00:00So there are two kinds of people who run for office, and one category is really big,
00:03one category is really small. The big category is people who just want to get to office because
00:07they want to prove something that are absent or alcoholic fathers or fill some empty space
00:11inside or have power over you. That's almost everybody. Then there's a small category of
00:15people who run for office because they really believe something and they've got something to
00:18say. They really mean it. You almost never see these people. One of them is J.D. Vance.
00:23He didn't need to run for office, but he is. He's running for Senate in Ohio, and since the second
00:28he announced, places like the Daily Beast and the Washington Post and the Atlantic,
00:34the axis of protectors of the ruling class, have gone crazy. They hate him. They really hate him,
00:39and that's how you know he means it. Well, the latest example came on Friday in Alexandria. J.D.
00:45Vance made a pretty obvious point. He said the childless left, that's how he put it, lacks, quote,
00:49physical commitment to the future of this country. Quote, why is this just a normal fact of life for
00:54the leaders of our country to be people who don't have a personal and direct stake in it via their
00:59own offspring? That's what he asked, and they went completely bananas. So we thought it'd be
01:04interesting to talk to J.D. Vance about what he meant and what it's like to be attacked for saying
01:08things that are so obviously true. He joins us tonight. J.D. Vance, thanks so much for coming on.
01:13So tell us what—that was just a very short snippet of a much longer speech, a really interesting
01:18speech that people, I think, should read. But what were you saying?
01:23Thanks, Tucker. And by the way, folks want to help us out, jdvance.com. Every little bit helps
01:27if you can throw us a couple bucks. But look, what I was basically saying is that we're effectively
01:31run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat
01:37ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made, and so they want to
01:41make the rest of the country miserable, too. And it's just a basic fact. You look at Kamala Harris,
01:45Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without
01:51children. And how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't
01:55really have a direct stake in it? I just wanted to ask that question and propose that maybe if we
02:01want
02:01a healthy ruling class in this country, we should invest more, we should vote more, we should support
02:06more people who actually have kids, because those are the people who ultimately have a more direct
02:11stake in the future of this country. Man, if you had called for, I don't know, lowering tax rates
02:17to zero or invading Canada or, you know, I don't really know what, making the death penalty mandatory
02:23for people who don't get the vaccine, something really radical. They wouldn't even have noticed.
02:27The Atlantic would have just nodded. But saying something like that drove them, like, insane. Why?
02:34Well, I think first is because it actually hit a nerve. I mean, these people recognize that they're
02:38unhappy. They live in one bedroom apartments in New York City. They've played their entire lives
02:42to win a status game. They're obsessed with their jobs. They're obsessed with their wealth and with
02:48their fortunes. And they look at middle America, people who are actually pretty happy with their
02:52lives and the choices that they've made. And they hate normal Americans for choosing family over these
02:57ridiculous D.C. and New York status games. And I think because of that, they just get so angry when
03:03somebody calls it what it is. It's acceptable if they ignore that it never happens. But when somebody
03:08calls out that, look, if you're a miserable cat lady, you should not force your misery on
03:13the rest of the country. They just get really upset about it. And I think, by the way, Tucker,
03:17it's a good thing that they get upset about it. It suggests that they know that we're hitting
03:21a nerve, not just in this campaign, but with this message that we should invest in American
03:25families in this country. Nothing else. We should be about healthy, stable families.
03:30Do you think that this would be a happier country if it were run by happier people?
03:36I definitely do. It makes total sense, right? Happier people would make for a happier country.
03:42And it's not just the leaders of the left, of course. It's not just the Democrat politicians.
03:46You know this, Tucker. The most miserable people in the mainstream media are these mediocre journalists
03:51who have their entire sense of self-worth wrapped up in their crappy jobs instead of in their families.
03:57People who know where they came from, people who go home at night and see the face of a smiling
04:03kid, whatever their profession, I think they're happier. I think they're healthier. And they're
04:07going to be better prepared to actually lead this country. And the problem that I have, especially as
04:12we were entering this period of COVID obsession again, is that we have so many people proposing
04:17we mask our children again. Look, the people who are proposing it, they don't have to go home
04:23to a child at the end of the day. If they did, I don't think they'd be proposing all these
04:28ridiculous
04:28restrictions again.
