Tuesday night's Vice Presidential Debate between Republican Ohio Senator JD Vance and Democrat Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was amazingly civil and substantive. Vance not only set the tone, but he put the Girl Squad moderator team of Margaret Brennan and Norah O'Donnell on their four-inch heels by checking them on their attempts to fact-check and run interference, even though they claimed at the beginning that this would not be done. 

All of American journalism, and you pick these two room temp IQ broads as the “moderators”?

— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) October 2, 2024

Fauxnalism at its finest, right here.

While the ladies led with questions in the range of the ridiculous (climate change) and the substantive (the economy, foreign policy), one glaring omission stood out: There were no questions about crime, whether it was perpetrated by Americans or illegal aliens. Despite the current fake polls, manipulated stats, and curated headlines that try to minimize and ignore it, crime is still a major topic of concern, especially among women. So, it was curious that these moderators, who were supposed to be representing topics that mattered to women, so casually bypassed it.

What subject did Brennan and O'Donnell appear unusually fixated upon? The "Child Care Crisis."

Margaret Brennan claimed that: 

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 national paid leave program for new parents[...] How long should employers be required to pay workers while they are home taking care of their newborns?

How about making it affordable for women to leave their employ? Or work-from-home? Or, even better, be self-employed or an independent contractor, something the Biden-Harris and the Harris-Walz administration want to make difficult, if not impossible. This option is the one that many mothers and single mothers that I know have chosen. 

Walz's response to the question was to prattle on about how Minnesota instituted the best paid family leave program in the nation. 

Childcare came up in the debate and Walz touted his state's paid parental leave and medical leave policies.

Walz said that the time offered to parents should be negotiable.

"We're saying is the economy works best when it works for all of us. And so a paid family medical leave program, and I will tell you, go to the families or go to the businesses and ask them, as far as child care on this, you have to take it at both the supply and the demand side," he said.

Vance was asked the same question, and distilled it down to the lack of choices. 

The cultural pressure on young families, and especially young women, I think makes it really hard for people to choose the family model they want. A lot of young women would like to go back to work immediately, some would like to spend a little time at home with the kid, some would like to spend longer at home with the kid. We should have a family care model that makes choice possible.

Vance also pointed out that the federal programs that currently exist only go to one kind of childcare model. There is no access to federal monies for families that choose extended family or community models outside of a federalized standard. Brennan then honed in on comments made by former President and GOP nominee Donald Trump about the cost of child care.

The senator then defended Trump's comments about child care not being expensive and focused on Trump's policies to cut taxes and bring jobs back from overseas.

"It's so expensive right now ... because you've got way too few people providing this very essential service," he said.

Like a dog with a bone, Brennan still wasn't satisfied and asked, "Can you clarify how that will solve the childcare shortage?" Vance, masterful as always, wrapped up the topic and accented it with a big red bow.

WATCH:

"WE JUST DON'T HAVE ENOUGH RESOURCES GOING INTO PEOPLE WHO COULD BE PROVIDING FAMILY CARE OPTIONS! WE HAVE WAY TOO FEW PEOPLE PROVIDING THIS VERY ESSENTIAL SERVICE." VP Nominee Sen. @JDVance

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— Real America's Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) October 2, 2024

We just don't have enough resources going into people who could be providing family care options! We have way too few people providing this very essential service.

Brennan then asked Walz about whether he thought Congress would agree with the $6,000 credit for newborns and $3,000 credit for children over the age of six. Once Walz completed his rambling answer, it was almost 10 minutes of debate time taken up on an issue that, truth be told, is not of huge concern for women.  

Scott Adams had this hot take on the debate in general, but it was apropos to the Girl Squad moderators' questions.

Quick VP debate take:

Women not on the pill will prefer Vance.

Women on the pill will prefer Walz.

Seriously.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 2, 2024

Where's the lie? Most pro-life women, and even some pro-choice women are not about abdicating their role of child-rearing to the government. My mother, who was widowed with seven children ranging in age from 15 to 5 (me), took an evening job so that she could ensure that our schooling and other needs were attended to, and used the village of her children (my siblings) to help take care of the rest. Two of my sisters divorced their deadbeat husbands and raised children on their own too. They had no expectation of tax credits or government funding; they simply did what they needed to do to ensure that they were as actively involved in their children's lives as they could while also being the sole provider and breadwinner. I know many two-parent homes who make sacrifices in order for the mother to be a stay-at-home mom with their kids. So, this topic was strictly for those infernal suburban women to whom the Girl Power moderator squad chose to cater. 

And how schizophrenic is it that progressive policies not only demand the right to kill your baby, but if you do choose to breed, you also want the government to pay for the raising of your child by others?

Make it make sense. 

On the subject of crime, one law enforcement publication had this to say.

Despite the gaslighting by the mainstream media and the Democrats, the US has experienced a significant crime spike since the 2020 “summer of love” spurred by the George Floyd overdose in Minneapolis. The figures included in the NCVS do not show that number leveling off any time soon. In fact, given the invasion of violent gangs such as Tren de Aragua, MS-13, and others, the 2024 NCVS may show a more significant spike. This should be a cause for concern for all of us.

It really should, but the team of Brennan and O'Donnell cavalierly ignored this essential topic in order to serve the Leftist narrative and agenda.

Different network, same playbook. Rinse. Repeat.