Mocking abortions, slamming immigrants, trans-bashing: Takeaways from JD Vance's podcast with Joe Rogan

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance has launched another wave of tirade against abortion, immigration, and gender-affirmative healthcare.

In a three-hour-long conversation with podcaster Joe Rogan, Vance said that liberal voters are unhealthy and fat, accused baselessly of liberal women celebrating abortion, slammed Muslim immigrants’, and mocked transgenders.

In an episode of ‘Joe Rogan Experience’ that aired on Thursday, Vance appeared to be more of a culture wars icon than a vice presidential candidates, but that was likely the idea of the conversation as Trump has made culture wars central to his far-right Make America Great Again platform.

While Vance mocked transpersons and gender-affirmative healthcare, Trump has been mocking gays in the final days of his campaign, calling Anderson Cooper of CNN, the most prominent gay journalist a woman — even as Vance told Rogan that Trump would win much of the gay votes.

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In a tirade that fused sexist stereotypes with body-shaming, Vance said that studies have connected “testosterone levels in young men with conservative politics”.

Vance then went on to shame liberal voters.

“Have you seen all these studies that basically connect testosterone levels in young men with conservative politics? Maybe that’s why the Democrats want us all to be, you know, poor health and overweight is because it means we’re going to be more liberal, right? If you make people less healthy, they apparently become more politically liberal," said Vance.

Vance launches into tirade against women — again

Vance claimed that liberal women celebrate abortions publicly, an assertion even Rogan challenged.

Vance said that liberal women were publicly celebrating their abortions by “baking birthday cakes and posting about it” on social media platforms.

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When Rogan challenged and said that some states like Texas have abortions laws so restrictive that women may not even know they are pregnant during the window and are open to prosecution if they travel out of state, Vance said that he was not aware of such laws.

Vance has previously slammed women who choose to not have children, derogatively dubbing them as “childless cat ladies”.

Mocking transpersons & gender-affirming healthcare

Vance claimed that people were turning into transgenders to go to colleges.

Vance went on to claim that having transgender or non-binary children was a way to “reject your white privilege” for some rich parents.

“If you are a, you know, middle-class or upper-middle-class white parent, and the only thing that you care about is whether your child goes into Harvard or Yale, like, obviously, that pathway has become a lot harder for a lot of upper-middle-class kids, but the one way that those people can participate in the DEI bureaucracy in this country is to be trans and is there a dynamic that’s going on where, if you become trans, that is the way to reject your white privilege,” said Vance.

Mocking gender-education and access to gender-affirming healthcare, Vance said his two-year-child comes to him and tell that they are a dinosaur and asked whether it means he has to take the child to a dinosaur clinic.

“Every single day, my 4-year-old or 2-year-old will come to me and say something that is batshit insane, because they’re four and two. Like my 4-year-old will come and say, ‘Daddy, I’m a dinosaur,’ right? I’m gonna take him to, like, the dinosaur transition clinic and put scales on him?” said Vance.

Vance then went on to claim that Trump would win much of the “the normal gay guy vote”. He made the claim even Trump has been going around mocking gays, calling Anderson Cooper, the most prominent gay journalist, a woman.

Vance on immigrants

When pushed by Rogan on the rising number of immigrants’ and their effects on local politics, highlighting the case of a city in Minneapolis where mosques have been allowed to publicly broadcast calls to prayers, Vance said that “real religious tyranny is increasingly in Western societies”.

Referring to the Minneapolis incident, Vance said that “where you have had a large influx of immigrants who don’t necessarily assimilate into Western values but try to create, I think, a religious tyranny at the local level and if you think that won’t happen at a national level, you’re crazy”.