as JD well knows.

We don't need no stinking gubmint oversight. We kin eddycate our own kids and we don't need no healthcare policies either - except for wimmen who want healthcare we have rules and regulations.

for their fifth birthday!

To take care of the grandkids because JD thinks they just lay around all day. Then why does tfg/jd want grandpa and grandma working until they are 75?

SHE SET HIM ON FIRE and let the grandchild she was “taking care of” put him out.

You know darned well his kids aren't going to entrust THEIR kids to his brand of 'caregiving'.
Ivanka won't, for SURE!

His mother in law took a sabbatical to come visit and get to know her grandchild. J D misinterpreted that as being her sole purpose in life- to come take care of his child, and then decides that this is the purpose of all older women.

I suspect he does have a fundamental human relationship problem.

To give Shady's response more credibility than it deserves, I don't think it's lack of education/certifications keeping grandparents from providing daycare. The only thing lack of education might be doing is preventing people from providing daycare *FOR COMPENSATION*

see teaching and nursing shortages, strikes.

use the hand signal if you need help!

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Who wants background checks on people who work with and or around children?

By just how many millions of votes does J.D. Guy-Liner want to have him and Trump
lose by? How many Americans still carry the scares of abuse at the hands of a teacher,
a priest, a day care worker, and or a coach?

I beg of you PLEASE don’t spread that nome de guerre around the internets because it
would really stick.

silly certification! Eliminating sex offenders is SO unfair and unnecessary! Why would anyone taking care of your young child need to know CPR or Heimlich? Get serious! Think of all the male babysitters champing at the bit to have some alone time with your little girl, with that ridiculous certification thing getting in the way!

Maybe Shady is a plant to lose voters, he's been the mole in the GOP all this time. It sure seems like it.

BTW I am betting on Trump losing by 20 million this time because he, Guy-Liner, and
the GOP have pissed off and or are pissing off huge blocks of the American population.

Women, senior citizens, the military, families and friends of the military, unions, teachers,
blacks, Latino y Latinas, the LGBT communities, the young, Mormons, (some of the elders
in the LDS church are telling people to vote for Harris although Utah is most likely out of
play), all the mouth breathers who are sitting in jail because of J-6th (which Trump has now
admitted was a lie), Republicans for Harris, survivors of rape and sexual abuse, the tens of
thousands of contractors and suppliers that he screwed over, Liz Cheney, people who don’t
cheat when they golf, Jews, environmentalists, doctors, nurses, men who love women, and I
have to stop. Btw how many and how much does he owe to his lawyers?

Btw America still has a 25 to 35% piece of the population that will always vote Trump because
they are racist and they like the fact he is an asshole too.

That is the mentality of most of the homeschooling crowd. Just pop out a baby, and they think anybody can teach. The real reason for the homeschooling scheme isn't for the kids, but to tie women even more to the house and force them out of the workplace. For all their boasting they could teach, these people wouldn't last five minutes in a classroom. It is about the hardest job out there, bar none. You NEED the breaks during winter, spring, and summer.

The younger the kids, the harder the job is. The trend is to make pre-school more professional and even have school districts involved.

It's not fucking babysitting.

All those "housewives" depicted on those shows were career women--actresses--who made a good living and most of them had kids at home. Most of these wingnuts were not around then and the early 1960s to know just how terrible that era was, especially for women. Those of us who lived through that era know better.

One of the reasons the late 1960s so shook up this country was because it was a reaction to the very reactionary 1950s. The 1950s and early 1960s sucked.

Surely no young women pine for a return to how it was for women in the 1950s.

"You voted for these guys Pops, its their plan! Be good kids see ya Monday"

I guess he thinks all grandparents (but not HIS parents... just his in-laws) can take a leave of absence, not get fired, and spend a year earning no income to watch the children of these rich parents.

It's like he thinks people work for fun... not for money. So they're selfish if they don't quit work to watch all these kids.

As bad as Vance’s answer was, amazingly it was better than his boss’ answer to the same question: “...I want to stay with child care… So we'll take care of it. Thank you.” Vance at least made a halfhearted attempt at some policy point. A very very bad one—granted—but something that if you look sideways at it sort of resembles other GOP “ideas.” It is funny though that this seems to be yet another area where the GOP is all for state’s rights until they aren’t since he specifically mentions that state governments are largely responsible for overseeing childcare programs. Clearly his idea here is that if you just stop requiring people to know what they are doing you can reduce costs by putting them in place—because you really can’t ask people to pay a premium for unskilled labor now can you? That actually does beat “we’ll take care of it.” There is at least a thought behind it. I suppose next Vance will suggest that maybe we could save money on law enforcement, fire fighting and healthcare by getting rid of all those “ridiculous” certifications. And I guess Aunt Becky can just open up a facility in her house to save on that pesky commercial rent…. And it would smack of regulation to check the sex offenders database for the name of anyone living there I suppose. Meanwhile I feel certain that his wealthy backers like Paul Singer hire thoroughly background-checked live-in nannies with degrees in psychology and early childhood education. Still, there is a thought behind it—unlike the “we’ll take care of it” line his boss uses. That should remind everyone of the promise to fix healthcare on day one—only to later claim nobody knew healthcare was so complicated. And that was back when his mind was...well...sharper?

