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.
It’s not weird if you agree with the premise in general just not her in specific.
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.
Telling, but not surprising
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?
I like the “obviously” part. Yes, thank you for literally stating the obvious.
Because it’s “obviously” the first thing he notices every time.
So gross.
rich people don’t get married for the same reasons non rich people do
Still though.
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.
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Don’t worry. She’s one of the good ones.
I read it as:
She is not white, but she is sorry and trying her best.
What’s Vance’s favorite part of a Simpsons episode?
I’m not sure here… Are you implying that the couch doesn’t consent or that the couch is kinky?
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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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.
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.
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?
Her father was a mechanical engineer and her mother was a molecular biologist.
what, like howard and bernadette?!
To me she is like a black maga.
Not if Flipper is on.
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.
Talk to Rafael, it’s part of the program
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.
“She’s just my trophy wife, y’know” - What Vance is hinting at.
She loves her for who she is…
Like… It’s lesser to be who she is?..
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)_/¯
"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)”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.
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.
and up until recently she hated trump https://www.thedailybeast.com/usha-vance-was-appalled-by-jan-6-and-trump-friends-spill
Until recently HE hated trump, so no surprise here.
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.
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.
“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.
