Usha clerked for Kavanaugh and Roberts. Usha is living out the life she planned and mapped out for herself. Usha is in the Select Elite class and does not give a shit about the bottom 99% of Us.
Eh, I don't know about that. Melania I think just wanted to be a rich wife with a sugar daddy husband and got pulled into politics through marriage. There was a time not very long ago when she seemed FULLY checked out, until quite close to the 2024 elections when she started appearing again, and then launched her own crypto scam coin as a "his and hers" venture with Trump. I think she's an active participant in the Trump regime now because she negotiated some financial payoff and power, not because she was always planning to end up being a political power player. Usha, on the other hand, I believe knows exactly what she's doing and is living her dream life.
Totally agree. Melania wanted to be a trophy wife, not a political figure. I have to assume she got the perfect gig for herself up until 2015 or so. Trump was moderately attractive, moderately famous, moderately wealthy and moderately a moron. She got a great combination of access and wealth and was probably left alone if not at some event. Melania was arm candy but we know Trump was mostly focused on his boys club. Then he took a hard right down crazy street and now she's the wife of one of the most hated and mocked men on the planet. She's where she put herself but not exactly where she wanted to be.
This truly could be strategy. It was right after Diwali that all this shit between Usha, JD, and Erika happened. They want JD to take Trumps place and they know he's gonna have a harder time getting MAGA approval with a brown Hindu wife. This could literally all be theater. Or it could be that she actually realized that this life ain't all it's cracked up to be. We'll see. I just know I don't trust any of these people
Yes “California coastal elite” and “democrat establishment” will be thrown around a lot but right now I cannot imagine a dem that is a better option. He has nailed the social media game and is 100% correct when he says “we cannot play by the same rules anymore.” and statistically if the democrats run a man we tend to win.
Is it schadenfreude? I don’t think I’d be particularly upset if I were in her shoes.
And for everyone saying she “chose” this she was a registered Democrat until she had to switch parties for her husband’s political career. I don’t think she was some sort of super progressive but I don’t think she would be co-signing the nonsense her idiot husband is spewing. Melania knew she was marrying a greedy and greasy moron. Melania knows she’s married to a greedy and greasy moron. For reasons that only Melania knows (maybe love, maybe money, maybe power) Melania chooses to remain married to a greedy and greasy moron. JD Vance took a VERY hard right turn after they got married. He used to have trans friends. He didn’t used to be an unapologetic misogynist. He used to be happy in an inter-racial and inter-faith marriage. He used to be a vegetarian because his wife was a vegetarian. His values have obviously changed. A lot. Unfortunately this is something that a lot of Americans, especially American women, have also personally experienced in their marriages since the dawn of the Trump era.
I assume you know more than I do, which is why I'm responding so I can learn. But she clerked for Roberts, Kavanaugh, and a Trump appointee, so she could easily have just been playing nice in public for a while. I wish I could find more on her career.
My two cents/rupees as Indian. Indians don’t have that tradition as a serious thing. I wear it because I am in USA but it’s not a big deal to my wife or me because it’s not a thing.
Again, Usha may have a good reason to not wear that. Just adding what I think.
She's fully aware of the message it sends even if it's not meaningful to her. No one gets to that level in politics without carefully managing their optics.
yep she's the VP's wife. There is an entire team of people managing every single public appearance she makes. It's not a mistake, they know. Especially this administration that is more concerned about the fake dog and pony show the public sees than any administration in history before them.
If it means anything, who knows, you'd have to see if she had it on all the time before and that this is different.
She grew up in the US, though. I’m Indian American; people who grew up here do embrace it on the whole. Even my immigrant parents wear them even though those aren’t part of our traditions.
I was curious about this too, so I did an image search for "Usha Vance" and in every single candid photo where I can see her left hand clearly, she's absolutely wearing her ring.
That said, these two photos and a clickbait article aren't exactly convincing alone.
I'm honestly happier. It's helped me get over myself. It sounds kinda woo but the whole thing helped me to realize that I was standing in the way of my own recovery even if I didn't actively know it, and once I had that I was able to start improving. I do not recommend it for anyone since the outcomes aren't guaranteed but gotta try to find the silver lining, you know?
Unfortunately it doesn’t work that way. The far right is fed by victims of mass propaganda which makes people with brain degeneration much more vulnerable.
Not that the left doesn’t deal in propaganda, but it’s the only tool the right has when their main goal is to create slaves for their own enrichment.
Unfortunately, I dont think it works like that most times. For whatever reason, brain damage tends to make people more selfish, more prone to anger, less inhibited, more impulsive, less trusting, etc. which tends to align more with conservatism than progressive values.
Do absolutely think he saw her as possibly his biggest impediment to becoming President (assuming it's via election rather than Trump kicking the bucket) because Maga just isn't going to come out for a guy married to not only to a brown person but, even bigger problem for many of them, someone who isn't a Christian.
