Summary

JD Vance defended Marko Elez, a 25-year-old Musk aide after racist posts surfaced, including “Normalize Indian hate.”

Elez resigned but was reinstated following Vance’s support, despite Vance’s wife being of Indian descent. Vance dismissed criticism, arguing past social media posts shouldn’t ruin careers.

Musk backed Elez after a public poll. Rep. Ro Khanna challenged Vance, who responded dismissively, sparking backlash.

The incident has intensified scrutiny of Musk’s hiring practices and Vance’s stance on racism.

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    4 hours ago

    It’s fine, it’s not like he’s going to be disappointed if she makes him sleep on the couch.

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    It’s a class war, Peter Theil is gay, JD Vance is married to an Indian woman, and Elon Musk is an immigrant. The rich aren’t racists, homophobic or nativist, or any of that. The only demographic they hate is poor people.

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    Vance’s mental gymnastics are Olympic-tier. Defending a Musk aide who posted “Normalize Indian hate” while married to an Indian woman? Unreal. The man’s moral compass isn’t broken—it’s been sold to the highest bidder.

    Elez’s reinstatement is a joke. Racist posts aren’t youthful indiscretions; they’re neon signs of character. But Musk’s Twitter poll governance strikes again, proving that bigotry is just another day at the office for his empire of chaos.

    Ro Khanna’s right to call him out. Vance’s dismissal isn’t just cowardice—it’s complicity. If your principles can’t withstand a paycheck or a poll, you don’t have any to begin with.

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    My sisters just like her, I promise you, shes on his side hating indians, self haters fr.

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    Public poll online… lol. You can buy likes, followers and poll votes at the drop of a hat. Even easier if you happen to run a certain network…

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    Surprise surprise, the guy who cozies up to racists to get ahead in life won’t push back against said racists, even to defend his own family.

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    His Indian kids are reaching that age when they either realize he’s a hateful insufferable piece of shit, OR they themselves become spoiled rich assholes with no moral compass and live off the griff.

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    Right. So if I have he/him in my email signature I get fired. But if i have hugely racist and problematic tweets that are less than a year old while having almost no experience or credentials whatsoever other than being a little buddy buddy with Musk I get to push out dangerous untested code to the most important payment system in the country so musk can block social security benefits for Grandma like he blocks tweets talking about how terrible a father he is. Got it.

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    Oh don’t get all up in arms about the honor of usha Vance here. She is a Republican too and voted for these neo Nazis into office along with the other neo Nazis.

    There’s no honor to defend here, she’s one of them.

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      Usha Vance comes from one of the richest most powerful castes in India, Kamma, so she was raised on an idea that she has some innate genetic superiority that makes her feel right at home with white supremacists.

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        I don’t know the cast system in india, but I’ve seen this sort of behavior a lot from immigrants. Specifically those that “came legally”, and hate other immigrants and think themselves superior to other immigrants and blk/ltno people here. They think they are same as wt people because they are “elite” from their area of origin. And many times they justify this racist behavior from current gov by comparing similar racist stereotypes they have from their place of origin. They just moved country, they were racist, now there are people who are racist to them, but they still look down at others instead of standing united.

        Sorry for bad abbreviation, kinda don’t wanna leave words for it to be flagged somewhere by someone in future and tracked back.

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      It’s so sad because if you look at their resumes, Usha Vance is actually much more accomplished than her husband. Peter Thiel just prefers JD, I guess.

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    tfw you’re a woman maga voter and realize the only reason you exist to them is to make sammiches in the times between getting fucked