Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate between Republican Ohio Senator JD Vance and Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was surprisingly civil and substantive. Not only did Vance set the tone, but he also put the Girl Squad presenting team of Margaret Brennan and Norah O’Donnell on their toes by grilling them on their attempts to fact-check and intervene, despite initially claiming that this wouldn’t happen.
All of American journalism, and you pick these two Zimmer IQ women as “hosts”?
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) October 2, 2024
Fauxnalism at its finest, right here.
While the women led with questions ranging from the ridiculous (climate change) to the substantive (the economy, foreign policy), one glaring omission was noticeable: There were no questions about crimes, whether committed by Americans or illegal immigrants. Despite the current fraudulent polls, manipulated statistics and curated headlines that attempt to minimize and ignore them, crime is still a major problem, especially among women. So it was strange that these presenters, who were supposed to represent issues significant to women, so casually ignored this.
What topic did Brennan and O’Donnell seem unusually fixated on? The “child care crisis.”
Margaret Brennan claimed:
There is a child care crisis in this country. And the United States is one of the few developed countries in the world without a nationwide paid leave program for recent parents[…] How long should employers be required to pay employees while they care for their newborns at home?
What if women could make it affordable to leave the workforce? Or work from home? Or, better yet, become self-employed or an independent contractor, which the Biden-Harris and Harris-Walz administrations want to make complex, if not impossible. Many mothers and single mothers I know have chosen this option.
In response to the question, Walz blabbed about how Minnesota implemented the highest paid family leave program in the nation.
Child care came up in the debate, and Walz touted his state’s paid parental and medical leave policies.
Walz said the time offered to parents should be negotiable.
“We say that the economy works best when it works for all of us. And so there’s a paid family leave program, and I’m telling you, go to the families or go to the companies and ask them about the child.” “When you look at this, you have to look at both the supply and the consider the demand side,” he said.
Vance was asked the same question and he boiled it down to lack of choice.
The cultural pressures on youthful families, and especially youthful women, I think make it really complex for people to choose the family model they want. Many youthful women would like to go back to work straight away, some would like to spend a little time at home with their child, some would like to spend longer at home with their child. We should have a family care model that allows for choice.
Vance also pointed out that the federal programs currently in place only target one type of child care model. Families who choose extended family or community models outside of a federalized standard do not have access to federal funds. Brennan then addressed former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump’s comments about the cost of child care.
The senator then defended Trump’s comments that child care is not exorbitant and focused on Trump’s policies of cutting taxes and bringing jobs back from abroad.
“Right now it’s so expensive … because there are far too few people providing this very important service,” he said.
Like a dog with a bone, Brennan still wasn’t satisfied and asked, “Can you explain how this will solve the child care shortage?” Vance, masterful as always, closed the topic and emphasized it with a gigantic red bow.
REGARD:
“We simply don’t have enough resources to support people who could provide family care options! We have far too few people providing this vital service.” VP candidate Sen. @JDVance
Watch them #VPDebate: https://t.co/JajsvaSDo4 pic.twitter.com/J19B2NHZLY
— Real America’s Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) October 2, 2024
We simply don’t have enough resources for people to provide family care options! We have far too few people providing this very significant service.
Brennan then asked Walz whether he thought Congress would approve the $6,000 credit for newborns and the $3,000 credit for children over the age of six. After Walz finished his rambling answer, it was almost ten minutes of debate on a topic that, to be sincere, isn’t a gigantic problem for women.
Scott Adams had this heated take on the debate in general, but it matched the Girl Squad moderators’ questions.
Short VP debate:
Women who are not on the pill will prefer Vance.
Women on the pill will prefer Walz.
Seriously.
– Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 2, 2024
Where is the lie? Most pro-life women and even some pro-choice women are not concerned with handing over their child-rearing role to the government. My mother, who was widowed and had seven children aged 15 to 5 (me), took an evening job to provide for our schooling and other needs and used her children’s (my siblings) village. to do the rest. Two of my sisters divorced their dead husbands and also raised their children alone. They didn’t expect tax credits or government funding; They simply did what they had to do to ensure that they were as energetic a participant in their children’s lives as possible while being the sole provider and breadwinner. I know many two-parent families who make sacrifices so that the mother can stay home with her children. So this topic was intended exclusively for the hellish suburban women that the Girl Power moderator group specializes in.
And how schizophrenic is it that progressive policies not only demand the right to kill your baby, but if you choose to procreate, you also want the state to pay for your child’s upbringing with others?
Make it make sense.
On the subject of crime: First Law Enforcement Publication had this to say.
Despite criticism from mainstream media and Democrats, the US has experienced a significant raise in crime since the 2020 “Summer of Love,” sparked by George Floyd’s overdose in Minneapolis. The figures contained in the NCVS do not suggest that this number will level off in the foreseeable future. Given the invasion of violent gangs such as Tren de Aragua, MS-13 and others, the NCVS could even see a more significant raise in 2024. This should be a concern for all of us.
It really should be, but the team of Brennan and O’Donnell blithely ignored this vital issue to serve the left’s narrative and agenda.
Different network, same playbook. Wash. Repeat.
