Given that I have never met Usha Vance, and in recognition of the fact that I have never even heard her speak, I have no idea whether I would like her or not. She looks like a perfectly nice woman. She dresses well and has a distinctive style. She appears to adore her children and her husband. I would probably enjoy having a cup of coffee with a person who seems to be such a good wife and mother.
As it turns out, there are lots of other things under Usha’s hood, and she has an interesting résumé. I have read a little bit about her, and from what I can glean from Wikipedia, Usha Vance is a Hindu whose parents emigrated from India to San Diego in the 1980s. She is a Yale-educated lawyer. She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 2019 and specialized in civil litigation. She clerked for several current Supreme Court justices, all of them conservative Republicans. She voted for Democrats until her husband ran for office.
Evidently, Usha Vance gave a speech introducing her husband at the 2024 Republican nominating convention in Milwaukee. I must have missed that part, having turned off the television when that notable orator, Hulk Hogan, tore off his shirt while treating the audience to a testosterone-fueled primal scream.
Usha Vance played the flute in her high school marching band. She taught English and American history in China as a Yale teaching fellow.
J.D. Vance has remarked that his wife is far more intelligent than he.
That assertion is correct. The current American vice president is a heavily eyelinered dope from the wrong side of the tracks who wrote a book about growing up poor in Appalachia. PayPal founder Peter Thiel has arranged every single job that Vance has ever had, including his previous work in Silicon Valley, along with the vice presidency.
During the 2024 campaign, Mr. Vance famously accused Haitian refugees of eating their neighbors’ pets in Springfield, Ohio. With this assertion, he was able to put two notches in his political belt: one for racism and one for lying.
How a Hindu woman of Indian descent decided that marrying a lying racist was a good idea is anyone’s guess. From where I am sitting, their marriage illustrates the adage that love is blind. In this case, love appears not to have noticed the racism, the dishonesty, and the completely perplexing eyeliner of her husband.
Podcaster Jennifer Welch recently charged J.D. Vance with sitting idly by while racists have savaged his wife and children. She went on to say, “He is married to a woman of Indian descent. He has mixed-race children. So to all of the MAGA voters out there, if this man will not defend his wife and will not defend his kids, do you think he gives a crap about you or anything to do with you?”
That is a very good question, and at least half the electorate knows the answer: J.D. Vance cares very little about anyone but himself.
One wonders what Usha really thinks of the man who could not wait to partner with the presidential candidate he once described as “America’s Hitler.” Who on Earth would want to be the political partner of Hitler?
Evidently, the answer to that question is: “J.D. Vance.”
It was recently revealed that a months-long Young Republican chat group devolved into an atrocious racist pile-on between members. According to Politico, “they referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.”
The vice chair of the Kansas Young Republicans used the N-word repeatedly, and another member—Joe Maligno, general counsel for the New York State Young Republicans—enthusiastically endorsed the gassing of their political opponents:
“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” he said.
Belying the Young Republicans moniker, the organization is open to any Republican between the ages of 18 and 40; yet Vance referred to it as a “college group chat.”
Vance further remarked, “I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke, telling a very offensive, stupid joke is cause to ruin their lives.”
I don’t know about you, but I don’t know a lot of 30- and 40-year-olds who are still in college, and even if they fell into the category of educational late bloomers, these were not kids. They were adults who subscribe to Nazi ideology. Also, if J.D. Vance can characterize what they said as “jokes,” then he needs to go to a humor re-education facility run by Jews and gay people—people who have an actual sense of humor.
Vance continued to pretend that the racist adults in the chatroom were just naughty boys who were harmlessly blowing off steam online and went on to state, “most of … the stupid things that I did as a teenager and as a young adult, they’re not on the internet.”
As true as that may be, the world has turned, and now every stupid thing that J.D. Vance says will live on the internet forever, yet he does not seem to care. I have no idea about the stupid youthful behaviors to which Vance referred, but they must have been monumentally stupid, given that much of his adult behavior is pretty awful, too.
The Associated Press had this to say:
The father of three said he would caution his own children, ‘especially my boys, don’t put things on the internet, like, be careful with what you post. If you put something in a group chat, assume that some scumbag is going to leak it in an effort to try to cause you harm or cause your family harm.’
The obtuse Mr. Vance probably did not realize that the correct statement would have been:
What was said in that disgusting chat room, children, was vile and offensive. Had your mother lived in Nazi Germany, she would have been given a one-way ticket to a concentration camp, where she would have died in the gas chamber. That language, and those sentiments, are completely unacceptable under any circumstance, and if I ever hear you say anything even remotely resembling this toxic, racist garbage, I’ll send you on a field trip to Auschwitz and then require you to watch ‘Schindler’s List’ every night for a year.
Instead, he simply instructed them not to get caught.
I wonder what their mother, Usha, thought of that.
Given his vigorous defense of racist, 40-year-old teenagers, I have concluded that when Vance called Donald Trump “America’s Hitler,” it was not a criticism—it was an endorsement. And the endorser could hardly wait to serve as Hitler’s vice president.
So, why does Usha stay with a man who is clearly a racist, a liar, and a defender of the hate speech of white supremacists but refuses to defend his own family from racist smears?
I conclude that wealth and power are such potent aphrodisiacs that Usha is willing to be insulted and humiliated by her husband and his cronies in order to maintain proximity to the wealthy elite, including the same Supreme Court justices for whom she clerked and who just gave Trump permission to racially profile American citizens who look like her.
Alternatively, she may be staying with Vance because she has not yet managed to chew through her restraints, grab her kids, and run for her life.
I have sent a small hacksaw for the ankle monitor.
