Today In: FAFO

[Overlander]

Your can't say JD didn't know what he was getting into in his quest for power.

The wife of Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance, Usha Chilukuri Vance, and the couple's children have become the targets of backlash for their Indian ancestry.

Chilukuri Vance, the daughter of Indian immigrants who grew up in San Diego, as well as RNC speaker Harmeet Dhillon -- who is Sikh and Indian – are facing anti-Asian hate from far-right figures online.

Posts appear to have spiked this week following Vance's nomination criticizing Vance for marrying someone who is non-white, expressing concerns about an influx of Indian immigrants as a result and the so-called Great Replacement conspiracy have garnered hundreds of thousands of views according to individual post engagement figures.

JD Vance previously criticized Trump and his base for the rhetoric on race, a backdrop to the current onslaught of criticism facing Vance’s wife and children.

Vance told POLITICO in 2016 that “the Trump people are certainly more racist than the average white professional.” He also warned that Trump’s rhetoric would cause white people to “become more racist over time.”

In an interview with PBS Newshour in 2016, Vance also stated “there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia.”

In the wake of Trump's vice presidential announcement on Monday, numerous conservative and far-right figures have taken to social media to launch racist attacks against Usha Vance because of her Indian heritage and the assumption that her influence on her husband's political career means the Republican Party will be softer on immigration.

"I'm sure this guy is going to be great on immigration," Jaden McNeil, a far-right activist and the founder of America First Students, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, while sharing a picture of the Vances with their newborn baby.

Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist who visited Trump at his Mar-a-Lago home along with rapper Kanye West in November 2022, suggested that Vance would not be a "defender of white identity" because of his wife's Indian heritage.

"Who is this guy, really?" Fuentes said on his podcast. "Do we really expect that the guy who has an Indian wife and named their kid Vivek is going to support white identity?"

Vincent James Foxx, who was present at the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, wrote on X: "JD Vance gets tapped as VP and immediately there's a Hindu prayer at the RNC. Next we'll see Sen. Mike Lee and JD Vance team up to convince Trump to let in 10 million Indian immigrants. Green cards on diplomas!"

Conservative commentator Stew Peters wrote, "There is an obvious Indian coup taking place in the US right before our eyes," while sharing a screenshot of an article about the Vances' three children.

Saira Rao, a progressive activist and former Democratic congressional hopeful, also attacked Usha Vance on X.

"Usha Vance, the latest Indian American woman delighted to do the bidding of white supremacy. Who needs white women when brown ones are ready to serve," Rao wrote.

I wish there were some clues to the agenda of the MAGA cult.

[Shirley]

A tangled web?

Video shown at the preliminary hearing for the former Letcher County sheriff accused of killing a district judge allegedly showed the deadly shooting.

Today’s hearing for Shawn “Mickey” Stines was held in Morgan County.

Stines is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the shooting of Letcher County District Judge Kevin Mullins at a courthouse in the judge’s chambers on Sept. 19.

[Shirley]

In August, jury found Tina Peters guilty of seven of 10 counts related to election interference.



More of this, please:

On Thursday, Judge Matthew Barrett sentenced a defiant Tina Peters to 9 years behind bars on multiple charges – including felonies – for a data-breach plot amid false claims of voting machine fraud during the 2020 presidential election. “You are no hero. You abused your position – and you’re a charlatan who used, and is still using your prior position to peddle a snake oil that’s been proven to be junk time and time again,” said Judge Barrett. “Your lies are well-documented and these convictions are serious. I’m convinced you’d do it all over again if you could.” Judge Barrett added: “You’re as defiant as a defendant as this court has ever seen.”

(This video is ~ 23 minutes long, and I only added it because I quoted the text above that is associated with it. That being said, he dresses her down in a spectacular way, in the part I listened to.)

[japhy]

Play time is over Tina, buh bye!

The judge sent a message today.

[Shirley]

[jhawks99]

Loved the judge's answer to a request that the defendant remain free on appeal.

"No."

[Shirley]

Loved the judge's answer to a request that the defendant remain free on appeal.

"No."

^^^

[twocoach]

It's the "Karen" version of our resident MAGA kooks. I hope she's OK without her magnetic mattress.



Tell me that's not a female Mich or JK. They all use the same language. "In bed smoking a crackpot" is my personal favorite. Freudian slip?

[twocoach]

Oddly quiet from all three of our resident MAGAphones since the release of the Jack Smith document.

[Overlander]

Good

[Shirley]

Oddly quiet from all three of our resident MAGAphones since the release of the Jack Smith document.

I'll take the over that they've seen the light and are busy composing their respective, appropriately contrite, apologies.

[MICHHAWK]

i will apologize if you tell me who jack smith is.

[Shirley]

I think I discovered why we haven't heard from Psych or Randi today:

[JKLivin]

I think I discovered why we haven't heard from Psych or Randi today:

Nice. Psych has had solo 2-year old duty since Thursday while the good Dr. Mrs. Psych is in Knoxville hanging out with other Cormac McCarthy scholars. I’d rather play with my daughter than argue with you all, given the choice.

[twocoach]

i will apologize if you tell me who jack smith is.

Nobody plays ignorant more convincingly than you.

[Overlander]

I think I discovered why we haven't heard from Psych or Randi today:

Nice. Psych has had solo 2-year old duty since Thursday while the good Dr. Mrs. Psych is in Knoxville hanging out with other Cormac McCarthy scholars. I’d rather play with my daughter than argue with you all, given the choice.

I truly hope you CAN spend more time with your daughter.

[KUTradition]

I think I discovered why we haven't heard from Psych or Randi today:

Nice. Psych has had solo 2-year old duty since Thursday while the good Dr. Mrs. Psych is in Knoxville hanging out with other Cormac McCarthy scholars. I’d rather play with my daughter than argue with you all, given the choice.

and yet, here you are

gtfo with that nonsense. you aren’t impressing anyone

i mean, my wife is a supermodel brain surgeon that pleasures me twice a day, but you don’t see me here trying to subtly brag about it

[JKLivin]

I think I discovered why we haven't heard from Psych or Randi today:

Nice. Psych has had solo 2-year old duty since Thursday while the good Dr. Mrs. Psych is in Knoxville hanging out with other Cormac McCarthy scholars. I’d rather play with my daughter than argue with you all, given the choice.

and yet, here you are

gtfo with that nonsense. you aren’t impressing anyone

i mean, my wife is a supermodel brain surgeon that pleasures me twice a day, but you don’t see me here trying to subtly brag about it

How is that bragging? SMH.

[JKLivin]

I think I discovered why we haven't heard from Psych or Randi today:

Nice. Psych has had solo 2-year old duty since Thursday while the good Dr. Mrs. Psych is in Knoxville hanging out with other Cormac McCarthy scholars. I’d rather play with my daughter than argue with you all, given the choice.

I truly hope you CAN spend more time with your daughter.

Thanks. We’ve had a lot of fun.

[Sparko]

Psych will enjoy a middle class tax cut and child care benefits under Harris. When he thrives, I expect only an understanding of how close he and his family came to the chaos of a Trump apocalypse.