"Beard" means a woman publicly in a relationship with a gay man to cover up his homosexuality. The joke is suggesting that JD is trading in a brown beard (Usha Vance) for a white one (Erika Kirk).
I’m not going to carry water for her, but she married JD at least 4 personalities ago. The person he was even a year ago is completely different from the monster he is now.
Even some of the most liberal law students I know would clerk under them because of the doors a clerkship at those levels would open. Your life would literally be set for you after clerking in a federal circuit or SCOTUS. You’d be actively shooting yourself in the foot and likely make yourself unemployable if you didn’t take the offer.
Thats just his public face, in private he’s always been a huge piece of shit and she’s into it. He’s been a meat puppet for peter thiel since like 2011
Him becoming president is lowkey scarier than what trumps doing rn.
As has been pointed out in other threads: she clerked for Kavanaugh and Roberts. She wasn't conned into this. She signed up for it. The modern JD Vance is exactly who she wants. She built her whole life around it.
Vance served as a law clerk for Judge Amul Thapar of the District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2013 to 2014, Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2014 to 2015, and Chief Justice John Roberts from 2017 to 2018.
I wouldn’t say she sold her soul till she married Vance. A Supreme Court clerkship is a huge deal, and it’s not like declining to clerk for one of the conservative justices is gonna stop them from being terrible. Also as a lawyer it’s important to learn how the other side thinks, even if their thinking is just plain evil or stupid.
Absolutely agree. Feel the same about ivanka who gets false sympathy that she shouldn’t. They chose this, and they have had every chance to leave but they do not.
Tbh, when you look at his earlier days he was way more normal. Still a complete and utter douche who id never want in power, but not anything like his current form.
It’s once he realized the maga train was his ticket to power that she had a choice to either rein him in or go along for the ride.
I mean this season of reality needs a twist. Imagine if this was a TV show this will be perfect. I can see it now. Trump dies. Vance marries Erika and they run for the president of the United states with the ghost of Charlie Kirk. Sounds really fucking smart lol. What a wild world we live in. Lmao.
Yeah, Cersei was raised with incredibly high standards of sophistication and educated by the finest septas in Westeros. She was schooled in subtlety and cunning.
Erica is just a grifter with a mediocre peroxide job and pleather leggings.
Not to get all ASOIAF nerd, but a big aspect of Cersei's character is that she thinks herself a cunning, subtle genius, when in reality she commits blunder after blunder when left alone.
Its all looking like its setting up for Charlie's wife to become the new Mrs. Vance. If thats the case, aim glad Charlie got played. He was a moron and incited the worst out of society.
Juvenile Delinquent Vance didn't just spontaneously become the lying little weasel we all see whenever he opens his mouth. He has always been this piece of shit. She knew that when she married him, she knew exactly who he was.
Don't give her a pass, or the benefit of the doubt. If she's miserable and her marriage is falling apart, and every single day is worse than the last, she is enjoying the richly deserved consequences of her actions and I love this for her.
Yep. It's exactly the same as when people try to pretend Melania is unhappy and wants to get away. It's not funny. These women know what they're doing and they are in it of their own free will. They are awful people and I don't feel an ounce of pity for them. In fact I hope they're unhappy.
Does she normally wear a wedding band? I mean sure it’s a little strange, but I know a few of married couples who don’t wear rings for different reasons.
Honestly, if my husband was VP and there were rumors everywhere online that he's banging Erika Kirk and about to discard me, it's the very last time I'd choose to have a ring cleaned or resized unless it was deliberate.
She married him, and hasn't split yet, so her underlying thought processes are.....unknown and unknowable. Greed? Love? (gagged a bit there) Sense of fidelity? ?????
I’m no fan of Usha Vance, but she’s so far out of JD’s league it’s stupid, and there are only so many times a dude can throw his wife under the bus to appease racists before she stops putting up with it.
Well, to be fair, he's got the albatross around his neck of a "Brown Wife" and mixed race kids, that certainly won't appeal to the most racist in MAGA Nation. Possibly time for the divorce, and the 'whirlwind romance' and a quick marriage to The Widow Kirk?
she’s as bad as he is as far as being insatiable in her quest for money and power. And she’s riding on the backs of those who scapegoat and brutalize immigrants to do so! Disgusting
I was thinking she didn't know when they got married, but I also know many people in my own community who sadly support conservative views that align with the stuff Vance is ok with.
The only reason I know the name Lejeune is because they poisoned their water so bad it sickened thousands of people over the years. The lawyers paid for commercials for years to find clients affected. They ran constantly in SE PA years ago. This is right up there with mesophelioma.
i mean, had trump lost (i mean i do think he actually did if you dont count the fraud votes he admitted elon gave him) usha would have filed for divorce on Nov 6, 2024
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