A woman with a huge following of new and expectant parents on Instagram has been found to have donated to the Trump campaign, and Vox is on it:
A popular baby sleep expert on Instagram donated to Trump. Where does that leave new parents? https://t.co/Drk8ORNRkB
— Vox (@voxdotcom) January 27, 2021
Rebecca Jennings reports:
Now imagine that the disappointing influencer had not only impacted your style or home decor but some of the most intimate decisions of your life, someone who you’d turned to for advice on motherhood, pregnancy, or postpartum depression. That’s what happened to thousands of moms on the internet last week when baby sleep expert Cara Dumaplin, known by her (admittedly brilliant) nom de plume Taking Cara Babies and her Instagram account of more than 1.3 million followers, was revealed to have donated multiple times to the Trump campaign.
Check out screenwriter and author Bess Kalb:
OH MY GOD TAKING CARA BABIES IS MAGA https://t.co/25fR2pNE6P
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) January 20, 2021
For the many new parents who’d paid to take her online sleep courses, which range from $179 to $319, the Trump donation news came as devastating. “We put our trust in her when we were at our lowest and vulnerable,” says Katelyn Esmonde, a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins and mother to a 12-week-old.
These are parents? As in grown-ups?
Everyone is laughing about the “Biden is monitoring the Gamestop situation” tweet but also this is a very strange and funny tweet too. pic.twitter.com/wVJwLNj7uA
— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) January 27, 2021
It’s like when Aldous Huxley died the same day as JFK and no one noticed. There is always an Aldous Huxley tweet skating by because something bigger is happening
— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) January 27, 2021
Obviously their babies should be denied sleep and possibly food until they can be retrained.
— libertardian (@A_Libertardian) January 28, 2021
— Calypso (@_Calyps0__) January 28, 2021
Spend a few nights with a baby who won't sleep. There will come a point when the reanimated corpse of Jeffrey Dahmer could waltz into your house and give you swaddling tips, and you would hug him in gratitude.
— Chris Puzak (@ChrisPuzak) January 27, 2021
Defund babies sleeping!
— Nodsaibot ? Logo Creator? at minds (@nodsaibot) January 28, 2021
Reprogram the babies
— Herschel Krustofsky (@HerschelKrusto2) January 28, 2021
A lot of wokester babies will be adjusting to sudden, dramatic changes in their sleep schedules as a result
— FascistJack (@FascistJack2) January 28, 2021
You laugh, but the folks in my parenting groups are taking it very seriously because they can’t believe that this particular white woman decided to white woman her money.
— Stacey (@vegforward) January 27, 2021
We’re old enough to remember raising children without Instagram.
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TDS-afflicted blue-checked 'mental health counselor' doesn't want you to know he's 'joyous' at all the suffering and death from COVID19 https://t.co/1l1NmsxsCa
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 25, 2020
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