Critics question JD Vance’s ‘weird’ defense of wife Usha after white supremacist attacks

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Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) acknowledged — but did not condemn — white supremacist attacks aimed at his wife, Usha Vance, over her Indian descent on Friday.

“Look, I love my wife so much. I love her because she’s who she is,” former President Donald Trump’s running mate told Megyn Kelly on her SiriusXM show.

He continued, “Obviously, she’s not a white person and we’ve been accused — attacked by some white supremacists over that. But I just, I love Usha. She’s such a good mom, she’s such a brilliant lawyer and I’m so proud of her.”

Trump’s vice presidential pick, who has faced backlash for going after “childless” Democrats in 2021 with a comment he recently called “sarcastic,” added that his wife’s experience has helped give him the perspective that it’s “very hard” for working families in America.

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added that his wife’s experience has helped give him the perspective that it’s “very hard” for working families in America.

She's a lawyer who went to Yale. Her father was a mechanical engineer and her mother was a molecular biologist. They are a working family, but not the type of working family that should give you a new perspective on how hard it is for working families in America. This is the opposite of a working family that struggles for financial security.

Yes, but they have to keep associating "person of color" with "poor" and therefore "crime". If they don't keep lumping all non-white people in with other "undesirable" things, some of their followers might look around and realize that non-white people can achieve things on their own too, and that makes non-white folks start to resemble actual human beings a bit too much for their liking. If she was single, he wouldn't be lauding any of her achievements. The unspoken belief is that women are as incapable as non-whites when there's no husband involved. The dehumanizing and belittling narrative has to be constant with them or some of their followers might start thinking for themselves.

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Especially for someone whose whole identity is based on growing up as a good ol' Appalachian boy, it's pretty weird to say he's learned much of anything about the struggles of working families from his wife's experiences. Unless --gasp-- perhaps he's exaggerated the experiences of his childhood?

If he can find difficulty in his upper-class life, why did he join the party that wants to crush people orders of magnitude poorer than him?

Answer: He's a malicious sociopath and in it entirely for his own enrichment.

Her father was a mechanical engineer and her mother was a molecular biologist.

what, like howard and bernadette?!

Mechanical engineer is surely some good money. But from experience there's a big spectrum of pay depending on what her mother specifically did as a molecular biologist. Sounds really intense but biology pays pretty shit sometimes haha. I know molecular biologists with PhDs working for 16 an hour at a nonprofit near me.

“She’s cool, she’s with me”

She's a DEI wife. Some poor white woman was looked over for the very appealing task of being JD Vance's couchwife.

Just following in Trump’s footsteps, with Melanie taking a job that no American was willing to do.

Vance really is the Diet Mountain Dew to Trump’s original, piss-colored drink.

Yeah but Usha didn't get the Einstein visa did she. tsk tsk. Maybe if she had applied herself a little harder.

She's not white, but...

Sweet milky cheeses what a horrible sentence!

I am fully aware she is garbage too for marrying that d-bag, but how can she possibly be ok with someone who would even utter this sentence?

rich people don't get married for the same reasons non rich people do

So, per my understanding she (they) are not rich rich, they’re upper class and aiming to be nouveau riche.

The rich rich are actually quite principled on a lot of things, mainly self-preservation. It’s mostly the upper class or nouveau riche, like Trumps etc, who cause a lot of ruckus and lack principles because they have a social ladder to climb.

I like the "obviously" part. Yes, thank you for literally stating the obvious.

LOL the article mentions nick fuentes, whose name i've seen, but don't know much about, so i looked him up. my favorite:

He has described himself as the "straightest guy" and attempted to defend himself as an incel by claiming that "the only really straight heterosexual position is to be an asexual incel", as "having sex with women is gay ... What's gayer than being like, 'I need cuddles. I need kisses ... I need to spend time with a woman.'"[30][31][32]

LOL what the chicken fried fuck

4 Chan jokes personified.

Bro I'm so straight I won't even touch a door nob that a woman touched. Because a man has had his dick on her hand duh. Ain't no queer

it's weird how infrequently i say "no way someone's that fucking dumb" these days. because i always end up being wrong. i wouldn't be shocked in the slightest if i learned he refuses to sit on a public shitter for fear that he's potentially touching asses with a gay man

As someone who grew up in the South and moved to an educated coastal city, I'd just like to take this moment to say I fucking told you! None of you assholes believed me, you thought I was exaggerating! No, they are literally so goddamn stupid their very sentience is in question.

