Summary

JD Vance called for the rehiring of Marko Elez, a 25-year-old DOGE staffer who resigned after The Wall Street Journal exposed his racist and eugenicist tweets.

Elon Musk polled users on X about reinstating Elez, with 78% supporting his return.

Vance, while disagreeing with Elez’s posts, opposed “rewarding journalists who try to destroy people.”

Elez had access to the U.S. Treasury’s payment system before resigning.

  • @[email protected]
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    14517 days ago

    The guy said normalize Indian hate (among other terrible things) and Vance’s wife is Indian. His soul is long sold

  • CMLVI
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    8017 days ago

    In the same breath, they refer to him as a kid making a mistake, to appeal to us. We’ve all been in somewhat similar situations, making mistakes as kids. And then seconds later, he’s a highly trained professional who is well-equipped to manage poring through Treasury docs and deciding where funding is sent or ceased.

    What is he? Is he a kid or is he an adult? Be consistent. Fuck everything about this.

  • @[email protected]
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    7717 days ago

    Elon Musk polled users on X about reinstating Elez, with 78% supporting his return.

    I know why Musk does this - manufacturing the appearance of consent and perpetuating his “vox pupuli” delusion - but at this point, it’s so transparent that his followers are sycophantic blue-checks and bots that it’s insulting to even pretend this matters any more than a Russian election.

    Unrelated other point: love it how Vance sees he’s fully reduced to an afterthought, so of course to try to increase his standing with Trump he tries to out-shameless the rest. At this point all of the GOP are like colorful birds putting on mating dances for Trump, competing who can be the most craven and subservient, hoping he picks them.

  • @[email protected]
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    6917 days ago

    “We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever,” said Vance, referring to the fact that The Wall Street Journal on Thursday exposed Elez’s connection to an X account that made the inflammatory tweets.

    Destroy people by simply pointing out what those people said lol.

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      4717 days ago

      And what they said RECENTLY too. They were not dredging up tweets from 40 years ago. If memory serves these tweets were within the year.

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        616 days ago

        In September!!!

        The account linked to Elez tweeted in September, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.”

        The same month, the account tweeted ″‘Normalize Indian hate,’ referring to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley,” the Journal reported.

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      1316 days ago

      Lmao, yes. Haven’t you been paying attention? Elmo is president. The naz…. I mean Roman saluters are running the show

      • @[email protected]
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        216 days ago

        Interesting way to force people to keep using it. If you want to vote on these things you need an X account, but no sane, decent person is on X anymore so can’t influence the vote

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    17 days ago

    “Journalists shouldn’t destroy people, that’s our job. We make sure only the right people get destroyed, though, so it’s all good”

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    2616 days ago

    The United States vice president had sex with couches. What a time to be alive.

  • @[email protected]
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    2616 days ago

    Vance is a total cuck. Imagine having to tell your wife and your kids that you called for someone to be rehired after he resigned because it was discovered he was saying to hate on Indians…

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      1016 days ago

      Do you think his wife and kids are any different? They probably talk about how the “kid was just being stupid” and “everyone makes racist comments at one time or another” around the dinner table while listening to John Denver

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    2616 days ago

    Can I buy some kind of financial instrument that invests in precisely the opposite shit JD Vance does because the opposite of JD Vance is smart as fuck.

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      1516 days ago

      I’m thinking of investing in “JD Vance killed Donald Trump” merch, not because he did, but considering Donald’s age and arteries, if Trump dies of natural causes in office, I’ll be able to ride that conspiracy into my own retirement.

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        it is 2026, much of North America is desert. Machines mine what little is left unspent and undefiled. Upon this horizon we can be seen riding giant sandworms of conservative bullshit nonsense, our hooks of satire set sure on yet another raid on Bigot Town.

        In this future winning is a state of mind, something beyond a matter of deducing likelihoods of success in particular acts of resistance, it is rather more like getting a high score in tony hawk pro skater.

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    2216 days ago

    Fuck the racist posts this was the guy mucking about in the treasury systems financial computer code without any safeties. All changes directly to live. He should be black listed for that idiocy alone.

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    This guy has to be seriously compromised. They found him literally fucking an underage couch or something.

    • Wren
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      816 days ago

      ROFL!

      The couch was underaged?

      I have to take a moment to say- I love when people go the extra mile to push what would have been a funny comment into a much better and hysterically funny one.

      It’s like in the show Community, when Pierce got injured, instead of saying: “Call an ambulance!” he said, “Call all the ambulances!”

      Maybe it’s just me, but I notice that stuff and always wonder how in the hell the writers thought to add that extra bit in?

      Well done!

  • Majorllama
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    1617 days ago

    I’m generally against holding people to the stupid shit they said as teenagers but the stuff he was saying goes a little beyond typical edgy stupid teenager crap. “I would never marry outside me ethnicity” isn’t a even fringe trying to be funny by being racist type of comment. That’s just someone who is racist through and through. Probably raised by racists as well. Typically kids don’t just fall outta the sky being that racist to begin with. That’s a learned behavior.

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        -217 days ago

        Yeah I didn’t dig very hard for how long ago he said it but I don’t think it would matter how long ago he said it unless he was like 7 and daddy was tweeting for his kid or something lol

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          617 days ago

          “Back when you were a teenager” implies some time has passed and you might have grown. Leniency in judgement could also be applied if you’re still a teenager, but then you also shouldn’t be in charge of anything important because we know you don’t think too good. Also, consequences for their actions is how teenagers learn to not keep doing that. Firing racist teenagers for being racist is good.

          Also also, this guy is in his mid 20s.

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      917 days ago

      Also these kids are still in their stupid teenager phase, as proven by being little Nazis sucking up to to Elon Musk.

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      Can you imagine marrying JD Vance? It is the functional equivalent of locking your sex life into that pain box Paul Atreides had to stick his hand into, but for the rest of your life (or mercifully, maybe JD’s if you get lucky but still vomits in mouth eww).

      • Majorllama
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        -216 days ago

        …no I cannot imagine marrying JD Vance. Mostly because I’m a straight guy. Maybe the tax breaks would be nice tho who knows. I could get on his swanky government healthcare plan.

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          You don’t have to try to imagine sleeping with JD, just try to imagine staring deep into his eyes as you said “I do” and not drowning in the emptiness of knowing you are marrying the human equivalent of a racist, sexist fax machine that makes fun of kids for telling people their preferred pronouns.

          I think in some ways it would be like having a whiny little pet rock.

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            pronouns

            I doubt he even hates trans people. I don’t think he has a single conviction. Just a completely soulless man shaped thing in a suit.

            I just realized that all these macho man redneck idiots voted for a president and vice president who both obviously wear makeup every day.