've had kids.
In fact, my voting was
completely unrelated to my kids.
And I mean, every part of this is
absurd, right?
So the left,
the childless left, he says.
How about people that are right
wing that don't have kids?
Like is it their fault?
>> Look at those real Americans.
>> Should we take their rights away
or is it only the child has left,
whose voting rights should be
stripped from them?
What a preposterous thing to say.
>> Listen Cenk.
All the smart people know, people
are saying people are saying that.
Unless you have a child with
chocolate fudge all over their
face, you don't really care about
the country.
There it is.
There it is, folks.
Now, they look like Latinos, but
it's okay.
We'll give them a pass.
[LAUGH] We'll also call them people
who care about the country.
Now, these people are idiots, like
this is all they've got to offer.
Day in, day out.
It's all about like, I don't know
what's the what's the latest family
values, culture, war thing, that we
can lean on in our campaigning?
JD Vance.
JD Vance, who wrote a book,
crapping on his own family.
Has the audacity to tell
people like me, that I don't care
about the country.
I don't care for
the future of the country.
Because, I haven't I decided not to
breed and spawn and have children.
Listen, you just like to have kids.
Wonderful.
I want a wonderful future,
not just in this country, but
this entire world for
people, right?
I can see beyond myself.
I can see, the importance of,
let's say tackling climate change.
At least mitigating,
the ramifications of what we've
done to destroy this planet.
Does J.D Vance care about that?
Because, he's running in
a political party,
that has minimized climate change,
denied climate change.
That certainly has,
huge ramifications on the present.
But also, the future of this
planet, for the children
that he's referring to right now.
>> Okay, two small points we're
going to get to,
why he did it, right?
That's an interesting question,
because it's such a stupid
thing to say.
And he's not necessarily
a stupid guy.
So, why in the world.
Okay, so the first of two
minor points.
They're like, you pro life you have
kids, you'll we'll give you more
votes and stuff.
Unless of course they're anchor
babies, in which case we hate them.
And who has anchor babies?
Immigrants have anchor babies, so
we hate the immigrant babies.
They're bad.
Okay, but white babies
are great and
you should get more votes for it.
[LAUGH] It's beyond absurd.
All right.
And so then he talks about
the elites and stuff.
He went to Yale Law School, and
is a venture capitalist.
You can go to the law school and
not necessarily be an elite and you
could be a venture capitalist and
be a good guy.
He isn't okay [LAUGH].
But his talk of like, you know I'm
real because I'm from Appalachian.
And then you know, we have lots
of kids at Appalachian, so I'm real
and everybody else is a leftist.
Okay.
Get off it JD.
>> No, it Trump effect right, and
the Tucker Carlson effect.
It's, I don't know,
just use language pretending like
you hate people.
That struggling Americans hate,
even though we're part of that
class, and
maybe we'll get some support.
That's what this is about.
>> Yeah. All right now, so
why did he do it?
Even though he knows it's absurd,
for two reasons.
One, he got a lot of notoriety,
about ten days ago.
When it was revealed that he had
anti Trump tweets.
About five years ago,
when Trump was first running for
president, right?
So, he's got to get that stink off
of him, you know,
right wing Republican primary of
being anti Trump.
Because the right wing thinks,
if you were rational about Trump,
you're disturbed by his sexual
assault towards women, etc.
We hate you.
We're pro sexual assault.
Don't you know that?
Because Trump did it so
we love it, right?
So, your old tweets are terrible
and toxic if you're a Republican,
because they showed a shred of
decency and sanity.
So, he's got he's got to prove to
the voters,
he gotta get a big attention for
being dumber in a bigger way, okay?
Now, everybody forget what I said
about Trump.
Everybody pay attention to how
dumb I am.
Well, let's take away voting rights
from people who don't have kids.
And it was like, okay,
maybe I like this guy, right?
So that's reason number one. I'm
telling you the reality
of politics.
The second reason is,
the Republicans are not desperate.
They think that It's not as,
they think they can't win in
a democracy.
That's why they're agitating
towards, Second Amendment rights.
Maybe it's time for violence.
Let's take away voting rights.
Make sure they can't vote this way.
They can't vote that way.
And now.
I don't know, do we have more kids?
I think we have more
kids in the left.
Maybe if we vote based on kids, but
don't let the kids vote, because
they're really progressive, okay?
So, just give all their votes that
maybe to the grandparents,
that 85 year old who's still on our
side, right?
So, somehow we have to find a way
to win and we might not even want
the electoral college.
We've cheated in every way possible
to try to circumvent democracy.
So, I'll come up with a new clever
way of trying to cheat in
a massive way.
Because we ain't going to win in
a democracy.
And that's a desperate state of
the right wing in America today.
>> One final thing I got him I
got a note.
So, he also says this.
He says we should worry that
in America, family formation,
our birth rates.
A ton of indicators of family
health have collapsed, he said.
Warning of a civilisational crisis.
Then he says that in Hungary,
under Orban.
They offer loans to newly married
couples that are forgiven at some
point later.
If those couples have actually
stayed together and had kids.
So, forced couples to stay together
regardless, like even if it's
a toxic relationship, because then
maybe that loan will be forgiven.
Why can't we do that here?
Why can't we actually promote
family formation?
You know what I do?
I think that's a great idea.
We could do that by making the
child tax credits that Biden pass
through the corona virus relief
package permanent, that would help.
Maybe the federal government can
mandate paid family leave.
There are other ways that could
happen. But, I don't hear him
advocating for any of that.
That's strange.
It's strange that he's relied on
the leadership of a right winger
in Hungary,
to promote family formation.
Maybe we need to have a better
social safety net in this country.
That offers support to people
who want to be children and
maybe for the undecideds.
Maybe the people who are genuinely
concerned about what this planet
is going to look like over
the next century.
We do something to address climate
change, because believe it or not,
there are people who do take it
seriously.
And maybe feel a little bit of
guilt in having children knowing is
the direction that we're
going in right now.
But, my guess is JD Vance
isn't interested in that.
JD Vance is interested in
political power.
Which is why he's running for a
seat that he has no business being
a representative in or senator in.
>> All right, so
last point on that is.
Is it an interesting when elections
are coming up everybody's
a progressive?
So, child tax credit is a left wing
idea, but he he knows this
incredibly popular.
So he's like, shouldn't we give
some sort of credit for children?
>> A loan though Cenk,
a loan that's only gets forgiven,
if the two parents stay together.
>> Right? Not of course
the Democratic proposal which
is more rational, right?
So, and why does it go to
Viktor Orban?
Because he can't be proposing
a Democratic proposal that'll look
really bad, but he has to do it.
Because he thinks, okay, that
portion of it is really popular.
By the way, they're
doing the same trick to Nina Turner
within a primary right now.
They know pro progressive position
on $15 minimum wage,
universal healthcare is so popular.
So, now the corporate Democrat in
the race is pretending Nina's
against it.
Because they know the voters
are actually progressive.
We have to somehow trick them,
into voting for right wingers in
the democratic party and
the Republican party.
And he goes to the absurd example
of Viktor Orban in Hungary.
Why does he do that?
You might not know it if you're not
a right wingers.
But in right wing circles or
in social media,
since Orban is authoritarian near
fascist right winger.
They really like him to like,
can we crush all opposition and
just have us rule,
we like Orban a lot.
So, that's why it takes
a democratic idea and
pretend it comes from a fascist.
It's amazing and it for
the right wing.
They're like, that's much better.
[LAUGH] >> Cheese.
JD Vance didn't like you at first
glance, got to get out of here.
Not interested