Holy cat lady, Blake Masters agrees with J.D. Vance that childless people can't lead us
With just a few days to go until the primary election, Arizona’s own Blake Masters on Wednesday demonstrated once again why he’s not in the U.S. Senate.
This, by explaining what it takes to be an elected leader in America.
No, not intelligence or ideas or even the ability to get things done.
Not humanity or morality or likeability. Certainly not likeability.
What you really must have to lead America — a requirement, really — is a marriage certificate.
And children.
Masters thinks leaders must have children
“Political leaders should have children,” Masters proclaimed on Wednesday. “Certainly, they should at least be married. If you aren’t running or can’t run a household of your own, how can you relate to a constituency of families, or govern wisely with respect to future generations? Skin in the game matters.”
Me? I’m still wondering how you can relate to a constituency of the northwest Valley when you’re a carpetbagger from Tucson.
Masters, having lost his 2022 Senate race, is now hoping to land an open seat in Congress, replacing Rep. Debbie Lesko in a safe Republican district where whomever wins on Tuesday likely has a job for life.
He’s locked in a five-way GOP free-for-all that includes his former America First teammate, Abe Hamadeh, who is single and has no children, as Masters likes to point out.
Hamadeh, despite his lack of offspring, has been endorsed by Trump. Masters, meanwhile, is the pick of his fellow Peter Thiel protégé and Trump's new No. 2, Sen. J.D. Vance.
He echoes J.D. Vance's 'cat lady' comment
Masters was waxing on Wednsday evening about the need to procreate in order to legislate after Vance’s now-infamous cat lady comment resurfaced on social media this week.
During a 2021 Fox interview with Tucker Carlson, Vance lamented that the U.S. was being run by “childless cat ladies” like Vice President Kamala Harris — people who have no real stake the country because they don’t have kids.
“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,” Vance told Carlson.
How fed up: Are Arizona voters with the hard right?
“And it’s just a basic fact if you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ) — 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?”
Apparently, stepchildren don’t count. Harris, the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, has two.
Buttigieg, a former naval officer and mayor and current U.S. secretary of transportation, recently had twins, so presumably he now has a stake in the country.
Apparently, that disqualifies George Washington
Vance doesn’t have much government experience. But his three children, apparently, qualify him to be a heartbeat away from the most powerful job in the world.
Masters, meanwhile, has four, so just think how much more qualified he must be.
More qualified even than George Washington, who managed to do pretty well by America despite his lack of “skin in the game.”
Alas, it is apparently no longer enough to be a patriot. Now you also must be a patriarch.
And married.
Also a dog owner, if possible.
Then and only then should you dare to put yourself forward as a leader.
Because single people, we are told, have no stake in the country, nothing to offer.
Nor, presumably, do married couples who remain childless, either by choice or circumstance.
They do, however, have a vote, and I’m guessing Masters won’t be getting it.
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