Isn't that why they put those paper things above the toilets? To make sure you don't have to touch assess with shit for brains incels?

Even funnier, he thought he ended his stream and then jorked it to gay furry porn.

This can't be true...

VERY NSFW WARNING

https://www.reddit.com/r/h3h3productions/comments/1cvh3uz/nick_fuentes_was_not_only_caught_streaming_gay/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Looks like it wasn't gay furry porn, but just gay porn.

Ok, this looks like it could be a hack but in the comments they mention he was caught with trans porn on his phone... And I reached the limit of my curiosity.

He also went on a date with a cat boy. Not that that's a bad thing, it's just what he preaches hate against. Rules for thee, but not for me, and all.

Imagine deliberately refusing cuddles

i'd guess he's been deprived of it his entire life, so he inwardly turned it into a "bad" thing to make it make sense to himself. he'll say EEEeEeEEeWWwwWwW when he sees a couple holding hands while actually wishing someone would even touch him

Oh Yeah definitely. I'm aware that incels are mostly the way they are because they need to cope.

Also, worth adding, a literal neo-nazi. Also, was part of the InfoWars meeting with Kanye when he said that we shouldn't be dissing on Hitler all the time.

So yeah, he's a piece of shit. And that's the nicest thing you can say about him.

fellas, is it gay to have sex with a woman?

it's a classic.

What an unfortunate life that man lives.

It’s cult-like conditioning perhaps? You can’t control people like mindless drones if they care about others. So yeah, I get why some types of orgs would prefer asexual incels, and why they’d try to make it seem like some desirable, or “alpha” position. What a bunch of losers

It's telling that he jumped to defend how much he loves her, and in a way that seemed to be saying "It's okay, she's one of the GOOD ones!", rather than condemning or decrying the racist, hateful acts themselves.

Every photo of the Vances make me think we're living in a sitcom. She's objectivity gorgeous and he looks like a lump of mashed potatoes that rolled into a pile of barber hair.

I assume she's ugly on the inside since she consented to marry him.

Oh, most definitely.

There was an article a while back dispelling the notion that Melania was some kind of pre-nup prisoner we should feel sorry for. She's just as vile as he is, just in a more appealing package.

And yet, she still seems to really hate him.

Lol, yeah. Hating him and being just as vile aren't mutually exclusive.

I know, I just think it's funny that she hates him despite basically politically being on his side.

Have you looked at him? He isn't handsome. And we all know what his personality is like. What about him is there to not hate except the emphemeral mirage of money?

If you read the article I think Admiral Patrick is talking about, she really did fall for him. His dad and Trump were buddies and she, for whatever reason, was into the guy and everything he stood for. That's probably why she has no problem showing her contempt for him now.

I figured. Just felt I should add something more insightful than "lol yeah" lol.

She probably hates him, but loves the lifestyle she can live on his grift.

I've always felt that argument was so lame. "Oh maybe she's a victim here!" Okay, why are we assuming she got to know this man and then married him after doing so, but somehow she missed what a huge piece of shit he is? Makes it sound like we need to assume women might be extremely dumb just in case they could also be seen as the victim. 95% of people are smart enough to see what a piece of shit trump is within the span of a minute. It's why most people who like him, like him.

See, he can't actually go after these attacks for being the racist epithets that they are, because that would offend the Republican base. He's got to thread that needle of "defending his wife" and "still being racist."

He continued, “Obviously, she’s not a white person and we’ve been accused — attacked by some white supremacists over that. But I just, I love Usha. She’s such a good mom, she’s such a brilliant lawyer and I’m so proud of her.”

