Vice-President JD Vance showed once again Friday why he was not only the best possible sidekick to President Trump but also why he is likely the future of the Republican Party.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, 25-year-old DOGE worker Marko Elez was forced out after The Wall Street Journal used sneaky cancel culture tactics to target him.
The paper dug up some of Elez’s controversial social media posts and pressured the young man to resign.
Here are the statements in question:
“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” Elez said in a July post on X.
“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” Elez said in another.
Trump and Musk both agreed that Elez should be brought back despite his writings. Vance also explained on X why he believed Elex deserved a shot at redemption.
“I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life,” Vance wrote. “We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever.”
“So I say bring him back,” Vance added. “If he’s a bad dude or a terrible member of the team, fire him for that.”
But far-left Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA), who is of Indian-American descent, erupted in anger over Vance’s post. He demanded to know whether Musk would tell Elez to apologize before rehiring him for “the sake of both our kids.”
As TGP readers know, Vance is married to and shares three children with Second Lady Usha Vance, who is also Indian-American.
Are you going to tell him to apologize for saying “Normalize Indian hate” before this rehire? Just asking for the sake of both of our kids. https://t.co/7NY8m93hJa
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) February 7, 2025
Vance, though, delivered an epic smackdown instead, completely destroying Khanna in the process.
“For the sake of both of our kids? Grow up. Racist trolls on the internet, while offensive, don’t threaten my kids,” he wrote. “You know what does? A culture that denies grace to people who make mistakes. A culture that encourages congressmen to act like whiny children.”
Vance continued his tour de force by emphasizing how much he hated the “emotional blackmail” Khanna was trying to pull. He also pointed out that young people will make mistakes and hopes his kids will not be cowed in fear by a politically correct society.
“I cannot overstate how much I loathe this emotional blackmail pretending to be concern,” he continued. “My kids, god willing, will be risk-takers. They won’t think constantly about whether a flippant comment or a wrong viewpoint will follow them around for the rest of their lives.”
“They will tell stupid jokes. They will develop views that they later think are wrong or even gross. I made mistakes as a kid, and thank God I grew up in a culture that encouraged me to grow and learn and feel remorse when I screwed up and offer grace when others did.”
Vance closed by delivering one last burn toward Khanna.
“I don’t worry about my kids making mistakes, or developing views they later regret, he stated. “I don’t even worry that much about trolls on the internet. You know what I do worry about, Ro?”
“That they’ll grow up to be a US Congressmen who engages in emotional blackmail over a kid’s social media posts. You disgust me.”
