Historically unpopular MAGA VP candidate JD "Vladimir Futon" Vance can't stop awkwardly talking about women and their role in society as he perceives them.
Vance has categorized older women as "childless cat ladies" who have no value to society. He's also said that female teachers who don't have children of their own are "indoctrinating" their students into embracing their "radical" lifestyle choices.
Interviewers keep asking Vance what he thinks about women, which only makes women despise him more. He's already gone on record as suggesting older women who are child-free are only useful as babysitters for their grandchildren or other peoples' children.
Hillbilly Effigy leaned into that take again when asked about childcare by Charlie "Another Paid Bad Actor" Kirk at a Turning Point USA event. Kirk, who doesn't care about children, asked Vance, who also doesn't care, about lowering the cost of childcare because it's something important to the Harris/Walz campaign.
Traditionally, a candidate is supposed to take their opponents' policies or proposed plans and explain why their own plan would be better. Instead, Vance deployed the usual MAGA tactic of shifting the responsibility to someone else.
”Maybe Grandpa and Grandma want to help a little bit more," Vance suggested. "Maybe there’s an uncle/aunt who wants to help a little bit more…”
That's not a solution to lowering childcare costs, but Vance doesn't have any real solutions to share. "Ask your relatives to babysit for free" isn't a helpful suggestion. But it's what we should expect from a millionaire who's probably never been alone with any of his kids, or anyone else's kids, for any amount of time.