It looks like a family holiday card except that the woman and children posing with Republican Derrick Anderson are not his wife or his offspring.
Anderson, who running in a close race for Virginia’s seventh congressional district, was seen in another image seated around the dining table with the same woman and three girls.
The images came to light in an article by The New York Times, headlined “G.O.P. Candidates, Looking to Soften Their Image, Turn to Their Wives,” which reported how “male Republicans struggling to appeal to female voters concerned about their records on reproductive rights are unleashing their spouses to make the pitch on their behalf.”
However Anderson, who is childless, engaged to be married and lives alone with his dog, sought to borrow the wife and children from a longtime friend in an apparent effort to appear as a family man.
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The perpetuation of the myth that you are less of a person for not having a family or children is absolutely fucking disgusting
But it is hilarious when the person perpetrating it does not have a family or children
Not when those who need to hear it don’t hear it and/or don’t care to hear it
Every single life adds value to the world. Splitting people into groups then discounting those groups as less than or useless is a recipe for failure. Anyone who does not see that is not qualified for a leadership position.
These idiots don’t understand that the internet is a thing that exists despite using it constantly.
“No one will ever find out that I don’t actually have a family.”
The problem isn’t that people will find out. It’s that 99% of their voters are too stupid to think critically about the people they vote for.
Exhibit A: George Santos
Exhibits B though at least Z too
Best and brightest.
Republicans have to continually poke fingers at others to detract from their own significant shortcomings.
These people know their voters won’t use any critical thinking and refuse any contrary info anyway
He was breathing fairly easily. It occurred to Ford that he might breathe more easily yet without the weight of his wallet bearing down on his chest, so he slipped it out of Harl’s breast pocket and flipped through it. Fair amount of cash. 55 Credit tokens. Ultragolf club membership. Other club memberships. Photos of someone’s wife and family - presumably Harl’s, but it was hard to be sure these days. Busy executives often didn’t have time for a full-time wife and family and would just rent them for weekends.
-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
Honestly, I doubted that a fictional writer could be as sleazy and vile and disgusting as reality. I hand it to Douglas Adams for keeping parity, but not for long…
Wait, WTF? He’s engaged but the woman he’s misrepresenting as his wife in the photo is somebody other than his fiance? What, did she get creeped out and refuse to do it or something?
Don’t get me wrong, the whole thing is a big WTF, but that aspect of it is even more WTF-ish than the rest!
engaged to be married and lives alone with his dog,
How does that work? Don’t most people cohabitate before marriage? Or is he engaged to his dog?
Many people do, but not everyone. Religious people especially tend not to cohabitate before marriage, as that would be considered a sin.
Imagine getting married and discovering they’re the worst roommate ever.
Not to worry, the wife will do all the cooking cleaning and housekeeping, as God intended. And if she doesn’t like it, too bad, the Bible says wives are to submit to the will of their husbands, so she’ll suck it up and do as she’s told.
That’s what they actually believe, don’t hate me. I grew up having this BS crammed down my throat, and even as a kid I thought it was ridiculous
Many Christians believe that living together before marriage is wrong. Many conservatives are either Christian or appeal to Christian values (as they’re both largely patriarchal and controlling; at least as practiced). This guy’s conservative.
Then why wouldn’t he just do a photo shoot with his fiancee and his dog? Conservatives are idiots or someone is lying.
Conservatives are idiots
For this one, I think this is the answer.
Or at least use his dog in the fake photo?? Cmon, he’s got one creature on this planet that loves him (ignorance is bliss), and he leaves it out of the family photo?!
What a monster, lol
His dog, apparently smarter than every Republican voter in Virginia’s seventh congressional district, refused to have anything to do with it.
The article talks about how Republicans are alienating virtually every woman in the country. So, to appear electable, they’re having their wives and kids do the ads, so that out-of-touch women will see a woman in the ad and decide that the candidate is a good guy.
But that, and the whole focus on “traditional family values” and everything boxes them into a certain image, that you’re not a real American man if you’re not married with kids by the time you’re in your 30s or something. So, even if he had a picture with his fiance and dog, it would prove he’s not a “traditional family values” republican. So, better to pose with a friend’s wife and kids than prove that he’s not “normal”.
What woman would want to marry sometime that felt the need to put his political career over their relationship? Sounds like a match made in heaven
I’m not childless but if anybody knows where I can get a loaner wife I might be interested
Apparently there’s a man in Virginia who will lend you his entire family, but only if it’ll help take away their rights.
Is this one of those cat ladies I’ve been hearing about?
WEIRD
What the actual fuck
Has it clicked with anyone else that if a woman doesn’t want to bear these creeps’ kids what makes you want to vote for them?