Jesus... Unwilling to condemn even when they're attacking the so-called love of your life. I sure hope rapists don't get some part of their platform too. His wife might be subject to so much worse...but he loves her...such a good mom.

I was watching a Meidas Touch video and they were showing some conservative influencer trying to defend Shady Vance and basically said the same thing - that he's such a good dad and husband.

Conservatives only care about roles, not people, and your role is determined by the color of your skin and your wealth.

I had to make sure there was a photo of them in the same room

attacked by some white supremacists over that

That sort of implies that there are other white supremacists he doesn't have a problem with, right?

and he said like her skin color was an affliction that they would cure if they were able to

and talked about her like a male porn performer talks to a female performer "He is so proud of her and her performance."

There is some variability to white supremacists. My cousins (lifelong Floridians, naturally) are white supremacists despite being half-Thai. They probably don't have any problem with Usha - for them, white supremacy is about hating people of African descent specifically.

JD Vance is a bitchass cunt and won’t defend anyone because of that fact.

Did you really say "removed"ass? Because if you did not, I do not understand the censorship filter on here. If you did, it's funny.

They said b*tchass, you're on the .ml instance so b*tch gets censored for sexism or whatever.

Thank you for your response. It's weird the words that get censored for me so it's been throwing me off

Must be your filter. This is what I see.

You’re in .Ml, that instance has nanny mods. I’d recommend switching to a better one.

Thank you, I think I'll have to. I wish it was a setting I could choose to turn off, like nsfw photo blurring.

Even if it was, you’ll get banned eventually for saying something critical of China, or Russia, or whatever other dictatorship they’re in love with at the time

The entire instance is a joke, come to lem.ee

"Obviously, she’s not a white person and we’ve been accused — attacked by some white supremacists over that. But I just, I love Usha. "
Shortens to:
"...she’s not a white person... But I just love Usha"
With implied reasoning:
"..she’s not a white person... But I just love Usha (anyway)"

Man, to be that into the whole "If I just act whiter, I'll be accepted" that she must go through in her head every, single, day of her life just to be white adjacent is just mind blowing to me.

She's so emotionally damaged from believing in the whole model minority myth that she's okay with being shit on by her husband and his party every single day of her life just makes me so utterly sad that she's so broken that way.

The dude had a Hindu wedding ceremony and is mostly vegetarian at home. He doesn't strike me as particularly bigoted against his wife. If she's got an inferiority complex, it likely comes from comparing herself to upholstery.

She seems to be intelligent and well adjusted.

It's possible she dismisses her husbands behaviour as theatre, which is very likely what it is.

I'm not defending him mind you, I just don't think she's a hapless fool.

She may not be white, or have throw cushions, but god damnit he tolerates her regardless!

Hey, anyone willing to wear a bottlenose in bed is good enough for Vance.

She loves her for who she is...

Like... It's lesser to be who she is?...

This guy is really banking on the fact that cult45 is incredibly stupid. He's said a bunch of shit the cult won't appreciate. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

Print photos of different couches and mail them to any or all of these locations:

https://www.vance.senate.gov/office-locations/

Don’t forget to add little love notes. e.g., “Thinking of you 💋”

The couch things was funny, but it's not the reason to hate Vance, and posting this comment in every single thread about him is annoying. We can do better.

Yeah there are legitimate reasons to not like this guy, focusing on the silly coach joke is just a distraction really

No, we can't. And it's because voters are so goddamn stupid. Left, right, center, it's a plague of stupidity.

If hating on Vance for a stupid meme instead of the fact that he's a fucking ethno fascist saves our democracy, fine. Better than the alternative. At least Democrats invest in public schooling.

This is the 26th time you've spammed this.

Interesting. I count 18 in my comment history, and usually if a comment is removed it would still be in my comment history as removed. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's not weird if you agree with the premise in general just not her in specific.

"We've been accused,..."

I wonder what he was about to say before he corrected himself here?

My guess would be something like 'of being a race traitor' based on the language I've heard that crowd use previously.