Kamala Harris Puts Sarah Huckabee Sanders in Her Unhumble Place by Frank Bruni
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'There’s a kind of holiday-season letter — I’m sure you’ve received one — that isn’t so much an update from the family who sent it as an advertisement for the brood’s glory. . .
My fruitlessness — I’m a childless dog laddie — is its own contribution. I pay (gladly) for public schools that I don’t use. I participate (again, gladly) in health insurance plans that are more generous to colleagues with children than they are to me. Even at my most profligate, the one of me doesn’t leave a carbon footprint as broad and deep as a gaggle of mini-mes would.
Those aren’t complaints, just observations offered in the context of Sanders’s apparent belief that those of us without progeny swagger through our days with egos unchecked by diapers, “Goodnight Moon,” tonsillitis and soccer practice.
I’m, in fact, in awe of parents. . .
And they are seasoned — and in many cases humbled — by all of that. . .
But there are humbling experiences aplenty outside the realm of parenting, . .
Their reasons for having children may include the emotional rewards of those relationships, the hope that their children will someday watch after them, the glimmer of immortality achieved by passing on their genes, the fascination of watching their own flesh and blood navigate the world.
All of those motivations are recognizably and touchingly human.
Not one of them is humble.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/10/opinion/sarah-huckabee-sanders-harris.html
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... one of the most deplorable politicians imaginable... odd ow someone so wicked can have a reputation for being religious, and from a religious family. Her sleeping-potion hawking father is another wretched actor.
If you are the parent of a childfree child then you are related to one of these awful childfree people who is unfit for any serious role in society and shouldn’t have a vote etc.
Childfree people do face a lot of social stigma still, but I have never let it bother me 
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I think J D Vance needs a hug because he is a sad little baby 
. I’d save my tears for Usha Vance not us sad, childless catladies 
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Well okay this thread is about Huckabee Sanders Not Vance, but well..potaytoes potahtoes.