What a genius. No one ever thought of that.

Is you pass a child abuse clearance and a health inspection of a facility.....that seems to be reasonable unless you are a child molester or have an unsafe space.

Not everyone has family members who live close by who can help out. Not everyone has family members who can be trusted with child care.

I'm not a violent person, but I would love to see an elderly woman hit J.D. Vance upside the head with her purse on live television.

He and the Orange Menace will have a special place history.

week would be nice.

He assumes everyone is as stupid as he is.

Grandma and Grandpa maybe have 3 kids who each have 2 or 4 kids and they are supposed to look after all those kids and give up their lives, have to buy a minivan just to go anywhere, feed them all for free?

Ok, just so I understand this correctly, the gop wants to raise the retirement age, they want grandparents to be free day care ( while apparently still working), they want to abolish any certification requirements for daycare workers ( who already are typically very underpaid) and they want to ban reproductive rights, there in resulting in more kiddos & working parents. Sounds like a super duper economic plan!!

but "statesman" he most assuredly is NOT!!!

No time for free childcare, even if they wanted to.

to keep chold care as slave labor for somebody and that one size will fit all.

Somebody needs to tell JD that his muzzy headed, sentimental ideal of the multi generational family crammed into a single house died very quickly as soon as Granny and Gramps could afford it because it was pure hell for everybody, the adults constantly bickering and the kids having to grow up listening to it.

Of course, he's so comvinced of his own brilliance in coming up with a novel solution that he wouldn't believe it.

That's why6 we have to jeeo away from the Vice Presidency and throw our support to his next opponent in Ohio. Maybe he can go back to fleecing investors and open a church with the proceeds.

what an idiot. I'm starting to think these guys (trump and vance) hear something or read something online and think it is true.

You don't need to take classes, you don't need to get a credential or license or anything to babysit your grandkids. Or even to care for them full time unless you want the state to pay for your time.

Some people don't even HAVE grandparents, grandparents that like their families, or grandparents in the same area that they are. Both my grandfathers died before I was seven. One of my grandmothers lived 300 miles from us and didn't like my family because we dropped out of Catholicism after her husband died. The other one lived 450 miles from us and didn't like my family because Dad didn't want to be a sheep farmer and went into civil engineering for the government. If we were counting on a grandparent to raise us so Mom could have gone back to work, we would have been royally screwed.

to care for numerous grandchildren from their numerous kids. Yeah, that sounds about right. On top of that destroy public education and you wind up with a whole bunch of worker bees for the wealthy.

And make the oldest care for the youngest. That's another passe family model.
I can't count how many of the oldest children stuck in that role didn't get married and didn't want kids.

Do the rwnj jobs realize that NOBODY is going back? And the people who accept this bs have never moved forward?

This lazy asshole wouldn't deign to do any of these childcare or teaching jobs, but he thinks they are so "easy" to do, anybody off the street can do them.

The denigration of female-dominated employment, which many jobs are actually the best jobs despite the low or lower pay, needs to stop.


What in the hell were Ohioans thinking when they elected this dipshit to the Senate?

I work during the day. Can’t take care of kids that way. And I’m too exhausted when I get off work to do the same.

I’ve got another twelve years or so until retirement. I’m not spending my retirement providing day care.

…but there are limits.

Got that?

At one end of life, children feeling “pride” at “helping their parents” by working overnight (so as to not interfere with school hours, per Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders) to bring in a pittance to eke out the pittance their parents earn. At the other end of life, so little SS dispensed that old people who can’t earn enough to live alone will be forced to live with relatives (reminder: it’s our money that we paid in and that is owed to us) .

What a fantastic idea.

it takes a village to raise a child?

Which group of voters can I annoy today?

Is that how you do politics? I'm amazed at the stupidity!

...worked out well.

* and prison-gang tattoos; and needle track marks on the forearm... so you want to be a child-care worker? You're in luck! We're hiring! No training or background check needed... you don't even need a ridiculous certification that has nothing to do with taking care of kids. (MAGA hat wearers preferred.)

INQUIRE WITHIN!

My daughter {who would never expect me to watch her 4 year old for 40 hours a week} sent me a funny test. It was a clip of his and she said "grandma, you are slacking! What a nimrod!"

My wife and I both gladly are blessed to help with our grandchildren. I don’t know about anyone else, but we appreciate the opportunity to live in a non”project 2025” country where we have the freedom to be part of their lives. Not some archaic bs. Tuck Frump and Mr. Scary Eyeliner!