Billionaire Elon Musk weighed in on comments by Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) by calling out Vice President Kamala Harris as “an extinctionist” who wants humanity dead.
The X owner and Tesla CEO was responding to Vance’s post over the weekend that highlighted a clip of the vice president suggesting that climate change deters young people from having children.
Vance has been under attack by Democrats and the left for resurfaced comments he made in 2021 while speaking with Tucker Carlson when he said the U.S. is being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”
“If you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,” he said at the time.
The clip was shared online and sparked heated backlash. Vance told SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show” last week: “Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment. I’ve got nothing against cats.” He accused the media of “focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance of what I actually said.”
Over the weekend, Vance shared a post by Donald Trump Jr. that shows Harris saying how young people have expressed how they feel they have “climate anxiety.” Harris called it “the fear of the future and the unknown of whether it makes sense for you to even think about having children.”
“It’s almost like these people don’t want young people starting families or something. Really weird stuff,” Vance wrote in the post accompanying the video.
It’s almost like these people don’t want young people starting families or something. Really weird stuff. https://t.co/b3dot3ZCOh
— JD Vance (@JDVance) July 27, 2024
Among the responses was Musk who wrote, “Shamala is an extinctionist. The natural extension of her philosophy would be a de facto holocaust for all of humanity!”
Shamala is an extinctionist. The natural extension of her philosophy would be a de facto holocaust for all of humanity!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 27, 2024
Musk had previously weighed in on the fears of overpopulation by suggesting there is a need for more children to be born, not less.
“There are not enough people, he had said during a Wall Street Journal event. “I can’t emphasize this enough, there are not enough people.”
“I think one of the biggest risks to civilization is the low grow rate and the rapidly-declining grow rate,'” he added. “And yet so many people – including smart people – think there are too many people in the world and think the population is growing out of control. It’s completely the opposite.”
“Please look at the numbers, if people don’t have more children, civilization is going to crumble. Mark my words,” Musk said at the time.
