In 2020, JD Vance appeared on a podcast hosted by Eric Weinstein. Here Vance uttered the "yes" heard round the political world. The two were discussing grandparents. (And yes, we can all agree that the relationship between grandparents and their offspring's offspring can be a wonderful one.) But Weinstein wasn't going to let the matter rest there. He said that raising grandchildren is "the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female." Vance's response to THAT? A single word. "Yes." Indeed (for context), the whole Weinstein sentence, is "That [child rearing assistance] is the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female in theory." One thing I find fascinating about that wording is that Vance actually interrupted the sentence, to say "yes," BEFORE the host got out the phrase "in theory". Thus he suggests that for him anyway what he is agreeing with is not just a theory but a settled fact. Hmmmm. So for those p...