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It's baffling to me that he is in an interracial marriage and is... Fine? With saying this kind of stuff? Idk maybe she is a monster too and it's just cherry picking what is considered bad in their moral compass...
I think exceptions and tokens play an important role in permitting the followers of fascists to deny the general principles of the people they follow, even in their own minds. For example, if Vance's wife is brown, then Trump can't hate all brown people, right? Then he must be rounding up those other brown people for some reason other than their being brown. The news keeps saying they're rounding up criminals, many of whom happen to be brown, and the Left keeps screeching that Republicans hate all brown people, but his wife is brown... so the Left must be lying. The evidence to the contrary is right in front of your eyes.
And so on. Tokens are kept around by Republicans because they provide the thinnest possible veneer of plausible deniability to people who are afraid of non-whites but don't want to think of themselves as racists. It's a convenient off-ramp from a road that would otherwise tempt them to think difficult thoughts about themselves and the policies they approve of or at least willfully ignore.
Remember this is the guy who called the pedo a traitor for his role in Jan 6, then like a year later accepting the position as his VP.
His words are whatever he needs them to be.
She must be a monster, she married JD Vance.
A few days ago Vance also got really riled up when discussing this kinda stuff. He said something about El Sayed not being the kinda person his hick granpappy would approve of and El Sayed shot back asking if the hick granpappy would approve of his wife. It really set him off, going on about how El Sayed shouldn't bring Vance's family into this. It was kinda funny to watch him squirm.
JD Vance is nothing. He's not evil or stupid or whatever like the other MAGA people. He' just a guy that nobody likes.
He’s a grifter. James is an ivy leaguer who makes hay about his single mother and “hillbilly roots” while wears eyeliner and pretends to be a tough guy.
It’s no surprise he talks out of both sides of his mouth.
Wait, sounds like Vance brought his family into the convo first. The mental gymnastics these sad sacks of shit perform boggles me.
He does that a lot. He tries to sneak in some "veiled' attack or remark and when people call him out for it he says they're attacking him or his family. He's a pathetic little man that thinks is somehow smarter than everyone else.
Here's the article about the El Sayed bit if you wanna see it yourself. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/01/abdul-el-sayed-jd-vance-evil
That's a very common conservative trait: playing victim in situations you caused.
Thanks for the link, it was a fun read.
They roll over and play victim the moment someone pushes back on them
Usha Vance is a very pale skinned, high caste (Brahmin), wealthy migrant who was set up with JD Vance by Yale Law kingmaker Amy Chua.
This was a political marriage in the feudal sense. Vance is married in order to secure a social tie to Indian power brokers, as part of a generations-long effort by American elites to encircle Asia and control their domestic politics.
Same reason why Mitch McConnell married Tiawanese shipping magnet Elaine Chao.
That’s really interesting. Crazy this shit still happens. I guess I’m just not rich enough. And I’m gonna be pedantic, it’s magnate when you’re referring to someone who is a pillar of industry, not magnet 😉
This is as much a Yale thing as a Rich thing. Lots of weird freaky Trad types in the Ivy League.
My theory is that he's slowly and deliberately trying to poison his own marriage so his wife will divorce him, then he'll try to marry Erika Kirk.
The leather pants she wore during her Charlie Kirk grief tour reminded him of his couch and it hasn't left his mind since.
Just because the couch is leather, does not mean he's in an interracial relationship.
Not to sound like a Vaush fanboy, but think he has a point when he says these people don't actually believe what they're saying. It's just an excuse for cruelty.
Indian people tend to be considered white in a lot of American spaces. May have to do with the amount of Indian immigrants that are higher caste/lighter skinned. They tend to be super racist towards black people and darker Asians
Don’t know why you’re downvoted like that, casteism/colorism is well-known within the Indian community. The Brahmins and White nationalists are like-minded in that sense, although the White nationalists still see themselves as superior.
They are religiofascist to a degree and demonize Muslims and enforce the “superiority” of Hinduism. There are definitely some mirrors to what has happened in their government versus ours.
I mean, some Indians have a fetish for Hitler, rooted in stupid legends about Aryanism. The pick-me-ism is insane.
I think the down votes are probably because I've never encountered a space where Indians are considered white, maybe in Silicon Valley? I hear more racist jokes about Indians than any other ethnic group in the Southeast US, though I hear more racist comments about black people and Hispanics.
Maybe it's because I'm from a weird Californian region but I fell like Indians are generally pumped into the "dirty Asians" category regardless of caste or skin tone. But also I've seen really racist assholes defend the local Sikhs in particular so maybe my region is just weird.